Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-06
MAYOR CAvEN
 STRONGLY FOR
 NEW SUBWAY
City's Chief Executive Points Out How Small Will Be Cost To Taxpayers of the City at Large.

Within the next few days the matter of reconstructing the subway, one or the most important projects ever contemplated in the history of the city, will be taken up with owners of property abutting on Main street by a committee of the city council, and according to indications the work will be we'll under way before long. Among the Main street property owners who will have to stand almost the entire expense, there sees to be the great est eagerness to see the waterway placed in permanent condition.
 There is no one in the city better acquainted with the details of this project than Dr. c. L. Caven, mayor of Bisbee, who for more than year past, has been using his innaellDs .o do away with the present unhealthful and unsightly condition of the subway and in it's stead give the district an other business street. When seen last evening and asked for an expres- sion of his opinion Tn regard to the matter from the standpoint of a tax payer, ne said:
 q do not think there should be the slightest opposition to this project from any quarter for many reasons. In the first place the reconstruction of the subway will remove what believe is one of the worst breeding placs of disease in the city, saying nothing of the disgrace for city of Bisbee's size having such a filtay highway in the center of the munich pality.
 Among the property holders on Main street l do not think the slight est opposition will be met. although they will have to shoulder almost the entire expense of the project Primar- fly they will have to pay so per cent of the entire cost. Over and above this they will also have to pay their proportion of the 20 per cent winch is assessed to the city. It is well known that Main street and con tiguous property is the basis of more than one-third of the city's assessed valuation, so that in reality, owners of property on that avenue will be paying about S7 per cent of the cost of reconstruction, leaving Is per cent to be defrayed by the rest of the city. This amount divided among the re- mainde.' of the taxpayers would be immaterial.
 In all public improvements Main street has shouldered the greater part of the burden of expense, and think that any man who stops to give the matter the slightest consideration, will see that in return the rest of the city should pay the very small amount ask
 ed. In the matter of paying. 20 pei 1 cent has always been the city's share l of the expense; why should it not bt | in the subway matter2
 But even over and above all oi
 these considerations, believe that tht only way to get the electric car line to the westerly limits of the city i:
 over the subway, and to do this ths
 waterway must be placed in proper condition Everyone will admit tha l the future of Bisbee depends on tns car line to a great extent, so that should think the aim of everyone
 would be to get the subway into per
 nanent shape within the shortest pos sible space of time.
 T am heartily in favor of the pro
 feet from the standpoint of a tax pave | and city official. and will do all possibly can to see the improvement
 made as rapidly as possible"