Arizona Highways. October, 1931

              Volume 7
Number 10 October 1931
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October, 1931
Table of Contents
FIRST L1NK IN GRAND CANYON HIGHWAY
NEARS COMPLETION .................................................................. Page 3
PHOENIX WAREHOUSE IS CENTER FOR ALL SUPPLIES .... "
PHOENIX SHOP BUILDS OIL REPAIR EQUIPMENT ............. 6
AUTO TRAVEL INCREASES TO GRAND CANYON ...................... 6
DUDE RANCHES OF ARIZONA ATTRACT VISITORS ................ 7
ACCOUNTING DIVISION FEELS THE DEPARTMENT
PULSE .............................................................................................................. 8
ARIZONA HIGHWAY PATROL .................................................................. 9
ARCHAEOLOGY, THE ANCIENT RIDDLES ........................................ l1
THE VOICE THAT LAUGHED IN THE WILDERNESS ............ 12
LAWS NEEDED TO PROTECT MOTOR FUEL TA..XES .............. 16
ROAD BUILDING SETS RECORD FOR EMPLOYMENT ............ 18
STATE PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION .................................. 20
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS PROJECTS .......................................... 22
ROAD CONDITIONS ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM .... 24
ADVERTISERS
APACHE POWDER COMPANy ...................................................... Page 19
ARIZONA TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT CO. . ............................... Cover
BABBITS, GENERAL MERCHANTS ...................................................... 24
II. lIf. CLARK OFFICE SUPPLY CO ................................ · .. ····· ............... 24
BEN D. COOLEy ................................................................................................ 22
CALIFORNIA CORRUGATED CULVERT CO ..................................... 15
CORV A CEDAR PRODUCTS CO ..... .................... · .. ········.··· .. · .... ····· ............. 22
GILMORE OIL CO. OF ARIZONA ............................................................ 22
W. & L. E. GURLEY ...................................................................................... 21
GLOBE HARDWARE COMPANY ............................................................ 23
GROSSOS ................................................................................................................ 20
VIC HANNY CO. . ............................................................................................. 22
HEINZE, BOWEN & HARRINGTON, Inc. . ....................................... 24
HULSE & DICK .................................................................................................... 23
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY .................................... 13
MOMS EN, DUNNEGAN & RY AN ............................................................ 20
PAVING DEVELOPMENT j..~ SALES CO ............................................. U
PACKARD PHOENIX J\lOTOR .CO ............................................................. 17
PHOENIX BLUE PRINT CO .................................. ······· .... ··.··.· ................... 24
PRATT-GILBERT HARDWARE CO ...............................•............. ······· ..... 19
RIO GRANDE OIL COMPANY .................................................................. 21
RO:l1E MANUFACTURING CO . ............................................................. 2
RO~"STADT HARDWARE & MACHINERY CO ................................... 17
THE O. S. STAPLEY COMPANY ................................................ 2 and 19
SEASIDE OIL COMlPANY .................................................; ..........................2 3
SHElLL OIL COMPANY .................................................................................. 25
THE COLORADO BUILDERS SUPPLY CO ......................................... 21
UNION OIL COMPANY ....................................... : .......................................... 1
VEATER & DAVIS .......................................................................................... 19
WESTERN METAL MANUFACTURING CO. . ................................... 15
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CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY
Copyright, 1931, by Arizona Highways - - All Rights Reserved
Volume VII. OCTOBER, 1931 No. 10
First Link In Grand Canyon Highway
Nears Completion
By s'rANLEY A. DAY
Following the dim trails of the early
Mormon settlers from Utah, as they came
southward to the fertile plains of Ari­zona,
men and machines are building a
splendid modern highway that will in
the days to come become one of the
most interesting and widely used North
and South highways in the entire United
States. Skirting the great sandstone,
vermillion cliffs of the first bench of
the Grand Canyon this highway will
soon be completed for half the distance
from Cameron to the Great Grand Can­yon
bridge that spans the gorge in Mar-ble
canyon.
Traffic now is using the first 22 miles
of this highway north of Cameron. Its
long, straight stretches and wide sweep­ing
curves are as superior to the old,
time worn road, with its hundreds of dips
through washes and creeks, as the auto­mobile
is over the ox cart. The first
twelve miles of this stretch has been
graveled surfaced and further surfacing
now is being contemplated.
The contract for the entire 40 miles
was one of the largest single piece of
road construction ever let by the Ari­zona
highway department. ts completion
date called for January 1, 1932, but the
contractors, Yeater and Davis, expect to
be off the job during the month of No­vember.
It has been a difficult piece of con­struction.
Isolated at the far end nearly
100 miles from any railroad it has meant
that all supplies and equipment must be
hauled great distances. The beginning of
the construction at Cameron is 55 miles
from Flagstaff, the nearest city and the
nearest railroad. Besides its isolation,
cutting as it does accoss the upper bench
of the Grand Canyon, drainage problems
from the plateau above presents a, big
factor. This is to be seen in the number
of structures on the project. There are
43 bridges of over 20 foot span, 27 bridges
under 20 feet in length and a total of
215 corugated metal pipe culverts in the
40 miles.
One of the 43 bridges of over 20-foot span on the 40 miles under
construction north of Cameron. When these streams race to join
the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon they need
plenty of clearance.
Since the first Spanish explorer plodded
his way Westward across Arizona the
mighty Grand Canyon has balked man's
efforts to reach beyond, without great
detours across desert wastes or the perils
of the almost untraversable depths of
the Grand Canyon. The Mormons found
a circuitous route from the North side
to a crossing of the Colorado River at
Lee's Ferry. Then against the very face
of towering cliffs of the upper canyon
they scratched a trail up to the bench
where the present highway runs. This
route for over half a century was the
only means of traveling from Utah, south
into Arizona. None but the most ven­turesome
travelers dared to make the
trip.
Utah has built a splendid highway
south from Salt Lake City through Zion
Park to the Arizona border. Arizona and
the Park Service are at work on the dif­fel'ent
links that will connect with this
highway which, when it is completed,
will give the people of the entire North­west
an opportunity to come south over
one of the most picturesque and inter­esting
routes in the country, with the
greatest natural wonders in the world
along the route.
In the Kaibab. forest on the North rim
of the canyon is the greatest herd of
deer in America if not in the entire
world, It is impossible to travel this sec­tion
of the trip without seeing scores
of them alongside the roadway and often
herds of them in the parks, or clearings
in the forest. Buffalo range in Rock
House valley, Across the Grand Canyon
bridge and on the section now building
deer and antelope are frequently seen.
Skirting, as it does, the Western edge
of the Painted Desert and unending
panorama of beautifully colored land­scapes
follows this highway all the way
to Cameron, wild, beautiful, almost un'"
4
describably desolate except when, here
and there, some Navajo Indian hogan is
seen or an Indian family is found herd­ing
their flock of goats to some spring
or water hole.
Numerous side trips are possible now
for the venturesome and scores will cer­tainly
be developed after the highway is
completed. From Cameron a side trip
. of 12 miles leads to Dinasour Canyon
'where these great prehistoric reptiles
roamed before Eve tempted Adam under
the old apple tree in the Garden of
Eden. And to prove they did, they left
their footprints, not in the sands of time
but in sands of this canyon, where they
hardened into stone and have come down
to us through the thousands upon thou­sands
of years to start arguments as to
how and when they got there.
From the Gap Trading Post, 29 miles
North of Cameron, an unique trip may be
made over dim Indian Trails to the junc­tion
of the Little and Big Colorado
rivers. Here is a vantage point of the
chasm that few have viewed this might
spectacle from, but in the years to come
will undoubtedly be one of the most in­spiring
portions of this region.
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
One of the masonry bridges on
the Grand Canyon Bridge high­way.
With an abundance of
stone it was cheaper to build
masonry than to haul cement
nearly 100 miles.
Phoenix \V arehouse Is Center For
All Supplies
By W. M. MURRAY,
Warehouse Superintendent
The general warehouse of the Arizona
highway department, located in Phoenix
is the general .disbursing agency of sup­plies
of the entire department. Whether
it be a truck or an eraser it passes
through this department's hands and a
record of its receipt and its disbursement
to the office or project using it is kept
in this department together with its
cost.
The warehouse has grown since Jan­uary
I, 1923, into an orderly and up-to­date
storehouse. New she"ivings and bins,
neatly numbered, have been built in as
the department grew.
A large amount of supplies and spare
parts are on hand in this department at
all times and must be available immedi­ately
on demand. In order to do this
they must be placed in sections and bins.
The card index record, which is kept iIi
this office, shows the quantity and lo­cation,
as well as price, of each article.
This card is made up as soon as the
supplies and parts are received in the
warehouse, and placed in their proper
section or bin.
Thus, when requisitions are received,
the price clerk consults the card index
system, places the location and price
opposite each item on the requisition,
!\nd gives the requisition to the disburse­ment
clerk, who then can go directly to
each article called for and deliver same
immediately. In this way no time is lost
in looking for any parts~ as the card in­dex
and the section and bins show the
same number for the different parts.
The number of each article or part in
stock in the warehouse is always shown
on the card index. This is done by en­tering
the disbursements on the same
card index on :which the supplies and
parts received were entered. The dis­bursements
are entered from the depart­ment
invoice, which is made up when
the requisition is filled. In this way,
entering the amount of supplies and
parts received, from our receiving report,
and subtracting the amount disbursed, as
shown on our department invoice after
charging the project from which the
requisition is received, leaves the value of
each article and part on hand always
. kept up-to-date.
Thus it will be seen that this system
OCTOBER, 1931
View of gravel surface on com­pleted
portion of Grand Canyon
Bridge highway.
of section and bin location of material
is of proven worth in the warehouse and
stockroom work.
U. S. Highway 66 is an all-year route
from Los Angeles to Chicago and the
distance between these two cities is 2,-
441 miles. Almost half the distance is
hard surfaced and the remainder is im­proved
with gravel, crushed stone;. and
oiled gravel, according to an announce­ment
by the bureau of public roads.
OCTOBER, 1931 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS 5
Phoenix Shop Builds Oil Repair Equipment
By C. E. SCHNURE,
Shop Foreman
Rapid development of oil roads in Ari­zona
called for new methods of main­tenance.
An oil road needs maintenance
from the day it is laid, and the vigilance
of the patrol foremen in detecting weak
spots and the correction of them is prov­ing
one of the greatest reasons why this
type of road is proving so highly success­ful
in this state.
One of the needs of the maintenance
men, developed quickly and no machine
was at hand to fill the need. It was
found necessary in repairing holes, fray­ing,
ravelling and numerous other fail­ures
to spray in some manner, the re­paired
parts with road oil as a seal
coat to heal and bind the repairs with
the other parts of the surfaces. A
spreader was too cumbersome, slow and
expensive for this work. To do it by
hand was entirely unsatisfactory. The
department decided to make its own
equipment.
A small portable spreader was needed.
