The Parker post., 1915-11-27
ROAD FIGHT
IS STILL ON
IN DEFIANCE TO WISHES OF TAX
PAYERS SUPERVISORS STAND
PAT ON wARRENITE ROAD
FIREWORKS AT MEETING.
yuma Sum-

It Will be many months and doubt
legs years before another as intensely
earnest and enthusiastic meeting of
representative taxpayers with board
Of supervisors Is held in Yuma county
as that of Monday afternoon, when
the board met at the court house to
fGsner move in the direction of max
ing Il contract with the o. & G.. Con
strlction company for the laying of a
Warrenite road between Yuma and
S,MertUn The oldest timer never
saw the equal Of that meeting, and
probably never will see its equal And
When it adjourned, after two and one
half hours session, the board of supe
ytsors gave no further evidence of
desire to rescind their movement to-
ward making contract with the O.
& c. company than they had pre-
vtously given since the dismissal of
the Injunction suit which had for
Its object the legal restraint of the,
board from entering into the proposed
contract. This was evident when Su-
pervisor Ike Proebstel asked the
county attorney if he had a right to
make a motion to reconsider the ac-
ton of the board in ordering the
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notion after the county attorney said
he knew of no reason why he could
not make it. But the motion was
not seconded, and few moments
after it was made the board adjourn
ad to meet again at ten o'clock Tues
day. A further indication of the.
effect OF the meeting on the two
members of the board who are in
favor Of drawing the contract was
tne statement of Supervisor Donovan,
In answer to the county attorney,
who wanted to know if the board de-
sired him to furnish an opinion as to
whether they had a legal right to re-
scind their former action in ordering
the drawing of contract, who said:
$50 far as | am concerned / do not
want an opinion. The matter has
eone too far-the contract has been
awarded and the county attorney has
been ordered TO draw up contract =
Road Man Throws Bomb.
The meeting was a hot one through
out. Not less than ten speeches were
made, all straight from the shoulder,
and the proceedings We're punctuated
by vigorous applause and cheering
many times Particularly was this
true when A. c. Root, representing
the Federal Constitution company
of San Francisco. got the floor
and presented a bid for his COM
pany, accompanied by a bond for
$4,000 as guarantee of good
faith. stating that the bid contained
an offer to furnish the county with a
Varrenite road according to the spec
ifications of the O. & c. company
for IS cents per square yard, the bid
Of the O. & G. company being $1.01
per square yard. Mr.. Root said that
{ the county built the road under
contemplation on the o. & C. com
pany bid, it would lose many thou
sand dollars. He also said that if
the board desired to rescind its
action with reference to the o.
& c. company contract he would
file bond of any amount nam
ed as guarantee that his COM
pany would pay every dollar of
damages the O. & G. company could
recover in any court action or other
wise. While MI. Root did not so
state at the meeting, it was ascer-
tanned definitely afterward that his
bid, which, together with the bond
is in the hands of the board, con-
tanned a ten-year guarantee on the
road he proposes to build.
Al the adjourned meeting of the
board on Tuesday the county attor-
ney was instructed to prepare a con-
tract with the O & c. company for
the construction OF the Warrenite
road. Members Shannsey and DON
ovan voted aye, and Proebstel no.
This action ends the controversy,
and the bid of the o. & c. company
was accepted against the wishes of
the largest taxpayers in the county
Owing to the large amount to be
expended under this contract in the
Yuma valley it is extremely doubtful
that northern Yuma county will get
much more than an ordinary desert
dirt road.