The copper era., 1908-05-21
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS.
4 Portion of the Business Transacted at
 the May Session.

the May SeSSl0n.
 Upon roll call on the morning ot May 4th there was present Geo. A, Olney, chairman, Baylor Shannon, and A. G. McAlister, clerk.
 Bids on the new road above Clifton were opened, viz: Nick Cole, s2345. Reece Webster, s344O; L. B. Elliott, s2S4O; w. W. Damron, s2744. The contract was awarded to Nick Cole.
 For construction of new addition to county hospital and repairs on old hospital building John R. Martin bid s1 ,26O.5O. No bond being furnished the bid was not considered.
 Bids on the county printing were opened. Only three of the printing concerns were represented, being the Journal, Bulletin and Guardian. The printing of the minutes of the board of supervisors was awarded to the Bulletin at cents per inch. Legal notices, first insertion, awarded to Bulletin at cents per inch; subse quent insertions at cents per inch. luOLCdSC0 dSoCSSACuI 1ASlg III ASl liloCl- tion, awarded to Bulletin at cents per inch; subsequent insertions at cents. Printing of court calendar, awarded to Guardian at 20 cents per page. The county job printing was divided between the Journal and Bulletin, each receiving the contract for the work bid at the lowest figure.
 The contract for boarding prison- CTS and detained witnesses confined in the Morenci jail is hereby awarded to G. H. Thompson for 22t cents per meal.
 It was ordered that the treasurer refund Augnstin Urea one school tax, S2.50, he having paid while under twenty-one years of age.
 It was ordered that the county treasurer transfer from the general fund to the expense fund S1l, 900, and from the expense fund to the salary fund the sum of 5000.
 The bond of Wm. T. Gale as road oYerseer of road district No. 15 in the sum of $500 is hereby approved.
 It is ordered that the two school land leases held by W. E. Glasscock, each lease covering ten acres of land situated in the east half of NV quar- ter of SW quarter of 16-7-26, one bearing date October q, 1904, and the other September 2, 1907, both leases having been transferred by Antonio Ruiz to said w. E. Glasscock, be cancelled and that his application for thirty acres in NV quarter of SW quarter of 16-72 26, covering the above twenty acres and ten acres addition al, be granted for term of five years from May 5, 1908.
 The following school land applica- tions are granted for a term of five | years to-wit:
 H. U. Russell for SEE quarter of SW quarter of 16-8-26.
 A. Mejia for four acres ln NE quar- ter of NV quarter of 16-7-27 and NV quarter of NE quarter of Is 7-27.
 Upon motion duly put and carried, the following named persons are hereby appointed as appraisers to view out and appraise any damage there may be to proposed public road running from Stafford postotfice west to the street that runs south past P. J. Jacobson's' Lee BrOshears, H. U. Russell and Lamar Cobb, Jr., county surveyor. The said appraisers are directed to make their report as early as practicable.
 The above is only a partial list of the business transacted at the session and the balance will appear in the next issue of this paper.
 Barney Harmsen, a resident of Clifton for some time, arrived in Saf- ford. He has rented the Salisbury residence in Layton with the inten- tion of permanently locating here, and will erect a large terra cotta works for making sewer pipes. He will also start large brick kiln and will keep brick constantly on hand for building purposes. Mir. Harnsen has decided that Stafford is a good place for a general contracting busi- ness, and intends establishing such business in connection with his terra
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