Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-22
INTERNATIONAL SAYS GRAY'S LETTER VERY
 MISLEADING IN PART
Douglas Paper Takes Bisbee Man to Task for Parts of Circular Letter Which Was Sent to Section of County.

Under the heading, Misleading Is Letter Of Gray" the Douglas Inter national of yesterday says:
 Secretary Joe Gray, of Bisbee, sec retary of the Cochise County Bonding association, is sending out over the county petitions calling for a read bond issue in accordance. with the plans of the bonding association, amounting to one million and two hundred thousand dollars. Following is the ettelr accompanying the peti- ton:
 Dear Sir:-In accordance with the instructions of the meeting of the Road Bond Issue association held in i Tombstone the 7th ut. the committee then named attended in Douglas Mon day and presented two plans to committee of the taxpayers associa- ton. The latter declined to give eith- CT favorable consideration and present a plan of their own. h further recog- hilton og the sentimen. expressed at the Tombstone meeting it now de wolves to circulate and present peti- tions for the issue of Sl,200. 900 bonds and a road system of 525 miles in ac- cordance with the map with which you are familiar and the schedule an neXed to the enclosed petition.
 Please circulate or have circulated the petition acd after it has been duly sworn to before notary. return to me in me for presentation to the Board Of Supervisors at their meeting on March 6. Karger says about 1,200 signatures are needed, so please have it signed as liberally as possible.
 The taxpayers association plan in cludes S4OO,0OO for a paved road from Douglas here and gives Douglas roads costing $600,O00 on an issue of S1,- 0OC.0OO.
 Trusting this may receive immedi- ate attention. am
 Yours truly,
 J. H. GRAY,
 Secretary.
 According to those who conferred with J. J. Bowen. the only member of the bonding association who met with the committee of the taxpayers assO- citation in Douglas, Mir Bowden pre- sented only one proposition and that was to accept the plans agreed or by the bonding association, or reject fl. IL vas rejected
 In Mir Gray's letter appears the following paragraph:
 "The Taxpayers association plan includes siO0,O0O for a paved road from Douglas here and gives Douglas roads costing S6OO,OOO on an issue of $1,OOO,OOO."
 In order to show the ridiculCusness Of these assertions it is necessary to outline the roads proposed by the tax payers association that might possi- bly effect Douglas. They are. first. the building of central highway (runk lme) from Willcox to Douglas, 90 miles Of which is now completed with the exception Of few short bridges and culverts. This road when completed would be used by all those residing in the Sulphur Springs valley and in every section of the northern end Of the county, excepting Benson. in coming 10 either Douglas or Bisbee, as they might chose. The taxpayers read system provides for road from point on this valley trunk line to Bisbee which makes the distance from point north Of that point exactly the same to Bisbee as to Douglas. Surely this road could not be claimed as more beneficial to Douglas than to Bisbee, as it makes the distance to be travelled from any point in the north