Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-09
MORE PROTESTS AT
 HIGHWAY SCHEME
Other Towns Take Up Mat ter-Grindell Acted on
 Own Initiative

ot. lOA1D- stone and Benson are circulating petitions for signatures, proeesting
 against the action of the territorial board of control in ignoring the north ern part of Cochise county in regard
 to the territorial highway. These
 petitions will be sent to the board of control and to Governor Sloan. These towns find some hope in the governors letter to the Tombstone board of trade. but they intend to make the protest so strong that the route Of the highway will be chang ed immediately.
 The bids for the construction of that part of the highway lying be tween Tucson and Barbacoma, this county. have already been advertised for and the petition will ask that the contract be not let, as with this route the highway would have to zig gag sharply to the north to reach Benson. which under any arrange ment would be impractical. The peti- tions ask that the advertisement for bids be recalled and bids asked for the construction of route by Ben son, Tombstone and St. David. thence to pass through Bisbee to Douglas.
 A member of the board Of directors of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce is authority for the statement that the Douglas chamber did not official ly approve the Hereford route" The statement is also made that Bill Adamson, one of the Cochise dele gates to the recent good roads con vention at Phoenix, worked for the other route at the convention, the route that would take in Benson. St. David, Tombstone and Bisbee.
 This same authority also stated that the letter written by Secretary Grindell of the Douglas chamber of commerce, asking the Bisbee board of trade to aid in having the Here ford route constructed, was not authorized by the Douglas chamber. As the chamber refuses to stand spon-
 sor for the letter and as the plea was made OF behalf of automobilists of Douglas and Bisbee, the whole scheme to leave the northern part Of the county of the highway may, if is said, resolve itself into an at tempt by Secretary Grindell of the
 Douglas chamber to make an auto mobile boulevard out of the great ter ritoriaI highway, planned for the
 benefit of the people and being exc cuted by the peoples money. The letter of Secretary Grindell, Of the Douglas chamber of commerce, leav- es no other explanation. The letter ! follows:
 Douglas. AriZ-, April 6, 1911. Mir. Bruce Perley,
 "Sec'y Board of Trade.
 l Bisbee. Arizona.
 Dear Sir:-A number of autos went to the Territorial Fair last No
 vember from here and Bisbee and l they all hal bad time because Of | the roads. They went by Benson.
 Now, the plans for new territor- i ial highway take a road across me 1 San Pedro river at He eford and then [ towards Huachuca and straight over ] fairly good road to Tucson With . the execution of about ten miles oi
 road through a canyon close to Hua' { chuca il is a fairly good road to TUG 1 son
 "As me poard of control will event i ualIy build this road We think that II ! they will build this ten miles of road ' before fall it will make a good road 1 to Tucson and allow many autos to 1 travel to the territorial fair at Phoen. { ix next fall, whereas, they would have to stay at home. as the road is ! hard one ar the present time 10
 make.
 We have written the board Oi con
 trol about this and would suggest that your board Of trade do likewise. Very truly,
 'E. G. GRINDEIL, Secretary