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CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION
------Vol. 1 JANUARY, 1924 No.1
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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 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 ·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. F'ollawing the war, he Bureau of Public Roads of the De officer in several other financial and again became interested in similar contracts partment of Agriculture. He has had business institlltions in his horne com with the federal gov-crnment." Mr. Everding experience in the Middle West, SOllth, JYIl'lJitv ~.nd in Santa Ana. has been assistant general manager and as well ;rs the Pa.cific Coast. Modification of Contracts During 1923 By R. M. Morton, State Highway Engineer NE of the first actions of the State Highway Engineer he;lvily traveled Pacific highway, this work ·was modified to O in January, 1923, \vas to su rvey the work in progress include only .gravel surfacing. The contract was later ex and decide as to its conformity with what would be, in the tended to include the next section between Gazelle and future, the road building policy of the State. Work found Grenada, and will furnish an el\.cellent b;lse for future out of line with new standards was modified where possible. paving. Grading contrncts were under way in various parts of the In Imperial County, George H. Oswald held a colltract State calling for width in excavation or 21 feet and width for al] asphaltic concrete pavement 9 feet in widrh. This in embankment of 24· feet. This section ,vas considered too is one of the sections between El Centro and Y\:rna on tlte narrow for tn-line nnd drainage, and on all contracts which original "all year road" into California. This contract was were not too far along, the width was increased to mini modified to increase the width of paving to 15 feet, the mum of 24 feet. width of the adjacent sections. Some of these included the contract of the Pacific Con· Other modificatioll>_ and additional work alloW;lnces have ~truction Company on the Redwood highway in Humboldt been made, where possible. to conform the work in progress County; the sectioll from Donner Summit to Donner Lake to the Ilew policies of the Highway Departmellc. Inasmuch on the coorrncl oj Wilmsnur,;t and Manetas, and other~. as in January, J923, there were about 150 progres~ing con OJ} one sectioll in Siskiyou County, between Gazelle and tracts and day lahor jobs upon some oj which the cont ractors Y reb, the width WllS increased to 30 feet, this section being would no·t consent to modit1catioos. man~' of the existing located through level country. contracrs werc completed as originally plrtnned. HEAVIER PAVEMENTS PROVIDED. HIGH STANDARDS ON NEW WORK. On tnany contracts the type of pavement was modified. New work placed under contract shows the highest In J\1erced Countr, between Los Banos and San Luis Creek, standards. No grading on important roads will be built to a Blanco and Taylor held a comract over adobe soil for 12.25 width less than 24 feet, with drainage space outside tne road miles of plain concrete pavement, 18 feet wide and 5 inches bed; in many cases the width will be 30 feet with drainage outside, depending upon the character of the country thick with edges deepened to 7 inches. The pavement thick traversed. ness was increased to 6 inches with 9-inch edges and reIn No paving will be laid less than 18 feet in width, and on forcement was installed throughout. main line highways the width will be a minimum of 20 feet. In Placer COllnt)'. Gorrill Bros. held a contract from Careful tr:lffic census figures upon the state highways Auburn to Coltn:>. for hituminous macacbm pavement on taken in 1920, and again in 1922, at 103 stations, showed new grade. This was modified to a 4Jr inch waterbollnd the average increase in two years to be 47 per cent in the mac:tdam. After the base thus installcd has passed t11rough tolal number oj vehicles. Further increases in traffic are a season's traffic. ;\ p:lVemcnt placed thereon should be inevirilhlc and the California state highway S.I stem must slIccessf u1. prep REFINANCING NECESSARY SOON. in carrying this work forward during the year J924. (ConI inue HE official or.gan of the California Highway Com the firing line" will be welcomed. As opportunity offers, T mission will be the means of transmitting to employees contributions of real merit will be gi ven space in (he bullerin. of the department a knowledge of the policies and standards No one individual can carry the great blll'den of the Cali of administrative officials. The road building program is for'nia highway project. He must h:we the loyalry, coopel a proceeding on a dennite policy, which, if carried out consci tion and support of all assistants and emplol'ecs, bOllded cntiously by the meo "on the firing line," will make Cali together by the sympathy born of striving for a romnlOll fornia one of the foremost states in the construction of real object. highways. From time to time questions 01 policy and matters of 100 PER CENT FEDERAL AID detail will be discussed in CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS for the HE annual convention of the American Association oi benefit of those whose work in remote places makes impos T State Highway Officials, held in New Orleans in sible frequent contact with the State Highway Engineer December, provided an opportunity for Chairman Harvey and his assistants. The highway officials mtlst have the !VI. Toy of the California Commission to launch a movc-' cooperation of every employee wherever located. ment for 100 per cent federal aid for the public land 5tate& of the West in their efforts to complete transcontinental SHOULD KNOW BEST METHODS. highways. It is the duty of state highway employees to know the Mr. Toy and State Highway En[!ineer Robert M. Mor best methods of performing their work and apply them. tOil represented Californi;l at the important session and This is true in every detail of our work, starting with the Me. Toy, who