Show TOURIST HIGHWAY MELTS DISFAVOR thos maddock state engineer of arizona haa written to ira R browning secretary of the state road commission that there Is little hope that his state can be persuaded to go into a federal aid project to construct the arizona portion of a highway to join alon national park in utah with the northern rim of the grand canyon 0 the colorado in arizona the bulk of the proposed road is in arizona mr maddock says that arizona law requires that 76 per cent of the federal aid cooperation shall bo dis rl buted among the counties co conino county affected by the proposed change Is spending its money on the east and west old trails high way and probably he thinks would object to any of the money going into the sparsely settled northern por tion of the county county and state funds he be alieves could construct a road good enough to provide for the present traffic on the proposed highway at less than one half the cost of a federal aid project mr maddock refers to the fact that the united states bureau of public roads sets up standards for both engineering gi and construction of federal aid roads which makes them of a nature rather costly in initial cost for a highway to be used tor a few each year through a sparse ly settled country |