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California Highways 1:1 January, 1924 v, I 7-1:1. I CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION --------- Vol. 1 JANUARY, 1924 No.1 l'110rr\])SOU':; Studio. :-1u~an',·m~. PIlot., A hal1(!sOl]le ~pal1 and a safe ul1dercrossillg-'I'he new Devil's Corral Bridge 011 the Susanville :"'ater~,l ill Lassen County Dedicated December 8. 1923. CAl.Il'OllNlA STAT'],; l'RINTING O;'F1CI; •ER. FltAl'J"1{ J. S;\HTlJ. Stlflcrlnteudelit IE SACi1A..Ul'JN'l'O. 1924 :4 C2 California Highway Department California Highway Commission HARVEY M. TOY, Chairman, San Francisco N. T. ED\VARDS, Commissioner, Orange LOUIS EVERDING, Commissioner, Arcata R. M. MORTON, State Highway Engineer, Sacramento PAuL F. FRATESSA, Attorney, San Francisco W. F. MIXON, Secretary, Woodland Headquarters Slaff, Sacramento T. E. STANTON, Assistant State Highway Engineer FRED J. GRUMM, Office Engineer in Charge of Surveys and }Jlans C. S. POPE, Construction Engineer A. ]. WAGNER, Maintenance Engineer H. E. WARRINGTON, Bridge Engineer LOWELL R. SMITH, Purchasing Agent R. H. STALNAKER, Equipment Engineer HERMAN B. \VEAVER, Chief Accountant Div'ision Engineers and Headquarters T. A. BEDFORD, Division I, Willits ]. B. WOODSON, Division VI, Fresno H. S. COMLY (Acting), Division II, Dunsmuir S. V. CORTELYOU (Acting), Division VII, Los Angeles G. R. 'VINSLOW, Division III, Sacramento E. Q. SULLIVAN (Acting), Division VIII, San Bernardino J. H. SKEGGS, Division IV, San Francisco F. G. SOMNER, Division IX, Bishop L. H. GIBSON, Division V, San Luis Obispo ]. C. McLEOD (Acting), Division X, Sacramento General Headquarters, Fifth Floor, Forum Building, Sacramento TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE, Devil's Corral Bridge _ __. Page Roster of the Department. .. "._. Page 2 Policies of tne Highway Commission.... Page 3 ,I By Chairman I'i<lrvey M. Toy. ~nd :i' Sketches of Commissioners Engineer Page 4 ! ! Modification of Contracts during 1923.. _ - .. Page 5 By Robert jy1. Morlon. Governor's Interest in Highways__ .. - __ __ _.. _.. _ __ .. Page 6 By W. F. Mixon. A Message from the Highway Engineer.. .. _.... .. -- .. -- .. Page 7 Highway Work Separate Department.. _ __ _.. __ __ _ Page 8 Purposes of the Bulletin _ -. Page 9 "Juse Among Ourselves" .. -- -.- .. Page JO Reports from the Divisiom -.. ---- -- -.. -- Pages 11·15 M;l.p Showing New Divisions _ _- -.................. Page 16 Two t JANUARY VOL. J 1924 . California Highways No.1 , Policies of the Highway Commission By H.,nvIlv M. Toy, WORKING ON TRUNK LINES. Chairman. Callforni,a Hig'hway COllllllls"lon. Paving and grading contracts are under way or soon will DRING the year in which the present California High­ be under way on the highway between San Diego and Yuma, D. way Commission has been in office its policies h:\ve Arizona. The Victorville to Needles road, another of the been the subject of more or less widespread discussion in the interstate connections 'in the south, has been taken over for newspapers of tne State and are pretty generally understood maintenance. In northern California, we are pushing for­ to be: ward the Truckee River connection with Nevada, the First-Completion of the main trunk lines and Pacific highway, Ilorth of Redding, and the Redwood high­ interstate connections; wa~' up the coast. Second-Thorough maintenance of completed high· Completion of thes~ roads, we are certain, 'will be of great ways and their betterment by widening of cuts) elim­ benefit to the Scate as a whole because it will encourage ination of sharp curves, grade crossings, and other increased travel into and through California from the north, dangers as fast as possible; soueh and east. In nearly every instance, chese main trunk Third-A study of local conditions and the designing of pavements and road types to meet conditions rather lines were contemplated in the first bond issue of 1909 and than the standardization of a single design for general we propose to keep faith with these communities and neigh­ use throughout the State; boring states who are now chiding us for failure to make Fourth-Wider and thicker pavements that will good previous promises. stand up under modern traffic (a minimum of twenty feet in width on main lines and eighteen feet else­ REFINANCING NECESSARY SOON. where); and, Fifth-Widening and thickening of the fifteen-foot Even this restricted program can not be finished before a pavements heretofore constructed as fast as necessary compl'ete refinancing of state highway building is necessary funds become available. and the time when this problem must be met and solved by the people of California is not far distant. "AN OUTSIDE COMMISSION." (Continued on page 6.) In order to better prepare ourselves for the great task of looking after California's state highways, the Commission has traveled from 10,000 to 15,000 miles up and down the