Arizona republican., 1913-12-04
ROAD BOND PROJECT
 RECEIVES BOOST IN MESA
County Supervisors and Advisory Committee Meet With Citizens
 to Talk Over Proposition

At noon yesterday 'Messrs. Mouer, i Orme and Luke, county supervisors, | anG a committee of prominent citi- zens, members of the advisory board ] appointed to assist in working out
 the plans of the proposed million and l q quarter bond issue in the interest i of good roads met the Mesa people ! at the commercial club rooms in l Mesa. News has been sent out that 1 the party would arrive here at 11:OO i ana consequently quite a number who would otherwise have probably been i present were too absorbed in their midday meal to attend.
 | NJ. J. Dougherty, president of the | commercial club, presided, and intro | Iuced Supervisor Lin B. Orme, who stated the object of the conference. MT. Orme said that he long had been of the opinion, confirmed by personal observation and from studying the road problem in this county, that the time was now ripe Ior bond issue that would insure to the county a few first-class roads A million and quarter had been suggested, and he believed that even that amount was hardly enough, but that perhaps it was all that it would be advisable to issue at this time. If the bonds were voted he believed the road building should be for permanency. Let au the work be first class. for while we would not get so many miles We would secure better roads. Said he We have he highest school rate and the best schools; but we have the lowest road rate and the poorest roads"
 According to MT. Orme, the bonds would run for forty years. and would not increase the taxes to any notice able extent At the end of twenty years the county would begin paving the bonds, and the burden would not be felt by the taxpayers. So far our road tax has been expended in tenn rorary repairs and had to be done over every year. W hat the board wanted to know was what Mesa peo- FIe thought and what they wanted in the way of permanent roads
 MT Dougherty stated that Mesa favored good roads, and believed that the plan to be followed should be for few trunk lines connecting the most densely populated sections and extending across the county. A road connecting Phoenix. Tempe. Mesa. Gilbert and Higley. following the line o1 the state highway was, in his opinion, the one that would serve the greater number of people. A branch CT the road should also extend to the Lehi section. Mesa favored the road tbat would run through the center of Mesa to the Highland canal along the Roosevelt road; two miles east of town the main road should lead south to Gilbert, thence east three miles then south to Higley and the county line. Mesa and Gilbert had spent great deal of money on the Mesa -Higley line, and Mesa would see to 1t that the mile along Main street was built up to the standard of the remainder of the road.
 Q. S. Stapley, a member of the advisory board, spoke briefly along the same line, as did also Messrs. J- c. Spangler and Phil Nets The speakers called attention to the fact tAat the bond issue was not to build | Il road for the tourist travel, but to 1 make permanent highway that | would afford the farmer an oppor- 1 tunIty to move his crops at the least | expense in wear and tear of horse | liesh and vehicles. Later feeder roads | could be constructed, leading to the 1 trunk lines. The local speakers sug- 1
 
 visit to Mesa when there was time | to cover the proposed route thor | oughly which met the views of the | visitors.
 MT. Humbert and Supervisors Luke | and Moeur closed the session. all ex- good will toward Mesa and a disposition to give this part of the county what it needed and what the JoOple wanted
 The engineers estimate of the mile ige of good roads gives the total l available under the bond issue at l6z-I5 miles, of which amount the Hesa, Tempe and Chandler sections would get III. and the north side of he river the remainder The ap- )foprlatlon would be approximately 'I63'O53.0O to this part of the county md the remainder of the one and a l luarter million to the north side
 From here the board and the com hittee went to Chandler for luncheon ma to consult with the Chandler people. They were accompanied bv number of Mesa's citizens.