Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-10-27

OF the s6.323.71 spent in the Bisbee
locality, S2,S93.64 was the amount
paid under contract, for oiling the
road between the Bisoee city limits
and the state highway. This leaves
s.. 1907. the amount spent for gen
Grad road work I'm the country ad ia
cent TO Bisbee
The total amount spent for metal
culverts is $2.6l0.7S This includes
| balance OF s4s4 50 that was pasf for
! culverts that were used last year;
one car load unloaded at Wilcox, al
0iS.40, which were used in that local
| ity and are included in the $4,34247
charged 10 Wilcox: and one car load
unloaded at Benson. 81 ,067.69, por-
iiou OF which was used along the San
Pedro river, up and down from Ben
son. and the rest sent 10 other places
/ in the county. The information at
hand is not definite enough to charge
any specie portion to any one place.
The total cost OF feed and all other
supplies for the county teams is 81
562. %. $4,000 of this amount is
charged to Wilcox. 1881 .0S to Ben.
son, and the remainder appears in the
statement not being able TO charge
to any certain place
Last year SIG, S66.47 were expended
for roads during the same period Of
time, and S1,2l420 for surveyors per
diem and expenses, showing expendi-
lures Of $7,2JS46 for roads and 81
S5l.35 for surveying more than last
year for the same period of time in
each year.
AS both of these items are expendi-
- n
died as one subject.
IL was discovered last year, through
an investigation by this association,
that very few Of the roads in use 10
the county we're surveyed and record
ed. A delegation from the Taxpayers
association appeared before the Board
OF Supervisors at their August meer-
ing in 1911 and asked item to make
an order authorizing the County Sur
veyor TO survey. plat and have re-
corded all the unsuryeyed roads in
the county and other such surveys as
might be needed for future travel.
before the land is all fenced. The
order was made and the work begun
Immediately thereafter.
The present board of supervisors
have continued the work begun last
year and the whole is now about COM
pleted.
This accounts for The Increase in
the surveyors per diem and expenses.
Last year the board waited until
after the rainy season was over be-
fore doing the greater amount OF their
road work, so TIE most OF the road
expenditures were made in the last
months Of the year. This year the
board authorized the county road sI-
perintendent TO begin in March and !
he has continued his operations !
throughout the succeeding months |
and Road Oyerseers have been sp-
pointed to do work in some other |
places. The road from Dragon to |
Benson was made under the super !
vision of ID. A. Adams. and. without |
question. this 70 miles OF road for |
Si154.55 is the most road for the mon |
ey that has been built this year.
Your secretary accompanied two |
members OF the board of supervisors !
10 view section OF road. between l
FIVE and six miles In length, that was 1
constructed under the supervision of /
the County Road Superintendent with /
the county teams and tools. and an \
additional team furnished by W. NJ. /
Riggs without any cost TO the county |
This piece OF road occupied about |
two months of the time of the road /
superintendent and his whole cTsw /
and teams cost over 100000 A cas-, /
usl glance was sufficient to convince I
the casual observer that no system /
was used in making grades. putting I
in culverts. cutting storm or drain !
age ditcfses. nor moving dirt.
The law that created the Office OF \
county superintendent Of roads pro- I
vides as a qualification that he shall 4
be a man skilled In road building, /
but provides no standard by which /
a man must be measured to test his