Mohave County miner., 1917-01-06
COUNTY ENGINEERS REPORT GIVES
 LIE TO UNWARRANTED CHARGES

The last issue of the Oatman News contained scur-
 ous attack the board of supervisors and that false in precept and malicious in character Not only it diatrbe against the best in Mohave county but every assertion contained therein damnable lie And the fact apparent that the editors of that sheet knew that the article lie at the time of its publication
 We quote the article in ful
 On December 31 the reign of the worst board of pervsors that any county ever cursed with to an end and better things are promised and demanded from the incoming board
 Though the Santa Fe railroad and the mining inter- paid than threeourhs of the taxes of Mohave county not cent of county money ever expended for the benefit of any mining district.
 There two exceptions to this in the building of two roads But neither of these jobs reflect any credit upon the county administration.
 To take money away from Oat1nan and spend it upon Idngman is just much stealing if the county super vsors broke into the houses of the taxpayers here and stole money to be diverted to their own uses.
 That the county of Mohave is operated solely for the Dene of Kngman IS proven by the fact that every street Tn K1ngman has been improved, oiled and curbed with county money while not cent has ever been spent on Claimants main street
 Further proof recently offered by the chairman of the board of supervisors when of the leading phy cians of the county called him up on the phone to ask that the county take of ndgent patient here At first the chairman refused to talk to the physician until the message prepaid Then when the facts of the case were laid before him. he absolutely refused to a- thoze the doctor to send the patient to the poor farm giving all sorts of excuses.
 However, an appeal was made to higher power po- hcay and the patient was installed in the hospital pro vded for such purposes by the taxpayers money but o erated exclusively for the benefit of Kingman.
 If the people of Oatan Chloride and the rest of the county had any of the spirit of their Revolutionary fath- CTS left in them they would have demanded the recall of the outgoing board of supervisors long ago.
 As long they content to be plundered and dis criminated against, they deserve no better fate
 But tendency to rebel against such treatment is ap- parent and square deal is demanded of the board It is believed that this will be forthcoming
 If 1t IS not stern measures will be resOrted to in order that the people get what is coming to them.
 But let not the old board of supervisors deceive them selves into thinking that they have escaped making an ac counting of their stewardship"
 That the people may know the facts the Daily Miner fers to the report of the county engineer made the day of December which shows the following sum to have been spent the roads of the county during the months of 1916:
 County Engineers Report for November 1916 To the Honorable Board of Supervisors Mohave County
 Gentlemen:I submit the following report showing road department expenditures from all districts and sources, for the period January to December 1916:
 District Total GoldroadO Oatman 3331976 Sandy .......................... 1017972 Old Trails 2009991 Chloride ........................ 1323585 Klngman .......................... 643873 Lltteheld ..........:........... 123220 Moccasin ............................ 8666 Grand Guch ......................... 28970