The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-12-11

6CSi0C AttdI fNtl nOdo NNOFH VO0Sif
ers Issued from December 1, 1914
Will Be Discounted Four Per Cent
Clerk of Superior Court Kept
Busy With Cases Filed, Several
Of Which are Criminal.
At the meeting on Monday, Decem-
Der z, of the county supervisors. a
decision was1 reached that all road
work vouchers issued after December
1, 1914, would suffer discount, of
four per cent, this action being taken
because of the fact that the county's
road fund is entirely depleted. - The
statement is made that all banks OF
the county agree to cash at this dis
count all warrants of the county
drawn upon these vouchers. These
warrants will be cashed by the coun-
ty when the monies OF the road fund
begin to accumulate, which will be
not before the warrants of the coun-
ty against the road fund, will gain
during the year Of holding about ten
per cent on their investment, as ad-
ded to the loss of four per cent
which the workers upon the county
roads, and sellers of material there
for, will suffer. the county will pay
to the holders about six per cent in
terest. -, - si..
This discount of road work, vouch-
ers is not, concerned with the stand
ing OF the general funds of the coun-
ty, it being caused entirely through
the depletion of the road funds
alone.
The general road fund is gained
by imposing specific tax, per one
hundred dollars of valuation, upon
the property of the county. $.25 being
zriie maximum allowed by law. The
recently deplted fund was gained
for the year 1914, by rate OF $.19 up
on the hundred dollars of valuation.
The law of the state will not allow
the supervisors to transfer to the
road fund monies from any other
fund of the county, therefore the only
method by which the remaining pro-
jected road work could be finished
was by the discounting of the vouch-
ers. issgs
The monies to be used for road main
tenance for next year will probably
be gained entirely through the per-
sonal road tax applied to the county's
inhabitants. This tax is expected to
total about $4,000 90
Road Construction for 1914
The records of A. E. Terry, clerk |
of the board of supervisors, show
that the county has expended upon |
road construction and maintenance, |
for the present year the sum OF $121,- !
720. SO. The county entered the year
1914 with a surplus of $50, ,o0e 90 in |
the road fund For the month of |
November alone the sum of $43, 10000 |
was expended, this large amount re-
sulting from the extensive construc-
ton work being accomplished along
the Morenci-Clifton highway and up
on roads in the vicinity of Duncan.
In addition to the amount expended
for the year, the expenses of the
road work for the month of Decem- ]
Der will probably be not less than
$25, 900. 90, which amount will be paid I
entirely by the issuance of vouchers
subject to the discount named above, ]
of four per cent. A total of about g
five hundred men are now employed /
upon county road construction, all
Of which will cease at or near the F
beginning of the new year, the ex- il
Dectation being that the .Morenci C
canyon road, where most of the men t
ire employed, will be completed prob p
IDLY about February /, 1915. N
The employment of these many n
has proved of the greatest W
,enef1t to the Industrial life of Green b
ee county, as practically all of the fe
nen so engaged were thrown from
at the time of the begin Il
ing of the present copper depression m
from the war in Europe. Itt
md had not the men been SO en- re
loyed by the county, probably many V
f, them would have left the county R
I quest Of employment tie
Superior Court Clerk Busy. III
A number of cases have been fled nc
l the office of the clerk of the
uperior court this week. ]. E. or
ygren versus Mrs. M. Brutinel is in
lie title of one of the new cases, the WI
ontest being styled breach of con- be
act, Nygren, the plaintiff, alleging m
lat he entered into a contract with sp
lie defendant concerning his selling in