Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-26
MOVE THE CAPITAL
 AND ASYLUM TOO
District Attorney Williams Urges Removal Because
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TUCSON, Ariz-, May 25.- Oocniss county is ready to join in concerted I movement to remove the capital l from Phoenix to Tucson. Dear old l Cochise is willing to do more than this; she is ready to take the inl. | tiative in the movement if others ! do not And that is not all. We | propose to remove the territorial in { sane asylum to a more suitable To- cality. to transfer 1t to Flagstaff. which is better place, Phoenix be. ing entirely too hot in the summer for the best interests of the unfor- | tunate insane and the climate at Flagstaff being almost ideal Phoe- nix and Maricopa county naTe not only tried to. but have 'hogced the game in Arizona. They have done so too long. We of Cochise have stood 1t as long as We will and are ready to act. If Phoenix had ever been reasonable. she might ex- pect something. That's the trou- ble. She has always expected and demanded everythinr Usually she she gets it but this is gong to enc From now on. Phoenix must and shall leg m that she is not all of Arizona, but a yery small slice of a very big country We mean busi- ness in Cochise and other counties will align themselves with US for the movement, as Phoenix has es- tranged herself from nearly every city in Arizona and Maricopa from practically all of the other counties Williams Gives Interview
 The above Is quotation from m interview which John s. Williams, the district attorney of Cochise county gave to a reporter of the Star yesterday. Mr. Williams was on his way to Phoenix to see Coy ernor Sloan and the board of con tIoi as to the course of the terri toriai highway through Cochise county. |. He win place before them the contention Of the Cochise county board of supervisors that the proposed highway to be Of any material use 10 the county must pass through Benson, Tombstone, Bisbee or Lowell and Douglas. That 1t should be of some practical use to the rancher and not a mere joy riding adjunct to MaricopR's annual horse races, the territoriai raIr. Highway for People
 We are determined to have the territorial highway of some use 10 our people. It should pass from Tucson to Benson, which is an iEi- pUrtant railroad terminal, and nOt go to Hereford The roads about Benson are bad and need repair. Ii costs the county considerable to keep up this road and we want the highway there. We spend thousands of dollars for roads to Benson while only Q few hundred for Hereford. for the reason that a hundred wag- ous go to Benson to one tO Here ford. There are reasons for a road 10 Benson and none for one 5o Hereford. To be plain, We want to locate the route of the highwag through our own county so we will set tho benefit of it and not a iOt cf Phoenix ioy riders or lny other joy riders, for that
 We look on the primary neeG or the territorial highway as being to accommodate business traffic. In Cochise 1t is business first with us. The country is building up with ranchers and we intend they shall be given the best facilities pcssi- ble. Pleasure rides may be all right. but first take care of the farmer and the business man. We want the most populous cities and towns tapped, not the out of the way villages, and scenery and scenic effects are q secondary considers tion.
 Admitted tnat the highway is for the benefit of all of the ferrItory. that all counties will contribute whether roads be built through them or not, yet Cochise county pays taxes on 19 millions. and Maricopa on only eleven. Why. then. should we let Maricopa and Phoenix dictate how the highway should run within our limits? We will not, but will ir- sist on our rights.
 The course of the hignway up the Sulphur Springs valley also gives cause for complaint 1t runs up the side and taps CCurtland and Gleesou as proposed. It should run through the valleys with laterals 10 the towns, s) as to accommodate the hundreds of settlers in this rapidly growing section.
 MoVe Asylum. Too
 T am in earnest in what ] saio about the capital and the insane asylum. By moving the asylum we can obtain the support Of the north ern end Of Arizona for the capital removal project. It would be a good move for other reasons than the strategic effect it would have; !, would be better for inc patients upon whom the summers in the Salt River valley have a bad effect We would like to see Tucson take the lead in the capital removal pro ject, but if she don't we will pull the chestnuts out of the fire for her if we have to. We are sure of one thing. if Tucson has the capi- tai she will not also want the beav- ems above, the earth beneath and fhe Wafers nnder fha earth ana