CALI F(J'R"'Nl''''',:;~ I HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WOR S
OFFkiill Journill of thE! OE!pilrtmE!nt of Publk Works JULY 1934 •
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Bighw8Y Punds WIll Provide 4.510,100 :Yan-DaYIi Work_ 1 9. G..II_ F .....k P. JlCl"rid.. Angelt'8 CrESt Ilighway WiI! Open ReereatioD Mount8m Ana 2 8)1 IJ. v. Cortd...... zn.tr"k:C EII.vta«r Scent'S Al0ll\.~ tht' N~w Au/{cles Crest Highwl.ly ._ 3
Buil(ling Truck Artery Thl"OllJ,!h SK.uta BltCbara City ._.____ 4 all L. n. GtlI__• DONrkl e..vm-.- TIIulitralions of Construction on Santa Bubara Truek By-PaS!L !l New neal in Slope TreatmenL .______6 BII •• .s. WJ.itaket', A....ra.1I 8101. Ar"orlaoll.n..t TlIuStrllti01l8 of Slope Treatment to Pre\'euL Erosion••_.______7
Light Welded Air Pipe Adds Drillill~ Effieie.ne)·-III11Strated .____ 9 Cajon-Lancaster Ilighway Link Nearing Completion. ._____ J2 Striking Desert Scenes Along Cajon-Laneaster Highway .___ 13 Huw State is Enforcing' Safe School Building Law______l4 811 C. lJ. Kromff<. Prllldpal .lIINoI.....1 B"";"~'" Governor Merriam Brenks Ground ji'or Alameda-Contrll COl;ta Tunnel ]6 Scellel) at 'runnel OrouDd·Breaking Ceremonics______17 O!)cning of Nllpb-Montic..-ello Highway Cel<>brat.ed-Illustrated • ]9
I\C\\ Los Catos-Santa Cruz Link Eliminates ]30 CUn"C8______20 811 Col. .1110. 11. SkC()IJ~. DIstrict e"gi..«I'" Views o[ 1.J09 Gatos-Santa Cruz lmprovcmcnt .______21 Wntrr Ilcsources Report of State Eugillcer 23
Boy Brid~ Rix l\lonths Ahead of SChedule .___ 24 Photogorl\phic :-Hudics of MIlY Bridge Picr W·2 . 25 Projccts ..<\(tvolll'.cd to Rids in Jnllc _ 27 Highway Bids and AWA.rds for Junc _ 30 Governor Me1"riam Announces Highway Funds Will Provide 4,510,100 Man-Days Work During This Fiscal Year
By FRANK F. MERRIAM, Govemor of California N THE expenditure of public funds under year, which began July 1 and will end June present economic conditions, first con 30, 1935, the Division of Highways of the I sideration must be given to the relief of Department of Public Works will expend the unemployment sitnation as the foundation some $18,200,000 of Federal and State funds stone of any program for the revival of for construction and $6,972,600 for mainte prosperity in California. nance work on our highways, thereby pro Employment for men out of work who are viding approximately 4,510,100 ma.n-days willing and anxious work to citizens of to work for wages California. for the that will provide a snpport of their fam decent living for ilies and dependents, themselve: alid their with the resultant families has been rec spread of benefits to ognized by Pre ident the business commu Roosevelt as the basic nities in which they principle of his na live. tional recovery poliey Thi' cheerillf!: an and with his -views in nouncement is made this respect, as I have repeatedly said, I am possible through the in full accord. recent appropriation uring the past by Congre s of $200, four years it 11a been 000,000 for emer the experience of the gency construction of Federal government public highways and and of our own State other related projects government that no throughout the Na kind of relief employ tion, of which Califor ment gives more satis nia's apportionment factory results than is $7,932,206. The highway work, both other State funds go from the standpoint ing to mal(e up the. of value received and $18,200,000 total for the wide spread of this fiscal year in pay roll moneys to FRANK F. MERRIAM clude the unexpended \Vorkel's antI tIe pend balance of the Cur ents in every part of the State. rent biennial highway budget. n has been established through oM'efui While this 7,932,206 Federal grant i an statistical studies of research experts con outright gift to the State, the uses to which firmed by Federal and State checks of con it may be pnt are controlled by the ant it..elf tract work that 90 per cent of the highway as well as by certain provisiollil of the Indus dollar ultimately goes into the pockr.ts of trial Recovery Act. labor. It therefore gives me great joy to be able Under these provisions 50 per cent of the to announce that within the present fiscal grant must be used on Federal-aid high (Continued on page 10) •
, C_~LIF'QRNU lIfGnlV.ATS AND punuo WORKS
Angeles Crest Highway Will Open Vast Recreational Nlountain Area in Fall 0,. $ V. CORTELYOU, Dllltrict En8h:eer. District VII
irE FOURTH grading eontl'act on the This is a one-way control rood, Vet'J· narN)\'/' new Angeles Crest Highway. in the and vrith extremel,. sharp curves und steep T mUUllhtiu..'i lIorth of ·Pasadena, has been grades. in progrell$ sinee Cllrl~' la.9t October and is Frore Mt. Wilson a lIarrow road has heen now enteriog its final StAglS of construction. conslnu,~ted by IJOS Anl(eles County and the Jt will in all probtlbility lie completed and U. S. Forest Service via ned Dox, Barley Plat opened to traffic the laUer part of next Sep and Chilao Flat to Bcckhorn Flat, a distanee tember. ot about 26 miles. This road passes through This ennlMlct is partieularly important the cit)· of P&.Sldena playground and extends since it is lhe cOllnecting link whkh will com· into the heart or the Angeles National F'orest. plete this hii;hw8y to a point where it will Owing to the !aet th&t the only present means O~1l up and render safel)' ,.r.ces:sible to publie of 8ceefl8 to the road through this SCenic traffic. vast area of rec.~atiulI.tl1 territory in OOUDtry is O\'er tlte steep, narrow toll road the high mountains of the Angelea ~ation81 from Altlldcna to :'\olt. Wilson, eomparative.l)' J:o"'orest, including i\It. WilsoD. few people me it. This highWAY. commenced in 1929, has beeo built one OOlllr1£l.lt at a time 118 monel" from OO~ECn; wrru UISTIKG ItO.'D the State ga90Jine ta.~ has heeD made nail Tlie new Angeles Crest l1ighw8y, following able. Ever sinet the fiNif grading contract ellSY grades and good alignment from IJ8 was completed in 1930, tile road has "dead Canada along the precipioons 100uritains ('lJded" at the upper end of each succeeding toward. Red Box (whieh ~ lit the divide contract. between the 1J. rroyo Seeo and the San Completion of the present. contract. will Gabriel), has already heen completed for Ht provide the necessary outlet. 80 thn.t aJl of miles to Colby CanJ'on. The present. oontract the section coustrnct.ed under previoW! con includes t.he 3.96 mile acetion frow Colby Can trach, as well as the one now in progress, yon to Red Box, and. in C!ollnecting witli the can be uttlh:ed 1.0 the fullest extent. by motor. present F'orl'st Sen'ice road at this point, will ists seeking the ICCniC a.nd recrea.tional rendt'r thill large area. of back country, now adva.ntages of the higher mOl1nta.iIl3. travcrsed bJ' tlie Forelit. Service road, readily accessible 10 Hutomobile traffic tromLos opeNS MOUNTAIN AKl':A AnGeles aud 8urruuIlllillK couutry. lu order to obtain tl thorough understflnd This highway is one scction of a general ing of hnw the completion of a comparatively plan for a 65·mile dri"e known as Angeles short ~L'l.:tiulJ of higllway will opcn up such 8 Crest Highway. When completed, it will large ureA it is nCCllSfJ8ry to take into consider leave Foothill Bouleva.rd a.t La. Canada, fol· ut.ion the character or the country und the lowing the new Angeles Crest Higbway to present mClIns of acce~. Red Box thence following the U. B, Forest The Angeles Ni:Ltional Forest, through Service road. northeasterly through the city wh.ich this highway will run, is Illi immPll'le of Pasadena playground, Bn.rley Flat, Chilao Krell of rough mountainous country lying Flat and Buckhorn Fla.t, connecting with the northerl)" of Pasadelll\, Monrovia, Azusa &lid San Gabriel Oanyon Highwa.y on the north· Glendorll, A large portion of which is 4000 easterly slope of Mt. blip ncnr the Los feet or more in lI11ilnde. Angelcs County playground at Crystal Lake: Thi.J area is potentia.lly the largest recrea. thence down this Ban Gabriel Canyon High. tional a.rea of mountainous territory access wa.y to again connect with the Foothill ible from Loa Angeles Boulevard a~ Azusa. Prom A}tlidena lhere hu, for a long time, Of this proposed higbway circuit the only been a narrow toll road to .llt. Wilson, one portion which will not be completed when the of the higher mountain8 in this area, on which vresent contract is fln~'ilicd will be [rom Buck_ ililocltted the bmous Mt. Wilson Obser"8tor~·. horn Flat to tbe San Gabriel Can)·on road. (Conllnu.1I on ~ 21) BEAUTIFUL VISTAS of high mountain scenery and a great expanse of virgin National Forest back of Mt. Wilson will be made accessible to the Los Angeles metropolitan area in September by completion of the last link of the Angeles Crest Highway shown above. The 55-mile loop tour that will be made available by the proposed connectio n with San Gabriel Canyon highway is shown in the pictorial map by artist Newton Pratt. 4 OALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIO WORKS
Santa Barbara Through Trtlck Artery Involves 4 Bridges and Channel Change By L. H. GIBSON, District EngiDeer, District V ONSTRUCTIQN i progressing rapidly projecting a modern highway development on the new "Santa Boarbara Through through the community. This study, need C Traffic Boulevard," and it is antici less to say, was not an ea y one as many pated that this welcome addition to the State factors were present, such as the utilization, highway system will be formally opened some as far as practical, of existing improvements, time about November, 1934. the appraisal of real eRtat.e and property that This major development will affol'd an would be affected, and the drainage conditions entirely new, modern and adequate highway encountered. through the city and will replace, except for a Finally, a route, closely parallelilJg the short stretch, the present inadequate State Southern Pacific railroad was adopted, which route, as well as the present U. S. highway iuvolves a total construction of 5.9 miles of route, which differs in routing somewhat from highway, together with two steel and timber that of the State highway. bridges over Mission Creek, a reinforced con- l J \~ I .~., ~ C i STATE HIGHWAY ~ 'Ii NI"I'V Hig/?"'''Y '. ir,.tdt!' Hpilr4lhe:vt
