Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-31

administration writer's own state ment, made somewhat boastfully, has raised the assessment. of mines to $22 900, an increase of about $6,. 000. 900 over the assessment of the preceding year"
 In the face of all the foregoing of ficial records and facts the governor had the gall to stand up before the people of Florence last Friday even ing and tell them that if they had not sent Mir. Guild to the legislature there would now be no taxes on the mines and no money to build the penitentiary with, hence they owe the latter to Mir. Guild Fortunately the people of Florence know the facts about both the prison and the min ing bill. They also know the quality of the governors prO-essed friendship for Pinal county and the Casa Grande valley, but lest they should forget we shall call their attention to a few things illustrative Of the governors great love for Pinal county, namely:
 When the governor first came to Arizona he came to Florence as at torney for the Florence canal com pany and drew up the water rights
  of this valley at from $1O to $15 per acre. Subsequently he took a big fee from these farmers, as an attorney, to make the canal company comply with the conditions of those water. rights, but confessed, when he came into court, that said water-rights were not worth the paper they were written on. Subsequently he remov- ed to Phoenix and became a leader in the scheme of cereating the San Carlos reservoir project in the In- terest of the Tonto reservoir, but when the land owners of this valley organized to fight for their rights un- der the San Carlos project he again professed his great friendship for Pinal and got fee out of our farm CTS to take care of their interests. But the only work he performed was to change their money from their pockets into his own and invest it in Phoenix. Subsequently he was nom mated for councilman in Maricopa county and during the campaign came over to Florence to tell our dear people from the rostrum how his love for dear old Pinal was still budding and blooming like a peren- nial rose bush, and that if he should be elected Pinal would really have two members in the council. Poor, deluded souls, we applauded and cheered just as If we had not been up against his shell game before, and To! history repeated itself. Our members passed bill through tle lower house, providing for the repair of the terri torial bridge at Florence and joyousiy sent it up to councilman Kibbey and he promptly planted 1t under the daisies beside the other dozen lemons he had handed old Final. Time rolled on and he became governor Four years ago the Heating bill, appropri- ating s19,000 for the repair of the bridge at Florence, was passed. But to get through the council it had to call for bond issue and be approved by congress. The governor thought congress would put it to rest, hence he signed it, but congress fooled him. It passed the bill and the president signed il. This left the matter en- tirely in the hands of the Board of Control of which the governor is the controlling spirit by virtue of his par entage of the Board. The bill was passed nearly three years ago and the governor has spent sleepless nights conjuring up excuses for not building the bridge. He finally rest ed on the declaration that the appro- priatiCn was not large enough to