Weekly journal-miner., 1912-08-28

That ardent advocate of good roads, Attorney General BuIIard. was the next speaker He explain. cd that the good roads bill was only saved through reaching an agree ment that the local authorities in each county should have an equal voice with the state as to the se- lection of routes. Pronouncing the present highway as a magnificent road, he pointed out that in select. ing a route, 1t should be the aim to satisfy as large a class of taxpayers as possible, in order to promote enthusiasm in the movement Roads should not be built for the auto mobilists but to reach the farmers and the mining centers. A system Of roads would never be built in Arizona, he said, by direct taxation. the only feasible method being a bond issue. It would be impossible, in his opinion, to get a special ap- propriation of $200OOO to complete the highway and he urged his hear CTS to devote their energies and their enthusiasm to educating the voters to support a bond issue.
 II. IT. Linncy rccitcd the diff. cultics encountered in the legislature in getting the road bill passed. Tn regard to the disposition of the state road fund in this county, he favored the extension of the present highway. IL was upon the under standing that Yavapai's fund would be applied to extending the road, that the legislature enacted the pres ent law.
 Jack Lawier was emphatically in favor of building a road to Wicken- burg via Kirkland, declaring it could be constructed for $i7.O00 F. NJ. Murphy took issue with him as to the feasibility of the route that Lawler had outlined. and the two gentlemen became involved in heated controversy. Later on Mir. Murphy in supporting the present highway route, expressed the opin- ion that there Is a great mineral section in the Bradshaws. which if opened up, would be of greater com mcrcial benefit to Prescott and to the Salt River valley than anything else that could be undertaken. E. s. Clark supported him in that view and J. NJ. w. Moore was of the opinion that it would be utterly i'm possible to secure a legislative ap- propriation of $2O0.0O0 to be ap- piled to only one county
 Supervisor Frank Luke of Mari. eopa said he was greatly impressed by his trip that day over the state highway and if completed it would be great advertisement to thi, county and to Arizona. He pledged his support to the extension of th, highway through his county.
 Supervisor Harry Heap contcndct that the main object was to get tc
 Phoenix and as soon as possible ir order that the people of the Sal
 River valley would be able to com, to Prescott next year. It woulc be the means of bringing thousand
 of dollars into this county. Tn,
 county, he said. proposes to bull,
 to Kirkland with county money an,
 then a large sum would not be re
 quired in order to extend it C Wickenburg from which point tn
 Maricopa supervisors would buil'
 to Phoenix. It would take tel years or more to complete the pres en, state highway under the pla advocated by the preceding speak CTS. The state highway was eithe a bond issue proposition or 1t wa nothing, and it would he many year before that could be effected. Mir. Norris criticized the super visors for what he believed to b a swap whereby the state none was to be diverted to the highwa in the Verde and the county mono was to be used to put road int Wickcnburg. Heap retortcd that if the tw supervisors from the Verde wishe to vote together they could talk both the state and county monie for that section. and added that h was looking out all of the time fo the interests of this end of th county.
 There was some further con trovcrsy between Mir. Murphy an Mir Lawler and the meeting wa discreetly adjourned.
 
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