El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-12
SOLDIERS HNRT
VALLEY PAVING
County May Be So Divided
AS To Give City More
Precincts.

The monthly report OF the county en-
gineer was presented the commission
ers at their meeting on Monday and
the question Of damage done to the con-
crete road in the upper valley by the
passage Of army truck trains came up.
II was decided to have the matter in
vestigated- W. \ White, of the en-
gineer's office, reported that the road
had been completed on November IS,
and the Southwestern Portland Cement
company should give a maintenance
bond of $4,000. The cement company
was represented at the hearing. and
stated that application for the bond
had already been made.
The company representative also told
the commissioners that the price Of
$50 per barrel for cement would only
apply for concrete roads and not for
general construction. The commission
ers cOntended that that price had been
given them without any restriction
Wants Equitable Division.
As result of a suggestion brought
before the commissioners, FL PaSo may
be represented in the commissioners
court, by two or even three commits
took believes that there should be an
equitable division OF the four county
commissioners precincts and suggested
that the county be redistricted. As 1t
is now the city is represented by but
one commissioner. R E Lyons
Stating that he was not quite sure
. as TO what the law provided, Judge
AcClintock stated that ne would look
4. up the matter of whether the districts
should he divided according to pOpu-
laJiOn Of territory
The present commissioners precinct
of the city extends to the five mile
bridge on the county road and takes
in Canutillo on the west one COM
missioner represents this territory,
while there are three commissioners
from the lower valley. one from So
vi
High Cost Hits Jail
Because Of the fact that flour, beans,
potatoes and other necessities had
gone I'D in price sheriff Seth Orn-
dorff appeared before the commission
ers and asked to be allowed 30 cents
q day to feed each prisoner. instead
OF 80 cents as heretofore He stated
that 80 cents was too small with the
soaring prices of fOodstuffs- The COM
missioners allowed the larger amount
With a bill of SlS3 representing the
pay roll at the county poor farm Tor
five days, from November - 10 De
cember >. staring them in the face,
the commissioners appeared quite Will
ing TO either sell the place or rent II.
Mr.. white, in charge OF the county
engineers office. reported that S12S-45
was spent IN November for repairing
bridges. grading and dragging county
roads He reported also that Two con-
crete culverts had been put N on the
FL Paso-Fabeus road between FL Paso
and Ysleta. at a cost OF S41e-ZO- me
road. ne stated. would be completed
this week
To Pay For Damage.
The government has promised 10 pay
for the damage done to the Sierra
Blanca road by the passage OF army
trucks To see what arrangements can
be made along this line. commissioner
J. NJ Walling e poets TO leave for san
Antonio 10 confer with the military
authorities Judge Adrian Pool who
succeeded in getting the promise from
the government. Will not be al san
Antonio as he has gone to Austin TO
,btain the approval Of the attorney
general on the $3.50 GOO bond issue
voted 10 take up the s per cent scrip
contracted for the completion OF the
courthouse.
From Austin. judge Pool will go 10
Chicago, where he will get the approval
OF Charles Woods. a bond expert, on
the issue The bonds were bought SUB
ject TO thst approval. Judge Pool
wired from Austin that the transcript
had been approved and now the at
torney general wants a sample OF the
bonds to pass on. County auditor Roy
Rarnum expects to be in Austin THURS
dav with this sample, and after its
approval. il will be turned over 10
judze Pool, who will proceed TO chi
cage