Mohave County miner., 1912-04-27

SnOulu the leSlSldIure Iall JO eul- power the county of Mohave to issue bonds for courthouse and road work, it will be up to the people to take ad- vantage of the present law and form the county into road districts and issue bonds for the building of new roads and bridges. This county is in great need of roads and the people are anx- ious to bond themselves to get the means to carry out the good work.
 A party of Los Angeles men are to make the trip from Kingman to the Grand Canyon at Diamond Creek to look into that part of the canyon with a view of making it one of the scenic places along the route from the east to the west. The Diamond Creek section of the Grand Canyon is one of the grandly beautiful places along that great gorge. It offers greater oppor- tunity for exploration than any of the scenic points along the rim, as at this point the visitor can get right to the water's edge.
 Much interest is centered in thu Old Trail, which is popularly supposed to run across the state of Arizona through the northern tier of counties. Con- gress is to be asked to appropriate money to build great highway along the route, and the state will be aske d to contribute largely as the head of the highway system are trying to jug gle the route to some other direction to cover their particular section. The orlgnal route taken by Sitgreaves and others in their explorations for trans continental route to the coast ran through thls county along the line of the Both parallel, while the old Beale Trall passes along the same general route. These were the routes followed in the early days of overland travel and these are the best routes for high way in the state.
 One of the good roads bills just in- troduced in the legislature, recites the fact that the good roads fund of the state is depleted and therefore it is necessary that to keep the good work running levy of twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property in the state is necessary to provide sufficient means for the work, and as it is imperative that the fund shall be created at once the measure is saddled with the emergency clause. It does not appear to this legislator that levy cannot be made before next August and that tax collections will not be coming in before next November and Decent Der, wherefore the emergency clause will avail little. It would appear that the legislature is working that emergency clause over time and giving the people an insight to what this clause in the constitution may be made to stand for.
 It will be remembered by many people that the solemn promise of every democratic legislator prior to election ran to the effect that the first enactment that would be sent to the governor for his signature would be the recall of the judiciary measure. Looking back over the forty days of the session we have been unable to see any sign of that measure on it's way to the gu bernatorial mansion, while all sorts of measures that should not have had their being are having their in- ming in both houses. Many of the most important measures affecting the welfare of the people are still sleeping in committee and it does not appear on the surface when they will be cal led fourth either to pass or to get the axe. One of the representatives from a small county reports that no measure effecting the small counties can get recognition, as the big coun- ties have it in mind that the small counties must be kept down at all hazards. Be that as it may, the fact remains that nothing in the way of desirable legislation is being carried through by the fellows in control of legislation.
 Wm. l.. Cook, Prop, the Bee Hive