Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-16
DOUGLAS WALL OVER
 WARREN HIGHWAYS
 SHOWS LACK OF PEP
Bisbee Secured That to Which the District Was Entitled and. Shelter City Is Advised to do Likewise.

oldIltlhS hehull uncovered BY OS- car K. Coll the Douglas daily papers publish articles relative to road ex- lpenditures for the past two years giv- ing figures furnished by Oscar K Coli secretary of the Douglas Cham Der of Commerce. which would make 1t appear that there was expended for the Warren District in that period more than $125.OO0 and for the bene ht of Douglas less than S13.OOO Both lpapers display the articles prominent Fly and editors seem disturbed over their discovery"
 To verify the statements made in the Douglas papers a Review repre- sentative called on Secretary Gray at the Commercial Club office yesterday land made inquiries from him.
 CT have seen the articles" said Gray, and in them ] can see nothing for Bisbee and the Warren District to be ashamed of but rather much Go give us satisfaction. l have the expendi. ture road figures in my office, not for . those two years alone but for several years previously"
 Asked if Coils hgures were correct, ? Gray took exception to the charging of the Courtland, Gleason Forest road to the Bisbee road monies. He said that those expenditures were equally
 for the benefit of Gleeson and the val Hey and the people of Bisbee never endorsed the eNtravagance in its build ine as much, or more, than did the residents of Douglas or any other lpart of the county He termed this { matter Ian old controversy that might well be dismissed
 Continuing, Gray aid. "Up to the
 time of the organization of the War ren District Commercial Club, this city and this District never received anything like fair proportion of road
 monies for expenditures for it's bene-
 ht That was one Of the matters that
 club undertook to remedy. The Doug Has papers seem to think that we have succeeded ! can say that our road
 committees and our officers and direct s Ors have worked hard. faithfully and continuously and have achieved many
 of the results that they undertook. 1T ?. our club has done this. we should be e congratulated and complimented and
 not blamed 1T D0nglas has not re-
 ceiyed its proper share of the road ? funds. only the people of Dorslas can e be blamed We asked their co-opera-
 tion a number of times tor mutual
 benefit but we nearly always had Go b get 1t alone Douglas should not n blame us for 8eeeing that we receive
 a just return for our road taxes. which as l say. we had not had up to the d past two years. We were entitled
 to consideration and we proceeded Co
 get it The same course is open to lDouglas or 10 any other community. e When they compile figures and facts Y that are introverublc to back up theiI
 demands, the board of supervisors icaunot well refuse them. This our 7- committee and our officers did As n long as this club exists, this District n has an organization to look after its
 interests. This is one of the clubs e most important functions.
 E "W do not consider that one item of road expenditure, the Gleeson- For. ' est road, as chargeable to us. This T. do know, that it was owing to ur ef IS forts that plans for its construction :. were changed and the lower end was completed along entirely different and a- much less expense lines.
 "rhe Douglas papers might have
 gone further mad they seen it. lt was
 due to Bisbee, through the' committees
 and the officers of the Commercial r- Club that state highway work was ,s continued last fall when our county's
 share of the road fund was exhausted SO and we obtained monies from the gen " eral state road fund It was due tC
 the efforts of our officers, committees
 and members that the major part o nt the S6O,OOO appropriated for the em to playment of convicts on state roaC ,e building will be spent in this county
 In doing this, our club alone, we had CT mo help iron Douglas or any othe
 community and the whole county be s, nehts.
 "I am glad to se, that the Douglas re papers do not actually blame us fo is getting what belongs to us, and l an os sure that the directors of the club vii
 be glad to sec that thu people of Doug ah las have awakened to the fact tha ot th way to do hings Is do them fo
 oneself the way to get a thing
 to go after and keep after it. On .o' does not pick cherries by lying o m- one's back in the shade of the tre de with ones n outh open
 And lurtler. we worked for tn no Appropriation for the improvement c 100 the BorderldI q Route, passed by tn va Legislature md which will be sper
 on the part adjacent to Douglas eS' Is quite true that we got the hrs gh paved road in the state the Bisbe' bo Warren road and it is also ture tha
 we have obtained lesser road improy
 ments We feel that is to our credi sats And we do not intend to stop. W Ing are epine to keep on seeking whi
 we believe we are entitled to and go 'o what we seek if the right kind { ply work will do it
 ab- "In this connection want to sa
 that President Bowen has done maj' '' service for the benefit of this distriC
 not only in road matters. but in oth0