The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-01-08
|EW BOARD HOLDS | FIRST MEETING
 ON MONDAY

 trriaI Transfer of Records Made in Joint Session-W. T. Witt Elected Chairman and A. L. Terry Clerk- Contracts for New Year Awarded and Routine Business Transacted. ! At 9:15 a. m. on Monday morning last the newly elected Board of Supervisors of Greenlee County, com |posed of w. T. Witt, of Duncan, s.. F. Await, of Clifton, and w. w. Dut- |ton, of Morenci, assumed charge of bounty affairs. The formal transfer of the books and records of the office was made in the presence of two members of the old Board, Messrs. Hampton and Gravely, the three new members, E. E. Wall, County Attor hey. with several spectators present. After the reading of the minutes of khe last session of the Board, held on bee. 31, the minutes were approved by both the old Chairman and the hew Chairman. The first order of business before he new board was the election of Chairman. W. T. Witt was placed in nomination for Chairman by S. F. Await and was elected unanimously W. W. Dutton nomi- hated A. L. Terry for Clerk which domination was seconded by Witt and his election made unanimous. With these nominations and cleo tions the new board was ready for business and proceeded to open bids for feeding prisoners, furnishing fuel for the court house, and for county printing and advertising.
 For feeding prisoners here and at norenci only two bids were received. Mike Reardon, of Clifton, was award led the contract for feeding prisoners Tat Clifton at the rate of 20c per. |meal. H. D. Keppler was awarded e contract for feeding prisoners at 1rencf at rate of 17c per meal.
 For fuel B. F. Bowman bid $10. % ton for coal, s. & S. Bottling rks bid $1O. GO per cord for wood; 75 per ton for Dawson coal and .00 per ton for Gallup coal. The ar's contract was awarded to B. Bowman at $1O. % per ton.
 County Printing
 The bid for the county advertising Is awarded to The Copper Era, this ser having been the lowest bidder.
 publishing proceedings The Cop
 Era bid soc per inch; and for fcial notices 55c per inch. The thing Journal bid for proceedings per inch and for all other notices
 per inch. While the Mining Annal bid five cents less on legal
 les than The Copper Era, the diff
 ce iR the size of the type used on
 Copper Era and The Mining
 al made this paper the lowest
 r for the Notices as well as the
 Pedings. The Board took this
 Unto consideration and awarded
 Contarct accordingly. The bids job printing were rejected and Il be re-opened at the meeting on bruary 1.
 Appointments Made
 
 n the past the newly elected ard made the appointment of the icial interpreters for the county. retofore these appointments have sn made by the Judge of the Su- 1ior Court and the several Justices the Peace. On Monday E. c. tzgerald was appointed interpreter the Justice Court of Clifton and Superior Court and his salary ed at $100. % per month. At Mo- nci Gid Thompson was appointed in- preter for Judge Lally's court at compensation of $50 % per month. is understood that Judge Lally will ntest the right of the Board to me an interpreter for his court and Il apply for an injunction. At the me time the interpreters were med, the Board appointed John Evers to be Janitor of the court use at salary of $1OO % per bnth.
 Sheriff Cash announced to the bard the appointment of the follow g deputies:
 Clifton-Tom McCulloch, Fred Hill, ave Address, Jailer
 N vMorenci-Max Arhelger, Joe Lar u and Gid Thompson, Jailer.
 0uncan-Jim Carter
 Metcalf-Alex Arnett.
 The Board approved the appoint Pnts as made by the Sheriff with understanding that the Board re- <ked the right to dispense with
 ne deputies later should