Mohave County miner., 1884-04-27
A CARD.
MINERAL PARK, April 4, 1884.

MINERAL PARK, April 1, 1884.
 EDITOR MoHAVE COUNTY MNER-Sir:-IL your paper issued March 2d you published an item under the head of editorials that reflects discred;t and dishonor upon the 1 3oard of Supervisors of this county. You | St lte m that item:
 But this is not the way OUT Beard prac- | tiGes economy or work for the best interests If the county, they prefer to pay about | SS GOO for a set of iron cells tlat can be du- alica;ed any day for half the money, and to involve the county in costly and useless IItl- gation, that Is the way they economlze." The matter of a new and safe jail was laid before the grand jury over one year prior to a jail being contracted for and the grInd jury recommended an iron and safe | iail to be built. Soon after this the Board of Supervisors directed its clerk to cores pond with San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis. inviting bids from firms making jail cells speciality. The lowest bid was re- ceived from the Beard & Bro. Safe & Lock Co of St. Louis. You were mistaken and misrepresented the true situation, when goa stated that eight thousand doll1rs was paid for a set of cells. Not half of that sum was pail IF your paper was publish ed 5:t a distance from the county seat and you relied on rumor or correspp pndents for your items there might be sume excuse for your statement, but as your paper is the of ficial paper of the county you have the means at hand to obtain facts and figures, and should do So before publishing an item of this kind, as 1t creates dissatisfaction and materially iniures our financial stana- ing abroad.
 When your item came to our notice we concluded to wait for the meeting of the grand jury, but the time of it's meeting has besn put off and may not occur for six months, so We dsem it but fair to explain and contradict false statement.
 Again, will you please explain and state what costly litigation the Supervisors have brought on the county. We have District Court, Judges and Justices to attend to the judiciary of the county.
 Please state in what instance the Super visors involved the county in useless and costly litigation.
 l i willing that the grand jury drawn from the tax payers of the county. should examine, into our acts, and we will see that at it's next meeting this matter you complain of iS thoroughly ventilated.
 (Signed) NM. H. HARDY,
 VIM. E. GROUNDS,
 NJ, w, HENKLE.
 Supervisors Mohave County.
 In reference to the aoove we beg leave to aay that We were not mistaken and did not misrepresent matters whea we said that they prefer 10 pay al out $S,0OO for set of iron cells" We never said that $S,0OO was paid for them or that they cost that amount, but We will prove in very short order that they have and will cost about s, GOO so near to that sum that there is not much difference as far as the taxpayers are concerned. As near as we can tell without minutely going into all the bills on file in the clerks office, which would take more time tRan we care to devote O this matter, the new jail costs the taxpayers of Mohsve county as follows:
 Beard & Bro, St. Louis, first cost of iron work. $39H 70 Freight, forwarding and demurrage 1113 96 Erecting ...-....-............. 5Ul UJ Erecting outside walls aud covering 355 O0| Special meetings of the Board, per
 diem of Supervisors. printing and sundries, at very low es- innate, say, ay,...........-........ 70 UU