Graham guardian., 1910-05-27
RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISING
MAY 81, 1910.
WRIGHT BRINGS SUIT

W ANAAN~@~
1t will be remembered that the
last legislature passed a law Great.
ing Territorial highway or road
from the west end of Arizona to the
end of the Territory.
According to the law the board
of supervisors of each county
through which this road passes,
were authorized to levy such amount
as was deemed necessary by the
Board of Control, who ordered that
twenty-five cents be levied on each
500 for the purpose of meeting the
expense of survey and the building
of the road in Graham County for
the ensuing year.
When the board of supervisors of
this county were making up the as
sessment for the year 1909, they
found that nothing had been done
by the Territorial engineer in sur
veying or any other work in Gra-
ham County for this road, and as a
consequence they determined to
levy only five cents on each $lOO,
the amount levied being sufficient
for any survey that would be made
for the road through Graham
County.
Since the assessment of 1909 was
levied, there has been absolutely
nothing done toward either making
a survey or building this Territor-
ial road through Graham County.
In fact no word of any kind has
come to the board of supervisors in
regard TO any survey or other pre-
liminary work on any road through
Graham County in compliance with
the act passed by the last legisla-
ture.
Last month when the board of
supervisors was in regular session,
Attorney General Wright appeared
before it, and demanded that the
board levy balance of the tax for
this Territorial road this year.
The board knowing that nothing
had been accomplished, as far as
Graham County is concerned, in
building the road, did not make the
additional levy.
In consequence of no action being
taken by the board of supervisors
to make the additional levy this
year, a suit has been brought by
Attorney General Wright against
the board of supervisors and their
bondsmen, in the sum of SIT, 168. so.
The papers in the suit being served
on each member of the board and
his bondsmen during the past week.
In view of the fact that the
money so far collected for this road
is still in the treasury, and that
nothing whatever is being done by
the Territorial engineer. regularly
appointed by the governor to carry
out this work, to do any work on
such road through Graham County,
it would seem that the board OF
supervisors are right in refusing to
levy an additional tax, especially az
the five cents already levied and
collected will more than pay for the
preliminary work for such road in
this county.
The board of supervisors and the
people of Graham county are per-
fectly willing to contribute their
share of the expense incurred in
building a Territorial road through
the county, but are not willing to
pay this assessment, if the money
SO raised is spent in some other
county. In other words, any monies
raised by levyiDg an assessment for
a Territorial road through Graham
county. should be spent in Graham
county, and as nothing has been
done by the Territorial engineer in
the preliminary work for such a
roao through this county, the board
of supervisors are absolutely right
in the stand they have taken in the