One that could be hooked on the back
of a light truck and be transported
along with the maintenance men and be
operated by the two men who usually
formed this kind of a repair force. It
was decided such a machine could be
built on a two wheel trailer, that was
capable of carrying a 300 gallon oil tank
and a small gasoline engine to operate
a pressure pump. Even then such a ma­chine
was going to be an expensive piece
of equipment, as trailers of this size
would cost in the neighborhood of $800
each.
Old Trailers Converted
On taking inventory of the four yards
in the state it was found that many of
the old army type of four wheel trailers
were stored in the yards. These trailers
had originally been used to carry dump
bodies in building of our gravel surfaced
roads. These trailers were all sent in to
the Phoenix shops where they were cut
in two with acetylene torches, each half
providing the necessary frame, springs
and axel for the sized trailer needed.
A heavy platform was built on these
frames. On this was mounted a 300
gallon steel tank and the necessary
pumps and an eight horsepower stover
gasoline engine. The diSc wheels of the
original trailers were equipped with solid
tires and by cutting down these wheels
they were equipped with balloon tires
which permits their use at high speed
without hurting the oil surfaced high­ways.
One of the road oil repair outfits in operation.
just repaired a shoulder and the new material
sealed with a spray of road oil.
The crew has
is being
To operate the spraying the gasoline
engine drives a Roper one and one­quarter
inch rotary pump supplied with
oil from the 300 gallon tank, which is
about the right size for one day's opera­tion
of such a repair crew. A pressure
relief valve is provided to maintain an
even pressure on the oil. The oil is dis­charged
through a three-quarter inch
hose 10 feet long, this hose is equipped
with a special spray nozzle and a spring
trigger valve so the operator can control
the spread of oil at a pressure of from
five to 100 pounds or instantly stop the
flow. The net weight of the entire equip­ment
is 2600 pounds.
Each maintenance section that has
oiled roads is being supplied with these
spreaders as rapidly as the Phoenix
shop can turn them out. The sections
on which they have been operating for
several months find that two men can
easily operate them and that all neces­sary
oil repair can be done much fastBr
and much more economically.
In operation the men prepare the
patches or other work over a consider­able
stl'etch, then with one man driving
the truck that pulls the spreader the
other operator can walk behind operat­ing
the spray and the repaired parts
are thus quickly and properly oiled.
Even large spots in the road that need
seal coating can be easily done with this
equipment.
Now that the girls are gOing without
stockings we often wonder how so many
of them "bark" their shins.
High Speed Has Changed
Modern Road Requirements
Many roads have just grown up with
the country and as these roads built
for travel at low speed evolved into
paved roads little change was made in
the location. "Modern high speed traf­fic
demands revision of such low speed
roads," states R. G. Browning, chair­man
of the road location committee of
the American Road Builders' Association.
"A car traveling 60 miles an hour pass­ing
a car at 45 miles an hour will en­croach
on the left lane of traffic for a
distance of 468 feet. A road safe for
passing cars on its entire length must
be straight enough and have the tops
of hills rounded so that a driver can
see at least 500 feet ahead. Many old
locations fail to meet this condition,"
concluded Mr. Browning.
INTEREST SHOWN IN ROADS
The state of Michigan has 600 special
l:epresentatives of the governor ap­pointed
to attend the annual meeting
of the American Road Builder's Associa­tion
in Detroit, January 11-15, 1932.
Tennessee has selected .200 to represent
the governor. It is expected that sev­eral
thousand personal representatives
of state executives will be present.
MUCH SURFACING IS NEEDED
Although 660,000 miles of roads have
been improved, only 260,000 of the 3,-
000,000 miles of public roads in the
United states have been hard surfaced.
6 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1931
Auto Travel Increases to Grand Canyon
Improved highways are increasing
travel to the Grand Canyon national
park. While railroad passenger visitors
have decreased almost 50 per cent since
1927, automobile traffic to the greatest
natural wonder in the world has forged
consistently ahead. With highway im­provements
being made on the North
rim, the building of the North-South
highway from Utah, through Arizona
via the Grand Canyon bridge and the
completion of the oil surfacing of the
South approach · road from Williams to
the Grand Canyon the coming year
should bring a greater number of tour­ists
to the brink of both the North and
South .rims than ever before.
According to statistics just released by
M. R. Tillotson, Superintendent of Grand
Canyon National Park for the travel
year ended September 30, 1931, travel
to the park suffered a loss of 15,799, or
9.14 per cent over the preceding year.
All of the loss is in rail travel, there
being a slight increase in number of
visitors by private automobile.
As an example of the extent to which
the automobile is replacing the railroad
as a means of passenger transportation,
it is significant to note that during the
1931 year there were less than one-third
as many visitors by rail as there were by
automobile. Rail travel has dropped from
the high total of 72,509 in 1927 to 36,-
577 in 1931. During the same period
automobile travel has increased from
89,681 to 119,786.
"Travel to National Parks," Mr. Tillot­son
states, "may be considered as a
fairly accurate index of business condi­toins.
The greatest total in travel to
the park was in 1929 when there were
184,093 visitors. As compared with this
figure, the total of 156,964 for the 1931
year represents a loss of approximately
15 per cent. However, next year's figures
may not represent true conditons as I
confidently expect that Grand Canyon
will have one of its biggest years in 1932
in point of number of visitors on ac­count
of the Olympics to be held at Los
Angeles." He added that the 1931 year
saw the completion or letting of contracts
for the completion by surfacing of all
modern road construction which has been
to date undertaken in the park.
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THE HIGHEST ROAD
The highest motor road in the United
States is on Pike's Peak, in Colorado,
14,109 feet above sea level.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TRAVEL-SEASON 1930-31
By Automobile Misc!.
Visitors
Total
ENTRANCE
SOUTH RIM
NORTH RIM
By Rail
................. 34,549
. Cars
34,147
5,697
Passengers
102,109
17,677
119,786
Travel Stage For Season
6 595 137,259
...................... 2,028
TOTALS .......... 36,577
SOUTH RIM ...................... 49,890
NORTH RIM ...................... 3,331
TOTALS ........................ 53,221
39,844
1930
33,618
5,954
39,572
100,179
18,739
118,918
INCREASE-::-1931
NUMBER .......................... -16,644 272 868
6
28
13
41
-35
PER CENT ........................ - 31.27 .69 .73 -85.37
TRAVEL BY MONTHS-SEASON-1931
JULy ............................ 5,047 5,851 18,856 763 1,488 4,867
AUGUST .......................... 4,124 5,566 17,917 555 1,459 4,678
Month Rail
OCTOBER .... .............. 3,015
NOVEMBER .............. 1,298
DECEMBER .............. 1,498
JANUARY .................. 1,708
FEBRUARy .............. 1,977
MARCH ........................ 2,414
APRIL .......................... 2,440
MAy .............................. 2,686
JUNE ............................ 5,228
JULy ............................ 5,047
AUGUST .................... 4,124
SEPTEMBER ............ 3-114
TOTALS .............. 34,549
South Rim
Cars
2,360
912
487
555
620
1,693
2,397
~ , 801
6,452
5,851
5,566
3,453
34,147
Pass Rail
6,278
2,436
1,350
1,493
1,630
4,708
6,539
10,681
20,153 433
18,856 763
17,917 555
10,068 277
102,109 2,028
North Rim
Cars
111
40
2
401
1,347
1,488
1,459
849
5,697
Pass
280
103
7
1,134
4,142
4,867
4,678
2,466
17,677
595
583
583
19,705
156,964
150,680
22,083
172,763
12 -15,799
2.06 - 9.14
7,339
7,025
29,533
27,274
Total Total
Cars
2,471
952
487
555
620
1,693
2,399
4,202
7,779
7,339
7,025
4,302
39,844
Visitors
9,573
3,837
2,848
3,201
3,607
7,122
8,986
14,501
29,956
29,533
27,274
15,925
Total Miscellaneous Travel for Year.. ....................................................... ..
156,363
601
GRAND TOTAL-ALL TRAVEL ...................................................... 156,964
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AUTO TRAVEL BY STATES-SEASON OF 1930 AND 1931
1931 1930
State Cars
ALABAMA ........................................................................ 69
ARIZONA .......................................................................... 6,370
ARKANSAS .......................................................... ............ 125
CALIFORNIA .................................................. ................ 12,173
COLORADO ...................................................................... 1,809
CONNECTICUT .............................................................. 143
DELEWARE . .............. ........................... ......................... 17
FLORIDA .............................. ........... ................. ................ 191
GEORGIA .................................................................... ...... 113
IDAHO ................................................................................ 143
ILLINOIS ..................................................... ......... ........... 1,594
INDIANA ....................... .................................. ............ ....... 672
IOWA .................................................................................. 653
KANSAS ................................................ .. ......................... 865
KENTUCKY 137
LOUISIANA ........................................... .................. ~...... . 116
MAINE ...................... ................................................ .......... 43
MARYLAND ................................................................... .
MASSACHUSETTS ...................................................... ..
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95
382
93~
Pass
222
20,798
434
34,676
5,320
402
53
548
449
445
4,685
2,024
2,003
2,709
473
359
146
268
1,072
2,653
Cars
58
5,836
129
12,060
1,830
122
14
195
8-7
155 .
1,652
627
638
98a-
118
127
45
121
296
960
Pass
186
18,913
441
34,125
5,374
339
36
565
330
437
4,708
1,889
1,921
3,137
364
412
130
374
832
2,699
OCTOBER, 1931 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS 7
Dude Ranches of Arizona Attract Visitors
By Mrs. Lamar Cobb
The influences which have turned the
tide of eastern pleasure seekers and va­cationists
westward appear to be varied.
Possibly ' a decade or more of western
anecdote and film . has played its part
in the influx of visitors from all points
east to the score or more "Dude
Ranches" of Arizona. It is a far cry
from the effete luxuries of the Riviera
or Florida to the sun drenched desert
and hill of this state, but yearly the
toll of former European tourists seeking
the novelties of the cattle ranch in-creases,
and the fame of Arizona and
her guest ranches grows apace.
And what a variety of entertainment
and accommodation these guest ranches
offer. Some have retained the simplicity
of life of the old cattle ranch, while
others are the last word in luxury, af­fording
a variety of entertainment. A
memory lingers with the writer of a
visit to one of the largest cattle ranches
in the state; a ranch of a hundred
thousand acres running thousands of
cattle and a location of surpassing
beauty; where in summer it was always
MINNESOTA .................................................................... 415
MISSISSIPPI .................................................... ~..... . ..... . ... 58
MISSOURI...... ........... . ............ ....... . ............ .... ......... 927
MONTANA ............................... ........................................ 100
NEBRASKA ...................................................................... 432
NEVADA ............................................................................ 161
NEW HAMPSHIRE ............ .................... ...................... 35
NEW JERSEy............................................... ................ 446
NEW MEXICO .......................................... ...................... 695
NEW YORK .................................................................... 1,244
NORTH CAROLINA ............................ c ...... . ...... . ......... :: 77
NORTH DAKOTA ......................................................... 90
OHIO .................................................................................... 1,303
OKLAHOMA .................................................................... 827
OREGON ..... .......... ...... ....... .... .......... ..... ........... ... .... 199
PENNCYL VANIA ............................................................ 816
RHODE ISLAND .................. ;......................................... 45
SOUTH CAROLINA ...................................... ................ 53
SOUTH DAKOTA .......................................................... 123
TENNESSEE .................................................................... 172
TEXAS ................................................................................ 1,809
UTAH ................................................................................... 1,554
VERMONT ............................................ ............................ 34
VIRGINIA ............... :~.. . . . ................. . ......................... .... .. 87
WASHINGTON .......................................... ...................... 343
WEST VIRGINIA .......................................................... 70
WISCONSIN .................................................................... 554
WYOMING ........................................................................ 156
DISTRICT COLUMBIA ...................................... .......... 178
ALASKA ......................................................... .................. 7
CANADA ............................................................................ 120
CANAL ZONE .......................... ........................................ 9
CUBA .................................................................................. 1
ENGLAND ...................................................................... ..
