Arizona republican., 1913-02-11
IN
 ANNUAL MEETING
Every County In State Is R Represented at Enthusi- astic Meeting of the County Authorities; In dOrse Good Roads.

The Associated Boards of SuperVi- sors of the Arizona counties went on record at the meeting here yesterday in favor of:
 A $1O,00000O bond issue at not over , per cent interest
 Each county to take of seventy-five per cent of the fund it's pro rata proportion based on assessed valua- ton, to pay i'm crest on that or optional smaller amount for roads to be built under the state engin- eer's and the supervisors control.
 The state engineering department to get p per cent for state high ways.
 north and south and an east and west state highway system and d connected road system among the various county seats
 The foregoing is the gist of a re- solution offered by A S Tender son, chairman of the board of super Visors of Santa Cruz county. It came after a long discussion in which the meeting had disposed of but four of the fourteen sections of the bill Which was presented for indorSement At the evening meeting. which was held in conjunction with the Arzona Good Roads aSsocatiOn, the measure providing for submitting the ten mil lions of bonds to the people of Ari- Zona was supported up to the hilt Practically every supervisor assured the meeting he would guarantee his district to vote for the bond issue if the matter is presented in the proper manner.
 The meeting was occupied almost entirely with the consideration of bill drawn up by Lin Orme and others, providing for the mourning of an indebtedness of ten million dollars by the state for good roads The bill was entitled, "A Bill for an act to authorize the state of Ar- Zona to incur an indebtedness of not more than ten million dollars for the purpose of providing for the payment of the cost of construction or acquisition of a system of state highways" The bill was only pre- scented to invite discussion among the members of the boards Of SUD- ervisors, and in that it succeeded pretty well. Some favored the bill in most of it's parts and some did not like any Of it. But all were heartily in favor of it's meaning though the actual wording in places brought out opposition.
 The method of incurring the debt. that is the bond issue, was favored by practically every member. but the way in which the money should be Civided as to counties and be- tween counties and state was a point of dissention. It was finally boiled down to this: The meeting found in favor of the bond issue. the me thod Of dividing the funds among the state and counties and the way they should be administered, and in q short and simple speech die tated the wording of the resolution as it. was finally adopted
 That it is the sense of this meet ing that a bond issue of not to ex- ceed $10000000 be advised, at a rate of not to exceed per cent; that each county be allowed to draw an amount not to exceed it's pro rata in proportion to lhe amount of it's assessed valuation; that counties not wishing to draw that amount be al lowed to draw an amount to it's needs that each county pay inter est on the amount it draws: that seventy five per cent of it be spent in each county under the control Of the board of supervisors of that county: and that p per cent be al lowed the state engineer department to be spent in said county or others 9S may he necessary; that q system ce state highways be laid from north to south and from east to west, to be selected by the boards of supervisors and state engineer, and to constitute a connected sys- tenn of highways"
 In offering the resolution MT Henderson worded the last part this way that the boards of supervisors connect up the various county seats
 The action was proposed in the foregoing resolution is practically the same as that incorporated in the call for the Federal Aid convention in Washington next month. The call asks for a national transcontinental highway to be built by the states with federal aid" that each state build it's state highways. north and south and east and west, and that with the state aid the counties con rect their county seats. This sys- tenn of road building is comprehen- sive, to say the least, and the fact that Arizona's boards of supervis- DTS hit upon it and adopt it shows that there is really something in the plan.
 At nearly 1;00, the meeting was adjourned to allow the supervisors a nasty luncheon before meeting again at the state house, to hear the vice president speak.
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