Arizona republican., 1903-10-07
BOND ELECTION CALLED
City Council Acts on Many Important
 Matters.

l bond election. to be held December 12. /, Mayor Bennett and Councilmen Mes senger and Dunlap to confer in the
 matter of the road tc the Tonto dam l site: compromised the condemnation
 suit against Mrs. J. O'Conneu; voted electric lights to Churchill and othe- additions recently taken in: took ac- | tion looking to improvement of Gen. | tral avenue; appointed Hi Mcdonald 1 Five Points policeman at a salary of | $50 per month appointed Antonio AL varado deputy marshal without sal 1 ary during the pleasure of the council 1 to preserve order in the southeast part 1 of town where he Is in business; con- l firmed the appointment of George LOT i ing as corral boss; attended to a num- Der of other things of less general in- 1 terest but nevertheless important and 1 adjourned to meet again October r. i The suit against Mrs. O'Connell was i for the possession of certain lots she . owned that Second avenue might be strengthened. She appeared before the | council and offered to compromise for ss,50O and the offer was accepted In the matter of the bond election J. C. Adams made speech of some length stating the reasons why the campaign had been delayed from time to time. and that if anything was to be done at all the machinery should be put in motion.
 A resolution calling an election for December 12 on the Issuance Of $500, ,OO0 bords to construct municipal water works was presented. Superintendent Heap of the water company addressed the council asking that action be post poned till next meeting, as the con- pany had proposition to offer to the council if allowed an opportunity to present it that he thought would end in mutual agreement that an election would be unnecessary. Mr. Adams re- torteG that he thought better terms could be secured in the event of pro- position if the bond campaign were al ready under way.
 MT. Messenger moved to amend post Honing action. The amendment was lost and the resolution calling the cleo ton was carried by the affirmative votes of Mayor Bennett. Councilman Dennis and Councilman Dunlap. Coun- cilnan Messenger voted no and Coun-
 
 Respecting the Central avenue road. E. M. Lamson appeared for the resi- dents along it and proposed to the council that s4O0 be appropriated for it's improvement on condition that the board of supervisors also appropriate s400 and the residents themselves raise S100, making tota! of S1,500 with which to repair the road and maintain it for one year. The request seemed to be favorably received, but the appro- priation was not made. The council was not certain it had the authority. The matter was referred to the city attorney with instructions to confer with the district attorney and they with the Central avenue people in de- vising ways and means to reach tha desired end
 The board of trade took formal action last night toward securing the Tonto road. A committee of three was ap- pointed to act with committees from the board of governors of the Water Users association and from the cities of Phoenix. Tempe and Mesa in con- sidering ways and means. The board of trade committee is composed of Vice President w. D. Fulwiler of Phoenix, Carl Hayden of Tempe and Dr. A. J. Chandler of Mesa.
 The city council did al, it could do last night in furthering the enterprise by the appointment of Messrs. Ben nett, Messenger and Dunlap as it's conference committee. Previous to the councils action, however, B. A Fowler introduced the subject by .a short talk intended more particularly as an introduction of MT. A. P. Davis. who gave later details respecting the proposed Fish Creek road.
 MT. Davis said in part that the road from Globe to the dam site is forty three miles long and mostly down grade. Further the best of railroad d conveniences. side tracks and all pos sible utilities, as we'll as a promise of moderate freight charges, had been of fered by the G. V. G. & N. in the event of the freight being routed that way. That is what Phoenix is up against in the contest for the road.
 The road from Mesa is fifty-five miles long. of which twenty three miles to Goldfield is constructed The bai spots in the route occur in the middle and at the further end. The govern- ment can construct trail sufficient for the erection of it's transmission line .. will build d freight road the govern ment would no doubt spend $50,O0D ! more in making a good road of what would otherwise be trail. In addi- tion to the SI5.00O to be spent by the government under these conditions he
 estimates it will cost $100,000 this val 1 ley will have to raise, making total
 of S175.0O0. The inducements to build l it have been referred to heretofore quite extensively, but briefly they ara
 that within q year after the announce
 ment is made that the dam Is to be 1 constructed about 12,000 tons of freight
 would be hauled in. About 1000 tons i must go by Globe in any event when 1 the announcement is first made, for it will take six months to build the Fish l Creek road. But the nature of the l Tonto enterprise is such that in very 1 few months after the order is given | there will be as many men at work as 1 there will be at any time during con-
 struction, hence the returns from the | freight road will begin just as soon as l it is completed.