Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-20
THE FACTS OF MEETING IF
 SUPERVISORS
Business Transacted and How It Was Transacted at the Session at Tombstone Mon- day Evening.

As quite an injustice has been done the members of the Board of Super.
 visors by the publication of what pur- ports to be report of the proceedings | of the Board on last Monday, correct analysis of what really did occur has been obtained and is as follows:
 in the first place, the Board of Su. | pervisors met to make the tax levy ! for the year, the purchase of a safe for | the treasurer's office and also to take | up the matter of promulgating and arranging for the publication of the call for the primaries for the nomina- | tion of candidates for the different ] political parties for the fall election. | No notices of the meetings of the Board are ever sent out, except where i bids are called for, and in this case | the firms dealing in the safes were notified of the time the bids, would be opened by the call for same As to the item in regard to printing the pri- mary notices. no bids are necessary and no notifications in regard to this | item were sent to anyone, same being statutory provision, and every citi- zen is presumed to be familiar there with. The statute requires that the notice shall be printed in one paper of each political creed, and leaves it to ] the discretion of the Board as to whether the notice shall be printed in more than the actual requirement i or not. The Tombstone Prospector is the official organ of the county. by virtue of which it'is always made one of the papers for this publication. At the afternoon session the Review had a representative present, who made a proposition to the Board, that in lieu 1 of the importance of the call it would
 make the publication at the fiat rate
 of 25 cents per inch per insertion. The Douglas Dispatch asked the
 Board over the phone to be selected as the Republican paper for the pub ication.
 The Cochise Press had solicited the members of the Board for the selec-
 tion of the Press for the Republican side.
 MT. McCabe suggested the Evening
 Miner as his choice as the Republican paper.
 Quite a discussion followed, ending by an adjournment until : D. m. At the evening session The Review, The Miner and The Cochise Press
 each had personal representatives present.
 The proposition of The Review was renewed.
 The Miner representative asked as
 to the price bid by the Douglas Dis kpatch. and was told that The Reviews , bid was 25 cents. The Miner repre- sentative said that The Miner would do the work at the same price as The Review, 25 cents. The Miner was not competing with The Review, but with the Douglas Dispatch and Cochise Press, its two sister Republican pa pers. MT. Bowen held that this was unfair competition, as The Miner had [ first ascertained the bid of the Doug las Dispatch
 The COchise Press bid 50 and 40 cents, and it being a weekly paper this made it's bid much lower than the others.
 f MT. McCabe moved the selection of the tombstone Prospector, The Bisbee
 Review, The Evening Miner and Co- chise Press. Lost for want of a second.
 MT. Riggs said that if more than two papers were to be used, that in
 his opinion Douglas, Tombstone, Bis
 bee and Benson papers should each be recognized. He further said that
 The Miner had had the publication
 on the Republican side al the last
 election, and in fairness he thought
 The Dispatch should have the pubi.
 cation this year. He therefore moved
 that The Review, The PrOspector, The
 Press and Dispatch be awarded the
 publication. The motion was seconded
 by MT. Bowen, and was carried. MT. McCabe refused to vote
 In the matter of the purchase of
 safe. the offer of the First National Bank of Bisbee was the lowest for a
 safe of equal weight and utility, with the exception of the offer of one Of the bidders of a safe made by the same company as that which made the First National Bank safe. But the joker was apparent when it was discovered that the safe in question was made twenty-five years ago, and therefore quite antiquated. The First National Bank safe cost the bank s, 400, and was sold to the county for 8, 200. f. O. b. Bisbee. The company offering the antiquated pattern wanted S2, 300 for their safe, and could not say as to it's useage during the twenty-five ] years since its manufacture.
 On account of the cramped co1di- : tion of the treasureF's office, the Board that the safe should be placed { in the room of the Board, which or feTed ample space.