Bisbee daily review., 1913-02-14
COUNTY SEAT
 BILL COMING
Also It Looks as if Legisla- ture Would Put High
 way Bonds Up to
 Vote of Taxpayers
COCHISE IS AT FRONT

That prospects for the passage oi
 acounty seat removal hin which viii
 be satisfactory to the peopie O. this
 county are bright and that the leg
 islature will in all probability submit the matter of a bond issue for state highway systems to the people are
 opil 'ons expressed by Secretary Joe
 Gray of the Warren District Com
 merciai club on his return from Phoe
 nix where he attended the meeting of the Good Roads Association and re-
 mained over another day to earn
 the sentiment relative to county seat
 removal To a representative Of the
 Review yesterday MT. Gray talkeI of
 his trip and speaking of the good
 roads proposition said: statement
 of the action of the representatives
 of the boards of supervisors that
 have been published were not quite
 accurate. The plan proposed by the
 boards is bond issue not to exceed
 Sl0,0O0,0OO. g per cent is 10 go into general state fund to be used
 where needed Of the remaining
 seventy five per cent each county can draw its pro rata part if desired.
 Each county is responsible and is to
 be assessed for its share of the zen.
 eral fund and so much of a bond is- sue besides as may be used on the
 roads in that county. They reconl- ,mended non, partisan state commIs- son and the state engineer and the board Of supervisors to handle the disbursement Of the moneys.
 Another resolution which the si- peryisors passed provides for the abollshing of road superintendent anu county surveyor as elective of- nces and the creation Of a county en- glneer as an appointiye office to hold at the pleasure Of the board of su pervisors and to have the combined duties of road supervisor and survey. or.
 The Good Roads Association ask. ed for not less than s5. .OOO. 900 e,- a non-part.san state commission but the desire of the Cochise delegates TOT non-partisan county commission also was not mentioned. The super resolution is more full and explicit than was ours. Our petition circulated in this county will 20 ;g the legislature from here. however.
 Cochise county was the best rep resented county at our meetings. de- 1 spite the fact that Douglas was cot represented. We had the three mem 1 )ers of the board, the clerk of the 1 ]oard and four representatives from his district and the influence Of this county was made evident. |
 There was feet ng for the hcnd is- iue manifested and the supervisors were even stronger on the subject nan the association. As to the prob lbiiity of bond issue l found some egislators who openly opposed if 'shers who heartily favored 1t and 'tHi others who favored passing a measure to let the people decide, Il, 'elleVe the latter two classes will ontrol the situation. This Is the nore likely from the fact that it is ertaiu that a bill will be initiated ii Ii he egislatOr fails to act favorabIv. t 'ut that would mean no action until .Sl4 and the resolutions presented ii sk for a special election this year. The former would mean that Me ould not get full benefit in 1915 as Ie can if the legislator acts favor 'bly.
 As to county seat removal I found j., 70 blll yet introduced but that there {, 'iH De an excellent one introduced l , m sure. There still remains so-rs pPosition but not So strong as last ear J was told that it is reasonably ! : ertain that a bill will pass and AS E Gtllned Co me the measure s iust hat We want Thus far real work v only starting for the committees I ave only just organized and Wednes- ay was the first morning given over [ committee work. The session will q e long one for in addition to much . ther legislation code revision will 2 Ike at least sixty days. FodrI ionths is an estimate of the lenstn - the session"
 Mir Gray took copies of the Old . rails Road Map with him and dis !. -ibuted them where he thought they 7 'ould tend to eoUnteract the work of L. ne by north route boosters. The natter of National Highways was de Derately ignored at the roads mee-- ng. however to avoid friction for he sake of the bond issue prolect. Thich was considered the first order |. z business. The state association. e says. was materially streugthea- q and its usefulness will be nore lanifest this year. than it was last ls Ways and means for properly ! inancing it were discussed and t an- ears that all necessary funds wiu e forthcoming which has not been |. ae case in the past.