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UlllLLUJ L»l LU^V.“Santa Rosa cutoff was used for natty years by sheep men and sellers in Torrance and Guadalupe Tounlies. An Albuquerque groxtp tbtnined passage of an act in 1025 nuking the two cutoffs a state highway fknown as* No, G which javed the way for U. S conslruc-tkmKnight was one of those primarily responsible for she Santa Rosa and Caguna cutoffs. Otheis included ore Kenneth Bakomb, formerly bureau if public to ads engineers, nr.d the ol lowing men from Gallup: former state senator Frank i-iwrence, Fied Ambrose, and Jack Holmes, a former Gallup garage owner, now in Boswell. The project was envision-d In 1921.Balcomb and Knight, then sec rebuy of the Albuquerque Chamber f Commerce (ell the following dory of the inception of the cam-aign for placing tin* cutoffs on the ? per cent map.in lldiO they were seated tugethei in 13 a leu mb’s office in Albuquerque itid as usual ihe coacvjs.Utmi tumid to their pel subject, state highway number 0, The disappointments md delays were discussed am! the hopelessness uf the case realized in view of (he bitter opjKuiiiioH to the project evidenced thruout the rest of .he state, tl was decided then that die only hope of ever seeing the road built up to standard requirements would be to force the alignment upon the 7 per cent fcdcra lid system of the state.There was no mileage available 'or such a request to be based upon it; it looked like an impossible request at the time. Mileage was found, however, by a series of trades and maneuvering by a friendly highway commission headed by Frank Bull of Albuquerque ns chairman, and Felipe Sanchez Baca of Tucumcari as secretary.Formal announcement that the project had been accepted by the Department of Agriculture as a par of the 7 per cent system is the fina culmination of what seemed art impractical dream of 1924.IuwU’n
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Gallup Independent and Evening Herald
Gallup, New Mexico, US
Thu, Aug 25, 1932
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