· tober 19%.6 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY VOLUME 2 OCTOBER, 1926 NUIVIBER 10 AIRPLANE VIEW OF RACE TRACKS GREETINGS By GEO. W. P. HUNT, Governor of Arizona Citizens of Arizona, from mountain and desert, and those who come ~eeking new h'omes and prosperity, I heartily greet yoµ _and bid you wel­ come to the Arizona State Fair of 1926, to be held in Phoenix , the Capital Cit y, November 8 to 13. The products of our fertile valleys, the mineral wealth of our moun­ tains, the live stock from our grazing lands, and the efforts . of our progres ­ sive men and women in the arts and sciences, will all be here for your in­ spection. With great pride we call your attention to our great future ; the w~alth and prosperity to be derived from the unlimited power and water develop­ ment of the Colorado River, that is to make our beautif-ql State the lode star for all those seeking happiness and contentment. The above picture of a portion of the State Fair grounds shows the sc~ne of many automobile and horse races . And not to be overlooked, the beautiful State highways over which you It will again be the scene ofrac ing while the inner field will be the setti ng of several football games at the Stat e Fair next mon th. travel to gaze upon our mysterious deserts and · majestic mountains, the roads which have brought you to a land of milk and honey . As Chief Eecutive of this wonderland, again I greet you and bid you welcome. E - 6 ARIZONA IDGHW AYS OCTOBER, 1926 60TOBER,1926 AidzoNA HiGlIWAYS 1 Visitors ln~ited to Inspect Arizona Highway Department Building and EXhibit at Fair. The Country Town By W. C. LEFEBVRE, State Engineer. By IRA L. WOOD ISITORS in Phoenix during the week · of the Water will be used in several cases to amplify V State Fair are invited to inspect the operation the effect, particularly at the Coolidge Dam where of t4e Arizona Highway Department at the High­ the r~servoir will be filled and the spillways in fWOstreets, that quickly dwindled down way Department's building at Seventeenth Avenue operation. From the depot, made up the town THE drunkard of the town whose life Was held in scorn by every wife, and Jackson street, two blocks south of the Capi­ ·where once I dwelt long years ago. tol, between the hours of 9 a. m. and noon. The map is being built on the scale of one inch Although by now 'tis changed I know, Although he served the good wives well to ten feet, both horizontal and vertical, with the A guide will be furnished to show them through Yet as I think of years gone past- As living sign, '' This way to hell''! exception of the grade line of the road, which is the various departments, all of which are part of I see it as I knew it last. An example that perhaps kept straight somewhat steeper in some places than our stan- . the Arizona Highway Department. Visitors also 'I'heir husbands from a thirst as great. dard six per cent grades. prE school, where days seemed more like years, are invited to attend the exhibit of the depart­ And ever filled with childish fears THE church social of bygone days, mentment in the Highway department building at Other features of interest in regard to the con­ Of what unlearned lessons might bring; Competing with the dancing craze. the State Fair grounds. struction and maintenance of highways in the And teachers way of punishing And one to be classed with the best Featuring the exhibit at the Fair will be a com­ state, with pictures, charts and t!:l,bles will be on I well 1;ecall, for one spit ball Must also be there with the rest. posite relief map showing road construction fea­ hand and statistics will be availab le. As evidence stuck to the wall. And yet if young, his thoughts perchance tures of different points in Arizona as they actu­ Might be found at the wicked dance. ally exist, with bridges modeled after modern In addition to the maintenance and construc­ QN wintry nights, as oft before, structures. The entire map will be 40 feet in tion work which the pub lic has an opportunity to ~IS I see like a life apart, observe by driving over our excellent highways, the The men would gather in the store 1 length, four feet in width, and in order to facili­ Yet somehow drear to my heart . visitor at the Arizona Highway Department's And close around the stove would stand 'l'han noisy bustling city ways,; tate handling will . be in eight sections, each five While talking of their crops and land; Where neighboring