The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-19
SUPERIOR--RAY DISTRICT ENTITLED
TO A SQUARE DEAL IN EXPENDITURE
OF The $l5O,OOO ROAD BOND ISSUE


Will the Ray and Superior districts which contribute
over EIGHTY PER CENT of the taxes of Pinal County,
get square deal in the expenditure of the $4,000 road
bond issue recently approved? Or is this money! like the
previous bond issue to be expended in building bouevards
for the diversion of trade AWAY FROM Pinal County
merchants instead Of to their doors That is the question
that the business of Ray and Superior asking
themselves at the present time.
In this connection they remember the bond issue of
$15OOO0 which voted in 1915 for the purpose of i'm
proving roads throughout the county This money has
all been spent and there not cent that of the
residents of Ray and Superior know of that has been spent
the roads in this district True there have been some
short patches of road built in this section but the money
from the general road fund.
One Of the promises held out to the Ray district when
the former bond issue up for approval was that
bridge would be built at Kelvin that the residents OF the
Ray and Superior districts could get to the county seat
without making such long detour to get to the Florence
bridge The contract for this bridge let in the summer
of 1915 to Topeka Bridge and Iron Works. but owing to
the negligence Of the former board OF supervisors in draw
ing up the contract somebody elses negligence the
within any specified time The result nothing was
done the bridge until February 1917 and at the present
time there is only very small OF men at work. and
far beyond the realms of possibility to guess when
this bridge will be completed.
The greater portion of the money derived from the
previous bond issue spent along the San Pedro valley
in building boulevard for the merchants of Tucson to ship
their goods into the Oracle and Mammoth districts Pima
county quick take advantage Of this road with
the result that there boulevard from Tucson clear
through to Winkelman Thanks to the building of this
road which paid for by the taxpayers of Pna county,
eastern Pina county is now an adjunct OF Tucson while
the merchants of Pna county who help to foot the road
bond bills cut out of the which rghfuy be-
longs to them The merchants Of Tucson must be very
grateful to the merchants of Pnl county for thus prov
ing fine road for Tucson motor trucks to capture the
Mammoth and Oracle business Certainly the San Pedro
road is of no particular value to Pinal county.
second bond election held last month, and was
approved by large majority. There dissenting
votes in the Ray and Superior district of the county, nd
eating that in spite of the way which the former bond
issue expended the residents of this district pro
gessive and desire to Pna county forge ahead in the
matter of good roads, and not lag behind the other counties
of the state Now they asking only what they feel is just
and right that this district should receive it's fair share of
this money and that the board of supervisors should look
upon the situation from unbiased viewpoint and see
that this district gets it's proper proportion of the total
amount of $3OOOOO which it has cheerfuly joined in pay
ing the larger share.
At the present time there road leading into the
camp of Superior that be negotiated in wet weather
and the can be said of the Ray district To the shame
of Pna county, these two camps, which produce over
EIGHTY PER CENT Of the taxes of the county, have the
poorest roads of any section of Pnal county It to be
hoped that the member of the board of supervisors from
this district will receive the support of the other super
ors in allowing fair proportion of the bond money to be
expended in this district.
Building of road from Superior to Florence and
Meeting with road to Phoenix and the completion OF the
partial roads between Superior and Ray and Ray and
Hayden Junction suggested by residents of the district
who have given their attention to the road problem in this
part of the county, Certainly they badly needed.
Whether they to be built not whether the Superior
and Ray DISTRICTS contributing Eighty Per Cent of
the taxes to receive square deal whether their
them and disspaed to their detrment is up to the
board of supervisors The business of Superior and
Ray are entitled to SQUARE DEAL.
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