The Winslow mail., 1926-10-15


The following report of road con-
struction on county highways in
Navajo county, appearing in the
Holbrook and Snowflake papers
during the past week, should prove
of interest to Winslow
During the past two years there
has been a total of 313 miles OF
roads graded in Navajo county;
one carload Of culverts used, be-
sides a number of wooden culverts
and bridges constructed There
has been purchased and paid for
during this period over $4,000
worth Of road equipment
Eight thousand dollars of money
has been appropriated to match
forest funds for road works ,Q00
on the Pinedale road and $4,000 ON
the SnOwhake-Pine road
The one and one-half cent gaso-
line tax yielded $4,000 into the
road fund from July l, 1925 to July
/, 1926. The road budget for the
same period was $4,000, leaving
only $4,000 to be raised by a direct
levy for the road fund, less than
/ one mill tax.
! The expenditures have never eX-
( ceeded the budget
! Among the important roads con-
structed in the past two years have
been the Holbrook-Heber-Y Young
road, 80 miles; Winslow-Pine road.
40 miles; Holbrook-Keams Canyon
road, So miles; Lakeside-Sponsellor
road, 10 miles; and the Showlow-
Clay Springs road, Is miles. Work
has been impartially done, every
district and section getting its pro-
rata
The Holbrook-Gallup road has
been taken over by the state high
way department, which means that
from now on maintenance expenses
will be taken in charge by the state
thus relieving the county
The Snowfake-Pinetop road is TO
be taken over by the forest depart
ment for two years, thus further
relieving the county of maiuten-
ance of that roadway
There has been a contract enter
ed into between Navajo county aid
the forestry department, through
Mr.. Long, forest engineer OF Al
buquerque, to that effect. This ac-
tion was taken in view of The fact
that the county had cont buted
funds to match the forestry allot-
ment for the surfacing of the road.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. road
has not cost the county anything
but the grading from Holbrook to
the forest reserve road-abour 80
miles.
The state highway department
has taken over the Holbrook- Gal
lup road and will maintain l. in
the future, being % miles east from
Holbrook, to the Apache county
line
1t has been the program of the
Navajo county supervisors to turn
over to the state highway depart
ment and the forestry department.
the completed roads for mainten-
ance, whenever it has been possible
to do so. All money saved by that
means will be applied to county
side roads.
From Snowflake work is expecr-
| ed to connect with the Holbrock-
Young road this side of Hebor max
| ing connections convenient FIR Air
pine and other ranchers Also
! road will soon be graded from
Showlow. to Clay Springs, leading
about nine miles to connect with
the Holbrook Young road near He
Der. Work On Cherry Greek hill,
we are informed, will be completed
about the last of this month. MAX
ing the shortest route to Phoenix.
Following are among the mort
important roads in Navajo county.
leading to the southern part of tile
state: Winslow-Pi road. Hol-
brook-Heber-Yo Young road and Hcl-.
brook Whiteriver- Rice road.
From the foregoing it will Is
seen that remarkably large
amount of road work has been done
in the county the past two yea )
at very small cost. If this rate e; q
be kept up for a few years the
county will be unusually fortu~ are
in the matter of highways, wh<ch
always means progress and pros
perity