FRANCE ................... :........................................................ 1
GERMANY ............. c ....................... ..................... ..... ........ .
HAWAII .............................................................................. 32
MEXICO ............................................................................ 8
NEW ZEALAND ..................... ..................... .................. 1
NOVA SCOTIA ...... .......................................................... 1
PANAMA ........................................................ .................... ,
PORTO RICO .................................................................. 18
PHILIPPINES .................................................................. 1
PORTUGAL .................................................................... ..
WEST INDIES .............................................................. ..
1,280
198
2,872
290
1,343
443
93
1,205
2,200
3,360
278
290
3,805
2,800
525
2,377
133
150
360
574
5,625
5,683
102
301
957
206
1,041
437
514
16
350
32
2
2
114
22
2
2
61
2
TOTALS ................................ , ..................................... 39/844 119,786
418
80
839
152
510
161
28
404
664
1,121
97
112
1,189
984
20\1.
782
41
31
166
133
2,056
1,865
39
76
374
88
382
186
115
8
136
12
2
2
2
2
34
17
1
3
2
2
1
1
1,218
271
2,576
424
1,613
495
87
1,166
2,057
2,832
393
338
3,444
3,224
574
2,312
117
105
479
394
6,394
6,898
120
249
1,062
274
1,073
538
306
21
409
38
9
6
8
4
96
58
2
5
4
6
5
2
39,572 118,918
cool and there were picnics and camp­ing
trips on the mountain forming a
large portion of the ranch, and in the
winter, during the hunting season, it
was the boast of the host that not one
of his guests had failed to bag a deer.
You could ride each day to a different
beauty spot and then home at night
where, in front of a gigantic fireplace,
the adventures of the . day were re­counted
after an excellent meal; and
then to bed, where even the confirmed
neuresthenic found it impossible to keep
awake.
Healthful Sports
A closer acquaintanceship with that
animal so dear to the heart of the west­erner,
the horse, is another attraction
to the eastern visitor. There he may
learn the joy of a swift gallop over a
treeless plain, the smell of mesquite and
grease wood in his nostrils and a good
horse between his knees, in the purpling
shadows of the evening or the rosy hue
of dawn. He may even, if he is a good
sport, join in the spring and fall round­up,
where he will learn what a real ap­petite
is; what delicious viands are steak
broiled over the coals or bacon fried in
a pan, with a dutch oven full of hot
biscuits, and he will wonder why he has
never before discovered how delectable
such simple fare can be. And around the
camp fire at night he may hearken to
the purely mythical but seriously told
yarns of that inveterate joker, the cow­boy.
He will h ear the story of the
.chapparal bird or road-runner, building
the cholla cactus corral around Mr. Rat­tlesnake
while he sleeps, so that when
the snake awakens he is unable to leave
his thorny prison and the road-runner
picks his eyes out and kills him at his
leisure. Quite as authentic and equally
strange is the Side Hill Goofus, which
has a hind and fore leg on one side
several inches shorter than the other,
caused by its incessant traveling on hill­sides.
A host on one of the largest guest '
ranches has a story to tell of an archi­tect
from New York who looked at the
hair tassels hanging from the cinches
under the horse's belly for three days
before getting up nerve to ask what they
were. When told they were purely orna.,.
mental he replied that he thought the.
horse had been clipped so as to lea,ve 'R
bunch of hair hanging. He failed to '
state for what possible purpose. ..
An astonishing thing to this same
rancher was to meet the city child who
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8 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1931
Accounting Division Feels the Department Pulse
By M. C. HANKINS
Chief Accountant
Every hour worked by every employee
of the highway department, whether he
worked in the "Strip" north of the Grand
Canyon, where it might take three days
to find him, or in our own accounting
room, must be accounted for and checked
by his foreman, his department head, by
the personnel clerk and finally be audited
in the accounting division of the depart­ment
in Phoenix, before the worker can
be paid for it. Likewise claim, whether
it be for a nail or a steam shovel must
have a purchase order from the purchas­ing
agent, the number of his order being
the key to all settlements with vendors,
a receiving report from the department
or foreman in the field advising receipt
of the merchandise before it is paid.
When it is considered that the high­way
department is spending nearly $8,-
000,000 per year the magnitude of the
work in the accounting division of the
department can be somewhat visualized.
In the first three months of the pres­ent
fiscal year, that is the months of
July, August and September the depart­ment
handled 6,539 invoices. This num­ber
was an increase of 1,074 invoices
over the same period in 1930. During
the same three months this year 3,499
claims passed through the accounting
division against 2,517 in the same period
in 1930. This big increase, of course,
was occasioned by the extra work done
by the department this spring and sum­mer
in aiding the unemployed.
These invoices and claims had to be
checked for correctness and distributed
against the many departments and proj­ects
which used the material, all of these
accounts being centered in the account­ing
division. The following records are
kept in the accounting department in
Phoenix:
Project Liability Register
Accounts Payable Control
Claim Register
Claim Recapitulation
Warrant Register
Journal Entries
Imprest Fund Record
Equipment Costs
Record of Certificates of Title
Gas Tax Refunds and Reconciliation
Common Carrier Taxes
Chauffeurs' License.
The month of July was over a "million
dollar" month in expenditures by the de­partment.
Few people realize the great
amount of work carried on by a state
highway department because very few of
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
Tucson, Arizona
October 8, ID31
State Highway Dept.,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Gentlemen:
It has come to my attention that on the night of October
7th, a small slide occurred from embankment of our track
where your forces are driving sh'eet piling, about five miles
north of Nogales. A Mr. R. L. York, employed by your De­partment
witnessed this slide when it occurred and stopped
our train No. 481 before it ran into it, thus no doubt pre­venting
a possible derailment with resultant injury or death
to employes and damage to equipment.
The action taken on the part of Mr. York is highly ap­preciated
by myself as well as the Management of this Com­pany
and through you I wish to express our appreciation of
his interest and thoughtfulness in taking the action which he
did.
Yours truly,
them get to see more than a small por­tion
of the activities of a state highway
department. The total expenditures for
the highway department during the
months of July, August and September
were $2,707,201.56, or $1,014,603.12 more
than was spent in the same months of
1930. The highest number of projects
under construction this summer was 48,
these have now dropped, due to the com­pletion
of the emergency program to 14
projects, which is Slightly under the aver­age
amount of construction work carried
on by the department.
The distribution of these expenditures
during the first three months of the
present fiscal year was:
Main-tenance
150,486.32 115,773.94 121,013.74
Better-ment
.... 8,691.48 14,912.42 23,051.61
Construc-tion
........ 846,944.35 680,841.33 661,557.37
GeneralOp-eration
47,648.05 18,277.22 18,003.73
1,053,770.20 829,804.91 823,626.45
The total revenue of the department
during these months amounted to $2,-
858,762.55. These funds were received as
follows :
Federal Aid ...................................... 1,677,145.97
Gasoline Tax .................................. 631,997.02
Tax Levy ............... ........................... 14,135.78
Motor Vehicle Revenue , .•..•.. "w., 46,839.13
WILLIAM WILSON.
Sundry Receipts .......................... .. 4,384.63
Balance carried over from pre-vious
fiscal year ........................ 484,260.02
At the peak of the construction period
this summer over 3,000 men were at work
building, repairing and maintaining the
highways of the state. The result of their
efforts are seen in the splendid highways
. that have been built and the excellent
condition of the state system in general.
But, what few people ever stop to think
about is that for every pick that was
driven into the ground in the making
of those roads some record and charge
eventually had to pass through the hands
and books of the accounting division.
COAST TRAFFIC DEATHS INCREASE
Although the increase in cars was
only a fraction over two per cent, deaths
from automobiles in Los Angeles county
during the first six months of this year
gained 13 per cent over the similar
period last year. The first half of the
year shows 388 fatalities in traffic as
against 343 for the same period last
year.
THE VALUE OF YOUR CAR
Regardless of the cash value of your
car, when it is loaded with the wife
and children-to say nothing of yourself
-it is just about the most valuable
cargo in all the world. So be careful.
OCTOBER, 1931 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS 9
D .A.IJIZONA • HIGHWAY· 'PATQOL·
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- e CONVICTIO.K5 -
Arizona Highway Patrolmen during
month of September patrolled 31,421
miles of highways. This is equal to the
first month's operation in August, and
operations, in general, have kept up the
fast pace set in the first month's work.
A total of 581 foreign vehicles during
September registered in Arizona and are
now displaying this state's license. This
is an increase of 161 cars over the num­ber
of foreign vehicles taking out Arizona
registrations in the month of August.
Improvements are noted in traveling
on our highways. The increased number
of licensed vehicles, properly displaying
two plates that are plainly visible is
noticeable whereas, a few weeks ago a
great number of cars were displaying
only one plate and that hardly visible.
It is gratifying to note the number of
vehicles now operating with two perfect­ly
good headlights, also tail lights, as
our law requires. A short while ago a
number of vehicles could be noted within
a short distance with only one head­light
and no tail light. At the present
time, there are thirty-two official head­light
adjusting stations scattered through­out
our State and others being installed
daily leaving no excuse open to operators
for not having lighting equipment on
their vehicles conform with our laws.
A total of twenty-eight arrests have
been made by our forces since operations
started, resulting in twenty-five convic­tions,
these arrests being for various vio­lations.
During the month of September, 1578
-4717CITATION5 -
citation cards were issued for a total
revenue of $9,918.50. This revenue can be
directly credited to the same items as
listed below:
Pleasure vehicles
Commercial
Trailer and semi trailer
Reissued lost plates
Operators fees
Chauffeurs
Penalties and seizures
Certificates of Title
Duplicate
New Motor and Block fees
Corrections
Trailer and semi trailer registration.
WHEN CAR IS ADAPTED
FOR COMMERCIAL USE
IT THEN BECOMES TRUCK
An article in the September issue of
this publication under the caption "High­way
Patrol Gets Down to Business" has
given rise to a question in the minds
of some as to what is meant by that
portion of the article which states in
part as follows "* * * Many cars were
registered before the taking effect of the
new law and their registrations are good
for the remainder of the year. • • •
Under legislation existent prior to the
passage of amended legislation effective
June 13, 1931, a vehicle equipped with a
box or other receptacle for the carrying
of personal property, other than a truck,
could not be seized for the non payment
of unladen weight fees until judicial de­termination
had been had. To this end
and upon representation of the applicant
for registration that the vehicle would
not be used commercially, Assessors
granted registration of vehicle for the
fee of $3.50.
