Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-26
GOOD ROADS FOR ALL C0CHISE IS AIM OF
 " WARREN DISTRICT
SECRETARY OF COMMERCIAL CLUB REPLIES TO STATE.
 MENTs IN LETTER


 Denial that the Warren District has for the sections of the county that are SO fortunate as 10 be able to obtain better road was made yesterday by Secretary Gray of the Commercial Club after he had read in the Review the letter relative to road work near St. David. He stated that the club had used it's best influence to secure the ten cent assessment for county road work In order that all sections might have road improvements. ano had done more in that direction than any other organization fin the county.
 The writer said Gray, seems to have misunderstood the purpose Of our statement. What we sought toI show was that, although the board ac- cepted the opinion of the county at torney relative 10 proposed work that was for the direct benefit of the War rem District, nevertheless the board ignores another part of the same opin-
 
 lines which that opinion says is ille- gal makes the members personally responsible for the return of misused funds to the county treasury of at the suit of any taxpayer. We desired to show how little difference there real ly is between tweedledum and twee- dledee. The point is not how much any other district is receiving, but that the board of supervisors is read | ing an opinion in one instance and | ignoring 1t in other instances and that such course. if persisted in, will ex- haust the road fund and frustrate the promise made by each member of the board that justice in the expenditure of road funds should be done the War ren District this year It was a sound ing of an alarm to the taxpayers Of this section of the county that what had been promised them might soon be lost to them. unless speedy action is taken.
 of the good people of St. David are doing this road work for themselves or largely SO doing it is much to thei credit" Gray continued.
 But as to our statement being will fully false, or ignorantly made it ia another matter. The proper official at Tombstone informed us that there are thirty men and thirty teams em- ployed in the work on the roads in the St David school district. He included this in the number of men employed and number of gangs out on county work We treated this statement in figuring. as we did the other figures given, multiplied each man and each team by SS to obtain the cost per day and by the number of working days in the month to obtain the cost per month.
 We did not state that the road in question had ever had one cent On work done on it in the past We did state the amount that St David and Benson school districts received up to October of last year as shown by the report of the Taxpayers Asso citation That report ana an inspec ton of the county books will snow that the Benson-St David Road re ceived over $2750 and the Benson school district more than S4000 ol s6750 out of a total expenditure, ex elusive of road machinery and cul f yerts of more than 1-6 of the roat fund expenditures when the Bisbe' Naco school districts received only s2.474Ss.
 ' We would not for moment do ar |, injustice to St. David and Benson but we should like'to see justice don' to this district and will do all WI can to prevent the taking away O Q even that which it seems to have il the way of road funds. We stan' r ready to aid St David in better road e and Tn every otnrr possible way tha we cir but I hni sure tha: the write of .ho letter putlished in The Reviey will not blame the people of this sec :. ton in seeking to obtain an adequat v return on its road fund contribution for the first time in the history O '' the county and in seeking to have tn h board place a certain sum where will be available for benefit to thi district and not diverted to othe sections.
 l. If other sections will do as 'cs lei il ter states that St. David Is doing will help the peter roads movemen II in this county materially and mak d the road funds go long way further. -
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