Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-02-04
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT OUTLINES WORK PROPOSED
 BY OMNIBUS BILL
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would pay for this construction.
 The Prescott-Jerome highway, even to it's connection with the Prescott Ash Fork, is incomplete. No funds are available to finish this construc- tion. On this account $25,000 is irf- cluded in the omnibus bill.
 The omnibus bill also contains an item of $1OO,O00 to carry on construc- tion of the Arrowhead trail. It is known by this department that this sum, together with previous appro- priations, cannot possibly construct the 180 odd miles of this road which crosses the Colorado river and rises to an altitude of 1000 feet. It will, however, begin on the construction of the necessary road to get into the bridge site of the Colorado river and provide for the construction of this bridge, as these funds, together with previous appropriations, can be matched with federal aid. Under any circumstances the construction of the Arrowhead trail will require a con- siderable length of time. If the Ari zona "Strip" is to be retained by Ari- zona some highway into it is impera- tive and inevitable. It should be commenced.
 The $75,000 included in the omnibus bill from Clifton to the New Mexico line in the direction of Silver City will not complete this construction. It however, will start the same and is necessary if our adjoining state of New Mexico is to include the construc- tion of her highways west from Silver City toward the Arizona line.
 This description does not includes all of the work necessary to complete the primary system of Arizona and omits several important necessary inn provements.
 Apparently there is no provision for a road from Phoenix to Prescott. Va vapai county has provided in her bond issue for $3OS,0OO from Prescott to the Maricopa county line by way of Mayer, also $102,OOO for the road from Prescott to Wickenburg.
 The Maricopa county highway pro- ject provides for the construction of paving to Marinette ,and federal aid project No. 10 with Maricopa county funds, has practically completed the bridge across the Agua Fria near this point.
 Federal aid project No. 31 is pro- viding for the copstructiea of~a- bridge across the Hassayampa river near Wickenburg.
 There are no funds in sight for the construction of the Phoenix Prescott road from the Arizona canal to the county line near Canyon, except the 75 per cent fund of Maricopa county which will be available July 1.
 There are also no funds available for the improvement of the Apache trail except this same 75 per cent fund, with the possible additional re- ceipt of an appropriation from the Salt River Valley Users association. We hope to be able to make some ar rangement with the Maricopa county highway commission to .. finance at least a part of this necessary road construction with federal aid and a | portion of the Maricopa county bond issue.
 The road from Florence toward Tucson, about 20 miles of which must be improved, will have to wait until the 75 per cent fund of Pinal county is available. This will be available next fiscal year.
 The same thing is true of the con struction of the road from Globe to- ward Livingston on the Apache trail
 Yavapai county bond issue provides for road from Prescott to Ashfork This will also probably be insufficient which, however, can be supplemented with Yavapai county's 75 per cent fund next fiscal year.
 The 75 per cent funds are constant ly being drawn on for greater amounts in order to take care of the maintenance of the roads rapidly be- ing built. On this account they can not be counted on to carry much of the cost of construction in the poorer counties.
 This description does not include any account of some of the remark able road constructions being carried on by the various counties of the state, but applies to the state pro-