New legislation defined a truck which
was . not done in the section before
amendment. This definition provides
• * * truck" shall mean any motor ve­hicle
designed or used primarily for the
carriage of property other than the ef­fects
of the driver or passengers, and
includes a motor vehicle to which has
been added a box, platform or other
equipment for such carriage.
It is true the amendment is not re­troactive
nor has it been so construed
by the Patrol. The reason that changed
classification has been made on certain
vehicles is that these vehicle were found
to be in commercial operation by the
Patrol, which operation was prohibited
under original legislation, when carrying
private owner plates.
CAUSES OF FATALITIES
Curious causes for fatalities in traffic
are recorded in the analysis of motor
vehicle accidents in California prepared
by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Reports show that one pedestrian was
killed while walking in his sleep; there
were 54 accidents caused by drivers
falling asleep at the wheel; four met
death because of obstructed view ; four
ended their lives through their own
carelessness; and seven contributed to
their own end by being intoxicated.
10 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1931
Arizona Highways
Published in the Interest of Good Roads by the
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Vol. VII OCTOBER, 1931 No. 10
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
C. E. ADDAMi:3, MONTE MANSFIELD,
ChaIrman, Phoenix Commissioner, Tucson
JOHN B. HART, SAMUEL H. TRENGOVE,
Vice-Chairman, Douglas Commissioner, Prescott
JACOB BARTH, GEO. W. COMPAR}j]T,
Commissioner, St. Johns Secretary, Phoenix
GENERAL OFFICE
T. S. O·CONNIDLL, :state Highway Engineer
C. C. SMALL J. :s. MiLL:S
DepuLy :State Eng,ineer Engineer of Estimates
E. M. WhITWORTh H. C. HATCH.h:R
Vehicle Superintendent ::;tatistical Engineer
R. A. HOJ;' F'M.A.N W. H. MURRAY
Bridge Engineer ::;uperintendent of Stores
E. V. lVHLLElli W. C. JOYNER
Engineer of Plans Purchasing Agent
J. W . .POWERS M. C. HANKiNS
Engineer of Materials Chief Accountant
A. H. LIND JAMES M. HALL
Equipment Superintendent Patrol Superintendent
FIFlLD ENGINEERS
GEORGE B. SHAFFER ~. C. PERKINS
District Bng-meer District Bngineer
District No.1 District No. a
F. N. Gfu\.N'J.' W. R. HUTCHINS
District Engineer District Engineer
District No.2 DIstrict No.4
PERCY JONES
Chief Locating Engineer
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ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
Arizona Highway Department Phoenix, Arizona
TAKING CARE OF THE UNEMPLOYED
Every community, in these times of depression, is
confronted with its own problem of unemployment.
If it is Four Corners, the fact that one man with a
large family is destitute, presents a problem to that
center, if it is a large city, the hundreds who are
not able to find employment is its problem.
As the highway department is a state-wide insti­tution,
it has been confronted with the huge task of
meeting, as far as funds have been available, the un­employment
situations of the entire state. Over 18,000
applications for employment have been filed with this
department since the first of this year.
It has been impossible to find even temporary
employment for this great number, because the road
. building fund has not been ample enough to carry
on a road construction program large enough to em­ploy
such a vast number. At the peak of construc­tion
this summer, employment was furnished for
3,100 on the state highways, but with the completion
of the work under the emergency appropriations, this
number has been reduced by half.
owever, we believe, the highway department has
done more than anyone agency in the state in re­lieving
distress amongst the unemployed in every lo­cality
in the state. The department has adopted the
policy of working as many men as possible in the
locality in which the work is being done. Preference
has been given to married men with dependents. In
this way, even though the amount of . work being done
by the department has not been overly great, cases
of men with nearly destitute families have been given
a chance to work and provide necessities for their
dependents. Another system the department has been
using is to rotate the labor on their jobs. One group
being worked half a month and another group placed
to work for the other half, in this way twice as many
families were taken care of.
The many communities of the state can profit by
this example. If they are able to do any public work
to furnish employment, now is the time to do it and
in doing so, hire the men of their own communities
who are in need. . Do not cut wages of those employed
and thus reduce their efficiency, but rotate the labor
on the projects so as to give aid to the greatest pos-'
sible number.
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STATEWIDE SAFETY CAMPAIGN
The Arizona ighway Commission is seriously con­sidering
means and measures for promoting a state­wide
safety campaign. . It is not the desire of the
commission to enter into one of the sporadic move­ments
which from time to time are taken up in one
community or another. Such campaigns of local
character have the effect of bringing to the commun­ity,
in which they are carried out, a monetary recog­nition
of the motor vehicle laws. This notice is of en
attended with a revenue producing series of fines
by the police authorities. The big trouble with such
local movements is that the results do not last, and
so soon as the activities behind the safety drive re­lax,
the local motorists lapse back into a state of
coma as far as traffic regulations are concerned.
The desire of the highway commission is to formu­late
a plan of campaign that will promote year round
observance of the traffic laws of the state. Some­thing
that will appeal to the common sense of the
auto drivers in January as well as in July. A plan
that can be made applicable to the state highways
and the city streets.
Traffic laws are made primarily to promote public
safety. They are meant to make the driving of ve­hicles
on the highways safe, to prevent accidents, the
loss of life and limb, the destruction of property.
If the traffic laws of the state were strictly ob­served
by all drivers there would be few accidents.
It is when someone gets .careless than accidents occur.
Many individuals and corporations have come for- '
ward and offered to co-operate with the highway de­partment
in such a safety movement . . Everyone is
interested in making the highways safer, even the
careless drivers who cause the accidents will sign a
pledge to promote safety when they are not behind a
steering wheel, it is the thing that 'will make them
keep that pledge when they are on the road that the
highway commission is looking for.
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The judges are thought severe in handing down
sentences of three months in jail for driving while
drunk. That is one of the mandatory parts of the law.
The other mandate is to revoke their driving licenses
f01" one year.
OCTOBER, 1931 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS 11
Archaeology, The Ancient Riddles
By L. C. BOLLES
LOST people are interested in archae­ology.
which is to say, in facts
and surmises concerning races who lived
previously to well-authenticated history.
Of course, archaeology does not deal in
legend and questionable documents, but
in actual physical traces of the forgot­ten
peoples. We in Arizona remain pe­culiarly
interested, since the unchanging
desert has kept for us ruins, dwellings,
graves, artifacts of the ancients in prob­ably
greater pro fuss ion than exists any­where
else on earth. American pioneers
found in Arizona a sparse population of
what we considered savages, with few
natural a-dvantages which would encour­age
a great population or any consider­able
culture, and they passed on, dubbing
the region The Great American Desert.
Today our population grows, coincident
with our discovery that by adding water
to the most agreeable and advantageous
climate in the United States we can
build as much as we Will, and we won­der
more an-d more about the forgotten
race or races who did the same thing
back in the mists of antiquity.
The western hemisphere holds its rid­dle,
probably unsolvable. As far as we
can say for the moment, traces of civil­ization
here do not go back as far as on
the other half of the globe. Though, to
be sure, the inscription of the great
Mayan ruins have not been satisfactor­ily
deciphered and we can not be posi­tive
as to the relative age of these. And
over Mexico and Central America they
are finding ruins buried and lost beneath
other ruins that ante-date history. So it
is possible that Ainerican ruins are as
old as Egyptian or Assyrian or Cretan.
There is a great school of thought that
paints the thing with a broad gesture
by saying that the genus homo came
to America from elsewhere, and the
cradle of civilization must be on some
other continents. They state that no
traces of intelligent man exist in Ameri­co
more than say 25,000 years old, com­paratively
recently by their standards.
This allegation, since it is next to im­Possible
to prove, forms the basis for
endless arguments which are the breath
of life to your professional archaeologist.
It often occurs to me, as an amateur,
that the interest of the average busy
citizen in archaeology is gained from dif­ferent
angles than those of evact age of
ruins. CuriOSity is the predominant hu­man
emotion, since our intelligence is
confronted with questions that are in-
A collection of pottery and implements dug from the ancient
mounds found in many parts of Arizona. These relics of a high
type of civilization show a race of ndians, well advanced in the
arts, lived in Arizona centuries before the white man stumbled
onto America.
finite end endless. From our advent on
earth from an unknown source to our
departure in death to an unknown
bourne, there is no fact, no form of
knowledge we can prove. While this sort
of statement was once considered aca­demic,
it is now the recognized grammar
of SCience, that in any process of rea­soning
we must start by assuming or
supposing something to be true, to be
proven. So that now we know, that solid
though the old earth be under our feet,
we are here but for a few hours and that
life, the past and eternity are still im­penetrable
mysteries.
We Can See Results
So it occurs to anyone that while he
cannot guess what the reel of the future
may hold, the past has been unwound
and is real and actual, and if we coul-d
know what has happened Since the be­ginning
we could know nearly all. Our
imaginations, constituting our greatest
intellectual gift and our chief est solace,
would indicate that the past may hold
stupendous and incredible things.
One vista of imagination having the
soundest of bases, is that we know that
forces of Nature have played grave
tricks with the force of our earth, and
that while life has persiste-d for incon­ceivable
eras of time, the solid con­continent
of Atlantis was no fable, and
new lands have risen.
There is sound evidence that the lost
continent of Atlantic was no fable, and
that one or several continents have sunk
beneath the expanse where the Pacific
now rolls. And this gives us broad
grounds for speculation and long vistas
to the imagination indeed. It is not at
all inconceivable that at some forgotten
time man had risen. to greater heights
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ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
,The Voice
That Laughed
In The Wilderness
By G. W ALTER REED in "Pickwick Papers"
Sketches by "Put" Putman
OCTOBER. 1931
--
\,')1 I, / ( ( "c."
riJj~ The reproductions of drawings and photos used in this story are price­less
possessions of the family and friends of Dick Wick Hall. and are used
through the generosity of Mrs. Hall and Mr. Sam Haydis. Extrac'ts from
Mr. Hall's writings are reproduced by permission of THE SATURDAY EVE-NING
POST.
OUT on the Northern route between
Los Angeles and Phoenix, about 80
miles east of the Colorado River, is Sa­lome,
Arizona. desert town of some thirty
souls, Twenty-three years ago there was
no such place on the map, or anywhere
else. save in the mind of Dick Wick Hall,
soldier of fortune. miner, humorist and
gasoline station agent.
If you haven't heard of the THE SA­LOME
SUN, the one-sheet newspaper
made famous by this desert sage and
philosopher, and of the Salome Frog,
you have missed two of the richest and
oddest creations of real cactus and rat­tle-
snake humor. Although Dick Wick
Hall got out his SALOME SUN on a
small hand mimeograph, it was widely
read and sought, and almost every week
for a long period the SATURDAY EVE­NING
POST used his "stuff" and re­produced
from his SUN
the gist of his desert
humor. In later years
before he passed to his
eternal rest three years
ago, Hall's articles on
Arizona and Salome were
featured in the POST
and other publications.