The motorist, when entering Santa Bar crete overhead structure over the present bara from the south along the present high. highwa~r, and a similar type structure to way, is first confronted by a narrow under carry a county highway over the new road. pass under the Southern Pacific tracks, The new alignment has a graded roadbed where the grade is steep and the alignment width of 46 and 56 feet along the lie" align on a 360-foot radius curve. A short distance ment, and 76 feet in width where contiguous farther on, the traveler again crosses under with existing city streets with surfacing 30 the railroad, under almost equally danger feet wide throughout, and all structures are ous conditions; and thence proceeds along being built to accommodate future widening. various city streets around no less than five The surfacing section is somewhat modified right-angle turns, and then follows north from geueral practice and consists of a 30 erly along de Ill. Vina. Street, Hollister Ave· foot unreinforccd Class" C" Portland cement nue and out of the city on the north. De concrete base topped with 2} incheR of asphalt la Vina Street is very narrow and its con concrete. The asphalt concrete specifications gested condition has always been an annoy have been drawn up stipulating the use of ance to the traveler. Carpinteria asphalt sand, which iR a local product. MANY FACTORS I'VOr,VE:D All of these dangerous and inadeqate con. CREEK CHANNEL CRANGES ditions for the handling of the volume of Another construction feature of the work traffic using New Deal in Slope Treatment Aims to Prevent Erosion and Beautify Roadsides By E. S. WHITAKER. Asslstllnt State Arboriculturlst RAT phrase, "A New Deal," bas be straigh edge and smooth- haven urface of come overworked and perhapli a bit the slope degenerates and grovels in the gutter T trite in the e last few months of this line. waning age of the depression, but it is so descriptive and fi s so well with the outcome NEW IDEAS DEVELOPEU of the "slope questiun" that it is used once With all these incongruous piece. of an again in the hope that those .interested in the unsolved puzzle laid out over the landscape subject of slopes will realize just bow much of tourists and nattu'al beauty lovers have a cllange has taken place. objected to the inharmonious, raggedly By slopes we mean of couse, those lntleI straight top line and seared and seamed faCes inite, unstable, leaning pieces of handworked corJfrontlng them at every tum. Engineers soil that are inadvertently left after the con amI maintenance men assumed poses that struction of a highway, towering over, or gap would have done justice to a Rodin lind "out ing away from, the traveler-a bald-faced of tlle black that was 50 below" crept an idea. denouement. Scorned and ridiculed as a weakling, hooted At first, the practice consisted mainly of ani jousted at first, the idea per isted and taking away from a certain area as mnch grew. It developed into twins, in fact, trip dirt as was rlesired, then givin/7 the part that let. These ideas have now become nearly remained a lick and a prayer. If it stayed full-fledged.' They have been affol'ded tenta where it was, all well and finished. 1£ not, tive recognition and f'.xperinlental attelJlpts it wa moved out of the gutter Ii e over the are being made that wi [1, in a eOUl'se of a few bank, thus causing anuther -lope, perhaps a year , prove their success Or failure. bit more hidden from the view of the passer The strongest one of these ideas-in fact by because of its position below the eclge f it has really passed the fledgling stage and the road, but every bit as bare and defiant is making progress in its own right a it foster parent had been. is called "slope top rounding," which con sists of the rounding off the tops of cut SANDPAPERI G EVOLVED slopes and thereby: (a) getting rid of that 'l'bi" type of construction is till carried extra overhanging weight; (b) blending the onto But tile pe pIe who think things out slope more naturally into the surroundings; got together and decided that all that extra (c) making easier the natural dissemination moving of dirt was not only unnece ,ary, but of seeds from growth along the top of the quite expensive. Better a small ex Li a cost at slope; and (d) affording a smoother run-off first to keep the giant in hand than a con of water. tinual tomlOrial cha1'ge to keep him neat. So the idea of slope sandpapering was evolved RELIEF LABOR UTILIZED 'with great success, in some place . 'l.'his work is being carried out on const.ruc In those places, where the "Wind didn't blow tion jobs ~)J)d by maintenance forces. It has too hard, or the rlljn elidn't pour down with proved itself at least more pleasing to thc eye, too much force, or the now didn't lie with even if it does not ultimately stop the face soaking effect l pon their surfaces, o~ where falling of the slope. Wherever slopes are their component parts did not eontilin too rounded, the scars of cunstruction are far les much blue clay, hale, sand, Or lao e gravel; noticeable. Relief labor has been utilized in in other words, where the ideal setup was this work by maintenance forces, and the encountered, the sandpapered slope as umed effect, as far as "looks" goes, is all that can all the a peets of a pig in clover, and every be desired. Uting was fine. On construction jobs, the slope tops are But, let just one of these insidious male rounded and, in many cases, by the time the factor creep into the cene, and, over a period job is finished, the t ps of thc slopes are of years or in one night, according to the covered with grass and small seedling plants. temperament of the intrllder, the beautiful The twin of this trio of idea is still in the (Continued on page 11) SLOPE PROTECTION, .h..w .. i.. pietu... No.1, co...i.h ..f pipe e ..d wire f....ce1I, 39 feet apa.t back..d by recks end brush end held by 8·foot poste driven ~~ fe..t i .. grou..d. No 2 shows brush behind stak.. f.ncel preventing ero.ion in Wahrman Csnyo.., Sa.. Ber..erdi..o Cou..ty. No. 3.-Srope rou.,di..g ..., the R.d Bluff-Suunvill. highway don. i.. cour.. of co.,.tructi..... No. 4---Slonu benched for planting, 8 CALIFORNIA HIGHW;1VS Alm PUBLlO WORKS Welded Air Pipe of Light Weight and Large Diameter Adds Drilling Efficiency ....~ _.~ ....'jJ ....~ ....'jJ ....~ IMPROVED type of air transmission deliver about 215 cubic feet per minute at 90 pipe line has recently been developed pounds pressure. .A. 360 cubic foot machine X by the ConstnlCtion Department in COll 'will deliver about 250 cubic feet, al'Jd a 310 junction with the Eq uipment Department, two-stage, 01' one with a supercharger, will designed to increase the efficiency of drilling deliver t.he SRme. Altitude decreases this operations and to facilitate handling of heavy volume about 1~ per cent for each 1000 feet. pipe lines on hillsides. Portable compressors of 450 cubic feet dis At t.he various labor camps and on other placement are noW' available; also, where there major day labor projects where excavation is a large amount of drilling to be done, it is often consists of almost 100 per cent solid not llnusual to use two 310 cubic foot com rock, the problem of securing adequate and pressors hooked up in tandem and regulated effective ail' pressures at the point of drilling by one unloader; therefore the need of the becomes of paramount importance. Several larger size pipe line becomes apparent. QUICK COUPLING device on light, welded air pipe shown in closed position. camps operate six or mOTe portable compres ADVANTAGES OF LARGER PIPE sors, entailing the use of l>evel'al thousand feet of pipe lines. Another particular advantage of larger The transmission of compresseil air through diameter pipe line is that it can be manifolded, long pipf> lines causes considerable drop in and other smaller lines taken from it to suit pressure uue to frictional loss, especially if the convenience of the job; it also acts as a the pipe is of small diameter. li'or instance, st,orage tank or air reservoir, and permits a compressor with 400 cubic feet per minute much steadier working of the drills due to the capacity and a }}l'essm'e of 110 pounds at the volume of air it conta.ms. receiver, using three rock drills and the usual While it is very important to have adequate air hose eonnections on a 2 inch 3000-foot pipe line facilities for any volume of air, it I,. wrought iron pipe, givel> a working pressure is equally important that the proper number of about 61 pounds at the drills. of drills be used for the available air volume. The average compressor can handle two heavy DRILLING SPEED INCREASED drills in fairly hard rock, when used in uni This results in a very low drilling speed, son, and give better results than three drills. a pressure of 85 pounds being most efficient. If this pipe size is increased to 21f2 inches, Wrought iron screwed pipe is somewhat drill pressure would rise to 92 pounds; 3-inch expensive to handle in mountainous regions, pipe would give 102 pounds and 4-inch pipe, and the threads are easily damaged, result· 108 pounds. ing in air leaks. At the Kings River con· vict camp in Fresno Oounty, experiments The average 310 cubic feet displacement were made early in 1933 in the use of a 4.inch portable compressor has a volumetric efficiency spiral welded galvanized air pipe, of light of about 70 per cent, which means it will weight, with quick detachable couplings, GALIFORNILl HIGHWAYS ,·tND PUBLlG WORK. 9 SPEEDY DRILLING is obtained on heavy rock work by the use of this light, large diameter, welded air pipe equipped with quick coupling device. whioh has proven quite satisfaotory for air pounds and of a 4-inch .vrought iron pipe is compressor work. 216 pounds. The weight of the new type 4-inch pipe is CARRIED BY ONE MAN about 75 pounds pel' 20-foot length, including This pipe is made up in 20-foot lengths, couplers. Thc light weight spiral weld pipc equipped with Venturi couplings and locld-ig 1'IRS a safe working pressure of 250 pounds per devices, with nece~sal"Y elLows ur ut,her fit SI!uare inch and the rapidity with which it can tings, and I-inch or 2-inch taps for making be coupled up is a valuable factor. Airtight smaller pipe eonneetions. '1'his 20-foot length ness is maintained by the use of rubber of 4-inch portable pipe is readily carried by gaskets of simple design. one man, and can be adjusted to horizontal After an experience of about a 'year and a or vertical curves on irregular topography. half we feel justified in saying that we would Other camps are also using this type of air not undertake any extensive drilling opera line, about 7200 lineal feet having been pur tions without u'iug the large diameter lig'ht chased to date. weight pipe. The following figures showing the theo retical loss in pounds pressure by friction, per YERBA BUENA PIEROED JULY 23 1UOO feet of pipe length, may be of interest in drilling operations: Notified by Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell Pressure that the first Yerba BUfma Island pioneer loss tunnel will be driveu thl'oug-h by July 23, Pipe Weight Air due to Stahl Directol' of Public Works Earl Lee Kelly size, per ft., delivered friction, Inches pounds cu. ft./mln. pounds has invited fellow members of the California 2 3.65 250 6.72 Toll Bridge Authority, including Governor 2 350 13.41 Prank F. Merriam, to walk through this bore 3 7.57 250 .77 and inspect the progress made by the San 3 350 1.54 Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on the first 3 4~ 2.57 4 10.79 250 .17 anniversary of its construction. 