THE RECORD FOR 1923 State studying the highways and the problems of each sec­ The following, in brief, is the total of expenditures and mileage of roads completed by the California High­ tion at first hand and in consultation with our engineers and way Department during the year 1923: representatives of local communities. Often, we have been EXPENDITURES. accompanied by Governor Richardson. Second State Highway Fund _ $304,596 55 In carrying forward the work and determining upon a Third State Highway Fund _ 11,769.319 47 Motor Vehicle Fund _ policy for the future, we have endeavored to be <).n outside 3,827,723 05 Miscellaneous funds _ 240,452 60 commISSion. Our decisions have been reached after a per­ Grand total $16, t42,091 57 sonal inspection of the highways in question and after ~il'" iog those interested opportunity to present their views aod FEDERAL AID, suggestions. Federal aid collected, 1923_____________ $3,071,875 66 The same desire to get close to the people, whose servants HIGHWAYS COMPLETED DURING YEAR. we are, has actuated our engineers who have traveled with Miles us from Imperial County on the south to Modoc on the Original cOl15truction .. __ 339.59 north for the purpose of gaining a thorough knowledl/:e of Graded and gravel surface 142.24 Portland concrete base 116.33 the condition of the e..xisting state highways. Asphalt concrete pavement 31.73 In this way, we expect to take advantage of the experience Bituminous macadam __ _ _____ _____ _ 49.29 of the past to the advantage of the users of California high. Reconstructed pavements of various types_ ____ 89.19 ways in the future. Grand total of new work completed . 428.78 We are committed to a policy of completing the maio Work under way and bids pending January 1, interstate connections and this work is going for'M.'\rd in all 1924 (all types) . 346.22 parts of the State as vigorously as present funds, will permit. !-_---------------------"""":;"'../ Thy"" I~Meet the Commissioners and New Engineer H.,~\'tv M. 'fay Lou IS E;VE>OlI<C ·ARVEY M. TOY, S~n Francisco :,". ,j secretary of Northern Redwood H hotelman appointed chairman oj . Lumber Company, in which, uTltil the California Highway Commission . recentlr, he held substantial interests. by Governor Richardson, has back of ~ r~ At the present time he is owner of a him years of active interest in highway large ranch in Eel River Valier, in work. He was president and an aCtive l Humboldt County. Shortly before organizer" of the California-Nevada- his appointment, Mr. Everding made U mh :H igh way Association and for a an automobile tOUl' of the counny in ~ long time has been active the move­ which gave him an opportunity to lllent for an improved highv..ay from observe and stud~' higl"l\vays in many Auburn to the Nevada border throngh states. the Truckee River canyon. Mr. 1'01"5 great ambition is to sec the interst~te trunk lines completed at the earliest ROBERT M. MORTON, ap- possible date. Chairman Toy has large pointed State Highway Engineer property interest~ in the Si\(l Frnncisco bv Governor Richardson, assumed the Ea\' district and is owner and pro­ office with a record of seventeen years' pri~tor of the Hotel Manx. activity as an engll1cer engaged ill h i g h w a)' construction in varying NELSON T. ED WAR D S, of phases. For two years immediateh­ Orange, came to the Rigl way previolls to his appointmellt, he served Commission with a record of manv as S;rn Diego County Highway Engi­ years in public office in Orange Count;' nee, ill charge of construction work where he has served as City Trustee, ulld(~r Previou~ Ronen M. !\foR·rON a county bond issue. Postmaster, County Clerk, County to that he was engineer far Sacramento Sup~rvisor, and a member of the LOUIS EVERDING, of Arcata, for many County. H is first work in the We,l Orange County Highway COlnmis­ \Ta rs has been identified with the lumber was in J90S when he made a stud\' ot sion. As Supervisor and County Com­ ind~strv of Humboldt County. As State highway needs in San Joaquin Co~nt\' lIlissioner he gained much practical ex­ Highw;l' Commissioner, he i~ holding his as a reoresentative of the Bureau of perience in connection with highway first puhlic office. .His cxperience as a Public 'Roads. 'A ye;rr later, he be­ bullding which makes him a valuable builder began when he became assistant c;rme Chief Engineer for the San Joa­ member of the Stat<;: Commission. superintendent of the 'Excelsior Red wood quin County Highway Commission. M· r. Edwards is owner of several He is a gtaduate of 'Vashington Companl', subcontractors for furnishing rock and orange groves, is president of the Jefferson University a"flt] -for a number for the construction of the fi r5t jetties on the Orange Savings Rank, Oran~c Cham­ of years was connected with the ber of Commerce, and is a director and Humboldt Bay bu.
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