Dick Wick Hall was
born in Creston, Iowa. on
what he called in the
POST "the coldest day
in the history of the
world." The mercury
registered 35 below. which
caused him to remark
that he received a cold
reception into this world.
Discovered Happy Valley
Eventually Hall came
West. settled in Arizona
and' really discovered
wilderness with water holes from 50 to 75
miles apart and only trails for roads.
The little valley. however, appealed to
the newcomer as a wonderful place to
"quit."
"Here at last," he wrote, "I thought
is one place where I can do as I please
and no one to bother me; where I can
get acquainted with myself, ami maybe
find the something which every man in
his own soul is consciously or uncon­sciously
searching for-himself."
And there Dick Wick Hall started Sa­lome
"in the middle of the desert with­out
the dime or the broken leg; without
water and in fact, without anything ex­cepting
a blind faith that some day it
would lead to something."
The pioneer saw water developed. saw
the highway built. saw the railroad come,
and to every motorist and tourist who
took "laughing gas" at his station. he
handed free a copy of his SALOME SUN.
published in Salome, "where she danced."
These mimeographed sheets were passed
on to others and the demand for them
came by mail; they were distributed
along highways and even on the trains
running through to Phoenix, 108 miles
east. Soon they were causing the millions
of SATURDAY EVENING POST readers
to convulse with laughter. so in the end
Dick Wick Hall found himself. and while
dOing so the world found a noble. spot-less
character who made life happy for
many,
Frog Became Famous
Sharing honors with the SALOME
SUN was the editor's famous frog-that
never learned to swim because there was
no water to learn in. The frog always
was pictured as shedding dusty croco­dile
tears over the fact that it was so
dry.
Illustrating Hall's literary ability. the
following is reproduced from an early
edition of his SUN:
"BE A GETTER-times are better for
the man that packs a smile; take your
licking else quit kicking-dig right in and
make your pile. The war is over and
there is clover in the
pastures all around; it's
not waiting or debating,
but making hay out of
the ground."
Under the heading.
"Wild Nights in the
Wilderness," Hall devoted
one issue of his SUN to
Omar Khayam, using the
theme of the "Loaf of
Bread, Jug of Wine," etc.
This is what the Salome
editor wrote:
"These warm nights I
have been reading the
melodies of Sweet Mam­ma
by a Red Hot Papa
called Omar Kayam. who
used to live out here in
the desert before I come
here, I know how he felt.
because it is so different
now. so I am going to
sympathize a few lines
with him. You don·t
have to read it unless ........
OCTOBER. 1931
you want to; but if you are young
enough. you can sing it on the back seat
to the tune of almost any good six­cylinder
headed out in the desert on an
Arizona moonlight night. Crank her uP.
Bill, step on the gas and listen to her
sing:
"When Omar Khayam said he could dine
On a loaf of bread and a jug of wine.
With her beside him and be satisfied­Out
in the wilderness with his bride­Omar
wasn't worrying about high rents,
Or of honeymooning at small expense;
He meant that he liked the greasewood
smell,
And the long. hot days that feel like hell,
The red sunsets and the cool moonlight
And the soft. sweet air of the desert
night.
And the dim, faint trail that leads out to
The Queen of the Desert and his Ren­dezvous.
"Old Omar Khayam was the head of his
klan,
And he lived his life on some loving
plan
With his girls and wine and big silk
tent;
My, Oh My-What a life he spent!
For Omar was a loving and luxurious
brute.
And a connoisseur when it comes to fruit.
And he could tell in the dark by the
shape
Just how much juice there was in a
grape;
And he sipped his honey like a wise old
bee.
On the summer nights 'neath a mesquite
tree.
"Old Omar was a go-getting humdinger
man
The bell-ringing chief of the Khayam
Klan;
And out in the desert with his turtle
dove.
He learned all there was of living and
love;
With a sweet little Arab by his side.
He loved and loved and was satisfied.
"The desert is here like it always was.
But you can't Khayam any more, be-cause
In these dry days when wine is taboo.
What in the devil can a poor man do?
We can only long for those good old days
When the game of life was played three
ways-
When living was easy, and love run loose,
And doves were looking for a good ex­cuse."
One big event in the lives of the hand-
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
CAS STATION tDITIOJl SALOIIE SUI! Seuon of 1934
fREE COPIES CAli BE COT AT THE LAUGHING CAS STATION and BLUE ROCK I!IN1:
THE GRE ASEWOOD GOLF LYNX
Loc .. ted At and Around SALOIlE, ".iiiZOIlA - "Where She Danced" - and. tbe
Folk& .. ho See it All Say Nobody lIever S .... Notblng Like 1t Nowbere. c1
The Course is Just a t ,Utle oveT Twenty Three (23) Miles Around. an
All Haurd. & eu:1kero are Natural - No Art1f!c!al One& Ie e did. :Oft
Eastern Folk$ S!=,end the Season Here a PurpQse Justs!0 Play . r~~vt'r
Once - and. Some Otheore who Kave been Here- several a80~Taln -tc8t!
Got Around it Yet. Player. are lIarned to Use lIapo and ~N't UNf
tbe Far A lI",e batween ~be Holea. Coyote and Rabbit Ho~t~ IIOCK INIIE
Good Guide. Who I(no" tile Course can bo Obtalned at Cthe 1 Guttlta
.. nd C .. ddY8 and Horaes and Canteena ... lao Tents and amp Dg 1 Put
can b. Leased by t~e lIeel<J._lIontb or Seaoon6 prQvlde
s
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BLUE ROCK INNE
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BUZZARDS •
ROOST
The BLUE ROCI( lilliE. lhe 19tb HOLE .
1& Little, but ttm.l11 Look Lik~ the ~lA
Bl1 tnwl e Hotel by tb~ Tl~ You ~t ru.c" fo
1~.s~6~tV~~5~~~8~"C~~n~N"~~A~f. th~ou
Can Wtlte. W"tE or COWE AND S££
13
ful of Salomeites was on National elec­tion
night, when the humorist and gas
service station owner had a telegraph
wire run to his filling station and all lis­tened
to the returns as the bulletins
were flashed.
dispenser for a shipment of ice cream
daily.
Dick's Ice Cream Venture
A truthful story is that of Dick Wick's
venture into the iee cream business at
Salome, which experience made material
for one of his best SATURDAY EVE­NING
POST articles. Feeling the need
of the cold delicacy, the "head man"
of the town contracted with a Phoenix
It so happened that the railroad has
two tariffs on ice cream-{)ne being for
the ingredients, at a lower rate per 100
pounds, while the ice cream proper, held
a higher express charge. At any rate,
Hall was given, by mistake, the lesser
rate, and it was away in autumn when
he was informed by the agent at Phoe­nix
that he would have to dig up about
$150 due the railroad for the under­charge.
Dick Wick was thunderstruck; the sea­son
was over and instead of making a
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neat profit on every cone and dish of
the frozen delicacy, he in fact had lost.
He was a good sport, however, and in­formed
the railroad agent that he would
write the story for THE POST and if
they paid him, he in turn would pay the
express company. The story was used,
and the joke was shared with the world.
After Hall had cashed a fat check from
Editor George Horace Lorimer, he paid
off the ice cream debt. By special per­mission
the humorist's account of the
ice cream episode, as he wrote it for
THE POST, is herewith given in part:
"When Saw Tooth Jerry Withers went
to Phoenix last Spring, he started a lot
of trouble for me without knowing it.
Jerry always liked his licker pretty well
in the old days, not so much as so reg­ular,
and after Volstead was elected and
Mike Cassidy went to work for him out
here, this little corner of Hell was as
dryas a dust storm. Jones Store finally
run out of lemon extract and vanilla,
H. H. H. Horse Liniment, Witch Hazel
and Hair Tonic. So Jerry went to Phoe­nix
to get his hoops tightened and soaked
up a little before he all dried out and
the head fell in.
"Jerry came back along about the first
of May, fat as a hog and sassy as a
young rooster-better'n I ever see him
look before.
"'Say,' he says to me over at the
Laughing Gas Station the next morn­ing,
'Did you ever taste ice cream?'
" 'Ice Cream?' growled the Reptyle Kid,
before I could figure out what Jerry was
driving at, or what to say, 'Where would
we be tasting ice cream ?'
"Jerry looked kind of foolish for a
minute, and then he laughs. 'Boys, you
heathens don't know what you've been
missing all these years. It's better than
booze."
"This was sure some strong statement
cOming from Saw Tooth Jerry Withers,
and started some argument, the final re­sult
of which was no one hurt and $25
of Jerry's money in my pocket as a guar­antee
that he would stand the loss if I
c
would order some ice cream from Phoenix
and the boys would eat it and didn't say
it was good.
Trouble Starts
"That's how come the Laughing Gas
Station started in the handling of ice
cream along with gas and oil and access­ories.
I was kinder dubious at first be­cause
a lot of folks in thsi country never
saw ice cream before, but I had $25
of Jerry's money in my pocket so I
went down to Phoenix and told Dom­inec
Donofrio to send me up 10 dozen
ice creams with dishes and spoons by ex­press,
packed in lots of ice and maybe
if folks up here eat it I might buy
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
One of the h i g h way trucks
loaded with a compressor. To
complete the load, a supply of
grader blades were put on be­hind
for one of the highway
shops.
some more some day.
"Next night when the train came in
Jerry had everybody in town lined up
at the bar-1 mean the counter and I
went over to the depot, and the en­gineer
and fireman was helping the ex­press
man lift it off in a great big
gree,n barrel, with a gunnysack over the
top, arid they helped me load it on the
jitney, and the express man says what
in the devil are you going to do with
ice cream up here where there ain't no
school kids, and I says that Saw Tooth
Jerry was going to show Dirty Face
O'Reiley, and Mickey Mulligan and
Cousin Jack O'Brien and Black Jack
Sullivan and the Reptyle Kid how to eat
ice cream or else pay me $25 and eat
it all by himself.
"'Let's go over and see it,' says the
engineer. 'I'll bet $10 if a dish of ice
cream ever hits the lining of Black Jack
Sullivan's stomach, it'll blow the crown
sheet off or bust the boilers.'
"So the engineer and the fireman and
the expressman left the conductor stay
with the train to take a nap while they
all followed the ' ice cream wagon over
to the Laughing Gas Station to see Saw
Tooth Jerry and the rest of the Sa­lomanders
eat ice cream, and maybe
bust. It was all right about leaving the
train at the depot, because there ain't
no other train to run into it except it­self
coming back from Bouse and Parker
the next day, and nobody much ever
gets off there anyway, so there wasn't
no hurry to get there and they could
wait and the ice cream couldn't in this
climate.
