Weekly journal-miner., 1921-12-07
FEDERAL AND FOREST
 AID TO BE OBTAINED
December 9th Meeting Is to Be Marked by Results of Work of Six Survey Parties; Chair man Confers With Maddock
From Wednesdays Daily1


 Six road-building contracts of from 5 to miles each, will be called at the December 5 meeting of the county highway commission, accord ing to an important announcement yesterday by Chairman Bob Moore, following the return of himself and Commissioner Mullen and Engineer Joe Mccarthy from Phoenix yester- day noon.
 These contracts will lie on sec tions near Hillside, Mayer and Camp Verde, according to Mccarthy, and will be made possible by the work now being completed by six engi- neering parties in those fields and of Major Long, the office engineer Of the commission.
 Federal and forest aid in amounts sufficient to make important changes in the financial aspect of the road projects, will be obtained as a re- suit of the conference of the com missioners and State Engineer Tom Maddock at Phoenix, After January l, the forest service will apportion $54O,0O0 for forest aid in Arizona, and Yavapai county, which has been shy on this kind of aid in the past, IS ill a position to press successfully its claims early in 1922. Forest Su pcrvisor H. B. Wales and Senators Ashurst and Cameron have done considerable for the county ill this matter, it was said.
 With forest federal, county and state funds, it is expected that there will be available enough money to make t practicable to build the new shortline route to Congress Junction.
 New Highway Plan
 The commission yesterday outlined far-reaching and important new proposal with respect to the county's chief highways. According to law, there is left for designation a main north and south and a main east and west road.
 A glance at the commissions map, voted on by the taxpayers at the bond election, discloses four roads centering at Prescott and crossing at very nearly right angles. One starts at the county line near Canon and enters this city, and thence proceeds to Ash Fork and Seligman. This is to be regarded by the highway com mission as the chief north and south road, and. will receive consideration as such The other route runs from Sedona via Jerome to Prescott and thence to the neighborhood of Con gress Junction, where a route IS be- ing built to connect with Aguila on the way to California. This will eventually be the improved state highway to the California line and will be met by California with an im- portant route-probably paved-from the Colorado river to Los Angeles. The route connecting Flagstaff with Aquila and running across Yavapai county, will be designated as the chief east and west thoroughfare.
 As to Federal Aid
 Petitioners from Mayer are divided over the advisability of applying fed eral aid to the route through that town. The figures compiled by As sistant Engineer Barker at his field office in Mayer. indicate it will cost S725.OOO to build the Cordes-Canon section according to federal aid standards as to grades and width. With the S3O9,OOO available for this road, however, Mccarthy calculates to translate the present road into terms of great speed, safety and util- ity. This procedure meets the ap- proval of the best informed and least finicky.
 Decision to call for bids on De cember 5, means that within 10 days thereafter, the commission will be i'll d position to award contracts. It is hoped that between Christmas and New Years day, contractors can be started to work on all the six sec tions. Some Christmas present 1-u NFC..41,, ~,;J ,5astcrdav