Arizona republican., 1918-07-10
K|WAN|S CLUB GETS
 INSPIRATION UPON
 GOODROADS MATT
Lively Organization Will Sponsor Plan to Ask Government Land to Be Sold for Highway Fund

At the regular meeting of the i Kiwanis club yesterday afternoon a movement was initiated to raise funds through the sale of government land l in Arizona, to spend approximately S9, 000, 900 for the building of military roads in the state.
 Dave Goldberg, as chairman of the meeting. told the members of the club of his recent visit to San Francisco and informed them that the roads in California were the finest he had ever seen.
 The chairman having suggested the subject of good roads, brought James c. Dobbins to his feet. He stated that the Kiwanis club should start good reads movement and explained to his hearers how if congress would Slve approximately three million acres oi 1 government land in Arizona to the state the state could sell the land to the people. and the proceeds of the sales could be devoted to the building of military roads in the state.
 He also stated that he was of the opinion that the lands could be sold to purchasers at $3 per acre, therepy giving the state s9,000,000 with which | make such a gift" he said, ''the state treasury would be enriched by the taxes which would accrue to the state"
 T. c. McReynolds, president of the club, reminded his brother Kiwanians that the movement initiated by the clut in the matter of the city drainage problem had been the means of bring ing the matter before the city commis- sion and resulted in the calling of g special election on August 6, for the purpose of voting S100,000 to install pumps and pumping plants He stated that inasmuch as the club had beer successful in bringing this solution to the danger of the rising water II the valley that he felt sure that ; military road movement, as suggested by the members of the club, would b' taken up by the people in the stat and congress petitioned by them t grant the land.
 After a discussion of the road move ment. a motion was made that tn president of the club be made a mem Der of a committee the members o which he should name and that tn committee should draw a resolution setting forth the course which the clul should follow in the matter of the gif by congress and for the sale of tn lands for road purposes.
 The motion was carried and Jame c. Dobbins was made chairman of tn committee. The other members of tn committee are T. C. McReynolds. Ear S., Curtis, Fred H. Ensign and Rober c. Sauffley.
 motion was made to discontinu holding the weekly meetings of tn club until the middle of September be cause many of the members of tn club are absent on their vacations The motion was lost and the club vii continue to meet at the Y M. C. A banquet hall as usual.
 + President T. C. McReynolds sug gested that sometime in the near flu ture the club invite all of the mem berS of the various business, civic an, other clubs to attend a banquet as tn guests of the Kiwanis club to discus ways and means of boosting the Sal River valley
 Chairman James C. Dobbins of tn special committee informed The Ari zona Republican last evening that h had been in consultation with w. A Moeur, state land commissioner, an that after the consultation the com mittee will request the gift of 5, 100000 acres in Arizona by whic s15, 100000 may be raised to construc the proposed roads.