Mohave County miner., 1912-03-30
Good County Roads.

John c. Potts. chairman of the board
 of supervisors, has been in Phenix
 this week, and attended the session of the good roads association, at which
 resolutions were adopted praying the
 legislature to pass an act for the bond. ing of the state for the sum of 5.OOO,- OOOS to be used in the building of a great system of highways. While Mohave county will not object to the bonding of the State for the building of good roads. It is the sense of the people of this county that in the event of the passage of the measure for the building of highways In Arizona the smaller counties will not ha e lookin at the public highway business and it is up to the small counties to take the matter in their own hands and build the roads that are a vital necessity In the upbullding of the business inter- ests of the counties. Mohave county is willing to bond itself for this pur pose and let the other counties take care of themselves. It does not seem right that hundreds of thousands of dollars be spent by the state on highway system that will benefit none but the automobile clubs at motor across the continent for pleasure, and let the people that pay for these same roads haul their heavy wagons along rocky, rutty, ill-kept roads with little prospect of having conditio~ bettered. These are the roads that we want the people to expend their money on and when internal road conditions are bet. tered then we are willing that great transcontinenta highways be built. And in the building of these great highways let the government give it's aid. Mohave county wants to expend lOO,OOOS on good roads that will make possible the hauling to the railroad at minimum of expense low grade ores, fuel to the mines, and produce to market. With the building of the main highways we believe they should be laid out with view to connecting them up east and west with the other road systems from the adjoining counties, so that within few years all the counties will be tied together by great system of highways. It is to our own welfare that we should lpnk frct nd lot
 great transcontinental highway system run away with our judgment in the betterment of our great resources. Good roads mean increased taxes and increased taxable property to meet further good roads building.
 John T. Milliken, of Colorado Springs, we'll known mining oper- ator, has been looking over the mines of this county the past week MT. Milliken was in this county a year or more ago and was then favoraby inn pressed with the appearance of the camps and their mining possibilities It is to be hoped that he will find something that will suit him while here.
 A survey for the branch railroad that is to run from the main line of the Western Railway of Arizona to the Tennessee mine, at Chloride, has 1 recently been made that will run through the town, and it is proba ble that the depot will be removed from the old site to point in the town, where it would be more conveniently situated for the people of that section. Inn line will run up to the Tennessee mine, where it will accommodate the of ore from the Tennessee, Rainbow, Altata, and Badger mines. Many other mines will be benefit ed ly this change of the railroad, in cutting 1 the haulage from the mines to the | railroad, which is now from one to three miles by wagon road.
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