Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-25
GAINS TELLS WHY
 SYSTEM Is NEEDED
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 to either place, after he gets onto the Central Trunk Line. This should set tie all disputes between the two towns as to the Sulphur Springs Valley trade.
 Another link in the TRUNK LINE SYSTEM is a road running from Bis bee to Hereford and on to Garden Canyon, another diverging from this road at Don Luis and running to Naco This enables people living along the 1 upper. San Pedro and the Huachuca mountains and adjacent country to come directly into Bisbee.
 i Another link runs from Benson to Dragoon Summit, enabling people liv- ing at Johnson Mining Camp and the ! Dragoon mountains to travel on the system to Benson, St. David, Tomb l stone, Bisbee or Douglas.
 | The TRUNK LINE SYSTEM em. braces 2S3 miles of the same kind of construction as that contemplated in the 525 miles system and 23 miles of paved road between Bisbee and Doug las, the first unit in the construction of PERMANENT ROADS for Co chise county. In fact, this is the be- ginning of a system of paved roads. If we ever have a permanent sys- tenn of roads, we have to begin some where. Then, where there is the greatest amount of travel on any piece of road is the logical and req jonable place to begin. Over the P miles proposed to be paved at this time, there is more travel than over all the rest of the roads ill CochiSe county every day in the year. Be sides, the Warren District and the City of Douglas have more than 70 per cent of the population and pay more than so per cent of the taxes of the whole county. Any reasonable business man must concede that this is the logical point to begin with the first unit of paved road. whether he lives in the extreme north, or within the immediate vicinity of the first unit
 There has been complaint that Bis bee has no road up the west side of the Sulphur Springs Valley which would enable the farmers to bring road in the Bond Associations scheme in this locality is on the line of the Forest-Gleeson road on which more than S50,000.00 of county money has been spent within the last three years, but there is no farming community within several miles of this road. We are informed by two of the heavy taxpayers of Gleeson that s4,0OO.0O judiciously spent on this road will make them an excellent orad into Bis bee over this line. This amount can be furnished out of the regular county road fund before the proposed bond money would be available. But the Road Bond Association proposes an expenditure of S54 4,463.00 additional on this road.
 Then, to scare the people of Tomb stone, the cry is raised: "The plan oi the Douglas Boosters has all the ap- pearance of step toward county seat removal to Douglas" We can not ap- ply this in any manner to the plan of roads proposed by the Cochise County Taxpayers Association, as we are not allied in any way with any set of boosters. and have little toleration for the petty quibbling between few people in each town, with each other, which should have no connection. nor in any way have anything to do with proposed road bond issue that is supposed to be for the good of the whole county. It is self-evident that if there is any one thing that would insure the county seat remaining in Tombstone. it would be a good road from Douglas, through Bisbee to the county seat. Surely the people of Tombstone need a different brand scare to cause any great amount of excitement among them.
 The Taxpayers Association believes that it has proposed a road scheme that will furnish the people in all parts of the county with the best ac- cancellations for travelling from one part to any other part, for the amount of money proposed to be expended And we further believe that a bond issue of $1.000.000.00 is going strong enough until we have proven that we are out of the experimental stage in read building.
 Since the 525 miles of road is to be only a foundation on which there must be permanent system of roads constructed in the not-too-distant fu- ture. or count the first money spent, wasted, and the 293 miles of dirt road proposed by tho Taxpayers Associa- tion must likewise be completed, or count this amount of money wasted, then it seems there can be only one logical conclusion. The taxpayers should not burden themselves with so many miles that the upkeep will be prohibitive and the elements would have destroyed the foundations.