"I took off the gunnysack and opened
up the big ice cream barrel, and in-
OCTOBER, 1931
side it was a lot of ice, so cold you
could hardly touch it, and under the ice
was a big tin tank with a lid on and
under the lid was a brown looking mess
of muddy looking stuff that looked just
like what you have left in a bucket when
you let a pail of Colorado River water
stand over night to settle and drink.
"'It's spOiled,' says Micky Mulligan,
after looking at it, 'none of that for me.'
'You can give mine to Jerry,' Dirty Face
O'Reiley says and laughs, 'make him eat
it but don't shovel none of that mush
into my gizzard, not while I'm sober,
anyway.'
"While we were talking and looking at
it, it commenced to melt and get wet
on top, and Jerry gets a knife and carv­ed
into it saying, 'You boys is just ignor­ant,'
he says. 'This is chocolate frosting
on top of it. Get you a plate and dig
into it. You can't drink this stuff, but
it's powerful good eating.'
"Everybody gets a dish and starts in,
Including the train crew. Some of them
makes some awful faces about it, holding
their noses and jaws, and I'll bet some of
their stomachs was surprised and buck­ed
a little at first like a broncho the
first time he feels something strange on
his back, but in 10 minutes they were
all working good and laughing and hav­ing
a good time, and were standing up
at the Laughing Gas counter and saying
'Come on, boys, have one with me,' or
'Have another, Jack,' just ~ike old times.
By the time the whole 10 gallons was
gone everybody was sitting around hold­ing
their belts and grinning at each
other."
The cactus humorist then tells how
he ordered it to arrive on every night's
train, and the boys got the habit of
dropping in regularly for their ice cream.
He had figured they had included the
express charges in his bill, so he re­tailed
it in Salome at 10 cents a dish,
while it was costing him 9 cents, there­fore
making it possible to take a help­ing
himself occasionally for nothing.
Then the "big gun," as he writes,
dropped in from headquarters and broke
the sad news that he had been paying
$1.27 each time instead of $3.49, there
being an undercharge of $2.22 daily for
the summer, and aggregating $133.20.
It is a fact that Hall paid this bill
through the sale of the story.
Greasewood Golf Course
Hall made considerable capital out of
his "Greasewood Golf Lynx," which he
advertised as something "nobody never
saw .nothing like before, nowhere."
"Coyote and rabbit holes don't count'"
he wrote; caddies, horses and canteens
could be procured at the Blue Rock
(Continued on Page 21)
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16 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1931
Laws Needed to Protect Motor Fuel Taxes
By E. M. WIDTWORTH.
Vehicle Superintendent
Regulations for collection of the Motor
Vehicle Fuel Tax "is privileged to most
serious consideration on the part of leg­islators
in future legislation. This, by
reason of the fact that this tax is re­ceived
with more favor and considered
more equitable than any other class of
tax now assessed against our citizenry,
most of whom represent the car owning
public.
A comity arrangement has been ef­fected
between our state and California
in respect to gas tax returns. The ex­change
of information develops the fact
that numerous persons have violated our
law in respect to monthly returns to the
Division of all motor vehicle fuels i~­ported
into this State. All importers
under this comity agreement will be
made a matter of knowledge to the
Division, and upon advise of their dere­liction
formal demand will be made, and
upon failure to make proper return im­mediate
legal action is taken to protect
the state's interest.
The person obligated to the state for
accountability for the Motor Vehicle
Fuel tax is defined by statute. The
Every Good
Surveyor Knows---
l'hat the objective lens is always
Screwed on tight.
That a corresponding mark
should be made on the tele­scope
and objective ring be­fore
unscrewing the lens for
cleaning, so that it may be
screwed back to the same po­sition;
otherwise it puts the
instrument out of adjustment.
That a level rod won't warp if
stood in a vertical position
when not in use.
That the lead from a soft pencil
put on the top and threads
of a tripod will keep an in­strument
from binding.
That the boss says "Nowadays a
resident engineer has more
work for a bookkeeper than
he has for his transitman."
comity agreement with California, that
has been accomplsihed, has given infor-mation
that will make possible the col­lection
of much money that would have
been lost to the state had not this ar­rangement
been effected. Other sister
states are furnishing information, as are
we to their benefit, that is making possi­ble
intelligent check upon imports and
disposition that our law does not require.
What is the fault of our law? Every
other agency that is delegated with the
duty of collecting taxes is required to be
bonded. The distributor as defined by
statute, is in effect a tax collector, and
all must admit, a trustee in respect to
accountability for the gas tax collection
on motor vehicle fuel sales made by him.
If we concede, as we must, he is a tax
collector, why make it mandatory upon
the vehicle Superintendent to issue dis­tributor's
license to any and all upon
request with no showing of responSibility,
which permits the right to be collector
with no accountability for forty-five
days?
The answer and solution:
The writer had the privilege to contact
fuel administrators of the nation in a
conference held in Denver in the past
month. Their problem was ours in past
years, but in almost all instances has
Good Roads-
P r the expansion of all business and so­E
cial life.
R the city worker to live away from the
M hub-bub of business activities.
~ and induce greater commerci~l and so­\..
cial intercourse between distant cities.
Warrenite--Bitulithic Pavement
for 30 years has contributed toward the betterment of con­ditions
both commercial and social.
And-a feature of durability which cannot be challenged
by any other monolithic pavement-scores of Warrenite­Bithulithic
pavements are still in excellent condition even
after twenty to thirty years' service.
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Phone 3-8413 521 Luhrs Bldg.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
OCTOBER, 1931
been corrected by legislation, requiring
all distributors to bond themselves to
the state insuring payment of the tax.
The gas war, which makes possible
the purchase of "distressed gaSOline" at
a ridiculous figure at the refinery, at­tracts
the crook to the field of distribu­tors,
inasmuch as he can qualify by the
mere filing of an application. Should he
undersell the market in his territory and
develop a huge gallonage on the basis
of no return to the Division on tax, he
is privileged to operate forty-five days
with no accountability. He has no assets,
in that his equipment is brought under
conditional sales contract, and upon de­linquency
and resultant court action the
state is awarded judgment but is un­able
to recover.
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
One of the new aqueducts on U. S. Highway 66 between
Seligman and Peach Springs.
17
Several criminal and civil actions have
been instituted against delinquent dis­tributors.
Judgment I feel sure will be
had in favor of the state in all actions,
but, Mr. Taxpayer, where is your relief?
It is only to be had through legislation
that will insure by proper bond the pay­ment
of the tax required of the dis­tributor
to collect at time of sale.
Is this not a matter that should re­ceive
your sincere cooperation to the
end that proper legislation be made
. paramount importance and passed early
in the session of the coming Legislature
that monies properly due for the pur­poses
for which the levy is made is
collected and returned to the state for
credit to the fund for which it was in­tended?
A bill sponsored by distributors of
Motor Vehicle Fuels, was introduced in
the last Legislature providing for the
bonding of distributors. This indicates
that the industry itself is for the proper
protection of the state in respect to col­lection
of sales on motor vehicle fuels.
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BAKER Earth Moving Equipment
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ORD Concrete Finishing Machines
MUNICIPAL Oil Distributors, Flushers, etc.
STERLING Hoists, " Contractors' Pumps
BRODERICI{ & BASCOM Yellow Strand Wire Rope
RED EDGE Shovels and Picks
PQMONA "Uniflow" Pupms
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18 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1931
Road Building Sets Record
For Employment
"We have always been taught to
measure road improvements by the yard.
This year we are asked to reckon them
by heart beats. It seems but yesterday
when state Highway Departments fear­ed
to let it be known how many people
got their bread and butter from jobs on
the State highways. Now they are im­portuned
on every hand to hire more
men," said W. C. MARKHAM, Execu­tive
Secretary of the American Associa­tion
of State Highway Officials, as he
opened his annual report to these offi­cials
in session at Salt Lake City on
September 29.
"The Federal G0vernment is capitaliz­ing
the information as to how many
people have a livelihood because of in­creased
Federal appropriations for high­ways
and the States have-many of
them for the first time-found that not
only the State departments but the con­tractors
have a great army of workers
on the roads whose pay envelopes were
a vital matter to many a household.
Aid for Unemployed
"On the first day of July there was
one person employed on State Highway
work for every 369 people in the na­tion.
The largest number employed in
any State at that time was one out of
every 70 persons in the State of Maine.
This has no reckoning of persons em­ployed
in road work by townships, coun­ties,
or cities, neither does it have any­thing
to ao with persons who are em­ployed
exclusively in preparing materials
to be used in road construction. Like­wise
this has no reference to people em­ployed
by the Federal Government in
road work; whether Departmental, in
Forests, Indian Reservations, .Public Do­main
or National Parks.
"In addition to all this, the fact
should not be overlooked there are many
industries scattered throughout the coun­try
which would have been closed aown
if it had not been for the demands made
upon them to furnish materials for this
road building program.
States Increase Building
"There have been a number of news­paper
stories emanating from several
sources as to the highway contracts let
by the State Highway Departments dur­ing
1930 and making estimates as to the
contracts for 1931. In making this com­parison
instead of using the actual ac-complishments
of 1930 they used es­timates
previously made for the year
1930. This was not at all necessary as
the facts concerning the road work for
1930 have been available for several
months.
"In - making a comparison between
these two years, in oraer to see whether
the States are lagging in their work, I
have made a study of the first six
months of these two years. This is done
first because we have all of the facts
concerning this period of time and sec­ond
because due to the Federal loan,
the contracts for 1931 are without ques­tion
centralized in this six months'
period. A comparison of the contracts
let during these two periods shows that
almost $115,000,000 more contracts were
let in the first six months of this year
than last year;-and all of this despite
the fact that it came at a time when
42 Legislatures were in session and many
efforts were made, and some definite
changes accomplished, in taking from
the State Highway funds 'motor and gas
receipts for local roads ana cities.
"Nevertheless, while we all rejoice in
the policy adopted by the Federal Gov­ernment
in making an advanced loan
to the States of $80,000,000 which could
be used as State funds to match the reg­ular
Federal funds, it will be a matter
of great surprise to those who have been
peadling the story that the States have
been slow, when they are made to real­ize
that 23 states increased the contracts
during this period to an amount of over
$64,250,000 above their allotment of the
special emergency loan from the Fed­eral
Government.
Roads Outside state Systems
"Much is being said these days about
the need of road improvements outside
the State Systems, some say too much
money is spent on the State roads and
that the fellow outside is being allowoo
to flounder in the mud; also, that one
reason why the counties and township
roads are not comparable to the State
roads, is inefficiency and lack of road
knowledge. And then the cities complain
because they contribute enormous sums
through license fees and gasoline taxes
and are not given some of the funds to
use on their city streets as they may
desire."
"All of this has led us to prepare a
series of maps showing the present co­operation
or assistance given roads in
the several States outside the State
Systems."
"There are 7 States which control in
whole or part the county road systems.
There are 36 States which aid the coun­ties
with or without supervision of ex­penditures.
There are 14 States which
aid the townships with or without super­vision
of expenditures. There are 21
States which aid the cities of certain
population or on certain streets. There
are 7 States in which counties mayor
do control road work in the townShips
or "towns" and there are 26 States in
which the counties are the smallest
unit for road responsibility."
