The border vidette., 1907-05-11
TO REPAIR COUNTY ROAD
Citizens Subscribe S3.OOO. co to No
 aies-Duquesne Road Fund.


 ed as soon as force of men can be put to work thereon. The road bed will be widened and the higher grades cut down as much as pos sible, to permit of hauling heavy freight between the two points. The work will cost $9,OOO.OO. Of that amount the Duquesne Min ing & Reduction Company will pay $3,OOOOO; the County of Santa Cruz will pay $3,o0OOO and the balance of $3,OOO.O0 was rais- ed this week by subscription among the business men.
 Monday night a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade was called to dis cuss the matter and a general invitation to attend the meeting was extended to the business men.
 About forty representative citi- zens, including the directors of the Board of Trade; the county super visors and members of the Nogales town council, were present.
 President Titcomb called the meeting to order and stated the purpose. Mir. H. $. Stewart, re- presenting the Duquesne Mining & Reduction Company, stated that the. company expects to pay out about $9 100000 a month for freight ing to and from it's mines during the next two years; that the road between Patagonia and the mines is now in fairly good condition and unless the Nogales-Duquesne road is repaired the freight of the company will pass over the Pata- gonia- Duquesne road. He stated that as the people of Nogales ask ed the company to do it's freight ing through this place, the com pany had the road surveyed and the engineer estimated the cost Of placing 1t in good condition at $9,O00.OO. The company would put up $3, ,O0O.OO and would ad- vance $3,OOOOO on behalf of the county, to be paid later out of the road taxes to be collected from men employed by the company, as the county is at present without funds for road building. The of fer was made conditional on, the raising of $3 5000 % by the people of Nogales and vicinity to com plete the fund of $9. 100000.
 The matter was thoroughly dis cussed for about an hour and half, during which time the follow ing gentlemen addressed the meet ing: President Titcomb of the Board of Trade, Mayor Brickwood, Colonel Bird, Major Herrera, Dr. Gustetter, County supervisors Ash burn, Burgoon, Harrison, Council men Doherty, Peck, O'Connor, Messrs. Pellegrin, Wylie, Schuck- mann, Bowman and others.
 All were emphatically in favor of raising the money to repair the road and some of the speakers re- called the experience of Nogales in refusing to raise money for a road between this point and Cananea some years ago and the never ceasing regret that resulted from the refusal.
 The result of the meeting was the appointment of a committee of citizens to raise the S3, 100000 required The committee members are: Messrs Fred Her rera, Anton Proto, Samuel Leeker, Ramon Vasquez. L. B. Fleischer, 1 w. H. Kelsey, William Schuck- mann, James A. Harrison, Manuel Con O'Keefe, Theodore H. s. Stewart, A. Carpena, George B. Marsh, A. l.. Peck.
 Tuesday morning several mem bers of the committee met at the Board of Trade headquarters and perfected plans of operation. The work of securing subscriptions was then taken up and if there was any who had doubts of the ultimate success of the movement the doubts were quickly dispelled. In less than three hours after the com mittee commenced work success was assured and almost the entire mount required had been sub ,cribed.
 It is estimated that freight to the amount of more than one hundred ,ons per day will soon be passing over the road between Nogales and ! he different mines in the east end ,f the county, and that the greater of handling freight to md from that section will result n greater activity at many of the smaller mines.