Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-02
COUNTY ROAD BOND
ISSUE TO Be VOTED
ON next TUESDAY
ST, 900, 900 for Good Roads In
Cochise County = Polls
Open From 6 A. Nj. to c
P. nj.
POLLING PLACES


eisbee-Judse Highs office, Allen
block.
LoweIl-Judee Winters office, &.
3. Mason building.
Warren-coIe Ryan building.
Don Luis-Town hall.
All persons who are qualified cleo.
tors and whose names appear on the
assessment roll of Cochise county,
for either real or personal property
taxes-in other words. every one who
pays taxes in addition to poll and
school taXes-is entitled to vote at
this election.
If the election results favorably.
the money which will be raised as a
result of the issue will be expended
under the direction of a qualified and
competent commission, acting in con-
junction with the best available en-
gineering talent for the purpose of
properly constructing highways be-
tween the following places:
Silver Creek to Douglas: Graded
and drained.
Douglas to Bisbee: Graded. drained
feet wide, three-foot shoulders on
each side, making a 24-foot roadway.
Bisbee to Lowell: Widening the
present pavement six feet, making a
total width of y feet of paved road
way between Bisbee and Lowell.
Bisbee to Benson, via Tombstone
and ST. David: Graded and drained.
Wilcox to Gleason, via Cochise
Pearce and CORTLAND: Graded and
drained.
The regular county road fund.
which this year amounts to s125,OO0
has already been apportioned by the
board of supervisors, which includes
the following construction, paving the
gap between DEM bridge. Lowell. and
the Baskerville hotel. Constructing a
road from the end of the completed
road lat Don Luis to Naco: recrown-
ing and surfacing the road from Don
Luis TO Hereford, Completing a
graded read from the Double Adobes
TO Forest Ranch.
With reference TO financing. the
taxes to meet principal and interest
will fall largely on the mining COM
panies and other corporations. who
will bear S71a per cent of the total,
leaving 12l2 to be paid by upwards
OF 10000 individual owners. In other
words, there will accrue to the indi-
vidual property owners collectively
the full advantage of a million-dollar
investment in well-constructed roads
by their contributing one-eighth of the
cost-the payment therefor to be
stretched over a period of 20 years.
The cost TO you personally will be.
for the first year, 2 \; cents on each
500 assessed valuation, meaning that
II you pay taxes on property assessed
at $1,000, your proportion of the pro-
posed road bond. principal and inter
est, will be s1.33. This cost dimin-
ishes steadily each year, the tax for
the last year being 3I2 cents for each
800 assessed valuation. If you havo
any interest in the upbuilding of the
connty~it~is your duty to vote Yes
at the election on December 4,l9I7.
II Is understood that if the bond
Issue is voted that all monies aDpro-
priated by the state for road work in
Cochise county will be expended be.
tween Tombstone, Santa Cruz and
Pima county lines, thus giving Ii
rect connection 70 Nogales.
This will give us a system of roads
In Cochise county second TO no county
In the state, and should within a very
short time stimulate adjoining coun-
ties to similar activity.
All work TO be done by contract.