"A good road Is needed over which to
transport a loa.d of wheat or cotton or
cattle. The price the merchandise brings
is not a measure of the need for the
highway. The past years experience
shows that an increased road program
not only takes the depreSSion out of the
highway but it is the base course for
many a hearthstone. Every part of our
governmental structure has its share of
responsibility in meeting the issue. The
State Highway Departments are equipped
for an increased task. Those responsible
for legislation must either furnish funds
for food or work."
Englishman Shows Great
Enthusiasm For Highways
In a pamphlet announcing the forma­tion
of an Institute of Highway En­gineers,
in Englana, the following tribute
to good roads is given:
"Roads rule the world-not kings, nor
courts, nor constables; not ships, nor
soldiers. The road is the only royal
line in a democracy, the only legisla­ture
that never changes, the only court
that never sleeps, the only army that
never quits, the first aid to the re­demption
of any nation, the exodus
from stagnation in any society, the call
from savagery in any tribe, the high
priest of prosperity after the order of
Melchisedec, without beginning of days
or end of life. The road is umpire in
every war and when the map is made
it simply pushes on its great campaign
of help, hope, brotherhood, efficiency
and peace."
OCTOBER, 1931 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
HEAVY DUTY PERFORMANCE
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v.ay grading-on a ll kinds of shovel work you meet the
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Heavy Duty shovel !-built for heavy duty operation and
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20 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS . OCTOBER, 1931
State Projects Under Construction
DISTRIC'r NO. 1
Gco. B. Shaffer, Pistrict Engineer
Schmidt & Hitchcock have completed
the oil surfacing of 17.8 miles beginning
at the Coconino-Yavapai County line
and extending west, F. A. P. 57, 80-C,
H9-B and 4.3 miles Ash Fork south,
F. A. P. 62-A, F. J. Beeghly, resident en­gineer.
Martter & Bock have the grading,
draining and sub-grade stabilizer on nine
miles, beginning at Crook ton and extend­ing
west to Seligman, F. A. P. 80-B, 63
per cent complete. Floyd J . Beeghly,
resident engineer.
Canion & Francis have completed the
grading, draining and placing of sub­grade
stabilizer of 5.7 miles of the Wick­enburg-
Blythe road, F.A.P. 98-B, which
begins at 1 1-4 miles east of Aguilla and
extends toward Wickenburg. Geo. E.
Lang, resident engineer.
V. R. Dennis Construction Co. have
construction on grading, draining and
placing of sub-grade stabilizer, mineral
aggregate and oil surfacing 14 1-2 miles,
which begins 1 1-2 miles east of Quartz­site
and extends east towards Salome,
F.L.H.P. I-A, 18 per cent complete, Percy
Jones, resident engineer.
Lee Moor Construction Co. has the
construction of 7.2 miles, grading, drain­ing,
surfacing and oil processing, F. L.
H. P. 1-C, beginning near Gonzales Well
and extending towards Quartzsite, 18
per cent complete. Percy Jones, resident
engineer.
Ralph Pleasant has construction of
Sections E and F. of F. A. 98, 24 miles
grading and draining, beginning 16 miles
east of Quartzsite and extending east, 55
per cent complete, Barney Hodgin, resi­dent
engineer.
Geo. H. Oswald has completed the con­struction
of F . A. 59-1 Reo., which con­sists
of grading, draining and placing
of subgrade stabilizer and oil processing
of 10.3 miles-Wickenburg to Castle Hot
Springs Jct. Geo. Lang, resident en­gineer.
Packard & Tanner have been awarded
a contract for the construction of 1.1
miles located approximately 11 miles
N. E. of Congress Junction. Geo. Lang,
resident engineer.
DISTRICT NO. 2
F. N. Grant, Resident Engineer
O. F. Fisher has the grading, draining
and surfacing of 7.8 miles, beginning 1
mile east of Williams and extending east
to Pitman Valley, F. A. 89-D, 72 per
cent complete. W. T. Halloran, resident
engineer.
Packard, Tanner and Morse have the
grading, draining and surfacing of nine
miles, beginning at Pitman and extend­ing
toward Flagstaff, F . A. 89-E, 60 per
cent complete. R. C. Pond, resident en­gineer.
Veater & Davis have the construction
of F. A. 95-B. (Cameron to Ridge, 40
miles on U. S. Route 89) 93 per cent
complete. H. D. Alexander, resident en­gineer.
W. E. Callahan Construction Co. has
the oil surfacing of 11 miles, beginning
at Winslow and extending east F. A. 40-B
and C., M. Kisselburg, resident engineer.
Lewis Brothers have completed the
construction of grading and oiling of
1,450 feet of Winslow streets, M. Kissel­burg,
resident engineer.
DISTRICT NO. 3
R. C. Perkins, District Engineer
Western Gunite Co. has completed the
surfacing and oiling of 30 miles from
Florence to Superior, F. A. 23 A. and B.
and 23 C., D. and F., A. W. Newhall,
resident engineer.
Robert McKee has the grading and
draining of 13.7 miles, F. A. 87-E, Ger­onimo
East, 99 per cent complete, L. C.
Bolles, resident engineer.
Chas. Willis & Sons have the construc­tion
of 10.8 miles of the Globe-Showlow
highway, beginning 1-2 mile east of Globe
and extending northeast, F.A.P. 99-B,
43 per cent complete. Carl Brannen, resi­dent
engineer.
Lee Moor Construction Co. has the
grading, draining and sub-surfacing of
11 1-2 miles of the Globe-Showlow high­way,
beginning at the Salt River and ex­tending
south, F.A.P. 99-A, 14 per cent
complete. Gus Rath, resident engineer.
Dudley Stone Products Co. has been
awarded a contract for the sub-su~facing
of approximately eight miles, which be­gins
approximately six miles east of
Geronimo and extends east. L. C. Bolles,
resident engineer.
DISTRICT NO. 4
W. R. Hutchins, District Engineer
Stanley Jaicks has completed the con­struction
of F. A. Projects 25-B and 86-D,
9.2 miles extending south from the PIma,
Santa Cruz county line, 83 per cent com­plete,
Sid Smith, resident engineer.
Ralph Pleasant has the construction
on the oil processing of F.A.P. 94-E,
which begins at the Pima-Pinal County
line and extends south 8.3 miles, 99 per
cent complete. J . R. Van Horn, resident
engineer.
R. H. Mal:tin has completed the con­struction
on F. A. Projects 18-A, which
begins approximately 22 miles S. E. of
Tucson and extends east 2 3-4 miles,
grading, draining, surfacing and oil pro­cessing.
C. S. Benson, resident engineer.
Skeels & Graham have the grading,
draining and placing of sub-surfacing
of 13 miles, F.A.P. 97-B, beginning at
the south end of the Sacaton Bridge
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and extending south, 59 per cent com­plete.
Joe de Arozena, resident engineer.
Skeels & Graham have the surfacing
and oiling of five miles, beginning at
the north end of the Sacaton Bridge and
extending northwest, 95 per cent com­plete.
Joe de Arozena, resident engineer.
Skeels & Graham have the surfacing
and oiling of two miles beginning at
Coolidge and extending north, F A. 94-B,
53 per cent complete. Joe de Arozena,
resident engineer.
William Peper has the construction of
2 1-2 miles, beginning approximately five
miles north of Bisbee and extending
north, F.A.P. 79-G, 52 per cent complete,
C. S. Benson, resident engineer.
N. G. Hill · Co. has the surfacing and
oiling of approximately 17 miles from
Cas a Gra.nd! \ to Picacho, 18 per cent
complete, J. R. Van Horn, resident en­gineer.
Dude Ranches Of Arizona
(Continued From Page 7)
had never seen a cow and who refused
to take milk unless served from a dairy
bottle.
The Old Days Are Passing
The day of the cattle ranch of vast
area and the type of cowboy, famed in
song and story, who rode the ranges
of such unfenced ranches, is passing ;
in fact, almost gone. The cowboy of keen
judgment and dry humor is gradually
becoming extinct.
An amusing and perfectly . true story
is told of a city young lady on one of
the guest ranches who, the round-up
being within a few miles of the ranch­house,
insisted upon visiting the camp
at "chuck" time. On her appearance a
natural pause resulted and the young
lady insisted, "Keep right on, we just
came down to see you eat." At which
the meal was resumed in solemn silence.
The next evening, while the guests were
at dinner in the dining room of the
ranch house there was a jingle of spurs
on the front porch and six or eight
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
The Voice That Laughs
(Continued From Page 14)
Inne. A deposit was required and "all
caddys and horses lost on the course
must be paid for."
Some of the paragraphs of his SA­LOME
SUN taken at random read:
"Put the frog out, Bill, I think it is
going to rain."
"Some of the old timers are still wait­ing
for someone else to do something."
"Pour a little more cactus juice in the
radiator, Bill, and let's go."
"When Salome gets the new division
station we are gOing to imitate Los An­geles
and annex some of the little water
holes, whistling stations and mining
camps."
Dick Wick Hall was loved by all who
knew him, and his memory is honored by
thousands who make the pilgrimage to
his tomb at No. 1 Main Street, Salome
-"Where she danced," as he would like
to have said.
Hall was not a "lunger" as the desert
inhabitant, or rather those seeking the
desert, are called; he had lived in New
York, Pittsburgh and other large cities,
cow hands filed solemnly in. Again a
natural pause ensued, and the leader
admonished, "Keep right on, we just
come in to see you eat."
Arizona has been selling her sunshine
for several years now,-a campaign con­ducted
through magazine and word-of­mouth
advertiSing and the growth of
the guest ranch industry is one of the
results. The guest on these ranches is
invariably looking for cIimate,-a cool
summer climate or freedom from frost
and snow in the winter, and Arizona
has all brands to offer. Climate and
freedom from convention, a good horse,
good food, good hunting and a good bed.
Is it any wonder that the new industry
is amazingly profitable and returns a
hundredfold in enjoyment to the guest?
and before finally settling down and set-
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ting up Salome-"Where she danced,"
Dick Wick Hall was editor of the Wick­enburg
Miner.
He was a great character and had a
noble heart and was liked by all. Per­haps
that satisfied him in knowing that
he at last had found HIMSELF.
WHERE TOURIST DOL~AR GOES
The distribution of the tourist dollar
is given by the U. S. Department of
Commerce as follows: retailer, 25 per
cent; restaurant, 20 per cent; hotel or
camp, 17 per cent; garage and filling
station, 12 per cent; transportation, 10
per cent; theatre and amusements, 10
per cent; confectionery, 6 per cent. This
analysis shows the importance to the
whole community of tourist travel.
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Bureau of Public Roads Projects
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
C. G. Willis & Sons have the grading
of Forest Highway-Oak Creek Hill Sec­tion
7-C. The project begins at the
top of the Oak Creek Canyon, 13 miles
south of Flagstaff and extends to the
bottom of the hill, a length of 2.8 miles.
Estimated cost of construction is $187,-
000 and project is now 95 per cent com­plete.
