Imperial Valley press., 1921-10-24
C0UNTYR0AD
COMMISSION
MEETS V|TH
VI N A NE \
Ways and Means Discussed
for Marketing Road Bonds
Route for New High
way Determined Soon

The construction of the Bankhead
or the Overland highway from Ell
Paso to San Diego through Yuma was
pushed forward another notch Sat-
urday evening. A distinguished party
of California road builders and good
road promoters from San Diego and
Imperial valley VEG guests of the
Yuma County Chamber of Commerce.
In the party were Colonel Ed. Flech-
er, chairman of the County Highway
Commission of San Diego County;
Austin B. Fletcher Of Sacramento
State Highway Commissioner and Di-
rector of the State Department of
Public Works Of California; DR.. L. l
Hewes of San Francisco, Department
Chief Engineer of the United States
Bureau of Public Roads for the West
ern District of the United States; l..
F. Shaw. chairman. of the Imperial
County Highway Commission; Bill
Best and j. L.Travers. members of
the Imperial County Highway Com
mission, and r. L. Fishburn, chairman
of the Pima County, Arizona. High
way Commission. These people are
travelling over the San Diego to Yuma
road and will make final and definite
location of the route from Yuma to
Holtville after their inspection.
During the evening a conference
was held with the visitors and the
members of the Yuma County Board
of Supervisors. and the Yuma County
Highway Commission and members
of the Yuma and Somerton Chambers
of Commerce in regard to the pro-
posed sale of the $256,O00 of Yuma
County bonds which were allocated
to the Yuma -PhOeniX-Ajo road. This
bond sale will take place, according
to the advertisement now running in
the Yuma Sun, on November 2. The
bonds bear u per cent interest. Some
six months ago, when 100000 OF
Yuma County Highway bonds were Of
fered for sale, the best bid received
by the Board of Supervisors was 92
per cent of par. Inasmuch as law
forbids the Board of Supervisors sell
ing county bonds below par and in an
ticipation of the fact that the bid for
these bonds on November 2 will not
be at par, it was prposed by Colonel
Ed. Fletcher and the San Diego Cham
Der of Commerce that the difference
between the bid price and the par val
ue of these bonds should be subscrib-
ed by the communities and cities
along the line Of the Bankhead and
the Ajo highways.
At the conference Saturday evening
it was the general opinion that bid
Of at leafs 95 per cent would be re-
ceived for these bonds, possibly more.
In the event that 95 per cent is the
bid of the bond companies, it will be
necessary for the communities inter-
ested to raise $12,500 by public sub
scription to bring the purchase price
at par.
Colonel Fletcher Sledged San Diego
for $500, which sum will be placed
in bank in Yuma prior to the day of
sale, November 2. Colonel Fletche,
and the delegation from Imperial
County pledged Imperial County for
$2500, which sum will also be placed
in bank in Yuma prior to the day
of sale. Yuma and the territory ad-
jacent must also raise $12 800 of tht
fund necessary to complete the sale
The president of the Chamber of Com
merce and the members of that body
present and the president of the Som
erton Chamber of Commerce pledged
themselves to raise the $25O0, Yums
County's part of the fund. and have
it ready by the time indicated.
This $256,OO0 of county bond money
will be supplementS. by Federal a;C
and will be ample to complete the cor
struction of the highway from Yum'
to the Marisopa and the Pima Conn
ty line.
Saturday afternoon the visiting del
egation was met at the end of tn
plank road over the sandhills by Ntr
man B. Conway, county engineer
Chairman of the County Board of Su
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