Mohave County miner., 1917-01-06
1lly submitted,
 J. B. WRIGHT, County Engineer.

DeCemDef lOy 1910.
 It will be seen that the county ex- pended on roads leading to mining
 camps over s1OO,OOO, S33,319.76 of
 which was spent on the road into oat-
 man; s13,285.s5 on the Chloride roads;
 $1O,179.72 on the Big Sandy road;
 S2O, ,O99.91 on the Old Trails road, lead
 ing from Yucca on the south to Nel-
 son on the east. These are the main
 items of expenditure on road work to-
 taling S76,S35.24, three-fourths of all
 the money expended during the year.
 Of the entire expenditure there was
 spent in the town of Kingman s6,-
 43S.73. If the boob that wrote the
 News article could have taken the
 trouble to look over the taxroll he
 would have found that Kingman is the
 largest taxpaying center of the coun- ty, and it was to the fact that King
 man has more property owners than all the balance of the county that
 money for road purposes was made available for the past year. Practi- cally all sections of the county voted a bond issue for road purposes and Kingman people voted soHdly for the issue, although the taxpayers of the town would be the hardest hit in the matter of future taxation. Of the 134 votes boiled in favor of the bond issue 97 were in Kingman and IS in Oat- man, the balance being scattered among the several precincts of the county. Chloride voted 3 in favor and IT against, while the Sandy voted 10 for and 22 against. And yet these places have largely benefited by the building of roads.
 Coming down to the matter of oiled streets, paving and curbing in King man: The curbs and walks in the county seat town were put in by the property owners, not one cent being contributed by the county. The oil for the streets was also furnished by the property owners, each one contribut- ing pro rata to the expense. If these orange-picking parasites would tell the truth once in awhile the people might forgive them for being on earth, but so grounded have they become in the habit of untruth that they have to keep their bazoo in trim, no matter how much it may assassinate the of men of probity and stand ing in the community.
 Mohave county during the past two years was blessed with one of the most conscientious boards of supervisors in the state, as well as having a most capabale engineer. The men compos- ing the board were O.E. Walker, chair man; I. M. George and W. B. Ste phens. Mir. Walker is a large owner of Kingman property and at one time was owner of a stock ranch. W. B. Ste phens is one of the largest cattle own ers of the county and one having other interests in Kingman and on he Big Sandy. l. M. George is one 1f the most enterprising business men )f the county. He not only pays a arge amount of taxes on his King nan property, but also on big cattle ranches and cattle. He is the owner ,f mining property in various sections ,f the county, and is accounted one of he most enthusiastic boosters for old He and all the other mem- ,ers of the board are the soul of honor md their integrity has neveir been inn ,ugned, and it is to be regretted that he good people of Oatman should al- ow this false and malicious attack on he best men of the county to go un- .oticed. ]