Tombstone epitaph., 1910-08-21
Board of Supervisors
 Do Much|l Business

The board of supervisors met at l o'clock this af,eruoon and the follow ing matters were disposed of:
 Two bids were offered for making the duplicate assessment rolls for 1910. Frank Meyers bid $745. and Mrs Lou Woolery bid s6s9, the latter te. ing the successful bidder. The board required . boud of $40O0, The bids for furnishing the election supplies were next taken up. Two bids were presented. namely, the Douglas Dispatch and the Tomb atone Prospector The latter was awarded the contract.
 Two bids were presented forfurnish- ing surgical instruments for the hos. pital at the county poor farm ny Ken. iston & Root of Lo, Angeles for &2l6. s9, and the Trusx Greene com- pany of Chicago. The latter bid wac not considered because of the fact that a certified check was not enclos- ed with the bid.
 The bids for tower and tank for the poor farm were received as follows NJ F Dicus and R B Sim of Douglas for $l750, and another bid by the same parties for $I250; Fl Psso Bridge and Iron company for SIPS.
 The last bids opened were for horses to be used on the county poor farm, as follows: F. D Boxden of Douglas, two bids. 1850 and s325; W G Buchanan of Tombstone, two bids. $375 and $500, M Doyle of Bisbee, $350; J H McPherson, two bids, $500 each.
 EP GrindelI appeared before the board with request that the county do it's advertising of it's various re- sources in the Sunset Magazine. A full page ad to be published s!50 per month including pamphlets. Same was taken under sdvisement by the board.
 The board of supervisors held 6 lengthy session last evening and an adjournment was taken after midnight, until Monday, September 5.
 The tax rate for the year 1910 was fixed by the board at s2.55, an increase of twenty-five cents over last year. The rates were fixed ss follows: Rate Fund Amt to collect sl Oo-E.pense & Salary s242. 900 %
 25-Rosd .... i5.O00 00
 55-School ... 99,000 00
 75-Territorial tax. =. l35,000 % S2 55. .... Total. ....... sj2i 900 co
 The board refused to make a levy of 25 cents per $l0O as ordered by tile territorial board of control, for the building of the territori Il highway, and instead fixed the rate five cents. This action is due to the fact that last year the board leyIed l5 cents per hundred for territorial road. and ID the neighborhood of $25 .OGO was cent to the territorial auditor as Cochise county's shsre for the building of the road. and as yet not even preliminary or survey has been msde in this coun- ty, and until the work is started in esrnest the taxpayers of Cochise will not be burdened with extra taxation.
 The territorial tax raise on non- productive patented mines vas added to the territorial tax lew only.
 The bids for building a jail at the county poor farm at Douglas were opened. NJ F Torpey of Douglas sub mitted three bids, s53l, $5s6 and s790. No action was taken.
 Three new school districts were or. ganized in the Sulphur Springs val- ley to be known ss districts Nos 59, 60. and 6l. This makes total of 61 bons-fide school districts in the county,
 No action was taken in the matter of awarding the contracts for the erec- ton of the etc. tower and tank on the county poor farm. It was taken under advisement.
 The regular monthly bills were audited and warrants ordered drawn in payment O! same.
 The hoard purchased for the county one team of horses from Joseph H NcPherson, of Tombstone, for $500. They also bought one of Ed Bowden's horses for $50 to take place of the horse drowned in Bisbee recently,
 The proposition of advertising the resources of the county in the Sunset Magazine st the rate of $l50 per month. in addition sotwenty thousand pamphlets of the same charsc ter, went over until the next meeting