Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-06-17
,Erom Tuesday's Daily)

\
 .oeia,ion has borne fruit. An oreani.
 ,a,iJn was effected last night at the
 court house 10 be known as the Yaya.
 pal Good Roads Association, articles of
 incorporation were adopted, and nearly
 w,ry person present signed the mem
 ber,hip roll, which calls for the sub
 vfiption of one snare of stock. 1. was a m enthusiastic gathering of represen
 ,a,ive citizens, some-of whom had ,ra. ,',slcd from distant parts of the county
 to bs present, and all were of one ac. D, cord Ss 10 the 'desirnbili,y of oni,ed tsor in improving the highways of the county. '.. - T. C. Norris called the meeting 10 or.
 du and in stating the objce, of the ? movement explained that it was in.
 spred with desire to. assist and co. '. operate with the sup<ryisoss. If the board had tho support of ihe citizens, ' t rOvld employ A road overseer and u,iliIe The county supervisor to the
 ends that tho roads to bs built hcreaf.
 ter be of permanent character. Ap. other purpose of the meeting was to f awaken a sentimsat throughout. the county in favor of good roads and. thus secures nseessary leaislation. The chair, man then read encouraging letter from ' '. r. Ainsworth of Phoenix, Mir. Hen. ford of Tucson, and A. ]. Henry of Jerome, all of whom were repicte with sooj suggestions. q.
 Wallace Fairbunk referred 10. the lac! ,ha' onc citizen had declared him self in favor of the association if it iid not increase the tsxem. [. was his Idea that this would not be the result, for only the fund available for rosa proposes was to be used. The chair stated that this. view was correct.
 When called upon for remarks As , .essor Campbell stated that the good iosds movement cad been anticipated several months ago by the supervisors. .snd they were already working ou ,.'Aoss linss. There were 47 road dis. ,rieis and 1907 miles. of active county l loads, and there was fund of 5000, .or abou, s2o mile, to do tho ~a5rk. The. trouble is that every outlying camp and mine wants some improve
 men, and it Is impossible 10 take care of all. He then rccited the appropiia
 ,Ons that had been made during the pas. couple of months by the board for the improvement of important, county highways. The board also was willing | 10 appropriate money for the great Senic highway from Crown King 10 Castle Hot Springs, opening UP great mineral district, whenever the mines benefited thereby would contribute .tp. ward tho expense. He called attention 10 the fact that Prescott only pays one sixth of the taxes and thu, when peti. .'ions for roads come from the outside, their wishes must be respected. He announeed that under a new law tne supervisors may levy road tax of 50 cents, and that tho board had ar ranged to levy a tax of 70 cents with out iscreasing the general rate of tax ation. The board had reduced the number of road oversecrs 10 twelve, and it's work was exactly on the same | lines as was proposed by the associa' ton. Hc thought that the best that could be accomplished by concerted ae. lion was to secure several amendments to the road laws. A general saperin' 'endeni of roads can be appointed but al present he cannot collect road taxes.
 Leroy Anderson was of the opinion that the association should first inform T itself as to the average cost per mile or first class road, aud second as 10 The amount thereof represented in la Dor He was in favor of building one good strip of road each year.
 A. w. Edwards detailed the roads that had been. built by r. M. Murphy l at his own expense to his various mines and offered to submit the data 10 the "''ociation. The average COST, ne thought, was about $25oO mile. MT Edwards said the supervisors could be safely trusted to distribute the road money fairly and under their present policy better results could be accom- pIished by that body.
 Supervisor Harrington stated that -'2 miles of road built by the Tiger uold Company cost about $l0,00O, and supervisor Smith spoke of the roads 'oe'ng ruined by sheep and goats. He was m favor of law fo,b.dding the county roads to bands of sheep. He Deheved if there were supervisorial dis. "lc's and each supervisor be roao "v'rseer and responsible for the roads oi l "S district, there would be better 'oads. He and Supervisor Harrington |