Bisbee daily review., 1915-09-19
BELIEVES SIDEWALKS
ARE MORE IMPORTANT
THAN PROPOSED PARK
Correspondent to Review Sug-
gestS That Better Sidewalks,
Trails and Other Needed I'M
provement PreCede City Park.

W UNCillSllA Y ! N1NNS OlAJ ~ ~
Bisbee, Arizona, 9-16-15.
Editor Daily Review
Being a resident and taxpayer Of
the city of Bisbee for over IA years,
It is but natural that l should feel in
terested in the welfare Of our city
It seems as if the proposed budget
Of the city of Bisbee, for the ensuing
year, has caused quite a stir among
the taxpayers, especially the $4,000
for the purchase and improvement Of
public park i'm Brewery Gulch. While
the mayor and one or two Of the coun-
ell and a few of the taxpayers in the
/ immediate vicinity of the proposed
park favor the spending of $4,000, the
majority of the taxpayers seem to be
against the project, judging from look
/ ing over the signatures that are on the
petitions now being circulated about
/ the town
noticed the signatures of some of
! the leading men of our city, men who
stand high i'm the financial and bust
ness interests of our city and who
have in the past shown good sound
judgement and business ability i'm the
management Of their own private at-
fairs, By attaching their signatures
to the petitions, it plainly shows
that they do not consider 1t
good policy to spend $4,000
of the taxpayers money for
something they do not want and by
spending the $4,000 foolishly they will
, deprive the taxpayers of many things
| that they do need badly.
The mayors and some of the coun-
ellis arguments for the park is that it
would be a nice place for the residents
place, and especially for the children
where they would be out Of danger of
being exposed to the many other dan
gers that they would have to contend
with on our crowded streets
/ 1t looks from a common mud-dig-
gers point of view that the mayor
and council are 60 use an old say
ing) putting the cart before the
horse, in boosting for the park, to
have safe place for the children.
They should spend the $4,000 in build
ing good sidewalks and better and
we'll lighted trails first, so the children
would be safe going and coming from
the park It would look more like
business to provide water for a park
/ first before buying the park and have
no water The city has not enough
water at the present time to water
any park l know for a positive fact
/ that there is a stretch of the Tomb
stone Canyon, for over 500 yards that
the city has not sprinked for over
three years And there are thousands
of dollars worth of property on each
side OF the street, all paying city tax
es The taxpayers have asked several
times to have 10 sprinkled and the re-
ply is, I'VE have not enough water %
How many times during the hot sum
mer months does the cry so up from
an parts of the city for the sprinkler?
The reply is; nothing doing The
water is low and we have to save it
for fire protection
Why not spend some of the $4,000
for improved and better lighted trails
that the miners, their wives and little
children have got to use daily You
must recognize that the miner is the
main support of Bisbee. Take the
mines and the miner away from Bis
bee and you would not need any parks
or sidewalks. So why not give the
miners and their families all that is
due them i'm the form of good and
well lighted trails where the wage
Garner and the taxpayer can go and
come from his work with a greater
degree of safety.
/ believe if we can present to the
mayor and council on the night of the
goth a petition of about 1900 sigma
lures asking them to spend the $4,000
that is proposed for the park. for
Iother improvements that win be a
greater benefit to the taxpayers at
the present time. After we have got
the sidewalks, good trails. and other
improvements mentioned I'm the peti
tion, we shold all get together and
? boost for park that should be a
credit TO the good old city of Bisbee
Yours for a greater and safer and
more beauteous city first, last and all
2 ways,
p T.. ANDREWS.