The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-19
Resolution Passed DepOsing B. C.. Heck as Superintendent of Court House Construction
 and Position Given
 Jack Farrell
ORK-DUNCAN ROAD ACCEPTED
Board of Supervisors Instruct District Attorney to Proceed Against F. A. Sanders It He Attempts to
 Examine Records

The Board of, Supervisors were in
 special session on Monday last and
 concluded their session on Wednes-
 day afternoon after the transaction of much business of importance to the county. The contract for building the
 wagon bridge across the Gila at Dun
 can was awarded, also the contract
 for printing and advertising for the and Duncan was viewed and accepted
 according to contract with a reduction
 of $20000 on the contract price. The
 court house bonds were sold, but lat
 CT the sale was revoked, on account
 of a misunderstanding on the part of
 the Board, and other matters of rou-
 tine nature disposed of.
 The first matter taken up by the Board Monday morning was the aw- arding of the contract for the build ing of the wagon bridge across the Gila river at Duncan to cost not more than sixteen thousand dollars accord ing to the plans and SD. cifications adopted by the Board at a previous session. The contract went to the Fl Paso Bridge & Iron Co.,, at $15,975.00. there was only a small difference be- tween the bids. A bond for the full amount of the contract price was re- quired by the board and the time linn it for the completion of the bridge was fixed at six months from date.
 Henry Hill, of Clifton, was the only bidder for the purchase of the Court House Bonds of Greenlee County. His bid was par and the bonds were awarded to him. Within an hour after M. Webster, county treasurer, appear ed before the Board and raised the question of the validity of the sale on the ground that the law provides that the Treasurer, and not the Board must make the sale of the bonds. The the sale of the bonds will be made by the Treasurer on February 3.
 In compliance with the request of the Board of Supervisors of Gila and Good Roads Association, of Arizona, the Board on Monday afternoon ap- Two Hundred Dollars from the immigration fund toward defray ing the expenses of Dell M. Potter in the Federal Aid Convention h .; ;4I, ie,i i,, of cI; nf0 n c.
 Jack Holeman, contractor, who was awarded the contract for building the wagon road from York to Duncan, ap- that the contract had been complet- ed, in accordance with the plans and specifications, and in addition that the contractors had performed addi- tional work not called for in the con- tract; that the road was completed s. F. Await, County Road Superinten- dent, was present and made the state ment that an additional mile of road had been built by the contractors, than called for by the contract, but that he did not wish to accept the road on his own responsibility and asked that the Board appoint compe- tent engineer to go over the road, or that the Board of Supervisors view the work. A protest was on file with the Board from citizens of Duncan, asking them to send a competent en- gineer to view the work, but the Board decided that they would view the road and left Tuesday morning for that purpose, returning Tuesday after noon on the train. After the Board returned a session was held and after 1educting s2OO from the contract price the demand in full for the construc- .ion of the road was allowed
 The county printing and publishing was awarded to the lowest bidder on each item advertised for. The pub fishing of the minutes of the Board and legal notices was awarded to the