E. J. McCracken, resident engineer.
Jasper Stacy Company completed in
September, the contract for grading the
8.4 miles of Section B, Houserock Can­yon
National Forest Highway, Kaibab
National Forest, Coconino County, Ari­zona,
at a cost of $162,000. W. J. Nelson,
resident engineer.
Lord & Bishop have the contract for
oil surfacing 26 miles of the Grand Can­yon,
Route 3, from Bright Angel point
to Cape Royal, at an estimated cost of
$285,000. This project is located on the
North Rim of the Grand Canyon Na­tional
Park and in Coconino County.
W. J. Nelson, resident engineer.
O. A. Lindberg completed in September,
the contract for grading the 13 miles
of the Three Lakes Section of the Fre­donia-
Grand Canyon Highway, on the
north side of the Colorado River at a
cost of $51 ,000. W. J. Nelson, resident
engineer.
Portions of Sections "A" and "c" of
the Payson-Holbrook Forest Highway,
Route 11, are under Betterment and Im­provement
work by day labor. Portions
to be so improved total ten miles in
length and will cost approximately $12,-
000. D. L. Williams, resident engineer.
Harry Hagen has the contract for the
grading of 5.6 miles of Section 2-D, Swift
Trail Major Forest Development Road,
in Crook National Forest, Graham Coun­ty.
The total estimated cost is $68,000
and L. G. Watters is the resident en-
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and project is now 90 per cent completed.
Jack Casson has the contract for the
surfacing by the plant mix method of
35 miles, Section "A," "B" and "c" of
the Grand Canyon-South Approach Road
in Coconino County. Total estimated
cost of construction is $227,000. V. G.
Watson, resident engineer. Project is
now 70 per cent completed.
Everly and Allison of Des Moines, New
Mexico, have the grading and draining
of 16 miles through the Petrified Forest
National Monument in Apache and Nava­jo
Counties. Estimated cost of construc­tion
is $115,000 and work is now 50 per
cent complete. E. F. Strickler, resident
engineer.
The W. E. Callahan Construction
Company has the contract for the con­struction
of the Rio Puerco and Dry
Creek Bridges within the Petrified Forest
National Monument at an estimated cost
of $155,000. Work is now 25 per cent
complete. E. F. Strickler, resident en­gineer.
Hodgman & MacVicar 'were awarded
the contract for the grading and drain­age
of 20 miles of the Pine-Winslow
Forest Highway Route 10, beginning ap­proximately
seven miles north of Clint's
Well and extending to the North Forest
Boundary 30 miles southwest of Winslow.
Contract time began June 27th and work
is now 50 per cent ·complete. Estimated
cost of project $112,000. C. R. Dalton,
resident engineer.
R. S. Black has the contract for the
construction of 6.3 miles of the Pine­Winslow
Forest Highway in Coconino
County. The project begins at Clint's
Well and extends northeast to a con­nection
with the south end of the 20
mile project under construction by Hodg­man
& MacVicar. Estimated cost of con-struction
is $48,000 and contract is now
25 per cent complete. C. R. Dalton, resi­dent
engineer.
Bids were opened September 1 for
placing a seal coat on 19 miles of the
Grand Canyon-Desert View Route within
the Grand Canyon National Park.
Heitsch & Bitten were low bidders and
award has been made to them. Plant
installation has been completed and ac­tual
work should begin at once. Esti­mated
cost is $14,000. V. G. Watson,
resident engineer.
Bids were opened August 20 for grad­ing
and draining two sections, Units 4
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and 5, of the Payson-Holbrook Forest
Highway. Lengths of the units are 0.5
mile and 1 mile respectively. Rogers
Bros. were low bidders on unit 4 and
H. 1. Turley was low bidder on Unit 5.
Award has been made. Estimated cost
of construction for the two Units is
$5,400.00 and work is now 60 per cent
complete.
Glenn Shumway has the contract for
four Station Contract Units south of
Heber on Section B of the Payson-Hol­brook
Forest Highway. The estimated
cost is $8,000 and work is now 20 per
cent complete. D. L. Williams, resident
engineer.
Bids were opened at the Grand Can-yon
on September 24 for sub-grade re­inforcing
and oil surfacing by the plant
mix method 17.199 miles of the Grand
Canyon-South Approach Road. Geo. H.
Oswald was the successful .bidder and
award has been made to him on the
basis of his proposal. The total esti­mated
cost is $135,000 and preliminary
installation of plant equipment is now
in progress.
SURVEYS
Payson-Indian Garden-Colcord Survey,
Forest Highway Route 11, beginning at
Payson and extending eastward for an
approximate distance of 40 miles, to a
connection with the Young-Holbrook
Highway near the Gila-Coconino County
line. Survey began March 15th. J. H.
Brannan, locating engineer.
Hermit Rest Survey and Hermit Rest
to a connection with Bass Camp Survey.
Located on the South Rim of the Grand
Canyon in the Grand Canyon National
Park. Approximately 12 miles in length.
F. H. Horton, locating engineer.
BIDS TO BE OPENED
Bids will be opened in Safford, October
10, for two Station Contracts covering
the grading of a portion of the Swift
Trail 26 miles southwest of Safford.
The length of the projects to be improv­ed
is 0.8 mile.
Bids will be opened in Holbrook, Oc­tober
16, for dismantling, moving and
re-erecting one 80 foot steel span bridge.
Bridge is now located at Leroux Wash,
one mile e~.st of Holbrook, and will be
moved to Buckskin Wash, 3-4 mile east
of Heber.
Bids will be opened in Phoenix, October
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
27, for placing 2,300 cubic yards of sub­grade
reinforcement on a portion of the
Clifton - Springerville Forest Highway
near Springerville.
Archaeology
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than today, and that a cataclysm that
dropped his home beneath the inrush­ing
waters had permitted but a few
hopeless survivors to crawl to sanctuary
on new and desolate shores, thus re­quiring
that all the structure of another
civilization be rebuilt, with nothing but
dazed memories to work with. Thus any
type of civilization might be well-nigh
irredeemably lost.
Seek Key to Riddle
Confirmatory of such supposition, if
you will ,are man's endless legends, of
gods and beings of what we would con­sider
supernatural powers. Every race
has them, but nowhere were they as
fresh and realistic as along the Mediter­ranean,
in the districts once having traf­fic
with the lost Atlantics. So that the
lost continent may have held mysteries
indeed.
To the student more inclined to the
psychological side, believing that the key
to the riddles may lie within our minds,
the point becomes clear that man owns
aspirations, ideals, faiths in no wise
justified by the material facts that con­front
him. Our hopes, our appreciation
of beautiy our splendid faith that all
is well, our ability to i'ise superior to
self, all point to a definite if inchoate
memory of lost glories.
The patient archaeologist, turning over
the dust of the inscrutable desert, may
find a priceless thing, mayhap a key to
the gateway of the gods.
BILLBOARDS ARE TAXED
Assessors in Mille Lacs county have
entered the fight against billboards
along the highways. These men added
the billboards to the personal property
list and the county commissioners in
their turn intend to see that the tax
is collected. If the owners will not pay
the tax, the sheriff has been instructed
to take down the billboards and sell
them for lumbel'.-Dassel Dispatch.
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Car owners in England pay a tax on
their cars of $4.86 a horsepower. On a
29-horsepower car Germany collects about
$300. Belgium is about as bad. France
on a 20-horsepower car levies $87 plus a
12 per cent sales tax and a 1.5 per cent
turnover tax on the sales price. Brazil
collects a flat rate of $50 on all cars.
Argentina on a two-ton car gets $265.
Many other countries have equally un­usual
methods and taxes, and the net
impression is that one way to build a
big automotive industry is not to tax the
customers too heavily. It also discloses
the real reason for the so-called "Eu­ropean
type car," which has to be made
with a little engine and light load to
avoid the heavy taxes. That's why this
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Road Conditions, Arizona State Highway System
These conditions were reported as of
Oct. 4th. Changes will occur on roads
under construction according to progress
of the work.-{Editor's Note) .
U. S. Route 80, Yuma to Rodeo, 518
miles: All paved, oil surfaced or gravel­ed-
condition good. Two and a half miles
under construction, Bisbee Hill, short
detour, good condition.
U. S. Route 66, Topock to Lupton, 396
miles-gravel surface, oiled or paved.
Condition good excellting nine miles un­der
construction east from Seligman,
three mile detour, good condition. Six­teen
miles under construction east of
Williams. Traffic using old road. .
U. S. Route 180, Florence Jct. to state
line, 183 miles-gravel or oil surfaced­condition
good. Construction east of
Geronimo nearing completion.
State Route 88, Apache Jct. to Globe,
83 miles--gravel surface. Condition good
excepting between Fish Creek and Roose­velt
under repair. Drive carefully.
State Route 73, Cutter to McNary, 104
miles--Gravel Surface Cutter to Rice and
White River to McNary, other unim­proved.
Fair condition.
State Route 71, Clifton Jct. to Spring­erville,
157 miles--Gravel and partly sur­faced.
Condition good, Clifton Jct. to
40 miles north of Clifton. Cherry Lodge
DEPENDABILITY-to
HRnnigan good except when raining.
Alpine to Nutrioso good. Nutrioso to
Springerville good excepting caution by
7.3 miles under construction near Spring­erville.
U. S. Route 89, Nogales to Fredonia,
660 miles--Gravel, oil or paved surface
to Flagstaff, graded and drained to Cam­eron.
Unimproved Cameron to House
Rock. 40 miles under construction north
of Cameron, new road open about 20
miles, gravel House Rock to Fredonia.
Condition good excepting nine miles un­der
construction between Nogales and
Tucson. Use precaution.
U. S. Route 70, Holbrook to State Line,
109 miles--Gravel surfaced, condition
good to excellent.
State Route 79, Prescott to Flagstaff,
91 miles--Gravel or oil surfaced to Be­donia.
Sedonia to Flagstaff graded and
drained. Condition good excepting for
construction in Oak Creek Canyon which
at times is impassible. Sedonia to Flag­staff
slow in wet weather.
State Route 74, Wickenburg to Ehren­berg,
134 miles. Surface mostly low type
improved. Fifty-one miles under con­struction
from Gonzales Wells east. De­tour
county road Quartzsite to Bouse to
Vicksburg. Oth·er detours slow when wet.
State Route 81, Douglas to Safford,
128 miles--Gravel surfaced. Condition
good.
State Route 87, Chandler to Picacho, 51
miles--Gravel or oiled surfaced excepting
13 miles under construction Sacaton Dam
to Coolidge. Detour rough.
State Route, 187, Sacaton Dam to Casa
Grande, 13 Miles--Gravel surfaced. Con­dition
good.
State Route 83, Vail Junction to So­noita,
28 Miles--Gravel surfaced. Good.
State Route 82, Nogales to Tombstone
Jct., 70 Miles--Gravel surfaced. Good.
State Route 84, Tucson to Gila Bend,
124 Miles-Oil surfaced Tucson to county
line, gravel surface to Casa Grande. Part
surface to Gila Bend. Road under con­struction
Picacho to Casa Grande.
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