Bisbee daily review., 1915-08-27
C0UNTY'S ROAD BOND
ELECTION WILL Be
HELD IN DECEMBER
Issue Cannot Be Put to a Vote
Until Estimates as to Cost of
System and Other Facts Are
Secured

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Secured
tt now appears improbable that an
election 90 determine wether Cochise
County shall be bonded to complete
county road system can be held be-
fore the end of the year at the earli-
est 10 is unlikely that the meeting i'm
Douglas at which IL is to be deter
mined what amount shall be asked.
will bs held until October This
woOd inetn no election until Decem-
Der
President Gardiner Of the County
Road Bond Issue Association. was
over from Tombstone yesterday. He
talked with j y. Bowen. the local
member of the executive committee,
and with the secretary Previously
he had talked with County Engineer
J. c. Ryan All were satisfied that
without undue haste the probable
course Of events would be as has been
stated
TO make a detailed and accurate
estimate of the cost Of improvement.
reconstruction and construction of a
road system of over 500 miles is no
small undertaking That is task
on which the county engineers office
is now engaged. In the Office there
are figures as to some of the roads
but the greater portion of the system
asked must be personally gone over
and inspected. There are instances
like the one which now occupies at
tention in the vicinity of Silver Creek.
where entirely new surveys have to
be made. Engineer Ryan is carrying
out the wishes of the committee that
nothing be left TO guess work and that
the figures TO be presented to the
meeting of the Association I'm Doug.
las shall be approximately as accurate
as are obtainable The excuse made
for the defeat of the proposed state
bond ISSUE that the voters did not
have sufficient definite information"
cannot be offered again
1t was at first thought that a Coun-
~ Road Bond election could be held
early I'm November That now ap-
pears impossible The determination
of the issue must be a month later at
least. After the meeting is held in
Douglas petitions must be circulated
the election called, and advertised &C
cording to law Attendance to detail
is the occasion for the delay.
Cochise county is not the only coun-
~ OF the state that is using due DELHI
Grafton in submitting the issue Of
road bonds. Pima County is follow
ing a simila course. InTucson a sim
liar project was agitated several
months i'm advance Of the first action
taken at Tombstone but it now ap.
pears likely the two counties will
vote on the similar issues about the
same time
Though Pima County has not the
problem of satisfying so many differ
ent and distinct communities as has
Cochise, it's headway has been little
if any more rapid That county has
the advantage of nearly all its inter
ests being centered IN or about Tue
son, its committees chiefly composed
of Tucsonians, but using due care.
haste has been found impracucable.
In each county the matter is being
undertaken in all seriousness and
with the idea of giving the taxpayers
the best possible results. Without
any consultation ON the subject. the
methods that each county is pursuing
are very much alike. In carefulness
of detail and completeness this coun-
~ appears 20 have the better OF Pima.
Indications are strong that a bond
issue for county roads will again be
considered by Mahcopa county. The
press of Phoenix Is again taking up
the matter and it is recognized that
the county has some of the poorest
roads in the state The encourage.
ment Of other counties voting bonds,
or preparing to vote them, is being
felt. Once the project was well in
hand, but the decision In the Yavapai
County Court House case resulted i'm
the calling off of the election which
was then being advertised. Legal
difficulties are now removed but an
entirely new campaign would be nee
essary in Maricopa County to warrant
any assurance Of success