4 400 ,45 The tunnel will be wide enough for n. onc 4 500 .68 h'ack mine railway and approximately 20 feet high. The completed tlmnel will be 78 feet QUICK COUPLING FACTOR wide and 58 feet high. It "ill be noted tbat the weight of a 20-foot length of 2-inch pipe such as is in common Bump--Has J'our wife learned to drive the car yet? use is 73 pOlmds, of a 3-inch pipe is 151 Bumper--xes, iu au advisory capu(·itJ'. 10 OALlTi'ORN!J1 HIOHTJlAYH AND PUBLIO WORKS ways, not less than 25 per cent on secondary or feeder roads, and the remainder on State i, ADEQUATE HIGHWAYS highway projects within municipalities. I Another significant provision, that evi CONSIDERED DOMINANT dences the Federal government's disappro FACTOR IN MODERN LIFE val of gasoline tax diversions, specifies that Highway transportation is a dominant the State shall be deprived of one-third of factor in modern life in rural sections, as the $7,932,206 if gasoline tax revenues are well as population centers, of the United used for any other purpose than highway States. Adequate highways are needed every day for economic, eduoational, religious and work. social reasons. The motor vehicle supplies a flexible unit of transportation with a WORKING ON PROGRAM radius of operation limited only by inade 'rhe engineers of the Division of Highways quate highways. The comprehensive planning of sueh sys are now concentrating on a study or eligible tems, adequate to meet future traffic needs, is projects for the expenditure of these ftmds, the most important problem confronting the making an analysis of the needs of the State highway business not only in the various highway system and the estimated costs of regions and States but in the United States such improvements. Theil' recommendations as a wl1ole. It is important because it is fundamental. are being considered in the preparation of a The engineering supervision of construc program for putting this money to work as tion, maintenance and other phases may be 'Jleedily as possible. perfect, but unless the administrators have the foresight to make studieg and investiga The engineers estimate that approximately tions with a view toward planning the high way systems of the future, they will have $7,200,000 of the $18,200,000 will go to job failed to administer the highway work on a site labor, that is to men employed directly sound engineering, business baSis.-Regiom"iJ in construction work on the highways and Plan of the Philadelphia Tri-State Distl'lct. will thus provide 1,440,000 man-days' work. 1932 Another $9,076,000 will go to workers "be hind the lines" in related industries-the ratio is two men for everyone on the job. improvements, exclusin of traffic ~triping, This, it is estimated, will give approximately and 92 bridges and grade separations. 1,815,000 man-days' labor for workers on the This vast amount of work has been done pay rolls of companies manufacturing or at an expenditure of $23,940,000 Il.nd has pro producing highway building materials and vided approximately 4,788,000 man-days' supplies j trucks, graders, tractors and other labor. equipment; transportation and many minor Conll'actors reported 4400 men employed industries. at job site on State highway '\Vorl, on June 1st. t This means that approximately 13,200 mell In addition to the amolluL given above for were getting- wages through cOlltract work construction purposes maintenance work for alone on that date. The regular forees of the the fiscal year is estimated at about $6,972,600 Department of Pllblic Works engaged on high which will provide an additional 1,255,100 way work number approximately 4,000. Relief man-days' work mal,ing a total for the fiscal quota crew!> made up of unemployed men year of approximately 4.510.100 man-days' of doing hand labor maintenance work at $4 a employment. clay and getting a minimum of four days' Illustrative of how State highway work has work a week number approximately 3000. provided a very much needed backlog of Add to these groups 8000 men r.mployed on employment all over the State during the the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 110 past year, Director Earl Lee Keny of the staff and field men in the Division of Archi DepArtment of Public Works informs me that tecture, approximately the same number in during the period from August 25, 1933, to the Division of Wat.e1' Resources, and we have June 15th of this year, construction work put a total of 28,400 men uow gainfully employed under way has totalpc1 2363 miles of highway directly or indil'ectlr on Public WQrks. OALiFORNiA 111GTlWAYS AKlJ PUBMO WORKS 11 Slope Top Rounding $20,944,729 in Major Part of the New Deal Highway Contracts By Arboriculturists Let in Ten Months AJOR contracts lor construction let experimental stage although quite exten by tbe California Division of High sively so. It has a twofold purpose and seems M ways bet.ween .~ugust 25, 1933, and well on the way toward being able to fulfill .Tune 15, 1934, totaled $20,944,729. As of all promi;;es in hOl.h Cllfles. June 15 the division was advertisiug work "'l'Jle Iu-eparaliull of fill slopes to prevent estimated at $1,500,000, thc major itcm of C'xcessive cl'osion lind to obscure the scars of which was the)1 Street bridge in 8acramento, comtruction" is the tiUe of the twin. This to cost a]lproximalcly $900,000. The total of work is being carried out by maintenance all work, including day-labor and minor let· forces and has its greatest trial grouud on tings, £01' the tcn-month period was $22, the large fin slopes of the Crest Drh'e, that 848,634. beautiful road from San Bernardino to TJRke During t.he pel'iod (rom August 25 to June Arl'owhead and Big Bear Lake. 15 construction WtlS undertaken on principal FTl,l,~ R.;ING PLANTID routes by contract to the amount of $11,965, These fills, ill some cases, have run se\'eral 263 ollt~ide incorporated areas, and $~1,62(1, hundred feet down the mountain side and can 213 withiu incorporated cities. Construc(if,n be seen Irom nearly any part of the valley by contract on miscellaneous routes totaled below. T'o prevent erosion and to co\'er these $2,979,0:30 and on feeder rmlds, $380,22:'1. bare areas as soon as possible, tlley have been COAST tlOUTI; CONTtlACTS cross-hatched with brush filled ditches or with grain hay. It is surprising how much wash The largest allocation on Ii :;inglc 1"0\11e 81111 H small clump uf gr;,;;s roots mil)' prevent. was on the Coast Highway betwc!'H 1"rlln In some cases, cut.t.in§(s of t.rees and seedling cisco, Los Angeles and San Diegu. COil. trees llavc been planted 011 the fill. Seeds of tracts amounting to $2,393,087 wel't' let em native plants have bC First Cajon-Lancaster Highway Link Broken Through Summit of Ridge ,b~ .--:; '""!J "'"!J .--:; ~~ TIE FIRST unit of the impol'tant new PICTURESQUE SEISlIHC RO .KS Cajon-Lanca t.er highway, r.onnecting Cajon Valley was formed in bygone ages the San Bernardino area and the east T by the San Andreas fault. The scenery is ern part oi southern California with Owens Valley and San Joaquin Valley, is rapidly spectacular. Large sandstone blocks are approaching completion. '1'he construction of upended. Some of these sandstone blocks the new route 14.5 mile in length, which ex rise over 200 feet above the valley. They tenCL:l from the ju etion of the Cajon Pass and have a peculiar rounded appearance, very Wrightwood Roads through Cajon Valley, has unusual in California scenery. reached the cliff at the head of Cajon Canyoll and contractors have broken through the sum Vegetation in Cajon \Tulley is of unusual mit of the ridge. interest, as it is typical of California a, well The present lmit is under contract for as of the .M:ojave Desert. This vegetation par $145,000. With $240,000 provided in the takes of a transition from the valley to the budget it is expected that the contract for desert an~ examples of Joshua trees, yuccas, the second link will be adverti ed for bids plllyon pmes, and jlilljpers grow to luxuriant within a few weeks and that the whole project size. will be completed for next winter's travel. SCENIC PANORAMA Dr CLOREO This new route provid a direct connection for movement of winter vegetables from Travelers from the north will cro 'S the Imperial Valley and citrus fruit from the desert and get the first glimpse of southern San Bernardino-River ide area to the San California between the walls of the great cut Francisco Bay region. People from the cen at the head of Cajon Valley. The view from tral and northern part of the tate will be this cut is truly magnificellt. Mount San able to come over this I'oute to a direct con J~cinto an? an Bernardino rise up in the nection with the southern tl'anRcontinental dIstance, WIth Cajon Valley an the foothills highways and desert winter resorts. in the foreground. SAVES 15.5 l\>IILES The U. S. Bureau of Public Roa.ds has just The new highway results in a saving of completed a survey from this new route to 15t Iniles in distance over the existing route connect to Los Angeles County Park at Big and the new route is on easy grades and direct Pines. This survey discloses tha.t an easy alignment. It follows beautiful Cajon Valley connection can be made which will permit and r.rosses the summit at the end of Cajon of the approach to the Los Angeles County Canyon through a single large cut made b:y Park on a high gear road on good alignment. tearing down a great cliff. > When completed the cut will be ]25 feet deep, one-third again a high as San Ber FIRST STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY nardino's tallest structure, and five feet above QUADRANGLE SHEET AVAILABLE any Los Angeles building, with the exception of the City Hall. To dig this cut roadbuild Advance sheets of Lakeport Quadrangle iug equipment had to be moved up the prepared by the U. S. Geological Survey in mountain over a tortuous old government cooperation with the tate of California are road. Scrapers were used for the first thirty al'e now available. or forty feet of the cut leveling operations This is the first sheet of its kind produced before safety would permit the sending of in California from aerial photographs repro shovels and trucks up the teep hillside. l1uced by stel'eophotogrammetry. The scale Material talren from the cut is pread down is 1 : 48,000, but it ·will finally be published on the valley for about a mile of distance to a scale of l: 62,500, The contour interval is build up £lIs through a number of the cross 50 feet. canyons and make a gradual, easy grade for It will probably be found necessary to add the motoring public up out of the valley. some details by ground survey methods. BIZARRE DESERT SCENERY i••nco...nt.r.d .long the L.nC:.lhr-C.jon " ... toff now .pp.....c:hing compl.tion. It