Road Switchbacks
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Unknown Unknown 1100.2021.3002.jpg APS Childs-Irving Collection, MS-2 B&W 1100-2021-3002 1100.2021.3002 Print 6x9 Historic Photographs c. 1908 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Switchbacks on the road from Childs to Mayer, Arizona.
The Arizona Power Company (TAPCO) set up an office in Prescott in 1908. Its first task was the construction of a road to the Childs power plant site near Jerome. Picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and dynamite were the only tools available to build a 40 mile road over very rough terrain. The road was to start two miles south of Mayer at Bradshaw Mountain Railway’s Blue Bell Siding, the nearest railroad siding able to receive supplies and construction materials for the power plant and transmission lines. Road construction began in April 1908 using 60 men. Heading eastward, the road descended 3,500 feet over the last eight miles to the power plant location. The road was completed in July of 1908 at a cost of $39,900 ($1.12 million in today’s dollars).
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