The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-05

The Tonasket Times has taken up
the hue and cry against Commissioner
Mitchell for having secured the APP
preparation of $4,000 of the road mon
ey for use upon roads in the vicinity
OF Oroville, claiming that the money
il the property of the third district.
According to the position OF the Times
every dollar that gets into the road
fund the third district has mort
gage on, and that the other districts
are to get along the best they can
without financial assistance. And that
is especially the case if any money Is
to be applied to this immediate part
of the county, that has paid, and is
paying, proportionately more taxes in
to the treasury than any other section
of the county. This hardly listens
good to the residents OF this locality.
Last year the third district absorbed
some $1,000 of road money, while the
first district did not secure a drop OF
greese, yet the residents OF the third
district did not hear the people OF the
first district emitting any walls, or
registering any wild protest. Is there
no limit to the avarice OF the third
district? Have the people become so
accustomed to getting the lions share
of appropriations that a crumb thrown
to neighboring district makes them
see red? We are somewhat ignorant
of the methods employed in slicing the
watermelon, but no one needs to be
ignorant of the small slice that is
passed up this way. Why, one OF the
chief highways of the county, one
more generally used than any other
artery of travel, is the valley road to
the British Columbia line. 1t is water
grade, and the natural outlet and in
let for travel north and south across
the line. Ii there was any business
exercised in the distribution OF the
permanent road funds this road would
have been put in much better condi-
ton than it is years ago No one can
remember any sum spent in improv-
iEg the stretch of highway between
Tonasket and Oroville within late
years, while thousands of dollars have
been diverted to this same road from
Tonasket south. Besides the work
done on the valley road money has
been spent like water on other roads
out of Tonasket, and in the third dist
riot. This paper never lifted up a
voice of protest against the concentra-
ton of funds at that particular spot.
/. was felt that the Tonasket boys had
a pull, and they were pulling for all
they were worth. Have they pulled
it out by the roots, and some one
else grabbed a root? 1t would seem
SO by the way some of them are wig
Cling in the third district. However,
the money spent on roads to the south
was well spent, and good roads are
something all want to see, even If
they have to go long distance from
NOule W see luelu. just DIT lnlS lllue,
and under the circumstances, it is not
very graceful for TOnasket to do any
frOthing, when after long waiting, fire.
quent deferment of hope, and con-
tinuous display of placid resignation
to what seemed the inevitable, bunch
OF money has been voted for roads in
the neighborhood of Oroville. 1t is a
long, long time since a piece of road
money has been seen up this way. 1t
Is not improbable in the face of the
powerful influence being brought to
bear on the commissioners that the
money voted may never be seen, but
if the graspers of the third district
had any heart they would let us enjoy
the anticipation of getting some even
If those anticipations should be finally
nipped in the bud.