tr.v...... n int.r••tinll p.rt of the 11"'-' Mojav. Dnlrt in S.n B.rnardlno and LOl Ang.t.1 cOllntilL In Cljon V.ll.y it pa..es a weird mil... of ..ndlilon. bloch piled lip by volcanIc .etio.. ag" "0 and thr....lIh I fo...ot of Jo.h". t...... nd V"c:"a.. G....t cuh w.re made thro... gh thl hill.. on. of th.", 125 f••t dup, that provid.cl m.tari.l for filii on a mil. highway conetr,,<:tion. 14 CALIFORNIA. HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS How State is Enforcing Law to Insure Safe Construction of School Buildings B~' C. H. KROMER, Pdncipal Structural Engineer HE Safety .of Design and Construction under the act are valued at from $400,000, of Public School Buildings Act, with 000 to $500,000,000. The total value of new T the administration of which the Divi building projects as well as reconstruction sion of Architecture was charged by legislative work proposed for southern California is enactment, has been in active enforcement for estimated to exceed $50,000,000. This is en over a year, having been marle 31\ emergency tirely independent of work contemplated mea nre to take effect immediately upon sig north of the Tehachapi or for our larger nature by the Governor on April 10, 1933. cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and In anticipation of the p ssage of tIllS meas Bakersfield. ure, a tentative organi2ation plan was worked out ready to be im The technical work required in the l'eeon mediately initiated struction and strengthening of buildings in and rules and regu both northern and southern California is so lations together with invol'led that the State as well as those en neces ary forms were gaged in private practice is required to give written and placed from two to three times as much service as in the hands of the would be necessary were the expenditure for State Printer ready entirely new construction. for printing by the 'fhc 'ta.te thoroughly appreciates what this time that the bill all means in connection with school hou ing was igned and be and in providing work for the construction came law or within industries and consequently is making stren a period of about uous efforts to meet the situation. two weeks, at a time when the person el HOW STATE FUNCTIONS of the division had Examinations are under way or have been shrunk to keletou completed for approximately 430 school plants proportions. and all plans for construction of school build C: H. KROMER Starting with an i gs except for four recently filed ha e eiUIer initial group of only been approved 01' are in the process of being three men, the personnel employed in the checked. administration of the act has grown rapidly The functions of the Division of Architec until at the present time the personnel of the ture with regard to the act are divided into Division of Architecture actively engaged two specific activities. 'fhe first has to do with numbers 75. In additton, 61 inspectors are the approval of plans and specifications and employed directly by the vlU'ious school dis the supervision of new work. The primary tricts to serve as inspectors of construction purpose in giving such approval is to make under the directio'll of the architect or struc Slue that school buildings hereafter con tural engineer connected with the project and structed will be safe for both teachers aud under the general su.pervision of the Division pupils and that such buildings arc honestly of Architecture. built both as regarcls ll1aterjaL~ and workma _ ship. ONE THOUSAND APPLICATJONS FILED Incidentally, the State Department of Pub Over 333 applications have already been lic Works ra.ther than the school department made for approval of plans and specifications becomes responsible for the safety of the and over 1000 applications filed for examina bnildings thus constructed. tion of existing school plants. The magni Particular emphasis has been placed on the tude of the work involved can better be matter of inspection. Not only must this realized when it is pointed out that the pub inspection be continuous and' verified report lic school buildings in California coming made by the in pector that 'Work and materials (Continued on next page) OALiFORNIA HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS 15 are in accordance with appl'oved plans and specifiea school districts to avail themselv~s of the same service tioes, but the architect or stnlet~u-al engineer ill tIle' State has bad in the past. charge of the work must malle a similar verified stllte ment of bis own personal knowledge. Any false state sCnOOL ROAiW RESPONSIBILITY lJleut Or violation of the act constitutes II felony. According to our understanding there is nothing in this act which places any additional responsi CALrrOl\.NLA LAW FIRST bility on any school board other than that embodied As far as we know, California is the first State in the existing statutes established prior to the to enact such a requirement in connection with enactment of this act. It does, however, provide public school buildings to insure honesty and the school board with a means of meeting its competency in both design and construction. responsibility and even being relieved of it. It should be pointed out at this point that build School bOlml. throughout the State have bceu iugs designed or reconstructed in aceol'dance witb caneed- considerable concern by an opinion l'endered Appendix "A" of the Division of Architecture ore in by the Attorn~ Genernl to 11:1'. Vie ling Km-sey, Sup geneMlI subject to matel:ially lowel: eutbquake insm' e!'intendent of Public Instrnction, under date of an~'\J l"llte~ Ulun would be the case for similar build November 22, 1933. In this opinion, the question ings desilllled without any regard to brad.ug or earth of liability or responsibility seem,; to hang on whethC'l' quake resistance. This reduction in rates, depending the disu-ict itself Or its employees have lJeen negligent upon the probable rlillistunce of the structure, is ia not taking l>rOper preeau!ions to provide safe relatively large. The variance is as great as fiftel'n h\lildings. The mutter is covered in detail in the (.'l)D ts for an adequately designed building to $3.5() for opinion just referred to. hazardous construction. The SChool building act merely foeuses attention Our attention has recently been called to a build on the mutter of possible danger that might o<:cur in ing tho cost of which, designed to resist earth· the event of an earthquake and pr vides a metllOd quake, was actually less than if no provision had wheTeby school boords mllY have lluthol-itative infor. been made for eartr.quake forces, due to tr.e reduc mation regarding the structural condition of theh tion in insuranee rates. An article "Earthquake buildings. Design for an Eight-Story Apartment House," by Exeept for the fact tllat a wal'1ling has been Harold B. Hammill, Structural Engineer, in an sl}Undell and possible danger to life and propett)' recng issue of E"gi"eeri1Ig News Reoord dated Novem ttized, it dOl\s not appear that it is an~' more necessary ber 16, 1933, gives an illustration where the addi fot' school districts t{) go tv the eXJ}Cllse of malting tional cost for earthq uake resistive construction alterations or reconstructing their buildings than has was only 1.9 per cent. heretoflwe been necessary nor is it any more necessllry to close school uuildings. T!).e Board of Fire Underwriters is doing ever)' thing possible to encourage safe construction, and is lU!:Sl'ON!lTBILIT'r NOT INCREASED giving consideralioD lhl'ough redu<.:ed rates to' addi All that has been done is to attract attention tional bradng, even though not great in amount. and to empflasize responsibility of school boards EXA.MINATlON OF BUILDINCS but the responsibility itself has not been increased. -'I'he other function in connection with thp. ftdminis 2: Ap~rovnI will be ghten tl) submitted plans llnd tration of the act has to do with examination of speCificatIOns for stnmgthening or recunstructin.. a exi~ting school buildings and since some misunder portion of u school building even though the re.mni;der standing appears to have ur.is€J1 in the publie mind of the building- is not found to be eafc. However in regard to the!>e mn ttet·s, certain pertinent fncts approval will be given on the blll:lis that the use of th~ are here being pointed out: building as a whole for school pnrposes will be 1. Exnmi.nations and reports· with refel'ence to t'ntirely upon responsibility of the school authorities existing school buildings are made by the Division and without the approval of the DivisiOn of Arclli. of Arch itectl11'e' only upon specific l't'<)lIest of school tecture except for the portion covered by the submitted official!> or upon request of parents of pupils enl'OlleiJ. phu1.S EUld specitkations until SUCII later time as tbe Whetber or not such examination is to be l'eql1ested t'cmulnder of the building may be completed in is entit'ely optional with the districts C(l·llcerllcd. accordance with the pr<>visions of the act. If, however, on examination, the t·emsi.uing portioll The State Department of Public Works merely of the bUilding is found to he safe then It certifi~te acts as agent of the school district. Such reports will be msued stating thut the building is safe and as are made are informative only and the district Illf;ets the requirements of Chapter 59 Stntutes of need do nothing further in the matter unless it so 1933. ' ' desires. FIBE HAZARD PROVll:iLONS Tbe State bas always had physical surveys made of . ~{'. Th? act is. at l'etl'oaeti ve anel IIccordingly the its own institutional sttuctureB whenevet' any question Governor Merriam's Shovel Starts Alameda-Contra Costa TU1~nel Work .,-~ '-''!j ....