Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-28
WHAT PURPOSE Is BEHIND HE
 ROAD TAXLEVY?
Remarks By Gov Sloan at San Diego Point 10 Plan for a Continental
 Highway
POPULAR CONCEPTION
 IS JUST THE OPPOSITE
Belief General That Road Was 10 Serve the Convenience of Majority of Ari-
 zona People

From the beginning. vixen the terri torial highway was first thought ou and planned. there has been a differ ence of opinion as to the purpose o such a highway. The Review. -.Ie Dis bee board of trade and the CochisS county board of supervisors, have con tended that the hignway should be medium of closer communication be tween the several sections of the ter ritorv and the various towns of the several sections, and not as bee line" highway, connecting Douglas with Phoenix and the Grand Canyon
 Robert A. Craig, citizen member oi the territorial board of control, took the latter view, perhaps unconsciousiE in an interview with The Review sey eral days ago, but Governor Richard r.. Sloan goes even further in hii statement of his conception of the purposes Of the highway in a speech at San Diego. Cal, several days ago ID which he said in part:
 My dream and it is now con
 siderably more than a dream. is .
 EIEAN NLAAENOAAAANA eAAA-A-aAA~~@-
 highway threading the southwest
 for a winter motor route from
 coast to coast. What this would
 mean to the whole country
 through which it passed could not
 be computed in mere dollars and
 cents. It would mean the making
 of the country. The logical route
 for such read is the southern
 path and Arizona won't be behind
 in promoting a scheme of this
 kind.
 Such a road would mean much
 for Southern California, for il
 would bring the seacoast and our
 state into direct communication
 which would undoubtedly have
 some effect on the summet traffic
 from the interior 10 the Pacific.
 l believe that start in ther right
 direction will insure the compile
 ton of a transcontinental high
 way for motors. 8Iy dream will
 soon be a reality"
 Two Differing Purposes.
 This attitude of the board of control was responsible fer the selection ol the Hereford route for the highway which selection brought on the contro Sersy between the Cochise board of su peryisors and the territorial board Oi control. but the real difference which caused the controversy was the differ enee in conception of the purpose oi the highway entertained by the board of control and the board of superyis DTS.
 If the highway were planned as a part of a transcOntinental highway | would be a natural desire that ii should be as straight as possible through the territory and the Here ford route would have been as straight as iJ would be possible 10 build with reasonable expense.
 On the other hand, the COchise su pervisors have contended that the prime object of the highway was to secure a closer relation through better roads between the several sections and the various cities of the several sections of the territory, and the board has been successful in it's contention apparently
 While the members of the board Of supervisors and of the Bisbee board oi trader-or at least a number or the lat ter-haye taken the expression of Rob ert 4. Craig and Mir. Girand in good faith, others affect to see a scheme by which Cochise may De taxed for s highway and yet obtain no benefits thereby.
 Work Long Delayed.
 IL IS pointed out by these latter that the time that it has taken to con struct the highway between Lowell and Forest Canyon has been unreas onably long. It is further pointed out that after the tax levy on Coehise property has been made, there Is stin nothing to guarantee that the money will be expended in this county and they say that the delay in the con sruction of the LOweI-Forest section Of the road is an indication that tho new tax levy will not be spent ia Co chise county. but will be used in op ening the road between Prescott and Grand Canyon.
 it is understood, however. that the new tax levy will not be touched by the board of control until after Janu ary l. 1912, and that there will ae plenty of time in the meantime to o!, serve whether or not the board really means to push the construction of tho highway through this county.
 Graham County Balks.
 The Graham county supervisors re f.Isedi t0 'pEt up" for the construction of the highway and the case has teen on the calendar of the territorial sa preme court for two sessions withou, being acted upon. As the tax levy was provided for only in The years 1909 1910 and 1911. a decision after the levy for the present year is made would obviously be of no eaec; SC far as Inc expenditure of the money is concerned.
 The statute provides that the tax levy in counties where no road con struction is in progress shall bc five cents and that in counties where road work is in progress the maximum leyy shall be % cents. The construction