was elected a member of the executive com surveying parties. The exercise of unassailable judgment is lllittee, journeyed on to Washington to discuss the matteI' required by the locating engineer and chief of party in with Western congressmen and the President. Favorable choosing the proper line, and in so disposing their men as to action at this session of congress is hoped for. get the field work. done at the least cost. In a report to the Commission, Mr. i'v'Iorton pointed out In the preparation of office plans there is much oppor numerous benefits to California as a result of attendance at tunity for study and the exercise of judgment in the selec the convention. We hope to have space to discuss this mat tion of alignment and grade adjustments. ter at greater length in the next issue of the Bulletin. In the inspection work. it is the duty of the engineer to cooperate to the fullest extent with the contractor and at IMPORTANT PROJECTS APPROVED the same time maintain himself on a basis of such friendli JUSt as the Bulletin was going to p~--;ss word was received ness and inftuence through exercise of good judgment rhat from \Vashington to the effect that the Truckee River route the contractor will respect his every request. cor the state highway, between Donner Lake and the Nevada SOUND JUDGMENT NECESSARY, State line, had been approved for federal LASTI NG on the B Coast road in South~ ern California showing charac ter of country along Ocean Front where Scenic Highway is being Constructed. 5evrn Highway Work Now Separate Department s a result of a measure passed by the last legislature, of the Department of Public Works and the highway com A and approved by the Governor, the building of high missioners constituted a "Board of Public Works." ways in California, for the first time, has been delegated to This arrangement proved unfair, not only to the State Highway Engineer and the highway work generally, but to a separate and distinct department of the State govern the State, because it compelled an officer, chosen primarily ment-the California Highway Commission. because of his ability as a builder of highways, to direct the The State Highway Engineer. whose sole duty is thc work of four other departments entirely unrelated to high bu ilding or highways, is the executive officer of the Com way construction yet of importance in their particular fields. miSSIon. He has ceased (0 be the Director of the Depart ment of Public Works and to divide his time with other NO OPPOSITION TO REPEAL. departments In no way connected with the State's highway After two years under this law there was no opposition IHogram. in the legislature to tts repeal by the addition of a ne", article to the Political Code crearing the California High WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS. way Commission, as a distinct entity, unencumbered by Under the Department of Engineering Law, formerly JO combinations with other state departments. force, what is now the California Highway Commission On August J7, 1923, the State Highway Engineer once -consisted of the "appointed members" of the advisory hoard more became the executive officer of the highway com Df the department, which was composed or the Governor, mission "without other duties, leaving him free to give his State Engineer, Genenll Superintendent of State Hospitals, entire time, thought and energy to the building of the best and Chairman of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. possible highways for the people of California. .: This arrangement continued until 1921, when the State The members of the Commission and its engineer fully 'f" D.:partment or Public vVorks was created, of which the realize the magnitude and importance of the task before California Highway Commission became the division of them and they approve as constructive legislation the action high"ways. The State Highway Engineer be<:ame director of the legislature :ind the Governor \)1 setting apar-t the of tlfe department and in addition to his duties as executive state highway ,"'ork as a separate department of the State officer of the highway commission he assumed jurisdiction government. over the Divisions of Engineering and Irrigation, "Vater The department is no\v going fonyard with a nev". spirit Rights, Land Settlement, and Architecture. The Director and a new determination to achieve results for California. HEADQ UARTERS' CHRISTMAS PARTY R. M. l\ilorton, ;.1I~d signed by Lettie M. Garner, secretJIr)' of the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce. was HE ambition of our genial secr.:tal")', J\!1r. ""V. F. read: Mixon, to get all the officials and employees at hcad T "The Board of Directors of the San Benito COllnt\" (juarters tog-ether, alung \vith their 'women folks and the Chamber of Commerce desi re to express to yOU their children, was realiz.ed 011 Decemoer 28th at the heau appreciation and g-ratitude for the personal interest mani C)_waters' Christmas part.\'" Mr. Mixon previously had cele fested bv you. and the invalnahle assistance rendered U', br:lted his return irom scn:ral weeb in the hospital by hav in securing for this count\' the all-important highway, in~ a Christmas tree placed On the fifth Roor of the Forum the Pacheco Pass- H oil ister Cut-Ofi, which is now Building. nearing completion. "We feel that we GlIl but inadequately expres~ our A voluntary collecriOIl provided toys aod calldy for the full appreci:HioJJ to yOll for )'our efforts [n our behalf. childrcn and l3en Milliken, who rUIlS rhe prison camps, W"S without which our own efforts 'would have been futile," an ideal Santa Claus. Governor Friend W. Richardson and lVlrso Richardson were among the guests ;'.lId the Gov The New Specifications ernor and ]\,1 r. M iXOB both made shon talks. Clay Chipman appeared in several dever songs. Little ISCUSSJ NC new specifications (or California highways of the hllure, Sl3te Highway Rngineer R. M. Morton, Miss Elinor Cushman pleased with her dainty dancing. D recently, had Ihe following to .ay: Lewis Schenk was the clown, while Mrs. Charles Thorp ":'\cw