~ "-'!j EVE thousanu. Alameda and Contra pressive bugle call of taps sounded in memory Oosta Oounty residents gathered in a of the late Governor James Rolph, Jr. 1 Snatural amphitheater in the Olaremont District at Broadway and Ohabot Road, Oak S'1'ANll AGAINST DIVERSION land on June 17, and saw the formal start Friends of the Ouliforllia highways who ing of the long-awaited $3,752,000 Broadway thunked the gas tax flmd £or making pos low level tunnel which will replace the pre sible Oalifornia's leadership in highway COB sent tunnel road between Contra Costa and struction and maintenance, and who obligated Alameda counties. themselves to use the gas tax fund exclusively Three shovels full of eartlJ lifted by officials for highways, were notably Governor Frank started the job. The officials were Governor F. Merriam, Director of Public Works Kelly Ft'ank F. Merriam, State Director of Public and Senator ArthUT H. Breed. Works Earl Lee Kelly "Because of the and Sup e r vis 0 r I ate bond iss u e Thomas .E. Oaldecott method of financing of Alameda Oounty, GOVER OR MERRIAM S YS: highways, we are president of Joint still paying for high Highway District o. "The gas tax has sup);?lanted ways long since worn 13, comprising the the bond issue method and is a out," Governor Mer two counties. pay-as-you-go plan immeasur riam declared. But more than Ala meda and Oontra ably superior to bonding as a "The gas tax has Costa counties will be means of highway financing. supplanted the bond aided by this double issue method and is bore tunnel through liThe people of California in a a pay-as-you-gol plan the Berkeley hills. recent election by an overwhelm immeasurably By this tunnel the ing majority, expressed their be superior to bonding residents of Oontra as a means of high. lief that gasoline taxes should be .way financing. Oosta County will be used exclusively -for- highw-a,y" enabled to live in this "The people 0 f beautiful section and construction and maintenance. Oalifornia in a recent work in San Fran "I am unalterably opposed to election, by an over cisco, because the tun whelming majority, nel will make it pos the diversion of gasoline taxes expressed their be. sible to dri e to San from the purpose for which they lief that the gasoline Francisco in less than are collected." taxes should be used an hour from Walnut exclusively for high. I Creek. way construction and The gasoline tax maintenance. which IJlakes this possiblc (in this instance "I am unalterably opposed to the diversion with PWA Federal aid) was the theme of of gasoline taxes from the purpose for which the leading speaker at the cereJlloll-ies they are collected." managed by the Berkeley and Oaldand Junior Chambers of Commerce. COVER NOR lMrRJ]SSED OROWD These ceremonies began at a luncheou in With the State financing becoming increas the Olaremont Hotel and cOlltinue<;l. thl'ough ingly difficult and with an ever present num the aftemoon with aerial mapping, daylight ber of budgeteers always recommending to fireworks, a cross country race over the route the Governor and to the legislators that of the tunnel and highway project, band financial problems be solved by dipping into music, speeches by those responsible for the the gas tax fund, Governor Merriam's UD project, and a moment of silenfl.e ItS an im- equivocal statement produr.ed a profound (Continued on oa&"e 22) STARTING WORK ON A GREAT PROJECT, Governor Merriam and Director Earl Lee Kelly participate CALIfORNIA UIGUWAYS AND UBUC WORKS LOS ANGELES ARRANGING TO REVISE MAJOR TRAFFIC PLAN Official journal of the Division of HighwaYs of the Department of Public Worlts, Slate of Ca.lifornla; Announcement that the Los Ang es Traffic publlshed for the information of the members of the department and the citizens of Callfornia.. Association propo es to revise, extend and 'Editors of newspapers and others are privileged to modernize the major traffic plan, which in its use matter contained herein. Cuts will be gladly loaned upon request. original form is well on the way to completion, is a progrec; ive tep. Traffic is a gl'O' 'ng EA.RL LEG KEu,y Dlrector .fOHN W. iHOWE Edltor problem and there will always be a necessity of planning for it. Before the major t -affic Address communications to California Highways and plan, street improvement in thi city was of Puhlic Works, P. O. Box. 1499, Sa.cramento, 'Callfornia. the haphazard variety. For some years it has been better planned and coordinated, and Vol. li'<..--- JULY. 1934 o. 7 more of the same sort of thing i obviously desirable.-Los Ang/Jles Times. LaaSOline Tax Funds PROPERTY OWNERS ADOPT SET.BACK LINE FOR SIGNS Never in recent years has a legislative The Los Angele County Regional Planning session approached without designs on the Commission, by detailed zoning, has afe guarded two out ·tanding projects during the part of some group for the diversion of gaso yea.r. They an: the Fifth Avenue and Holt line tax funds to other purposes than that Avenue bighways entering Pomo a. The for which the tax is levied. Protests on the Holt venue development is a link of the part of automobile owners against such Garvey-Ramona Boulevard project eXleniling action thus far has defeated these various into T,;os Angeles. With the cons nt of prop· mOoves. erty owners, billboard and commercial strllc Now the~e is a. proposal for the use of tun's have been barred for 1000 feet back of $30,000,000 highway funds for the relief of the property line for a distance of 13 toiles alon er the e highways.-Los Al1gele' Exam the unemployed, with the first result that inm·. the State's road program would be dis rupted, with many thousands ()f other families thrown upon the various counties for charity support. Seven Bridges Being Public sentiment upholds the policy that Built on Route 56 work is better than a dole. If there must be a dole it should not come at the expense of Bridge building crews are being kept very constructive plans which give direct employ bu y these day along the an Simeon- armel coast on State Route 56 erecting a number ment to many men and which stimulate a of timber bridges. Three structures have demand for labor in related industries. just been completed and seven more are tmder Washington is considering new and heavy way. appropriations for relief. This would seem Across Andersun Creek, 45 miles outh of to be the place to turn when county and Monterey; across Buck Creek, 47 miles south State res urces for this purpose are ex of Monterey, and aero sLime Crl'ek, 49 mile!: hausted. south of Monterey, timber bridges with 24 To divert gasOoline taxes would stop high foot roadways have been completed.. way construction and hamper maintenance Under con truetion are similar bridges at a time when the Sta.te has taken over across Hot Springs Creek, 48 mile south of thousn.nds of miles of secondary roads, thus Munterey ; a~l'OS~ Dolan Oreek, 50 miles south relieving county taxation. It would force of Monterey; across Prewitt Creek, Wild an increase in the gasoline tax rate even to Cattle Creek, Mill Creek and Kirk ('rl'pk, all carry on the absolute minimum of road located between 32 and 36 miles north of San work; and the gasoline tax already is out of Simeon, and across Willow Creek, 32 miles proportion, being endured only because of north of San Simeon. the splendid highways which it provides for "Can J borrow II cigarette, old man1" the use of Californians and their tourist "Well, you ought h> be able tl>-You'vc hud enough guests.-Long Beach P"es -Telegram. practice." OALIFORlHtl HIGHWA.YS Alo'D PtlBLIO WORKS ANOTHER BARRIER FALLS •• the winsomo g~.ndd.ughte... of Stote s.n.tor Fr.nk L. Gordon clip tho oilk ribbon offieiolly ol"'ning tho nowly improved unit of tho N.p.·Montic:olto Highwo)' to troffie. Loft to right, M.... Er,..ot C. Cl'Owley, wifo of AlOemblym.n Crowley of Sui.un; Nopo County Form Advi.or H. J. eaodo; Mild...d Gordon .nd Charlotto GoNIon; M .... Frank L Gordon .nd Copbin oJ. e. Critchloy, C.liforni. Highw.,. P.tl'Ol, Nap•• man C. RaAde. connty farm adviser for NII]18 Aulo Caravan Tour Count-y, \\}I() acted as grand lIlarslu:!l or tile caravan. Celebrales Opening ..1.rrangements in and about Monticello were in eharge of W. D. McKenzie, prominent of New Highway Unil ::\Ionticello cit-iun. ELEBRATL'lG the first unit of im· At a lunebeon in the Peacook Hotel in provement to the Kapa-lIonticello Monticello tile speakers il,cluded: AJO.~mbly. c Highway, a large caravan was mobil. man Enl~t C. Cro",·ley. CharlCii Grady. Cily izcd by the Napa Chamber of Commerce and AttorneJ' Lachman of Kapa, Sheriff John P. Xapa County Farm BU:'eau to dri\'e o"'er the Steckler of Nllpll., Ilistrict Attorne)' Wallace new high..... ay on June 19th. RUlherford. the General ~lan8ger ot the Red wood EI.lpire Association and othen. l'his highway, which \VIIS improved lind snrfAced jointly by the State And the Napa County Board of Supel:'vi~ors, lraverses a. LAW .... FTER SLOW ROAD HOG serics of very scenic callyons and valleys People who clOJ tbe hirbwR:!"1 by lll\>w t1r!l'lng Me including the Berryessu, Wooden, Cal>ell and the object, of II. esmpaico iopururaled by lhe e"li. Gordon valleys. fOMlla HiMh a)' PIlr<:\1 to pl'OfQote ..fet,. aDd courtesy on Ibe bllb ". of tltt! Stllte. The improvement considerably lessells the JO. Ha"lIlond Cato, Olliet of tbe CltlifofDi" RiCh ,. driying time and adds tremeudous.lv to the 1'.11'01. h.. lulled orde... to exe...ni...ClI Dnd oflict of Illeasure of driving between Napa, 1ofontil"f'llo tbe petrol to "'atcb roc riol.tlon. of tbe Qlliforni. and intermediate points. \e:!llcle Att conlin&: this point. foll",dnC Ill1WO"l'OlllI r.porta of flecid~na "-uaed b,. Ilo"'-morinr \lIeuun ,.eWcl~ fer~Dg I~t p&o\'Ttm; IllPORTA~"'T CONNECTION .ntl eo"'me.....ia.1 to fwn ClIri po•. This 5eCwr connects "",ith the high .....ay from Monticello to \\"Tinters, thUB providing a direct "1 ullOertlt-.nd rour "";fe: ...tlJlted a doa«l car bUI t.bot you wanted Iln OpeD one." mnte between the Sacramento Valley, NJipa "Yn, but tbe inddeot il doled 00'11'." County and the Redwood Empire. The caravan WIl! mobilized by the :Sapa Ulinlr-ll.!' laundry l!CD $3,752,000 Broadway A NOTE OF APPRECIATION Lo?)) Level Tunnel Job T. H. Dennis, Maintenance Engineer, California Highway Commission, Started Work June 17 Sacramento, California. (Continued from page 16) Dear Mr. Dennis: As a community organi~ation, and in impression upou the a.:, emblecl thousands in behalf of every resident, we thank you for the Berkeley hills witnessing the start of a the white I ine recently painted along the project made possible by the gas tax fund. center of our highway from Dolans Corner to the head of Bolinas Lagoon. Senator Breed, veteran friend of California Beclluse of the many blind curves this is highways, retiril g from the Senate, spoke in an important safety feature but to those who similar vein, as did State Director of Public drive this road on foggy nights, when it is; not possible to see either edge of the road, Works Kelly. this white stripe is literally a "life line." Other speakers were E. K. Ament, :!Vlayor We also express our appreciation of the care given this road- since it was taken into of Berkeley; W. J-. McCracken, Mayor of Oak the Secondary Highway System. Prompt land; Hollis R. Thompson, City Manager of removal of rock and dirt slides after rains, Berl\eley; W. J. Buchanan, Chairman, Doard frequent repairing of such holes as came in of Supervisors, Contra Costa County; W. J. the surfacing, and the general attention to drainage and maintenance have given us a Hamilton, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, new conception of tho service given by the Alameda County; John B. Lewis, Oollector of State Department of Highways. Internal He.... enue; State Senator Will R. It is a pleasant contrast to the road we Sharkey, Contra Costa County; Redmond C. traveled for many years. St.aatf'i, Past President and Thos. E. Oalde Very truly yours, cott, President, Board of