Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-31
LOWELL ADVERTISEMENTS.

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 is S19,O00. The old bridge, which
 was 1,020 feet long, including trestle.
 cost $13,000. We got the Wisconsin
 Bridge Co.,, one of the largest in the United States, to suDmft to the gov
 ernor, through engineer Siehotn,
 plans for a complete steel bridge at
 cost of $18,250, but the governor professes to believe they are mis- taken as to their ability to build the bridge for that sum, and even his
 great love for Florence and PinaI county, would not induce him to let
 poor bridge company lose money.
 Then when I got the prison on wheels the governors great love for Florence again burst forth like
 morning glory molstened in the
 warmth of a tropical morning, and, ably assisted by brother Guild, he moved heaven and earth, so to speak, in the interest of Phoenix, to land
 the prize on the Forth side of the l river and this in the face of the fact that the territory would have to pay | $13, 300 for a site on the north side Of the river, while John W. Sharpe and
 wife had donated to the territory,
 without a cent of charge, 160 acres Of
 land adjoinink the townsite of Flor
 ence ana conceded to be the most ' ideal prison site in the United States. II was even threatened by Mir. Guild,
 with a veto of the prison bill, if 1 in- ! sisted on locating .t at Florence, in stead of on the north side of the river My reply was, it will go on the | south side of the river or stay at | Yuma. I also made that statement on the floor of the council and eleven of the twelve members voted with me The principal argument offered l by the governors llcu;enants in favor ! of locating the prison on the other side of the river, was that if 1t should be located on the Florence side the territory would be compelled to build the bridge across the Gila.
 But that is not all. At the last 1 session Hon. J. I. Coleman passed 1 through the lower house an irrigation l bill that would, had i. became a law, have enabled the people of this val | ley to solve the water problem for | themselves. It provided for the or. l ganization of an irrigation district and its provisions would have enabled | the land owners of the Casa Grande valley to raise sufficient money, by | bonding their lands, to build and own 1 their own irrigation system. The ! bill did not get through the house | till toward the close of the session ! It came to the council and we put it ] through that body iE short order. Mir. Coleman and I went down to the governor to try to persuade him to | sign it. He refused. His excuse was ! lack of time to read 1t and that he could not sign a bill he had not read He had had a printed copy of this 1 bill in his possession for several weeks It was of vital importance to the people of this valley, but the gov ernor could not find time to read it and it died in his pocket. It seems to me that if he nau such great love
 for our people he might have made an extra effort to read it. At any
 rate, in the event of my election l
 shall get the same bill through again,
 early enough to give him a chance
 to read and sign 1t or veto it.
 I have cited the tact showing how the governor has presistently stabbed Pinal county in the back under the
 guise of friendship, So that the newe.
 people here may lnow how little
 trust they can place in his hyprocrI- ! tical professions of lcve for Florence
 and the people of the Casa Grande valley And now as to the disreput- able attempt of the smooth governor
 to discredit me with the people Of
 Pinal county and dictate my success
 sor in the council have only this to say that in the face of the official
 records of the legislature, which are open to the world there is not an-
 other citizen of Arizona who makes
 even a pretense of possessing com
 mon decency and intelligence that
 would have the nerve to stand up be-
 fore the people of PInal county and 1 say that I had betrayed the public trust they had placed in my keeping.
 If the governors gai; should explode he would drown in the flood before he could be rescued. My record on the mining bill ani every other bill that stood for the advancement of the welfare of Arizona and her peo-
 ple, is written indelibiy in the official journals of the 24th legislature. It ] Is there to stay and always open to inspection. and the governor, as much as 1t would please him 10 do so. cannot have It erased. EVEN i WITH ACID, as he did certain
 court record at Florence when he oc- eupfed the bench. I am proud of that
 record and want my constituents to investigate 1t thoroughly. There are
 no blots on it. The trouble vita the governor is I stood between his hand