specifications under which we eJL\)ect to advertise .evera! seclions of highway will IHovide for a minimum and Thomas vVright were others on the program. Mrs thickness of six inches of concrele, wilh edges increased to Edward Araujo accompanied the singers on the piano. nine inches in three feet. Onlv in exceptiooal cases \,;;11 reinforCIng be used. . Fred Grumm was chairman of the committee in chargt'o "The minimum widrh will be 20 {eel; center paper joint! He had the assistance of numerous members of the staff. will he plovided ao/I we are considering c-.:pan~ion joint~ lY, inches in width, spaced IOO feel apart, /lIed with a milt tine of asphalt and sawousL Pacheco Pass Work Is Appreciated "Ench job will constitute a sepa rate study as 10. I~e width anu tYI>e of surfacing. The minimum width \VIII be 20 feet At a recent meeting of the Highway Commission, the a.nd we shall build up to 40 feet on highways carrying above SOOO vehicles a day." following letter, add ressed to State H igh\\~a}' Engineer Eight I WELCOME PUBLIC INTEREST. The right of the public to full and complete information PURPOSES OF THE in regard to all matters affecting the public hi:;hw:lYs is, in itseH, sufficient reason for a publication. The roads belong BULLETIN to the people of the State. Highway officials are the servants of the people and are duty bound to render a full account ing, both through financial statements and in outlining the ALIFORNIA HIGH\VAYS, the. name chosen for the purposes and 'lims of the Hignwa)" Commission ilild the C official publication of the California Highway Commis broad policies which guide their operations. -sion, with this issue makes its initial bow to the. state high If the California Highway Commission fails in its duty, way organization and the public. it will be bCC<,lise it has flliled to interpret the J:siles of \he The present members of the California Highway Com people. The Highway Commission hopes by timely and constructive publicitl' to keep alive an intelJ,!!;cot public mission and the State Highway Engineer, long before beconl interest in the work of this department. ing identified with the state government, saw the need of :m official state highwa\, publicity organ. Gasoline Tax Slates The California H ig-hway Department has nothing to con According to the latest compiled reporrs, :l gasoline tax ceal, but on the contrar)' welcomes publicity regarding the is now effective in thirty-ove states. The funds raised in highway work. The inauguration of a regular publication almost all cases :lre going into roads in one wa)' and another. is Hilder g-ood auspices for it has the hearty approval of The followmg is a list of the states levying such i\ tax and cooperating state agencies, inel uding the State Printing the amount: Office, the State Board of Control, and Governor Rich Alabama, 2 cents; Arizona, 1 cent; Arkansas, 3 cents; California, 2 cents; Colorado, 2 cents; Connecticut, 1 cent; 1.~(hon. Delaware, 1 cent; Florida, 3 cents; Georgia, I cent; Idaho, TO BE FORUM FOR IDEAS. 2 cents; Indiana, 2 cents; Kentucky, 1 cent; Louisiana, ! The purposes of the official organ can be deady stated cent; Maine, I cent; lvfaryland, I cent; Mississippi, 1 cenl; its sphere of usefulness will be as an agency lor the inter ;\.fontana, 2 cents; Nevada, 2 cents; New Hampshire, 1 change of experience among employees of the department, cent; New Mexico, 1 cent; North Carolina, 3 cems; North Dakota, 1 cent; Oklahoma, I cent; Oregon, 3 cents; Penn and for the maintaining of morale in the organization. Con sylvania, 2 cents; South Carolina, 3 cents; South Dakota, 2 tributions containing the ideas of all of the engmeers '.lfill cen ts ; Tennessee, 2 cents ; Texas, 1 cen t; Utah, 21 cents; be cunstantlj' solicited. Vermont, I cent; Virginia, 3 cents; Washington, 2 cents; Better methods of cOllstruction and maintenance 111 esc \Nest Virginia, 2 cents; Wyoming, I cent. in one location will be exploited in CALlFORNI,\ HIGHWAYS ~,o that other engineers having the same problems may profit Good roads are to be urged principally for the same thereby. We 'want this to be a forum for the exchange of reason that good schools are' main-tained-oec:1use they increase the intelligence and value of the citizen to socict~;. ideas, for suggestions from the official:; to the employees, for The Dixie Highway. criticism of constructive nature, to the end that the work To abandon the building of good roads would be com and methods of the California Highway Department may parable to a person starting to crawl 'llter he had once be impmved. learned to walk. The Peninsula High\.~y in San Mateo County-widened to forty feet. Resident Engineer W. H. Johnson is proud of the new Devil's Corral bridge acrosS Susan River, in Lassen County, which was CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS dedicated last month. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE Division III, ·W. B. Albertson, for a number of years with Division OI as CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION construction supcrintcndent and recently with Division n, has SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA b<:en placcd in charge of the convict day labor camp fIt Brieeburg on the Y05emite lateral. HARVEY 1£. TOY, Ch"irman: Carl B. \Virsching, until recently assistant engineer in Division N. 