Directors, Joint ROGRESSIVE CLUB OF STINSON Rig'hwar District No. 13. , BEACH. i (Signed) W. 8. Marble, President. DREAM OOlVIE TRUE I Long the dream of residents of the great L= Eo. t hore Empire, the Broadway low level COWl' J3,752,OOO tunnel became a reality. Its inception i The project will consist of two parallel tUD 1926 brought about by publi demand, dne to nels haviug a total length of 316 feet each. the inadequacy of the existing tunnel and. its A 22-foot roadway with a 3-foot pedestrian connecting traffic lanes, mark d a histoeical sidewalk throngh eaell bore will provide maxi date in the life or both Contra Costa and Ala mum safety and will allow £01' fast tra.fftc meda countief'i. These two counties were movement. joined by the city f Oakland in a tudy Both tunnels are to be concrete lined. and which resulted in he formation of the 13th mp.ehanically ventilated by a system with a J oint Highway District. Assistance wa given capacity of 1,500,000 cubic feet of fresh air these bodies by the State Highwav Commi - per minute. Complete electric illumination sion. . and safpty control devices are provided. Some idea of the amount of traffic that The co L of the entire project will be ap used the present antiquated tunnel in 1930 proximately $3,752,000. For a period of 1 may be gained from the traffic connt, which to 24 months an average of 900 men will be showed 30,000 vehicles per week. Engineers empfoyed. One hundred twenty thousand place the probable traffic by 1940, at which barrels of concrete will be used. Over 1000 time t.he new Broadway low level tLiunel win tons of strnctural and reinforcing teel will be in full operation, at 77,000 vehicles weekly. he required. Seveu undred thou and square feet of pavement will be laid. The whole Without the aid of the United States gov project will require excavation and grading of ermnent and the State of California it would one million l\llhie yards of earth. indeed have been difficult for the counties of .Alamecla and 'ontra Co. til. to con truct Mr. Spendix: "Any installments due today?" this nece ary traffic al'Lery. PWA grant Mrs. Spendix: "No, deal', I think not." from the Federal goverDlllent amoants to Mr. SDendix: "Any payments due on the house, the $1,095,000, while fhe 'tate of alifornia radio, the furniture. the 1'UlrS 01' the books1" lVlrs. Spendix: " 0." granted $700,000. The balance of the money r. Spendix: "Then 1 have ten r1oJ]ar~ we don't was raised suece sfully by bond issue. need. What do you say we blly a new car?" CALIFORNIA HiGHWAYS A DP BLIC WORKS EDWARD HYATT. State EngIneer A. newly issued report on the irrigation dis. 'l'be districts operated ~()2 irrigation and 251 elmin age weBs, and for all J)umping operations reported an tricts shows that major reservoirs were only inlltaBulioll of 3 ,ti49 horst!vuwer. To supplement the half filled in 193::1, compared with a storage water furnished by tbe districts landowners in the amountillg to two-thirds th ir capacity in district were reported Ull operating 11,647 private hri gation wells. There wns a decrease of apvr<>x!mlltely 1932, and total water diversions were 522,000 297,000 acres inigated in irrigation districts as com acre-feet less than in the preceding year. The pllred to the previous yenl·. work of the Sacramento-San Joaquin 'water supervi or has been re umed through sub scription of funds by water users. Th flow DISTRICTS SECURITIES COMMISSION of the Sacramento River did not drop to anticipated levels during the month and Tbe commission issued orders to the following dis· salinity encroachment in the Delta was tricts: La Mes'!., Lemon Gl"Ove and Spl'ing Valley Irriga delayed owing to cool weather and showers tion District-Approval for certification of $490 000 in the mot tains, Other activities of the in principal amount of second division, second issue. division are given in the monthly report as of bonds; also 1,348,000 in principal amount of l'efunding bonds. follows: Imperial Inigntion District-Approval of warrant payment plan to be used in connection wi.th the refund ing plan previously approved. IRRIGATION DISTRICTS Ci trus Heights Irrigation District-Consent to eXI~enditure from general fund, pursuant to section 11 of the 'ecurities Commission Act. At an electi()n ()n June 19tb, $2,000,000 in b()nds were voted by the Sllnta Clara Valley Water Con servation Di ll'ict, Santa Clara C()unty. The b<>nds are to SUPPOlt a }<'ederal \()an wbicb will be used for ~OOD CONTROL AND RECLAMATION the constl'uctioll of storage and other wate conser· vation works pllllllled by the district. Bulletin 21-E, a report by the State Engineer on S(lc.~·IWI6n.tO F.lood Oon1rol Project-BMIk Protection. Caliiornia irrigation districts for 1923, hus been Work on the State-Federal cooperative pl'ogram for released. This is the sixth of a series of publications permanent bank protection has been continued by the issued by the State since 1928 dealing with the hi~tol'Y U. S. Elngineer office at Sac.ramento. A large order Ilnd activities of districts formed under the Cali for F()lsom cobbles has been placed for bank Pl'otection foruia Irrigation District Act. This bulletin supple in Reclamation District No. 1500 in SulteL' County, ments the previous publications by bringing the statis District ·0. 108 in Colusa County and District No. tical (lata on the u'l:igation disb'icts UJ) t() January :ton in Colusa County. 1, 1934, a.od briefly recordinA' such otber information llS was obtained of district activities in 1933. One S ..H....l'amento Flood COfltrol P1'Oject. additional district wall formed during the year and two districts dissolved. 'l'here are 92 districts con· AIJplicalions are being prepared by this office [or taining a totul of 3,384,000 acres m:tintnining organi the Reclamation Hoard covering possible SERA zations and listed as active. projects ill the Americun River overflow channel, the Bulletin 21-l!J c()ntains tabulations for Hl:m on the Sacramento By-pass and the Feather RiveL' overflow water S\IPP!y, crops, assessment,,; and collections of area. in Yuba County. tbe acUve districts liS well as bond information on tho~p. having ()ntstanding bonds. Mokelllmne River. There are 24 major reservoirs in use with a total This office bns und~r preparation an application fOl' capacity of 1,525,000 acre-feet, Water stored in a SERA project for clearing the 'Mokelumne River 1933 amounted to 737,000 acre-feet, or less than By-pass between RCcJlllllution District No. 1002 and one· half the capacity of the reservoirs, whereas in the McCormack-Williamson tract. 1932 storage amounted to two-thirds of such capacity. Total water diversions reported are RU88;QIIl River Jetty. 6,900,000 acre-feet or 522,000 acre-feet I~s than in Application is being made [or n SERA project to 1932, continue work on the Russian River jetty. (Continued on page 28) CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS JL¥D PUBLIC WORKS Bay Bridge Six iVfonth,s Ahead of Schedule Says First Annual Report ....:;;j ••••:;;j ....'!,j ••_:;;j 'EAR has elapsed since ground ,,,as On Yerba Buena Island the cable anchorage broken for the San Francisco-Oakland is well under way and the concrete center XBay Bridge on Verba Buena Island, anchorage, midway between San Francisco July 9, and in the first annual report on the and Yerba Buena Island, has its substracture bridge State Director of Public Works Earl in the final stage. Lee Kelly and Chier Engineer C. H. Purcell '1'he two huge tunnels, large enongll to drive had the pleasure of reporting to Governor a truck in (but not tum around), into which Frank F. Merriam that the bridge was six the two cables will be anchored to steel gril months ahead of scbeilulp. lages and concreted, lire complp-te ano ready for etting the steello which the caule~ will be If this lead is maintained, Director Kelly anchored. informed Governor Merriam, the San Fran cisco~Oakla.nd Bay Bridge will be opened to OPENI.NG TUNNEL BORES traffic by July, 1936. The huge vehicular tunnel that will carry two decks of traffic through the sandrock The first anniversary of the bridge sees the island is well under way with two headings completion of the first steel tower of th!' sus due to go through by July 23, when Gov pension sector and the beginniug or erection ernor Merriam and the California Toll of the second tower. Bridge Authority will be escorted through WEST BAY PmR8 COMPLETE by Director of Public Works Kelly and Ohief Dnring the year the contractors on the Engineer Purcell. bridge have earned $11,500,000, or 31 per The piers upporting the bridge viaduct on cent of the total amount of the major the east side of Yerba Buena Island are all contracts. practically complete, as is the huge anchor At the end of the £rst year of the bridge pier on Army Point for the west end of the all the piers of the West Bay crossing are anchor arm for t e 1400-foot r.antilevpr ~pan. either complete or nearing completion and, of the 22 major East Bay piers, only two ure OVER 7000 EMPLOYED yet to be started. Inasmuch as the East Bay piers are in an Of the 51 piP-I's beneath the el.ltire bridge, 16 advanced stage, erection of the steel snper are complete, 18 are in construction, and the structure at the east end of the bridge is remaining 17 are small :mbpiers involving no expected to be started next month. unusual problems or quantities. The saud fill, which is being pumped into place alongside the Key Route Mole, is well 'I'he San Francisco cable anchorage on Rin ahead of schedule and should be completp-d con Hill is now in its seco dary ~tage of con this year. struction, containing more than 30,000 cubic E ployment on the bridge has now reached yards of concrete, or half its final cubiture. a total of 7238 men of which 4015 afe em 1 0 morA r,OTIcrete will be added to this monu ployed fabricating materials and the balance ment at the west end of the bridge until the by the contractors on location. cables have becn spun and tied to the giant steel eyebars projecting from this monolith, some time in 1935. SURFACING COALINGA LATERAL On the Coalinga lateral, between Mustang Ridge ANCHORAGES WELL ADVANCED and Priest Vnlley, a distance of about 3.3 mil~s, the l'Olld Is being construct~tl wilh a 24'100t gt-aded road "INoI'k is now tarting Oll the viaduct to bed and a ~,!O-foot sel~ted material surface. 'rhis carry the bridge west of the anchorage over project is financed under the Jlltionnl Indush'ial R.incon Hill. Recovery Act. Piers to carry the bridge east of the anchor Gladys-What is your favorite sport.? age on the San Francisco side are in con Young Doctor-Sleighing. struction. Gladys-- 0, I mean apart from business. RISI NG SKYWARC above the city's shoreline, Tower W -2 of the San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge presents fascinating studies of majestic beauty and strength to the camera. A side view shows the slender, graceful silhouette tapering from the base to its top 474.35 feet above the water. A worm's eye view presents a vaulting pyramid of steel lattice work. Seen through a second story office window it dominates all the bay front struotures, its top almost lost in the cloud vapers. A close-lip reveals the massive size of the great steel girders. OAUJ<10RNIA. YlOBWAY8 A:YD PUBLIO WORKS Expert Engineers Pass on School Plans (Continued rrobll)l.ll" 15) in pl"Ovidillr snch ","_sble fiN! U{ety. Ho,.