Nogales international., 1935-02-26
DAMS ON SANTA CRUZRIVER I
AND SONOITA CREEK MAJOR
PROJECTS PROPOSED LOCALLY
County Planning Board Rushing Plans For Federal
Approval; All Requests Must Be Received
In Washington By March

Sixteen work relief Improvement
projects, foremost OF which are the
dams on the Santa Cruz river and
Sono.ta creek, are proposed in San
ia Cruz county, it was announced
yesterday by c. r. Michaels, secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce
Total cost of the projects, if they
should be approved by the National
Planning Board in Washington, is
in the neighborhood of $87O, 900. The
two dams alone would entail an ex-
penditure of $6o2,125.
Five members of the County
Planning Board-E. K. Cumming,
chairman; Harry j. Karns, J. C. To-
Vrca, Mike Hogan of Harshaw and
G. r. Michaels-net at the Chamber
of Commerce Wednesday to place
into comprehensive shape requests
to the national board for the pro-
jects. Two other members of the
local board-State Senator James A.
Harrison and Representative E. F..
Bohlinger-are attending the ses-
sen Of the legislature ct Phoenix.
The projects will be submitted to
The State Planning Board OF Phoe-
| nix and the state board in turn will
submit them to Washington not lat
er than March l.
Projects
Among proposed main county pro-
jects, in addition to the two dams,
are:
A new high school at Pata-
gonia.
A flood protection dam at
Patagonia.
An addition to the Nogales
high school gymnasium making
it a civic auditorium.
Additional toilet facilities at
the Elm street school.
An additional room. at the
Patagonia grammar school.
An ore sampling plant at
Patagonia.
A firemans hall at Patagonia.
An apron at the Nogales III
ternational Airport
Two bridges on county roads
in the east end Of the county
Fifteen concrete dips on coun-
ty roads in the east end of the
county
Making Inventory
An inventory Of all needed and
desirable projects needing federal
financing is being made by the Ma
tional Planning Board SO funds for
the year may be intelligently budg-
eted for the various states. Un-
less the different counties of the
state get in their lists of desired
projects, Arizona may be allotted
insufficient funds to carry out it's
program of building, improvement
and work relief.
In a bill now before congress,
President Roosevelt is to be al
lottcd fcFr billion dollars to be
spent on relief work and commun-
ity needs over the country. How
this money will be spent depends
on Roosevelt's analysis of emer-
gency needs. However, belief was
expressed that if any change Is
made on terms of loans and in
terest charged it will be along more
lenient rather than stricter lines.
Projects along even broader scope
will be approved by the National
Plansing Board tbs year. Money
loaned for road construction may
now be used in part for purchase of
needed right-of-way as we'll as for
labor and materials. Projects on the
approved list include utilities, such
as water, power and gas company
construction; state, federal and
community buildings; sewer and
garbage disposal plants; hospitals;
charity homes and penal institu-
tions; construction or improvement
of recreational facilities, and ir-
rigation, drainage and erosion pro-
jects.
Indications are that more loans
Will be made on non-federal pro-
iects than in the past and fewer
strictly federal projects are plan
ned.
Federal emergency and PWA
loans have worked out as q great
benefit to towns and communities
that have reached their bonding