The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-07-15
MULE GRE !: X LINK SURVEY C()MPL {: TED THIS WEEK

The surveying party, from the State Highway Department, in charge of J. M. Shepherd, district engineer, completed the, survey of the Mule Greek section of the interstate high way, connecting Grant County, New Mexico. with Greenlee county, Ari- zona. on Wednesday of this week, and MT. Shepherd departed Thursday morning for. Phoenix where he will complete his maps of this section
 Information from the office of the State Engineer at Phoenix is to the effect that construction work on this important interstate link in the Black Range-Apache Trail Scenic Highway through Arizona and New Mexico, will be commenced at an early date, sometime in August. The equipment used by the surveying party has been stored in Clifton and will be used on the construction work.
 By an agreement entered into be- tween the State Engineer and the Board of Supervisors the construc- tion will be under the supervision of the State Highway Department but the labor and teams necessary wilt be recruited in Grenlee county, af- fording relief from the unemploy- ment situation. MT. c. J. Brooke, of the Central Labor Council for this district, will act as employment agent for this purpose.
 
 That the Mule Creek Link is of more than local importance is evil denced by the following letter from The Globe Luncheon Club to the Arizona State Engineer:
 = Globe. Arizona, July Sth, 1921.
 Thos- Maddock.
 r.State Engineer, cs 4. Phoenix, Arizona Dear ST:
 We arc glad to learn of the tenta- tive agreement with the Board of F. Supervisors of Greeplee. cor;nty, !, whreby construction of the Mule Creek- Link, connecting Silver City and Clifton, will be. started within thirty days.
 We sincerely trust that you will al low no interference with the starting and completion of this important link of the Southern National Highway thru New Mexico and Arizona.
 ". D. SULLIVAN, Secretary GloFe Luncheon Club.
 In a reply to a letter of commen- dation from the Clifton Commercial Club on the arrangement entered in- to between the State Highway Depart ment and the Board of Supervisors of this county, the State Engineer re- piled as follows:
 Phoenix, Arizona July Sth, 1921 I, F Sweating Secretary
 Clifton, Commercial Club,
 Clifton, Arizona.
 This department is glad to receive your letter of appreciation of July 9th.
 We will do the best we can on this matter and have already requested some additional explosives from the Government iu order to have our ac- tual funds go as far as possible on this construction.
 Our surveys are nearly complete so that we should be able to get some real work started in the near future.
 THOS MADDOCK, State Engineer.
 The Arizona State Highway will join with New Afexico state high way on the Arizona-New Mexico boundary, in the Mule Creek section, at point approximately seventeen miles from the present Clifton Dun- can highway The intersection with the CliftOn-Duncan highway Will be just beyond Cole Creek on the mesa, distant from Clifton eleven miles.
 in the event that two work camps are established on the construction of this link it is the belief that it can be completed within six months. L. A. Gillette, state highway engineer of New Mexico, was in the Mule Creek section this week looking over the route on the New Mexico side of the line for the connection.
 With the completion of the inter, state link between Grant county and Greenlee county the best and short est route between Fl Paso and Phoe nix will lie through Silver City, Greenlee County, Gila Valley, Miami Superior and Mesa.
 From Fl Paso or Elephant Butte dam to Phoenix, via this route, the actual running time will not exceed twenty hours.