'T. EDWARDS and LOUIS EVERDING, Commissioner•. III, has been appointed assistant division engine.er in the new Division VIII with hcadquarters at San BernaI'd mo. Rorn:RT M. MORTON, St"te Highway Engineer. George W. Wade, assistant engineer, has been transferred W. F. MIXON, Secretary. frol)1 Division IV to Division HI. R. A. Bergman has been moved from Sacramento to San ~v e are plea.ed to penni ( ptlblic"t;on of any of the mailer containeu Bernanlino as chief draftsman in Division VIII. he-rei n ani! this pdvilegc i~ extended newspapers, and periodicals without resf:rictio1\::J. Division IV. FRA~K D. DUR.KEE EditOl" Division 'Engineer JnO. H. Skc~gs Ii", becn on a vacation P. O. BQ'" 1103, S~cl'amel1to, California. recclltl)' visiting relatives in the East, E'dward Lippert is back at the division office after :In opera Vol. I JANUARY, t924 No. tion that kept him in bed jor awhile. Arthur Hanes, formerly with the test;n o' labo.atory at Sacra mento, is now aspha It inspector 011 the Pel1insula hig11\vay, AM(~NG Charles L. vVilher. :,-,rmerly with the State Reclam.alion Board.. JUST OlTI{SELVES is llOW as-sis-!;lIlt resident engineer on the PeninSllla highway. Division V. U U U Division Engineer L. H. Gibson recently aecompanieJ State Hi~hway Engineer R. 1I.J. Morton on an inspection tOllr of the HIGHWAY lVElVS NOTES highways in this district. They were accompanied by Chairman Harvey M. Toy of the Highway Commission on a visit to the He Headquarters. Division VI. EVERVONE around headqu'l.rters is glad to have Secretary vVedding bells were ringing recently for Chief Clerk A. L. W. F. Mixon back on the j-ob once more, He was compelled Anderson of Division VI, who led to the altar Miss Frances, to spend a number of weeks ill a ,Woodland hospital following Axelson of Fresno. The sbff presented the couple with a sct a recel1 t serious operatiOll. ' of silver. Reports from New Orleans declare the oyster supply is still H. E. Barker is the proud father of Donald Edwin. a young, low following the recent visit there of Chairman Harvey M. Toy draftsman, w'ho arrived in Fres-no, October 18, 1923. and State Highwa}' Engineer R. M. Morton during the recent convention of the American Association of State Highway H. ]. Blair, resident engincer at Los Ballos, has resigned to Officials. accept a position with the Alloy Steel Company of Canton, Ohio. File Clerk J. F. Fite fonnd something with a kick in it the Division Eng-ineer J. B. Woodson addressed the Fresno Chap other day when he tried to crank a stubborn automobile and IIOW ter of the American Association of Engineers recently Oll the he's nursing a broken wrist. subject of state high w.ays. M,rs. Billie Fl'azier, secretary to Assistant State Highway Division VII. Engllleer T. E, Stanton, has resigned to accept a position with the Rice Growers' Association of California. Miss Eleanor Lyons has been transferred to San Bernardino as senior clerk in the new Division VIII. The stork beat .Sallta Claus to it at the home of Claude Simp son and left an eIght and .a half p Division I. (Editor's not~The fine southern California spirit in which the view of "Scenery on L. A. 60 B" was sent in is Division Engineer T. A. Bedford recently accompanied the duly appreciated but it failed to pass the cen~o['. Head Commission and Mr. Morton on a visit to Quincy, where the quarters claims that one of the fair ones is from Sacramento. Plumas County lateral was discussed. Mr. Bedford was in How about it?) charge of surveys in the Feather Rivcr Canyon. Division VIII. Division II. H. T. Smith is superintendent of the movable construction out· B. H. Henry has been designated resident engineer for the fit on the Victorville to Needles road recently taken over by the' Redding to Bayha paving, a contr.act for which has just been let. State for maintenance. At prescnt he is located at Newberry Springs. E. L. Sietz is in charge of the surveys now under way for the realignmen-t and widenil1?" of the Paci~c high~ay between Half A. W. Schmuck w.as superintendent in charge of the work way Creek and Dunsmmr. Construction Engmeer' E. J. nasset under way on the Crest route whi.ch has received favorable is making a study of the changes to be .made. . cnmmendation. TI!I$ I Divisions Tell of 1923 Accomplishments W. W. PATCl{ DIVISION 1. DIVISION II. HhDQUAHT£RS. WILLITS. II (ADQUHTERS, DUNSMUIR. BEDFORD, DIVISiON ENGINt~;'. '/'. A. H. S. CO~'ILY, AC1'l!'lG DIVISION ENGINEER. Counlies of Del NOt'te. H\1mbolclt, Mendo· cino~ Countie" of Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity. ll:l1d Lake. $hl:lsta, Lnsscn. T(>hnma., and nor the r n P!umll.s. THE energies of Division T, at present, are devoted largely to pushing for DIRT is Al'ing in Division II on the ward the completion of the Redwood big job of completing the Pacinc highway to provide a connection with highway from Redding to the Oregon the Oregon state higllway to Grants line, toward which much of the time and Pass. The United States Forest Service thought of tIle division forces are di has 130 miles under contract for grad rected. ing north of Crescent Citr, which is . Dunn and Baker of Klamath Fall~, i1bout half completed. contractors, are at work widening and State highway engineers and the Bu straightening the highway from the Ore reau of Public Roads are making sur gon line south for a distance of ten miles. veys and plans for the construction of The contract calls for a grade thirty feet the remaining 90·mile gClp upon which wide most of the way. A crushed rock no work has been undertaken bl' the Sll dace will be provided until the new State to date. ' WOI k has had time to thoroughly settle. The only active State contracts on the Redwood highway at present ;\l'e the following: CONTRACT LET. Between Trinidad and Freshwater On December JOth the Kaiser Paving Lagoon, in Humboldt County, 16.5 Company was a\varded a contract lor miles of grading and graveling; Pacific PATCH RESIGNS paving from Redding to Bayha, 10 miles, Construction Company, contractors. with a twenty-foot concrete pavement six Between Forsythe Creek and Outlet inches thick with heavy edger.. Creek, in Mendocino Count.v, 17.3 miles HE resignation of W. W. Patch, A few days later bids were opened fGi' of grading and bituminized macadam; T Division Engineer of Division VII the realignment, widening and surfacing Con n e rs and Hansen, contractors. for the past nine years, became effecti ve of the unit from Bayha to Halfway (Work closed down for winter.) January 1st. Spencer V. Cortelyou, Creek, also in Shasta County. Surveys Reinforced concrete brid.ge over 'Vil his assistant for many years, has been are under way for Halfway Creek to son Creek, in Del Norte County, com named acting division engineer pending Dunsmuir, forty miles; curves will be succe~sor pleted in December. C. H. Gilder the appointment of a to Mr. flattened