The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-02
Many Present At
Road Convention
BOND ISSUE NOT RECOMMENDED
Favor More and Better Roads and Furnish Data
fer commissioners


present from among the farmers |
outside the city at the Good Roads |
convention which was held in
this city Monday and Tuesday. |
The question of roads is a para !
mount one among the settlers and |
they are very anxious to see !
something done i'm the matter.
The meeting of the convention
Monday was purely informal, the
time being taken up in the main |
by the residents of the outside !
districts submitting maps of the !
proposed roads in their respective |
localities, the building Of which |
they deemed absolutely necessary !
There was a large delegation
present from the western and the
southwestern parts of the coun-
ty urging the completion of the
ST Maries-Tekoa trunk line road
more commonly known as the
Benwah road. This road has
been built from this city as far
as TrcTcry and the settlers i'm
that district are very anxious TO
sec it completed through the LOlo
pass 10 the Tekoa road which will
gives them an outlet to this city.
A large delegation from Har-
rison Flats was on hand urging
roads in their locality and an
other delegation from the Alder
creek district. There was con-
siderable talk over bonding the
county for two hundred thousand
dollars for road purposes and pc
titions asking the commissioners
TO call an election for this ppr-
pose were in circulation.
Considerable opposition to the
bonding of the county also de-
veloped during the conference.
Those opposing the bonding
movement advocated the placing
Of , Y mills general road tax and
special road tax of the sam
amount which they claimed
would raise $4,000. a year and
in five years the rull amount
would be raised without bonding.
They argued that $4,000 a year
judiciously expended would build
the necessary roads and would
give better results than to raise
the money by bonding.
Although the petitions for
bonding we're numerously signed
many expressed themselves as be
lieving that the amount asked for
was too large and many Of the
settlers, the very people whom it
was thought would be the most
strongly in favor of it, were op-
posed to any bond issue. The
one thing that those present
were unanimous in their EXPIRES
sions of opinion upon was the
need of new and better roads.
roads that would permit the set
tiers to get their crops to mar
ket and get supplies into thei
farms and a great amount of dats
on this question and as to where
the roads were most needed wa.
presented.
1t was finally decided not to
take any action or make any rec
concentrations on the question o.
bonding and the petitions to-
gether with the other data pre-
sented were referred back to thu
ST. MaPies Commercial Club, will
whom the idea of the Good Roads
convention originated, for then
to take such action as they saw
nt
II is a safe prediction, however
that with the failure of the con
ventiQn 90 recommend that bond
be issued, the county commits
sioners will not go to the expens
of calling an election at this tim
and submitting the question O.
The voters. We believe, how
: ever. that the commissioners ne
alize the needs of the county j
regard to roads and will provid
as flarge a levy FOR this purpos
as the law will permit and wi
see that the money raised is ex
pended where and in the manne
10 do the most good.