Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-07
Committee Named 10 lnveSti- gate information That New Site Will Be
 Selected
MOVE IS PRELl lMlNARY
 TO OTHER ACTIVITIES
Second Committee Is Named 10 Seek to Make BiSbee Location of Two
 Shelters

' Al the mass needing held in the [ city hall las; night the first steps i were taken looking toward the secar- ! ing of an army post for the Warren district lt was merely the appoint ] ment of an investigating committee i hat it may be termed tie opening l wedge. Another committee was ap- ' pointed whose efforts viii be directed 1 toward securing the proposed Shai- ! tuck shelter and the proposed new C. & A. shelter for the district if possible. The advantage of any one of these three things to Bisbee Is | manifest and he advantages that would accrue could all three be se- cured would be almost incalculable.
 Many of the most prominent and iniiueEiial business men Of the cit. were at the meeting called for the purpose of taking action relative to lhe securing Of the removal of the army post now located at Fort Hua chuea to this district when 1t as sembled in the council chamber of the city hall last night There were in attendance more than forty. all with business interests closely allied with the district. tho success of one de pendent on the other. All were in earnest. All were enthusiastic. An were possessed with the determine ton that if Fort Huachuca is to be abandoned the new post must be io- cated in the district that is tributary 10 Bisbee. Lowell and Warren. Ways and means were discussed and out lined and an adjournment taken 10 the call Of the chair when the com niittee IS ready tO rei1Ort
 J. NJ. O'Connell called the mass meeting together and briefly eS- piained the cause for the call. He said that some Of those who were with army officers when they were recently here couli give further it, formation and calseti on H. D. BlcVay.
 Win Abandon Fort Husehuca.
 Mir McTay first read an article from the Douglas Dispatch. published after the publication in The Review Of the news story that the bids on contracts had all been rejected for improvements at Fort Huachuca and that Bisbee had a good chance 10 win the post The Dispatch article was intended 10 dIscTedlt the article published in The Review. MT. McNay said that he was the source from
 
 formation and continuing said thar every bid b. every contractor had been rejected He had it from in formation that he could not doubt that the lowest bid was S35, ,000 in excess or the government appropria- JiOn for improvement purposes. 1 have it from one who Is in a position to know, said he. that they intend 10 rlOvc the post l obtained this Information Eld was not told ID; to divulge it but was asked not to make public my informant therefore can rot tell this meeting who my inform ant was but 1 will disclose that iu- formation to any three business men NhOm the chair may appoint He stated that every army officer at the post was boosting for Bisbee and he suggested that a committee be aD. pointed 10 learn all the information he had to tell them and gather all other possible information. This would cost nothing, he said. and when it was found that it was possible 10 obtain the post the business men could as they should do. raise the fund 10 send a worker or workers 10 Washington 10 present the qualified uons of a location near here.
 Chairman O'Connell spoke Of rail road surveys having been made by the Southwestern and the Southern Pa cshc but no work having been done and mentioned that this was signiii- cant Now that statehood was ct hand we would have two senators and a representative with votes who could aid in the project Of a new post at this, the most suitable point. Tie spOke of the former activity of Bis bee and of Tucson.
 Contrscts Are Not Let.
 J. R. Henderson was called upol. as one Of the bidders for the con tract. He told Of the work called Tor in the original specifications. of the contractors afterVard shaving ard said he believed the figures of S25. uoe in excess Of appropriation were aeout correct though he had no been SO informed. He told of an. other call for bids on specifications for less work and said that the con tractors had been told all bids were rejected as loo high He understood h was the government intention, at least for the present, not to iv,prove.