ont to a 300-foot radius and sleeve" contractor. Patch. the distance shortened by about five The retiring division engineer, dur miles. Grades will be not over 6 per STEAM SHOVELS AT WORK. ing the period in which he has been in cellt. Two day Jabol crews are at work charge of the Los Angeles office, has Four rock crushing plants are being widening, straightening, and surfacing had supervision of the expenditure of installed in the Sacramento Canyon to the highway; one north of Cummings, more than $12,000,000 in primary con furnish surfacing for the road during in Mendocino County, and the other in struction work on sta.te highways in the and aher reconstruction. the Redwoods on the south fork of Eel south. River, in Humboldt County. These Notable work done under his super crews are equipped with steam shovels vision includes the grading- and paving TO KEEP HIGHWAY OPEN. and other necessary machinery for heavy of the Ridge route, design. and con Snow plows and other equipment are work. struction of pavement in San Bernar being assembled to keep open the twenty A day labor convict'camp is located dino and Riverside counties, building of two miles of completed concrete pave on the Klamath River above Requa and a number of large bridges and heavy ment between Dunsmuir and a point is engaged in building a new highwa~r, construction between Point Mugu and north of ""Veed during the winter. of high standards of alignment and Sycamore Canyon, in Ventura County. The Dennis Construction Company is width, to connect the present county Mr. Patch plans to enter the real completing the grading and surfacing of road with the proposed "Dr. Douglas estate business in Santa Monica and the seventeen miles between Gazelle and Memorial Bridge" which will be erected will continue engineering work in a Y reb, which is the last unimproved unit across the Klamath River near Requa. consulting capacity. between Mexico and the Oregon line. One hundred anJ fifty convicts afe at Two undercIOssings on the main line work at this point. granted by the Chief of Engineers in of the Southern Pacinc Railroad recently On November 23d a hearing was held Washington and plans for building of were completed south of Redding and in Crescent City before Colonel Herbert the bridge are expected to move forward six short gaps in the pavement between Deakyne, United States Army Engineer, rapidly. Red Bluff and Redding are r,ow being: upon the application of the California Federal aid has been asked to match finished. On December 24th, bids were Highway Commission for a permit to the appropriation of $225,000 voted by opened for six bridges on -the Eastside erect this bridge. The permit has been the last legislatu reo highway, south of Red Bluff. ---~" On the Trinity lateral in Trinity Sacramento County line to Central County 200 con victs and approximately DIVISION III. House, in Amador County, 9.33 miles 100 free men, since May, 1923, have H~ADQI.lAkTE"S. SACRAMENTO. of grading and gravel surface. Blumen completed 20 miles of highway along GEORGI~ R. WINSLOW, kranz and Vernon, contractorS. Trinity River and about five miles along D,VISION ENGINH~. Grass Valley Creek. Two power shov Counties 01 Sacramento, Solano~ Yolo, HIGHWAY WIDENED. ( 0 )U So 3 1 Glenn. Burte. PluuJas, SierT!l:7 els are on this job. In December the Nevada, YuLa, Sillier. Placer, 1;1 Dorado, Roseville to Lincoln, Eastside highway A In adoI'. Alpine, Cat.lVerasl Tuolumne, entire force was concentrated between Slani~13us, a.nd San jOil.Quin. in Placer County, 4,95 miles of widen Buckhorn Summit and Town House, 20 ing and thickening, l A. Costello, Jr., miles west of Redding. contractor for asphalt work. Cone rete The convict camp on the Klamath lat THE year 1923 marked important shoulders placed hy state forces. eral in Siskiyou County finished seven strides forward in Division III ?\.Jarysville sout!} to Morrison's Cross teen miles of highway this year between toward the building of an improved ing, in Yuba County, 8.2 miles of widen Shasta River and Walker, along the highway eastward to the Nevada state ing and thickening with asphalt mac Klamath. The work is continuing with line at Verdi, the interstate connection adam. New drainage ditches were con !00 free men and a power shovel, the on the Victorr highway. With the ex structed in connection with this job. ception of one short unit, grading and convicts having been moved to Mariposa Blumenkranz and Vernon, contractors. County. rock surfacing of 16.85 miles between Reinforced concrete bridge over the Auburn and Colfax has been completed San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad near bv H, and A. \V. Gorrill, contract COMPLETE LATERAL UNIT. C. De'nverton, in Solano County. O. B. o~s, and opened to travel. Within the past month that portion Chane\' and Sons, contractors. Grading is under way on another unit of the Redding-Alturas lateral between Bridge across Stony Creek, east of between Donner Lake and Donner Sum Burney and Montgomery Creek has Orland, in Gleon County, on the Chico mit; bids have been opened for the grad Orland stare highway; total length 1010 been completed l'lnd opened to travel, a ing of a section between Truckee and mile~. feet, A. W. Kitchin, contractor. distance of seventeen The Bu Boca while surveys and plans are under Donner Summit to Donner Lake, on reau of Public Roads has completed the way for the building of the entire re the Victory highway, in eastern Nevada grading between Adin and Adin Summit :1~aining unconstructed portion of the County, 3.3 miles of heavy grading. on this lateral and surfacing has been route between Colfax and the Nevada \Vilmshurst and IVlanetas, contractors. completed between Adin Summit and border. (Forty per cent complete,) .Canby on a tv.'enty mile section, graded Other projects of importance include three year~ ago. the \videning lind thickening of old pave WORK BY STATE FORCES, Grading of six miles of highway is ments on both the east and west side under way north of Alturas on the Al highways in the Sacramento Valley and Aside from the construction of con