a small part plays feet in length. home at Seventeenth avenue and Jackson street, Or how their country they could save With hardly time even to greet will have an opportunity to visit the engineering At one end is shown a replica of Hell Canyon From digging its financial grave. The friends you meet upon the street. department, where a staff of engineers is em­ bridge, with the roadway winding up through a ployed to look after office engineering ; an ac­ J vision yet those days _gone by,- ND so I like the country towns tunnel representing that on the Miami -Superior counting department, which looks after the thou­ Partitioned off from prying eye AWhere you know each neighbor's ups highway. From there is shown a typical mountain sands ~f accounts covering the entire state; a In the corner of the store, mail and downs. road with a scene of a modern piece of relocation shop force, which takes _care of all major repair Yoq know the good and bad they do Was sorted by a_ 'mistress frail, with a concrete arch bridge crossing a canyon. work to keep the departments equipment in good Their faults that make them human, too. Beyond this · is another arch bridge crossing a Who cur 'usly scanned each postal card Where 011e o'er looks the bad in friends cond ition; the warehouse, which supplies the field For secrets, from a spinster barred. And for his own faults makes amends. stream fr9m which water is diverted through a forces with the necessary equipment; and the la­ canal to a farming district. The road here forms boratory, where tests are made of all materials a junction with another typical highway which which ; gp into construction or maintenance runs off the map. projects. The main road leads through a rolling desert where a typical dip is placed in a wash, and a As Arizonans are coming from every part of the state to the state fair to view the products of the bridge, modeled after the San Simon steel truss, : - ·:.t is shown crossing a typical Arizona arroyo. Here stat 'e, I know of no better opportunity for them to the road again enters a farming community, cross­ visit their Highway Department and the exhibit ing a railroad on an overhead, before climbing a a{ the fair, to observe __what is being done in mountain grade into a canyon where the Coolidge Phoenix towards direction the care of the more Dam is shown in its entirety, with the road cross­ than 2,000 miles of road, classified as state high­ ing over and disappearing from the map. way_!!. 8 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1926 OCTOBER, 1926 AR!ZONA HIGHWAYS 9 of conquering a new land-and it the silver mine which may have been marks the first Spanish trail across one of the objectives of Coronado the continent. De Vaca is thought to THEOLD SPANISH TRAIL when he was ·exploring in that direc­ Footsteps of Padres have been in the country of Sheffield, FROM where the flowers of F'lorida tion from his base in New Mexico. Fort Stockton, and .the Big Bend in Smile -on the southern Gulf, Other trails branched westward to El Texas along the Old Spanish Trail, To where the Arizona hills Paso and southward into Mexico. :passing that way into Mexico. Are rich with copper pelf, Other trails branched westward to El and the Conquitsdores De Soto landed at Tampa. bay in And then to where the western shores Paso and -southward into Mexico. Those 1539 with 1,000 men, 213 horses and Greet the incoming sail, were the days of mule and pack-trains By HARRAL AYRES, In the Year Book of the Old Spanish Trail Association. a ·remarkable equipment, including The road o.f Glory twines its way- between San Antonio and Chihauhua, chains and collars for enslaving the The good Old Spanish Tr,ail. Mexico, and between San Antonio and SPAIN was a nation ~f wealth _and for modern-day travel this stor,y will explored the Gulf country with 300 Indians. He explored the southern El Paso and the west . culture when America was dis- be developed for the pleasure of the men to tJ1e country of the presen t country to the .western bounds of HE lure of gold, the hope of fame, The first Ysleta and seat of missions covered. The Spaniards ' organized travelers that pass over it. Tallahassee. He failed to reconne ct Arkansas, then returned to the Mis­ T That drew the Spaniard on, is on the Rio Grande n.ear Albuquerque. costly expeditions and explored vast Four centuries of history, the long­ with his ships and a historic disast er sissippi River where he died.