·ever. left ~tirel,. 0lllio..11 with Ite lIlil\lVI boIIrd. auct It where 'Dell rta~n"ble 6re .r.,ly i8 bot pro.ided, I mly m..-atloue ...·ork .t an,. lime Iud rl"OC'ttd to UI'e ..hool lutborilJ' ill Idrillfd, IUt III!1e ot the &cllool the buildll!l" tlpon lu: own rf'ltponlibllity. buildin, for «bool pu.,- ss br II fire hoard uisq will til I:'ntJ~,. Ul.on IU 0'11'0 relIPOllIibilit,.. ADDlnOlCAl. ~f3I.f'TlOSli ru.w1'T'l"Dl 4. Whf'rt • balldina: btlonpD( to • 0001 ditt.riet j, In sa'Ordall~ ... ilb :I rolln( of tIIIe AltonIfJ' GeD· i, to be ~ tor hou.l~ schl)(ll bUild or ¥ud1 lDedI...n!· eral, penni.ion ill bein.r I"'llDted tn Illl"lnde • lIuJl1~r ~l equlpmetlt t..Ilen lIIdl bsildilll' I, DOl. Ilf_~ b,. 0{ iden.tieal tll:Dlpo...... ,. bulld;n.. under OIle 'P1,lica the aet IN''O'O'id.d Illat a Pf"OPCT rNol.uUOIl it ~ lion, ..Dd ..illiwlUD C~, pr'01"lded tbal the ('lAt 0( thf' h,. the tid!oul beard to tLe ell'ett thlt no Il'IIpils or troup tkH1I Dot u(ftff $10000. lteelllera, 1111 Rlcll, will be poormiUN to l1H or ellter Wbethtol' or 1I0t ..n uilti". buildillr Is to be akl bulldillr d lIlT time. .s:rt."IIethentd I. endrtl)' optlon..l with the .ehool oo..nI. H IIIJ' work is do... ullHdinl $1.000 in twt, It.''roact:lfEJfT !l'0T .t.JlBlT'Ilur DpplOVI' mU'lt bf' had 0( I", Stile. 5. ne Dirision of A~.itecture bu further taken It II Ilot _r,. to 8falr, "'Ptlrol'll for repair tn", 1'lewpoir;t that rel)llirs "'fOb SI painti~. worlt It:rb U 1l"!llllnr, pilltmlll, ... nd l.n~1 ..lill reshinIUr:( lod IllIKcllanl'Ou, u~ do DOt <:01111:' teftlue of t:M build!n.. AJIVrO''': s.,plln ouly to ulldu the pro1"lalolll of the ...ct.. new work, or to alteration. lldcilions or 1'fCO",tn'C Tbe ruJ~ snd r'f«tlla.tiollS let up in c:onneetiou with tion. tbe ...et ... re .ot W~ Irbitrsril,. "..{urad hut Lbe Appro...1 101" demolil.i'.>l1 WIIlk b.. been .".i~etJ. ThIs ""11 Is lelt open tor the dquer to Uf'~ hi. eIl!Dlptilln ea.o not. of l'Oluae. i.dud~ tbOllf' C(lntlitions iqelluity ...bjsct to the prilllllr1' eollJlmel1lliOIi of wbeN! reo:onstruclwn is In'l'OI1'". ..fet,." of W11l1truetJOI1. Wbllt Yo·e ... re fur;dllll:ltont.l1)' PU'50$:rt:L OOllP'EJ"OOO1' lHUlA!fPIJ) l'OUC6nf'd wilb is not I wt of rule- bUI ....th« ufe pardi.... liCe ... nd Pl"Ol)tft,.. Realu-inI" the ut.....11 Importln<:e of tbe work 11Ie pl"ObltolD hna been moat dilftcult in l'OnllC'etino in1'oh.d ,~ 1"!'$ODnel e111plo;red. ha.. beet: ...Iectetl ",'ilh ",rnnttre('tloe work. "'h..t we b...e be..n pri tootirelJ' 011 the buill 0' fltn_ II delfrmilled b,. C!OIII mflrilr eoncero...d with if not wbmer the QlluilllUM bined written ..r;d oral eUnlitlulool. All IItNlOD.I rtQuiremf'n~ Ill't~bf'd f,,~ new construction h..,., engq:ed in tili, worit are el1"11 Itl'1'ioe '111(1101_ ~ ueeeded oot r.tber II tlle condition whid! uiliUl toll:p1oJed .solely on the basil of Ibelr hldl1"ldual 1I1Och as to crtatto 1I. baur'll to thto ~pana ot Ihl! lIu..liliaitlooll .,,01 Ire ret... lned b)' the Sute 0:11)' !O bulldinl". lo~ III they Ire found to he ,.fficieut DIld eompetent. TIle llcienee of dealrn with reference to IIdequatdy Th. O; ... i.io" of A...,hit...tu~s Is b.lng Ju.t .... and f'eOnomleally providiog te>r ... iw.ll~ forea Is lib.,.1 al po"ibl...onli,hnt with ••fety in anfo~ .. ",llIti...e!y new .nd conaequelltly the SI..I'-1 l)fl"louuel ing r.qu;r.....ntl fo~ ...con.t~uction Or ... Iter...tion. I.lI ...!ill lU tbow perwUI ellruged Itl prlvlltto praetlt'e of uilt;nll buildIngs. have b.d to beeomto tl1llnetl In thl. work. Fo.lunltely the State hd a IImllll group of Itruet"rnl ton.lueel"ll IlfTD.nl'Nll UK PRIOR 1'0 C(»ll'l."ION wh... hud for seTerll1 ,.urs been th\1.6 dnlsreinr St..te 6. Th~ ""bool 1IMrd mfty, It It 80 di!aiNltl. eub'nit buildinr.. Th_ ",,11t l'l!ElDployed Upoll .,II_g0 of pllnll lind reco,,"troction 0'1" ch"n,ea rur tbto !!.nllre the _CeQ' of tchool coMtru<:UOlt "l1. lIud nU'LUcnteti bUildlll," or Iny portion tberf'Of. Approval 0' tbis by II. number of especially w,,-II 1]1I11Ji/ll'd structural [IrnJlOl'~ fl!«llt5trUcllon or chnnle ...ill bo bused upon .'lg'ineera in prh'tlt/!l llract!ce. wbether or not the lxtlldlttJr nil fIlI:On~lrl\Cled ,,·ill be TllIs iruU]1 .ervfd IlJ II nucleull nrO'IlH! which thc hll1:6r(lollS, rawer thllo whtothe. it full,. r.oml1Jiu witlt orgutliznlion WIIS built .'1(1 '~ed 1101 otlly to check ApIlf'lIdlx "A" of thto Dlvidon of A.chitecture. 'I'he tuch plnM 1111 WCr Projects Advanced to Bids in June Fourteen coutl'acts were IIdvcrti5ecl by the Division of Highways in June for improvements in nine counties. 'l'he projects Oil which bids were nslted included the grading, paving or surfucing of 5.8 miles of highway, the COllstt'Uction of four bridges and two maintenance staLion bui(ding~ und tlle oiling of 68.2 miles of rond oiling on various routes. The estimated total costo£ Lhe work was $554.200. DETAILED LIST OF PROJECTS County Location Type Miles San Francisco Between Division & Army Bts. on Potrero Ave. in San Francisoo Pavement San Francisco Between 5th & 10th Sts. on Harrison St. in San Francisco Pavement 0.8 Humboldt Broa.dway Avenue in Eureka Bit. Tr. Cr. Rk. Surf. 1.5 Kings 23 & 2Ci Mi. S. of Fresno on Lemoore Fresno Road Bridges (2) Los Angeles Across San Gabriel River & Coyote Crk. on Firestone Blvd. Bridges (2) San Bernardino In Redlands Storm Drain Napa Napa to Greenwood Corner Bit. Tr. Cr. Rk. Surf. 0.6 Orange Approaches to Santa. Ana Riv. Br. at Buaro Road Graded Roadbed 1.5 Los Angeles Los Angeles (lounty Park Maint. Sta. Bldgs. Santa. Cruz Saratoga Gap Maint. Sta. Bldg. San Bernardino Mt. Vernon Ave. Viaduct Painting steel Struc. _ Los Angeles Various Routes Oiling 23.3 San Bernardino Various Rontes Oiling 28.5 Madera 2.9 Mi. E. of Madera to (lounty Road to Ba.tes Oiling 16.4 SUMMARY Type Miles Amount Pavement _ 2.2 $2~9,OOO Bituminous Treated Crushed Rock Surface _ 2.1 65,500 Graded Roadbed _ 1.5 10,000 Bridges _ (4) 102,400 Oiling _ 68.2 37,800 Miscellaneous Projects ~ _ 79,500 Totals • 74.0 $554,200 C.ALlJ'OIrNl.~ lltGlllV.AY$ AND PUBLIC WOIIKS Water Resources jor July (ConU,,:.ed from p&&"" U) lIbl,. delayed Ind ....tailled for • Dluch ILurler period de&l'~ WATER RIGHTS thlll in 1001, altbou:;b the of the ma:<:illlum m.,. 1- rlO6C~ .ppro.tll. thl et J931 .t the lower Dell. lIt.tiOOI. .'1'",."""-," of .A,.pr.."rillli"" _/ W_ler. Tblr!,.-elcbt .llpU~lioB. to appropriate ....ler ",en DAMS nceiyrd durlll&" \I.,., .ilt Wt« dcIIltd .lId 20 wue II,PI'O"td. Duri". tile montb 1"'0 p!rmi[l: ...tre ","ktd fIOd J6 ~ 10 IlCfllR. Tbe app:icatioll Cor ~vllljtrUC::llcQ of tbe 81, Can)"on 1l1ll01ll; the 111I1Ia.tioD.l ftled Yere fiTe by lh Dt~rt Cnoet Dam, loellecl 011 Bi.. CanrOrt Creek iu El Illtltt of lI,quee ul.der Ih,. pro"uiou of Chapter 256. Oondo Qountr ..... _pproTed On Jun_ 6t.1t. The dam St.tul_ of 1m, in funher.nce of Ihe 511ie Water il to be .. /I ....tlJfilI ..~ feet lu h~lcbt wltb • ltonle Pan .,oU Illl'Ohiol lb. ",·.t~ of tbt Amf'rie:t.1I Riur. elpacitJ of 300 .tre-fCfOl. 'not 'uter "'ill be ~ for minial" p:Jr'pOftS. WorL 011 the t"Ollltrul'tioo ot Sa.n G.brid No. 1 SACRAMENTO_SAN JOAQUIN WATER dllD 11 p!'OCf'oedin&" I. ill tbe "'(lrt of prod_tina "ttle ment ill the Sin G.brieJ No.2 dlLlll by UIe 11ft of SUPERVISOR ....tC'!'. l .. r"IJOII" 10 Ille 'PPnI to lhe "'Ilter &MI"& b,. till' ~I'1Jl&lH'ut c"mmilt~ of the Saeramento-Sall ,Joaquin WATER RESOURCES H....er Problem" Conference f~r fundi lor ~tablisb ~lIt and lubUllance of ....ter luperrislnn GIVF.S ACOESS TO l\fT. WJLSON' In the meantime, the U. S. Forest ervice has awarded a contract for widening the road from 1ft. Wilson to Red Box to a 20-foot roadbed width. GRADING OPERATIONS call for 914,000 cubic yards of roadway This sectIon is five miles in excavation 5000000 yards overhaul. length. When this widen- ',, inlY contract is completed, and the State con Arroyo Seco to the divide between the Arroyo tr:ct between Colby Canyon and Red Box is Seco and Big Tujunga water~hed . finished, automobile traffic will have ready BEAUTIFUL SCENiC PANORAMA access to Mt. Wilson. Oonstruction on the new Angeles Crellt High As the ascent is made, a beautiful vi~ta way was commenced in 1929 and has been is unfolded. From certain prominent points a view can be had of Los Angeles, Pasadena, completed for the fu'st lIt miles in tlu:ee con Glendale and many other cities and small tracts. Easy grades and high standards of towns in the flatter country below. On excep alignment for this type of road have been u ed tionally clear days the ocean and Oatalina on all three of the completed contracts as well Island can also be seen. a the one now in progress. Care was used in planning the constrnction .A. 26-foot wide roadbed has been con of thi road to avoid making high cut or fill structed, with standard superelevation on all slopes which could be seen from the valley. of the curves so this entirE' road can safely The beauty of the mountain slopes in the be driven at a fair rate of sveed. vicinity of Los Angeles (particularly north From La Canada the new highway climbs of Hollywood and Beverly IIills) ha been steadily along the precipitous sides of the destroyed in many cases by the construction of subdivision street.. and roads making unsightly gashes in the forest cover. To avoid these long :fill slopes at exposed places, the excess material was hauled farther into the mountains and deposited out of view to make parking places and picnic geouucls. PARKING AREAS PROVIDED Wherever possible, in the construction of this highway, the scenic points have been graded so as to form areas where cars can park overlook ing the valley below. The new section of the high way now under construction from the end of the completed portion of Colby Canyon to Red WIDENING OPERATIONS call for heavy work on mountain Box, is being built to the same spurs encroaching on the alignment. standards as the portions already (Continued on page 31) OALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIQ WORKS COLUSA COUNTY~Between1'{axwell and Delevan, bituminous surfacing. Dlstrkt TTT, Route 38, SeclJon B. ll.uout ;;.5 miles to 'be graded and paved with asphaltic E. A. Forde, San Ans~lmo $16,956; Granite Cunst. concrete. District III, Route 7, Section C, Cha.s.. L Co.. Ltd., Walc.onvilie, $18,865. Contract ,,"warded to HaJ'ney, San .F'·>lnclsco, $186,719; Peninsula Pavwg L G. KiPTI, Sadamento, $15,768. ~158,962. Company, :;an Francisco, Contracl Rwarded RIVERSIDE DQUNTY-Between Temecula River to H>\nrahan Company, San Francisco, $146,974. Bridge and San Diego County line near Aguanga and IMPERIAL DOUNTY-0illng, Bonds Cornel' to between Hemet and Sage, oiling roadbed. District Niland. District XI, Route 187-201, Sectiona A, B, VIIi, Routes 78, 1·94, Sections A. B. Lamb's 'I'ransfer C, E-C. Consumers Oil Co" Los Angeles, *9,319; GIl co., Long Beacll. $5.971; SQuarA all Co, Los Angeles, more Oil Co" Los Angele$, $9,156: Poulsen & March, $6 354; Gilmore Oll 00., Lo" Angeles, $6,525; Paulsen Inc., Los Angeles, ~8,883; Lambs Transfer, Long & March, Inc.. Lo" Angeles, $6,909. Contract awarded Deach, $9,046. Contract awarde This job involved earth excavation ap REWEVED UNE {PLQYME T proximating 200,000 cubic yards per mile. .A light type oil surfacing will be mi..