turas-Cedarville special act highway. in western San Joaquin County, as well crete shoulders on the Eastside highway between Roseville and Lincoln state Repairs to the causeway, across Alkali as an extensive program of improvement from maintenance funds of the many forces have completed a number of proj Lake, east of Cedarville, have been com ~cts throughout the division. Among pleted, as promised by the Highway 'Tliles of mountain highways within the district. the more important ones may be men Commis~ion during its visit there last tioned the following: summer. REVIEW OF YEAR'S WORK. From the westerly boundary of Cala On the Red Bluff-Susanville lateral In addition to ,he Auburn-Colfax unit veras County to Valley Springs, on the eight miles of highway was completed the following is a brief review of the San Andreas lateral, gravel surftlcing this year east of Paynes Creek, eliminat more important projects completed in the completed. ing bad grades. The Bureau of Public division during 1923: East of Suisun, Solano County, 1.72 Roads contract, west of Mineral, is about Sou the r I y boundary of Nevada miles of experimental road. This unit 60 per cent complete. From Mineral COllnty to Grass Valley, 14,81 miles of was constructed partly of pre-cast slabs to ?I/Iorgan Springs day labor forces have oil macadam pavement. Healy-Tibbitts of varying sizes. about completed the highway, which is Construction Company, contractors, lone to Ja.ckson, Amador County, open to travel. Denvenon to Rio Vista, in Solano 10.74 miles surfaced with gravel on the Grading has been completed from two County, 11.9+ miles of concrete base, Jackson lateral. miles east of Chester to two miles east VVilson D. Ellis Company, contractors. Abo\lt one-quarter mile of concrete of Westwood by the Isbell Construction A part of this pavement was placed over base at Town Talk, in Neva.da County. Company and a part of the rock surfac a subgrade of adobe which was experi Reinforced concrete base approaches ing placed by Polk and Polk, con mentally treated with portions of lime, to Cache Creek bridge, in Yolo County, tractors. cement, hydrated lime, limestone dust, and guard rails for same. and asphaltic oil, to determine methods Smith's Flat to Sportsman's Hall, jn BRIDGE DEDICATED. of handling adobe subgrades. EI Dorado County, 2.37 miles surfaced The "Devil's Corral" bridge across I Fairfield to Vacaville, Solano County, with asphalt macadam. Susan River, between Westwood and 8.8 miles widened to twenty feet with In addition to some of the larger wid Susanville, on the Susanville lateral, was concrete shoulders and asphalt surfacing. ening jobs already mentioned, the fol dedicated December 8th by the people of Bridge over Bear River on the Au lowing work in Division II1 has been Lassen County. Rocca and Calletti, bur n-Grass Valley lateral, Security financed from motor vehicle funds: contractors. B rid g e Company, contractors. Ap- A portion of the Oroville-Willows During December grading 011 the proaches graded by state forces. highwal' west of Butte City, in Glenn Johnsolwille-Milford unit, east of Susan- Colusa to Long Bridge, Colusa and County, 11.89 miles, grading and grav ville, was completed. Eight miles of Sutter counties, 10,86 miles, concrete. eling. V. R. Dennis Construction the new grade have been surfaced with base, a unit of the Tahoe-Ukiah high Company, contractors, . rock. Warren Construction Company, way. Bonnell, Savage and Fenn, coo- Between R 0 s e viiI e and Lincoln, contractors. tractors. Placer County, £.12 miles ot second '.9'{~ ~ . ?r~ ',.~ ~~ TwchN ':. " story concrete, 20 feet wide. Kaiser A resume of completed projects IS as PENINSULA HIGHWAY WIDENED. Paving Companr, contractors. follows: Widening of the Peninsula highway Westerly boundary to Banta, San Widening and paving of the Black between San Bruno and Beresford, 5.13 Joaquin County, 8.1 miles of water Point cutoff from Ignacio to Fairville, miles, 36 to 40 feet by laying of 8-foot bound macadam shoulders. F. F. Irey 9.52 miles in Marin and Sonoma coun concrete shoulders eight inches thick and C. O. Holden, contractors. (Work ties. Grant Smith Construction Com with a ten-inch edge and surfacing of under way.) pany, contractors. old pavement with 2! to 3-inch asphalt Grading and graveling of the Black concrete wearing surface. Pacific States SMALL JOBS COMPLETED. Point cutoff from Fairville to the Napa Construction Company, contractors. The following work has been com County line, in Sonoma County, 9.24 This widening of the Peninsula high pleted by state forces and financed from miles. Healy-Tibbitts Company, con· wav, which is one of the heaviest trav motor vehicle funds: tractors. eled highways in the state, will assist in Guard rails between Stockton and First section of the Skyline Boule relieving traffic congestion south of San French Camp, San Joaquin County; vard, Sloat boulevard to Sneath road, Francisco. The work is being- financed drainage structures at the Oroville V, San Francisco and San Mateo counties, from motor vehicle funds. in Butte County; repairs to the Georgi 7.42 miles. P. L. Burr, contractor. Maintenance studies in Division IV during the year have included the ana Slo\lgh bridge in Sacramento PACHECO PASS WORK. County; rock surfacing on new levee development of pavement heaters and Pacheco Pass highway, San Felipe between Rio Vista and Isleton, in Sac recooking kettles for use on asphalt to easterly boundary of Santa Clara ramento County, where reclamation 'roads, making possible a minimum inter County, 16.76 miles, graded and sur work is under way; concrete pavement ference 'with traffic. faced with gravel. Rhodes and Price, at the entrances to the city of Tracy, Experiments also have been made contractors. San Joaquin County; 3.59 miles of with calcium chloride as a means of asphalt macadam surfacing over old First section of the Santa Rosa eliminating dust and the excessive use Schellville highway, Sonoma County, base from the southern boundary of of sprinkling trucks on dirt roads. 