The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-12-16
L L0CAL DELEGATES ATTEND $. W. GOOD
 ROADS MEETING

Quite a number of road enthusiasts | left here last Saturday morning to ac- tend the Meeting of the Southwest | Good Roads Association which con-
 vened in Stafford on that day The
 meeting was we'll attended by dele
 gates from Grant and Graham coun- ties as well as Greenlee.
 The morning program was presided over by R. A. Armstrong, president | of the Chamber of Commerce at Saf-
 ford, with Burton Bunch acting as
 secretary. President Armstrong l voiced a strong welcome to all dele
 gates oil behalf of Stafford and Ora ham county Past Secretary l.. A. w Burtch gave 8 short sketch of the
 history of the Southwestern Coed
 Roads Association.
 Details of plans for draining parts
 of the valley below Stafford were given by Martin Layton. of Stafford. Col. Dell M Potter introduced mo-
 tion suggesting naming committees
 in each county. to act with various boards of county commissioners and supervisors in advertising and sign ing the highway from dam to dam
 and other connections east and west, by a concerted plan of signing and advertising.
 . The plan contemplates the erection of large signs, showing the main points of the road at crossings and tourist centers east of Fl Paso, for f instance, and ht Roswell, and still
 further east in Oklahoma and Texas |, districts. It would be put into effect
 as soon as possible.
 ! News of the recent decision of the f board of supervisors of Graham |, county. in which Stafford is located,
 to authorize an election on January
 2Sth,t to vote a bond issue of half million dollars, to which million Il l dollars of federal aid money would ;, be added for the construction of a T.. concrete highway across the county, n was one of the most important an , nouncements of the meeting. The Q carrying of the election for the bonds l seems assured.
 The building of such a eoncrete e road across Graham county, te con a meet on the east with the present and = contemplated roads of Greenlee coun
 ty. and then with the new Nule D. Creek road. now building to the New "a Mexico line, where it will be. joined ,. by New Mexico construction from . Mule Greek west, would add another
 ,.xtrOng link in the fFans-stase Dam-ts
 Dam Highway, of which the Mul.
 Greek section. is the last remaining | unopened portion. It was pointed
 out at the meeting by Road Enginee V Parker of the Arizona Highway De ! partment that the National Highway . of which the Dam-to-Dam road wil
 be part, is entirely completed iron ' New York by way of Washington t, J Memphis; largely completed througl
 Oklahoma and Texas and larg
 part under construction through Ney nv Mexico. to Arizona. On the west, h is said, California will soon have con m pleted the paved roads from Los AT al geles and San Diego to Yuma, an ,e- Yuma county is building to the Ma ,d ricopa line in Arizona. Maricop ,6 county is extending its paving t as meet the Yuma line on the west, an he the Superior road and til io Apache Trail on the east This wi IVY leave the Graham county stretcI ar which is contemplated in the bon CT issue: part of San Carlos and pal TX of Greenlee county to be bull tic. which parts are assured, he believed
 hC COiuPI5IiOH OI IU0S0 pOEIlOnS ( Iio tue road would increase travel a hul In- dred per cent at once, in his opinion er importance Is Realized by Emphasis was placed on the imuo he tance of this work to the New Mex ly. co counties interested in the Bfac
 Range, or nm-to-fMm Hishva
 which must be put into standard oul an dftiou within the next feU year ed Roads in Greenlee county, in whic es the Mule Creek road is now bafr ns built, are !kncwn generally aB the be, nd system Of county ard 4ssate roads l ee-{ the Southwest, end these will co Id meet directly with the other roads at the west mentioned by Engines nd Parker, as soon as the Mule Cree
 road has been connected ap.
 New Officers -I The officers elected at the meetir m- are as follows:
 by ". S. Cox. Silver City. Presiden ng Burton Bunch. Silver City, N. N ,nt Secretary. Headquarters are alwa, ,4,- sn the town in which the presidel iod lives.
 ce- Vice Presidents all. Grant County. N. M., J. F. G
 christ, Silver City
 No Catron Co. N. M, s. J Kidder, M the gollon.
 in Greenlee Co. Ari8., E. II. Gree ne, Cilfton
 Gila County, Ari., R. c. Andrp
 Globe.
 Sierra Go. N NJ. C. c. Req, Hill ,Ip boro
 ch- Graham Go, Ariz., Martin Layto of Stafford
 ity. Hidalgo County. N. M., F. R. Coo ing Lordsburg.
 ins Maricopa Co.,, Ariz.. Dwight a Heard, Phoenix.
 riff Luna c. N NJ, J. A Rhea, Denim for Socorro Co. N. NJ, Geo. Keith. to corro
 and Los Angeles County, Cal, Fra
 Wiggins, Los Angeles.