Arizona republican., 1922-04-26

broaden the foundation of equal OPP
portunity for ALL Highway building,
therefore. is high mission, and the
| builder, adYocator and promoter of
highways is a missionary Of the doc
trine of human fbetterment HE
| prayeth best, who serveth best"
| Must Not Neglect Road Building
| High up in the Mountain of Taurne
| in Switzerland there hang some bells
so sacred in form and no ponderous
| in size as never to have been rung
| by the hand of man. In sunshine
| they hang mute and silent. When
| the great winters blasts hurI them
| selves down Ger the mountain $
crags, these old bells begin to ring
until their chimes are heard far
down the mountains side. The great
| God has hung in the bosom of us
all the bells of patriotism. which bells
we should never permit to be i'm
cased in icicles Of gold, or hushed by
| the glamor Of greed.
The American dough boys, mailing
| the supreme sacrifice added a new
halo to Old Glory at the battles Of
Chateau Thierry, Cantigny and Bel
| leau Woods. BY heroic efforts and
| death they broke the sHindenburg
| line and gave new Interpretation
| to the constitution. If we fail. refuse
| or neglect to provide the necessary
taxes to build modern highways for
the benefit of these heroes. we will
prove unworthy sires of worthy sons,
and as a nation will pass out as the
somnambulist of shattered dream.
AS true Americans, we must build
a national system of modern high
ways and transmit to posterity equal
/ blessings, or like blessings which we
have received through the sacrificial
| efforts and tears of our fathers and
mothers who have given to us so
| worthy an heritage and in the Ian
| guage of the "Old Spanish Bard
Burst be the ear that fails to
And palsied be the feet that
shuns to speed.
At the Clarion call of his
| Country's needi"
Il guess / belong to the class OF
dreamers," Mr.. Larrazola said in
prefacing his talk with few re-
marks concerning his fidelity to the
| cause Of ''cession of public domain
lands by the government to the sew
eral states
| I'm sponsoring this movement, /
khave undertaken a task many people
| believe to be impractieable and al
most impossible" he added. There
/ are few things impossible but the
! things worth having are the things
| we have to work hardest to get. The
things that come to you graciously
are not worth having"
Ceding of Lands
] Plunging into the question of ced-
| ing of lands to the states, he re-
/ ferred to a memorial adopted at a
| meeting OF governors at Salt Lake in
| 1919, asking congress to cede the
public domain lands to the states
/ where they are situated. This memo
rial was signed by all OF the % gov
ernors in attendance. he said.
Later, concurrent measures were
| introduced in the house and senate
| of the United States congress. he
said. and following the usual pro-
| cedure of sure bills. were referred to
their public land committees. These
/ committees sought audience with
then Secretary of the Interior Lane,
| who advised against passage of the
bills Following his recommends
tion, the measures were killed, the
| speaker said.
| But the idea is still very much
| alive, he asserted. In January, 1920,
the governors of the state were
| granted a joint hearing with the
land committees of the senate and
house and there the states claims to
| the public domain lands were set
| forth.
He urged support of Arizona peo-
pie to the proposal, saying that it
should be a question of deep interest
in this state in view of the fact that
II per cent of all lands in Arizona
are public domain lands.
| Dnauna.k~g A A1rn@e
! The morning program was con-
| cluded with talk by Arthur "A.
| PrauSnitz. who spoke in part SIS fol-
| lows:
Mr.. Prausnitx Speaks
The use of Industrial Car and
Track Equipment for road construc-
tion in the United States dates back
to the year 1909, when it was used
| by the Wayne County Road Com
mission of Detroit, Mich, as an ex-
| pertinent. The idea was to move the
/ aggregate to the paver in the most
economical way, and more ecQnom-
ically than had been done i'll the
past, with teams and wagons.
With this in mind, the Wayne
| County Road Commission expert
mented with a few miles of narrow
gauge track, two feet gauge. and
double side dump cars such as had
been used for excayating, and also
| in mines. The small mining dump
car as used at that time by the
Queen Copper mine, by the Ray
| Consolidated in Arizona and others
had U-shaped bodies, whereas the
| cars used by the Wayne County
| Road Commission were built on the
same principle except that they were
equipped with y-shaped bodies
The system was to finish up the
subgrade and dump the aggregate
such as sand and gravel on to the
subgrade. The cement was put on
top. 1t was not possible for them
to stock up cement along the roads
due to weather conditions.
The same system was used by a
California contractor. The Wors-
wick Paving company of Fresno
Calf. Mr.. Bader, president, in 1918
and was successfully in operation
during that year III Merced county
California. This system assisted ma
terially in the economical handling
of the aggregate onto the subgrade
In 1914, II. J.. Bowlby, at present
president of the American Road
Builders association and at thai
time state highway engineer of Ore
gon, brought up the point that he
could not see the necessity of dump
ing the aggregate onto the sub
grade and that it would be more