11.73 miles, graded and surfaced with Glenn County to Logandale; placing asphalt macadam. Grant Smith Com of 336 feet of concrete base at the pany, contractors. DIVISION V. approach to the new Isleton bridge, in Greenville to easterl\' boundary of HE,\OQU.'UHS, SAN LUIS OBISPO. Sacramt:nto County; grading and grav Alameda County, 9.94 iniles, widening 1... H. GIBSON, D'VIS'O,," ENOINEER. eling of new right of way on the main Cultlll·ics of SMl J:enito) .Monterey, S~'n of old fifteen-foot pavement to twenty l1..is Obispo, and Santa Earbara. line at Galt, Sacramento County j re feet. Oakland Paving Company, con- I '------J building of seven bridges on mountain tractors. laterals, four in Alpine County, one in A N extensive program of widening £1 Dorado, and two in Placer Count\,. Alto to Belvedere Crossing, Marin and draining grades on the main County, 3.49 miles, graded and sur The sum of $5,000 has been allott~d coast route, north of Santa Barbara. faced with gravel. A. Modin and for widening and grading a section of J. and tIle construction of crushed rock M. C. Preston, contractors. the state highway on the west shore of shoulders in San Luis Obispo and Mon terey counties are features of the pa~t Lake Tahoe, near Meeks Bay. This Calistoga to Napa Count}' line, Napa work was begun in November with a Countl', 9.19 miles, graded and sur year's work in Division V. Aside from gasoline power shovel. faced with crushed stone. Ross Con the grading under way on the San struction Compan}', contractors. Simeon-Carmel highway along the For widening work on the Big Oak Overhead crossing bridge at Lytton, ocean, no great amount of heavy con Flat road, $7,000 has been allotted for Sonoma County, over Northwestern struction has been done in the division expenditure between Shawmut Grade Pacific Railroad and approaches. C. H. during 1923. and Priest's Hotel. Gildersleeve, contractor. Blake and Heaney have neadv com Hercules to Rodeo, Contra Costa oleted the highway grade fro'In the DrVTSiON IV. County, 1.30 miles, widening and relo Monterev Countv line north to Salmon th~ f'!EADQUAnT".S, SAN" FRANCISCO cation of the highway. Louis Tagnon, Creek, ;Iong ocean front nonh of .JOHN H. SKt:;GCS. l)'VIS",,, E"cI~" R. contractor. San Simeon. And in northern TvIon Coullties or ""an Fl".:l.ncisco, i\fal III Sonoma. Brioge across Arroyo Seco Creek, terey County. George Pollock, contrac Napa, Co ra Cost;}, Al.:l.me(b. S,.lltn C arJ., east of Schellville, Sonoma County. tor, is working southward from the Big San::'1 Cr-uz. 3nd S:l.lI }.1a(eo. Davison and N icholsen, contractors. SlIr River toward Anderson' Canyon, CONTRACTS UNDER WAY, 13.1 miles. Power shovels are busy night and day in dangerolls and heavy COMPLETION of 79.92 miles of The following jobs are under way at construction hundreds of feet above the highway of various types and sev the beginning of the year: foaming breakers. eral bridges is the record of Division IV Second unit of the Skyline Boulevard, On the Santa Maria-Kern County for 1923, in addition to the work under Sneath road to Half Moon Bay, San lateral, 11.13 miles have been graded way at the close of the year. Included Mateo County, 13.47 miles, grading and graveled, and, in addition, 6.1 miles in the CDl11pleted projects are the Ii rst and surfacing with crushed stone. P. L. to Buckhorn Creek have been grllded unit of the Skyline Boulevard; work on Bu 1"1", contractor. by the 'Varren Construction Companr the Pacheco Pass; work in northern Crystal Springs Dam bridge on the and are now being surfaced with gravel. Napa county which will aid in reach Skyline Boulevard, San Mateo County, East of Buckhorn Creek, 16.3 miles are ing Lake C~unty by an improved htgh twenty girder spans; wid til 30 feet and under construction by the Bureau of way; and widening of the Peninsula length 608.02 feet. J. H. Shepherd, high\'1.-ay, south of San Bruno. Public Roads as a Forest Highwa)' contractor. Project. The year has marked the beginning Five miles east of Gilroy to San of another project, vital to the interest5 Felipe, Santa Clara County, 4.52 miles SAN BENITO WORK COMPLETED. of San Francisco, the Bay Shore high on the Pacheco Pass highway, graded In San Benito Countv, a unit of 7.6-1 way, surveys for which are now and surfaced with gravel. ]. P. Hol miles. f rom Hollister n~rthward toward unoel' way. land, contractor. the Pacheco Pass road, has just been TilidUlI '...... ,..... I l.;ompletecl and presents a line appear mounlain portion of the Pacheco Pas~ ance. The first 3! miles out of Hollister lateral, lvIerced County, by state forces. DrVISION VII. ~ .', FOllrfl!l!tI ..' !'" .. , Whitewater to Edom, J8.06 miles of bridge for Orange County over Ana PAVING NEARING COMPLETION. reinforced concrete base. Henry J. heim Bay on this same route. Paving between the High Line Canal Kaiser, contractor. Considerable work has been done dur and the beginning of the old Plank Edom to Indio, 12.26 miles, graded ing the year and is under way in Division Road, in Imperial County, is nearing and paved with asphaltic concrete by VII under maintenance work orders. completion. An asphaltic concrete pave rhe Warren Construction Company. Drainage structures are being built ment five inches thick and fifteen feel Tn Imperial County, two miles graded between Workmen Mills and the San wide is being placed. It will be a great 'and paved wirb concrete between Im Gabriel River. Shoulders h:we been relief to traffic through this district. perial and EI Centro. widened to 8· feet from Tustin to Cul George H. Oswald, contractor. Another unit in Imperial County, ver Corner, in Los Angeles County. A contract has just been let to the 'between East Highline Canal and the Pioneer Transfer Company of Calexico SAN DIEGO SURFACING. new County Well, was paved with lor grading and surfacing with grave!' Willite by George H. Oswald, con Considerable success is reported from the four miles from WestOlOl-dand to lractor. the usc of disintegrated granite as sur the end of the present concrete highway facing from Descanso JVIountain to La in Imperial County. The road level PROGRESS ON COAST ROAD. Posta Creek, in San Diego County. will be riliscd