The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-25
ARE YOU AGAINST THE
ROAD BONDS? IF So,
WHAT FOR?


As the Road Bond issue seems to
be the leading topic for discussion,
then lets get down to good old hard
common sense talk.
Some are opposed to it because our
county officials are paid too much
Why blame our county officials and
TucumcGri for this, for salary laws
are state and not county affairs.
Some are opposed to il because
they are opposed to anything that
has tendency to build up, for these
we have no argument to make. They
came into the world kicking and just
as soon as they get old enough they
20 to knocking and when you chance
to meet one Of this kind and see him
using his little hammer with all the
skill and energy within his power,
watch him as he makes his retreat
and see II he has not two patches on
his pants just about the size of your
hand.
Now. don't mean to say that all
people that wear patched pants are
Knockers and kickers, for the best
people on earth wear EN- | do my
self am in the cellar right now
waiting to have the appendix of my
pants reinforced. But never the less
] am for good roads for | believe il
will be the beginning of better era
for Quay County For we are getting
phones all over the county. since we
have gone this far, to get the full
benefit OF our phone system we will
have to have good roads and to have
them II takes money or its equivalent
work. We have just completed "A
fine road down the cap Just west of
lima and this the people have accom-
plished with about $500 worth of the
equivalent, but we are all just as
proud Of 1t us IA boy is of his first
pair Of red-top boots. The people in
the vicinity of Ina might have sit
down and have howled for the county
TO do this, but realizing that the coun-
~ was not able at this time, we got
busy and helped ourselves.
II will only be short while until
We will be growing wheat all over
the plains Of Quay county, then where
are the people from the west end of
the plains going to market their pro-
duct? At Tucumcari of course. Are
the roads in shape for hauling your
produce to market? say they are
not by any means. Then how are
we going to get them in shape. Will
we get them by defeating the road
bond issue, then sit down and howl
for the county to build US roads? Or
would it not he better TO support the
issue to help the county to help us
build roads, rs il will make our taxes
practically no higher. We should not
expect to enjoy the benefit of good
roads without helping to pay for
them. II seems that the people who
live west and north of where wheat
is being grown, should be more in
favor Of the issue than any other part
Of the county, as it is only short
time until this will prove to be the
best part of the wheat belt of the
county as it is higher and has a great
er snowfall and will naturally take
less moisture in the spring to mature
the wheat.
Now, some are opposed to the is
sue because they think the money
will be spent on the automobile high
Rock Island. II is foolishness to even
think that the business men of Tu-
cumcari would vast TO spend all the
money on the automobile highway,
because wide awake business men,
which we know that Tucumcari has,
can see that the wheat, broomcorn and
other produce of the plains, will be
greater item TO them thin the auto
highway will ever be. II would be
natural for them to want to make Tu-
cumcari the best market in eastern
New Mexico. They can see that to
do this they must have good roads
all along the caprock leading to Tu-
cumcari. Otherwise they can see it
will be marketed on the Santa Fe X.
r. They can further see that when
the bridge across the Pecos at TT Sum
ner is built, that their highway will
not amount TO much as the highway
via Fl. Sumner will be the plains
route and naturally much better than
the one down the Rock Island. 1
further believe that the Rock Island
officials would be willing TO donate
funds to the county TO have this grain
marketed and shipped over their road
than to see IL 20 over the Santa Fe,
az 1t Is going to be great item to
the road that gets il. A blind man
can see that II Tucumcari did spend
all the money on the building and up
keeping of their highway she would
lose out on both. II is nonsense for
the plains people to try to defeat the
issue on this score, as they will only
be working against their own interest
so let's be sensible and work for the
bond issue instead of against it for
in doing so we are working for the
betterment Of our county and our
selves as well. Lets have confidence