Arizona republican., 1921-05-06
GALL FUR BIDS FUR PAVING 1T
 GRAND AVENUE
Improvement Of The High way From Phoenix To Glendale Expected To Be Completed Before Com ing Autumn

Paving of Grand avenue will be under way in another three weeks. The state highway department yes terday issued a call for bids for the paving of the avenue from Phoenix to Glendale, to be opened May g. Ii Is expected that construction work will be begun shortly after that date and that the paving of the highway will be completed during the late summer or early autumn.
 The financing of this project was made possible at this time by the passage of the omnibus bill, the CO., operation of the Naricopa county highway commissoin and the state highway department and federal aid The omnibus bill, as originally intro duced, carried an appropriation Of $100. 900 for improving: the road from Buckeye toward Yuma to the county line. Through the efforts of Senator Wilkinson the act was amended to permit the temporary use of this money in improyills. the Glendale road provided it could be repaid be- fore Oct 1. 1921, either from proceeds of the $f,500.000 bond issue or from federal aid received on account of any other road in the Maricopa coun- ty program.
 Federal Aid Project
 The former proposition was out of the question as it would not be pos- sible to sell the $4.500 900 bond issue prior to Oct. 1, So negotiations were started beween the state highway de- | pertinent and the Maricopa county highway commission looking to the early construction Of this important 1 project. Since Grand avenue from Phoenix to Glendale was not included | in the first bond issue of $4.000.000 | the highway commission could not use any part of that money but would have to wait until tn,, second bond is sue of $4.500, 900 had been sold, which would delay construction until next winter. The result k; an arrangement whereby the Buckeye road and Grand avenue are both made federal aid projects
 The highway commission will al once pave the Buckeye road from Phoenix to the Agua. F'ria river. The state highway department will pave Grand avenue from Phoenix to Glen dale, using the $10o,000 provided fol in the omnibus bill and federal aid; the $100,000 to be repaid from fedora aid received on the Buckeye road Through this arrangemens work car be started as soon as a contract car
 be let and one of the most impor tant pieces or nlgnWay wOrk Tn lns county will be disposed of.
 The paving of Grand avenue is O interest not only as local proposi tion between Glendale and Phoenix but to all the northwestern part o the state. It is on the route betweei Phoenix and Wickenburg over whicl
 passes traffic en route to Prescott
 kingmsn, northern Arizona. Parker Los Angeles and many other points. | Hope for Apache Trail
 It is expected that congress will il the near future. appropriate addi
 tional money for federal aid. in wIlicl
 event an. additional s250.000 secure,
 as federal aid cn other portions o
 the Maricopa county program will b
 used to improve the Apache trail il
 connection with the appropriation o
 s75.000 in the omnibus bill. In thi
 manner the Apache trail will be re
 stored without cost to Maricop 1 county
 The highway department has bee trying for nearly two years to ii
 nance the paving of the road betwee
 Rhoenix and Glendale. Several prev
 ious attempts in this direction hay
 failed and the consummation of thi
 road building was only secured whe
 all the interested road officials wer
 induced to co-opel-ate.