Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-30


 THE GOOD ROADS PROBLEM
 As supplement to his previous communication pub shed in these columns last week Road Bond Advocate contributes the following:
 .ditor Bisbee Daily Review
 Dear Sir
 Your editorials of last Thursday and friday relative to the proposed amendment for the issu nee of state highway bonds l have noticed with inter ,st the first commenting my letter on the subject md the second going into further detail To reply to hese l am again asking space in your valued columns. You are correct in stating that my view not cir umscrbed as to consider merely the labor side of the question Like you I hope and trust that there will be employment for all of citizens in mines in the near future meantime the matter of finding tempor- lry employment is a problem that road work has helped o solve. You state that whether bonds issued not road work win continue in the state This statement is mis leading unntent.onaIy so doubt While state highway work will continue sections of the state ], will end ir Novem9er this county for more than year unless the issue is voted. We will by that time have spent our 1915 state monies and will be available unde present laws, until January, 1916 It is a f8rt then that without the proposed amendment, work in this county st end, so the state is concerned for more than year.
 that voting the pond is bequeathng legacy of sIOOoOOoO its future citizens and this unfair
 With the exception of railroads improvement goes more to increase value than do roads. If a highway system completed the future citizen arriving dur ing the the bonds, benefits equally with the payer today the advantages obtained through such system If built under present methodA the taxpayet Of today pays settler benefits without pay for existing improvements Is not the unfairness then upon here if the bond be voted rather than the other way about?
 You ask the taxpayer to look the matter nom business viewpoint in considering the proposed debt The same objection this issue by you would have prevented Bsbee from sewerng the city build ing subway It would prevent the individual iron buying home monthly payments like rent and flu, nishing that home Che instalment plan
 We are now raising by taxation $25OOOO per year fo state highways. This a tax rate 90 cents o the SlOOO The interest the bonds can be paid an the principal retired with a rate of 60 th Slooo Under present methods the system cannot b completed within 25 years Under the bond issue it wi be completed within three.
 If the state builds the main thoroughfares, count funds will be available to connect up agricultural tions with Che cities and towns Cities pay the bulk the taxes and demand expenditures themselves frs u win take years to build roads into and through agr cultural sections unless county funds made avaab therefore The state bond issue makes this possible once Otherwise it is impossible unless through cou ty bond issue.
 You suggest other methods. evidently meaning coun road building If Mr. Editor you will look over u county roads Of this state this county and compa them with the highway between here and Dough and here and Tombstone you would not consider u idea. Take one single instance alone, the White E phant" road north of Forrest ranch
 Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent Che counties without definite results to show for it, is generally admitted that county road building in tt state has been a distinct and notable failure
 Suppose the development work in mines was c Ied on in each shaft by of that shaft acco ing 10 his ideas would the results be satsfacto as when conducted under the general company head Would you advocate a change? The is para el with state and county highway building The st' has the system. 1T the counties be depended th will devise systems that will moi match up."
 Before ,aqyocauns county road building instead of state ystem the county highways of this col ty the santa Rita and vail-Tucson roads Of Pima, pinal highways. the Tempe-phoenix highway comp them with Che county roads of these counties and have efficiency against nenciency.
 The state has a system mapped out lt has com