~ed Most of the cutting was in sandstone of III vInce 0 1 the roadbed anu parking areas medium hardness, with a few cuts in shale. as was done on previous sections. Design was predicated on encountering com Practic.ally all of this Ang'ele re t High- paratively few locations where clay strata way has been constructed during depre' ion would involve heavy slide risks, and the pre times and the employment which it has liminary conclusions were supported by the afforded has meant a great deal to men who realities of construction. Many of the cuts have been employed. in its construction. An and fills range between 60 and 80 feet in average of about- 125 men has been employed depth and the c t slopes stand at %; 1 in the on the yarious contracts dur.i:ng the last five heaviest excavations. years.. ~ince most of these men had depend Wllile the project as a whole was conceived en~s, It IS safe to say that two or three times and executed under the guidance of economic thl!) number of people were benefited either and engineering controls, esthetic considera directly or indireetly by the employment fur ti.ons were faetors of weight in all the plan nished by this project. mng. The motorist will find that this splendid This'vroject i. of great importance to stretch of road is itself artistic in its !!race southern California, particularly to the metro ful sweep of line, its nice balances in s:ction politan area around Los Angeles. Its com and general fitness to the topography. pletion will render the roads which have been alreacly built in Angeles National Forest IN THREE CONTRACTS readily accessible to automobile traffic from Los Angeles and neighbOl'ing cities. ReCall, truction of this important ection of These Forest Service roads (lower tandard Rout (j through the Santa Cruz Mountain' roadE) in turn extend into a vast hitherto was d?ne in two gr'ading contracts, and one inaccessible a 'ea in the high mountains which surfacmg contract. The majol' project ex "Ivill be ideal for recl'eational purpo e both tended from Inspiration Point six: miles from the standpoint of altitud and s~nery toward the city of Santa Cl'uZ and involved and from the standpoint ot acces ibility. earth excavation in exces of one and one quarter million cubic yards at a total cost this second unit was $83,0 0 and the work to the State of $313,591. The work was com was completed in May, 1934. menced in October 1932 and completed in The third contract for surfacin!>' the two October ] 933. grading jobs has been awarJed. The work A second contract i volving more than one consists of placing crusher run base and qU31ter million cubic yards excavation ex bituminous macadam at a cost to the State tended the construction seven.Atenths mile of $191,228. This work is now under way and towards Lo Gatos. 'fhe cost to the State for will be soon completed. CALfIt'QllNliJ, IJIG1fIVAY8 AND rUBLIO W01:KB Channel Change and 4 Bridges on Project 3Jn till'lUtlriall1 CHARLES H. GREENWALO. m.lnt.n.n<:. in Sanla Barbara for• .,.,.n of Oi.trid VII. di.d On Juno 16th (Co::llinuod from .....Ile i) followinll .n .bdo.,.,in.l oper.tion .t • ho. pibl in S.nta An., Or;o.nlla County, .t tha consists of eOllstructing a lIew channel with .g. of 'orly-nvan. a 2O-loot bottom about 9 feet high. and lining Ho w.. born in 1887 .t Fort S<:ott, K.n.... with mesh reinforeed eoncrete 8 inches thick Ha entered tha nrvh;:. of the St.t. Divioion on the base and 6 inehes on the \\aJls. of Hillhw.y•••• I.borer March 17, 1924, ond urJ.d in thd up.clty until July 1', 1921. The four bridges mentioned aboye are being He w." promoted to the po.ition. of le.ding constructed under separate eontraet Hnd m.n .nd .,.,.int.n.nco forem",n .nd .erved in under the brirlgp r1rpRrtmrnt supervision. The the I.tter up.<:ity <:ontinuou.ly until hi" d ..th. H. w... v.ry ...liobl••nd <:on,,<:ion' UIt~:iC lStructur~ i~ COIl fin>t of " reinforcetl tiou••mploy•••nd hi. p inll i" deeply crete slab bridge over the prelient highway regrott.d by .11 hi•••_i.t.... at the southerl,r city limits. This structure Mr. G nw.ld h.d hi. ho t Seal e••<:h will pro\'1de a elear roadway width of 14 feet ."d.l••v widow .nd th child...n. One with two 4-foot sidewalh.- of hi. ,i,te... io the wife of M.inten;o.nu Fore.,.,.n C. J. W.rct••t Au,••, C.liforni•. TWO BRlOOES OYEK cua The two bridges being built across Mission Creek provide a clear roadway widlL oC 60 COAST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS (oot feet with two '1 aidewalks_ 00 tile Cout HiXhwl.,J betIWftD Kin, Cit,. Ind At tIll' l'orther1y C(ige o( the city, where the two P>llell south at Gl"ftafh·ld•• dlst.Dce 01. 8.0 mil". new road parallels the railroad, it hIlS been th" r..-d h.. been ded to • 3(I-'oot roadbeo.l wllh necessarJ' 10 construct a reinforced concrete • 2().fool hitumino IUrf.Ct trNtlTltllt. 'I'ti! DroJect ..... finODC'ed u.~r Ihe ~lltlon.1 Indultrid R_"ery girdcr type overhead strueture to carry a well Act. trayeled eouuty road, thi, struetnr" directly lkt...~n Kill'; Cll.)' nil SIR Ardo•• di.tall"- of eonnecting to all exisling timber IJridge over 15 milt!!!, fu~ olt hll¥ ~J1 lll'lllia! ... lIu.t PIlliiali1'l" the Southern Pacific railrood. 10 the "bonldt", om Mch lid" or tbt ui'tin,; o-"tmellt. At the northerly end of thc work, where a conm:ction i, again ml!.de with the present State highway on Hollister A"cnLle addi ti?nal right of way hall been acquired 'to per [jighWay Bids and Awards! rnlt the future construction of II. braided traffic intersection to e{fecli\t~ly handle the ever (ContlnU.11 from PO•• 30) increasing volume of traffic in thi~ yicinity. SHA:,;'TA COlJ,N"TT-Brldll:e .crm. S.crliRlento R\n,r AI Reddlnll:. Conotructlon ot 1---108' pl. lt1rd. "pn".. Ann 1_73' 6~ end "p.n. on cone"'e pre.... K£I..u:n:s COSGE8Tf:D TRAl'PIC Dl.tr\et if. Route !. ~Unn n. M. R. )leGo.-a.n. Inc.• San Francisco. 1171.532; I.1nd.ren .."4 S ...ln..rlon. The roadwny work is progressing under two Inc., San }'l'1lncl~. $Ii8.611: 01. " R.1I. I"", COIl Aniel..., U~II.SlD; Rocca A Cal.ttl ., 1. P. Brann.n. contracts and lhc stl"Uctlucs under three !:Ian Ratoel. 1170.1S0: Ward EnillnfHIrlnj{ Company, tracts, all work being under the provisions San lo'rancl.eo, IU!.n,. Conu"cl ""'ard.d to J. ~'. of the National Tndustrial Recovcl'Y Act., SLillll. Knapp, Oakland. un.iH. 'TKH:AldA COUNTk'-'j'n!atlng ...lIh hellvy tll~l "II laling Ii IlIlixitllum cmplo,ym~nt of Sauta BIH" between Rte. 3 and 11 mlle~ tau or 'Daleo. DIstrict 0 II. Route 29. Section . Hel.... l.. con.tr. Co" Sebasto btlra County workmen, Hnd providing for POl. Sf.us; E. A. I<'orue. 811n Aneelmo. U.3\H; t:. \1'•• 3D-hour working week. .Hlll1ud. Sacrame"tQ, 1~.U4. Controct awarded to A. Teit'herl '" Son. Inc.. SacrAmentO. 14.766. The entire improvement on this Santa. Ba.r 'V:tlS'TURA COUl"'l'l' -BotwMn OJ"t .nd " ....terly bound.ry...Wut 41.1 mUeoI In lenr;th. to b F.H.A JK 11'. J'l.1ERRTAM Governor EARL LEE KELLY - Directol' A. D. EDII10NS'.rON, Deputy In Charge WtLter DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS Resources 11l\'eadgation R. L. JONES. Deputy in Charge Flood Contl'ol an,l Reclamat on CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION GEORGE W. HAWLEY. Deputy In Charge DaJlIl! HARRY A. HOPKIN::>. Chairman, Taft SPE 'CER .BURROUGHS, Attorney TThiUTHY A. HEA..l:tDON. San Francisco EVERETT N. BRYAN, HydrauliC Engineer. Water PHILIP A. STANTO ,Ana.heim Rights FRANK A. TETLEY, Rlverslde A. N. BURCH, I,'!'lgntion Invesligat10ns DR W. W. BARHA 1, Yreka H. M. STAFFORD, Sacramento-Sun .Jonquln Water C. H. PURCELL, State Hlghway Engineer, Sacramento Supervisor JOHN W. HOWE, Secretary GORDAN ZAN GR, Adjudication, 'Vater Distribution HEADQUARTERS STAFF, SACRAMENTO G. T. IlicCOY, Assista.Ilt State Highway EngIneer DIVISION OF ARCHITECTURE J. G. STANDLEY, Principal AooIstnnt Engineer R. H. WILSON, Olnce ...Jnglneer T. E. STANTOK, Materials and Research Engineer GEO. B. McDOUGALL, State Architect, Chief vf DIvision FRED J. GRUlItM, Engineer or ::>urveys and Plans P. T, POAGE, Assistant Chief C. S. POPE, Construction Engineer T. H. DENNIS, 1\l1aintenance Engineer w. K. DANIELS, .Administrative Assistant F. W. PANHORST (Acting), Bridge Englneer HEADQUARTERS L. V. CAMPBELL, Engineer of City and Cooperative Projects H. ""V. DEHAVEN, Supervlsillg Architectural Draftil man n. lL STALNAKER, Equipment Engineer E. R. lDGGINS, Comptroller C. H. K.ROll1ER, Principal Structural Engineer CARLETON PIERSOK. Supervt.sln~ Specification DISTRICT ENGINEERS Writer J. W. VICKREY, District I, Eurel'a ;T. W. DUTTON, PrIncipal Engineer, General Con F. W. HASELWOOD, District II, Retiding struction CHARLES H. WHITMORE, District Hi, Marysville W. H. ROCKINGHAM, Principal Mccho.nlco.! o.od lillectrical En",lneer J. H. SKEGGS, District lV, San Francisco L. H. GIBSON. DIstrict V, San Luis Obispo R. M. GILLIS, District VI. Fresno DIVISION OF OONTRACTS AND S. V. COR'l'ELYOU, District VII. Los Anl;"eles E. Q. SULLJVAN, Dist.rict VIlI. San Bernardino RIGHTS OF WAY S. W. LOWDEN (Acting), District IX, Bishop R. E. PlEHCE, District :x:, Stockton C. C. CARLETON, Chief R E. W ALLACl'l, DIRtrict Ji."l. San Die~o HUGH K. McKEVITT, Attorney, San Francisco General Headquarters, Public Works Building, Eleventh and P Streets, Sacramento, california FRANK R. DURKEE, General RIght of Way Agent c. R. MONTGOMERY, General Right of Way Agent DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES II DIVISION OF PORTS ED\VAR HYATT. State Engineer. Chief of Division l- ~ _ ;T. ;T. HALEY, Jr., Administrative AsslBtant "Port of Eureka-William Clark, Sr., Surveyor HAROLD CO. KLI 'G, Deput)' In Charge Water Rights !'urt of San Jose-NOt appolmetl (;.-.LIFORNIA ST"·fE PRIN rtNG OFFICE HARRY HA N Mon: 0, SUTl PAl ~TER 13315 7-34 9 DO SACRAMENTO, 1i:3" STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLI C WORKS MAP SHOWING STATE RIG HWA.Y SY TEM 1933 LEGEND Primary Roads See<>ndary Roads -====c .,------, LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY