Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
DEMAND MADE
BY TAXPAYERS
To Transfer Central Ave.
Work 10 This End
DIRECTED At THE TRUSTEES
After a Warm Discussion,
Everybody Declares In
tention of Working for
Completion of the Mac
adam Boulevard.
DIRECTED At THE TRUSTEES

A resolution demanding that the
! trustees of the Central avenue special
road district, upon completion of two
( and five eighths miles of boulevard
now practically finished at the upper
end, transfer the work to the end near
est the city and continue from the low
/ er end until the available funds are ex-
/ hausted, was passed last night at a
/ meeting of the taxpayers of the district
! held in the Osborn school house.
/ At times the discussion grew a little
acrimonious, and once or twice direct
/ charges of falsehood were made, but
before the meeting was over general
good feeling prevailed. The hand of
good fellowship was extended and all
expressed a determination to immedi-
ately set their shoulders to the wheel
and raise money to complete the boule-
ward from the Mcdowell road to the
Arizona canal.
over sixty taxpayers were present,
but several did not vote upon the reso-
luton, which was offered by L. II.
Chalmers. The vote stood rs to II.
The meeting was called at the insti-
cation of the south enders," as those
living south of the Grand canal and
i'm favor of having the work transferred
TO the lower end, are called. 1t had no
legal status and the trustees are there
fore not legally bound to pay any at
tention to the resolution. Dwight b.
Heard, one of the trustees, led the dis
cussiOn for the south end, and will GER
tainly be in favor of acting upon the
demand made therein What E NJ.
Lamson and Fred Woolsey, the other
two trustees, will do, is uncertain
They have always been with the north
end
Dr. II. II. Stone was made chairman
of the meeting and George Lily secre-
tary Mr.. Heard was the first speaker.
He stated that by the middle of next
week two and five eighths miles at the
upper end of Central avenue would be
completed and that the. ether trustees
seem determined to keep on building
from north to south. The district, he
said, is six and seven eiShths miles
long That portion above the Grand
canal will pay, under the present ar
rangement, only 23.9 per cent of the
total money raised for boulevard pur
poses, though bonding the district for
100000, while that portion on the south
side of the Grand will pay 761 per cent.
The north five-eighths pays but 2.1 per
cent and the next three miles Is per
cent This is on a basis Of assessed
valuation.
The sum of $31, 900 was paid for the
bonds. The first year of the existence
Of the special district, $500 was Sc
cured by taxation for maintenance pur-
poses. Last year the taxes rose to
s., 400 and this year will reach $4,000.
When the north two and five-eighths
miles are complete, $21,263.91 will have
been expended, leaving approximately
$12.5OO in the treasury The cost of
constructing the road is $1,000 mile,
and when all the money now on hand
is expended about two miles of the
boulevard will remain uncompleted.
The deficit will be about $4,000.
Mr. Heard outlined a plan which he
had put up to the other trustees some
time before This was to ask the gov
eminent for $4,000 because of the half
of mile which the Indian school has one
one side of Central avenue. that proper
ty not being subject to taxation. Su-
perintendent c. w Goodman Of the
school had offered to use all his influ-
ence to secure the appropriation. An
other part of the plan was to ask the
owners of all land north of the Grand
to contribute Sc per acre in addition to
what they will pay toward paying off
the bonds. The people of the city
would be asked to help and the south
end property owners would give what
they could. This proposition was turned
down by Trustees Lamson and Wool
sey It was a vital part of the discus
sion last evening.
In the course of his remarks Mr..
Heard stated that the quarry from
which the rock used in matchmaking
the avenue is drawn was owned by w.
Murphy, who owns about one third the
land in the district north of the Grand
canal. A. w. Gregg, who once held a
contract for hauling and crushing the
rock. had filed on a mineral claim en-
bracing the quarry, asserted Mr.. Heard.
After he had given up the contract he
had assigned the claim to creditors
who held his note for what he owed on
a rock crusher he had bought. Recently
the new owners of the quarry served
notice on the trustees to cease taking
rock therefrom. Mr.. Murphy had then
purchased the quarry.
Full appreciation was expressed by
Mr.. Heard of the efficient services Of
c. c. Sherwood, the United States en-
gineer sent here by the governments
highway board to assist in the building
of the road.
w. J. Murphy was asked TO explain
how he had happened to purchase the
quarry He declared that he did so
in order that the road building might
not be held up. He would continue to
permit rock to be quarried for IS day,
the sum charged by the Gregg cred
itors before they decided that they
wanted to conserve every bit of the