to avoid flooding during The Hauser Construction Company Deposits of material have been located th e irrigating season. is making progress with a seventy-ton at several places along the road and Foundations and piers for the new ,steam shovel which has now reached mat e ria l stockpiled and used when bridge across Whitewater W asl) , ~"n UIack Point on the Oxnard-San Juan needed after rains. .:niles east of Banning, are nearing com Capistrano roao. A second shovel is A ere"" of forty men is completing pletion. Forms for the superstructure deaning up on the westerly end of the rhe widening of the Mountain Springs for two of the spans are in place, ,contract while four more shovels are grade, in San Diego County. A steam Pecl! liar conditions regarding the water on the way from Hawaii to be used on shovel, P and H Crane and trucks are level at different points where excava this job. Ventura County has let a being used and the road has been kept tions were necessarv have been enCOlln contract for the building of a l.:oncrete open for traAic at all times. teredo Gibbons and Reed, contractors. bridge across Calleguas Creek. Maintenance erews in Division VII The paved cit" streets of Eannin~ during 1923 used 130,000 gallons of high~ The concrete pavement between Las asphalt and over 14,000 tons of crushed will be connected- with the state Flores Canyon and Santa Monica, 7.39 rock. Twenty foremen with crews vary way system when the placing of .6 of a miles, which was built by the Lee Moor ing from three to eight men are em mile of asphalt concrete, six inches thick ployed, each crew having thirty to forty Contracting Company, was opened co miles of highway to patrol. and twenty feet wide, is completed by 'traffic in .1 une, except for two detours the Southwest Paving Company which 'around bridge sites. DIVISION VIII. was recently awarded the contract. Los Angeles County has completed Culverts have been placed by state J1£'''l)'','nT~kS, SAN HERNARDINO. construction of two bridges over the forces. I::. Q. SULLIVAN, west ann of Alamitos Bay and the San ACT rlie V1VIS10N' ENG (N'T'~... WORK COMMENDED. Gabriel River on t:le Coast highway. CO\l~li'3 of San 'Bernardino, Riverside, and Jahn and Bressi of Los Angeles were I Inpcroal. The department ha received com the low bidders on December 10th for I!....------J mendation for the work being done on ,the widening and repaving of the exist THE. newly-formed Division VITI is the Crest route where stilte -forces are ing state highway between San Diego unique a.mong the divisions of the at work above the 5000-foot elevation (ll1d Oceanside, in San Diego County, State in that practically the enti re mile with a P and H gasoline shovel. The Location surveys for 8.44 miles of age of the division work consists of widening and improv highway from l,;aguna Beach to San forms a part of trans ing the grade on the route to many Juan Capistrano have been completed continental highways. popular mountain resorts. and plans ,Ire being prepared. Approximately 80 per I t is proposed to establish five per manent maintenance camps on the Vic PLAN SCENIC FOREST HIGHWAY. cent of the traffic over these roads is westward torville to Needles highway, recend)' The State Highway Commission and taken over by the State for maintenance, into the State and Los Angeles County each has agreed A superintendent for this work is now only about 20 per cent to contribute $150,000 a year for two located at Newberry Springs. A part years for work on the Arroyo Seco· easterly. of his equipment will consist of a 60 Mount Islip highway and application These routes are from horsepower tractor and a grader with 'has been made for aid 00 this project Yuma th rough the scarif1er attachments. from forest highway funds. E. D, SU~L1V"" Imp c ria I Vall e y, It is probable that an entirely new Paving of the approach to the bridge branching at EI Centro for San Diego grade will be established on a new loca {lvel' Santa Clara River on the Mint a.nd for Los Angeles via San Bernar-. tion throughout much of the line. Can yon highway, in Los Angeles dino; from Needles westward through County, is progressing rapidly. H. E. Barstow and Victorville; and from Cox of Pasadena is the contractor. The Blythe, on the Colorado River, to 26,500 Miles of Federal Aid Road Topango Canyon bridge, which is being Mecca, on the Imperial-Los Angeles Complctcd.-A total of 26,536 miles of 'built by Los Angeles County, js nearing route, federal aid roads was completed by June completion.. Until recent ....veeks, work in the ter 30, 1923, according to the United States ritory now covered by Division VIII Department of Agriculture. Some 8820 'COAST UNIT NEAR COMPLETION. was carried on under the direction of miles of federal aid highways of differ Paving is practically completed be Division VII, headquarters, Los An ent types were corrtructed during the tween LDng Beach and Huntington geles, Maintenance work on the Crest fiscal year ending on that date. The Beach on the Coast highway. H, H, route, in San BernanJino County, was projects under construction at the close Peterson, contractor. taken over by Division VIII, Decem of the year totaled J4,70/2 miles and \Villiam Ledbetter is constructing a ber 15th. were estimated as 55 per cent complete. Pittull StATE OF' CAUFORNIA CALIFORNIAHIGHWAY COMMISSION MAP. SHOWING STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM R. MMOR'1"ON- STATE HIGHWAY l::r';Cl~~ER COM1\lISSIONERS HARVEY M. TOY(Chalrtnanj i,oms EVERDING N. T EDWr'\RDS St8.'Ul1e Mlles 1924 LEGEND ==::=: Pavement completed oruMer contract Gradins completed or untler contract ~ AurM. lC<' lOut 01 Iblc.tn over" by Sta e Division Bol.Jno.orles "- "'. " l,..da~l"'df"(A...... , ... 1 NYO '. " "'. ....:iOI( "~~" '."" DIVISION HEAOQUARTERS Division ~. ~ I Willitts ]I Dmsmuir .!II 5acnmctlfo N Scwlr~ci5Oll :r S3rl I.iIIs Obispo ]I P'resno m Los An~les :ElI 5,m &eriiardillO ]X 8i$hop :x 5.lcr3llltJlto Map sho\\"!ng progre"s of paving and other inlprovemenls on Ibe California Slale highway sy,t"m. and also bOllndary lines of newly-created divisions. Sixteen