Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-05

The retiring County Highway com
 mission and the County Board of Su- ! pervisors will get together today at Tombstone to close up the affairs of the present road board. It is expect
 ed the new highway commission also will attend the session. Both the
 supervisors and the county highway
 commission were in session yester-
 day, but in different places. The
 supervisors met at Tombstone, while
 the county highway commission met in Bisbee with J. c. Ryan, the com
 misison engineer.
 The commission yesterday closed
 up all settlements on the Tombstone Benson and Cochise-Pearce roads and prepared it's final report to be sub- mitted today to the supervisors. The supervisors have issued a statement giving their side of the controversy with State Engineer Maddock regard ing the 75 per cent road fund as a result of which the state has stopped all road work in the county and the loss of the federal road fund in the county is threatened.
 It is expected that the state en- gineer or the retiring county high way commission will issue a state ment in reply to that issued by the county supervisors. According to the supervisors the chief bone of con- tention with the state engineer was over the construction of the last five miles of the highway from the Ben son crossing to Fairbanks.
 ''The statement of the supervisors follows:
 Statement by Supervisors.
 "The Board of Supervisors of Co chise county gives the following req sons for notifying the state engineer to discontinue work on the Tomb road. The state engi- l neer, Thomas Maddock, met with the | board of supervisors at the court l house in Tombstone on April 2, 1919, | and stated that the state road gang | under his supervision had finished the | road from Tombstone to where the | Benson road connected with the | same, distance of about three miles | from Tombstone, and recommended | that he be allowed to continue this | road to Fairbanks, a distance of | about five miles further. Mir. Mad | dock stated that the maximum cost | of this five miles of road would not | exceed $20.0O0.00.
 "Mr. Sparks member of the board, moved that the state engineer be in- structed to continue on down to | Fairbanks and the cost not to exceed | $20,000. MT. Adams seconded this motion; Mir. Roberts voted no. Mo tion was carried.
 'Mr Maddock stated that in the meantime he would take up the mat ter of obtaining federal money to build a road from Benson to the Pima ! line, and from Silver Creek east of Douglas, to the New Mexico line and to finish the section of pay ing between Douglas and Bisbee. and would make his report to the board of supervisors as soon as he got the necessary information. MT. Maddock stated that it would take from six weeks to two months to finish this road to Fairbanks.
 Cost Exhorbitant, Charge.
 ''On September 1st, the board finds that this five miles Of road has not yet been completed, and the state engineer has expended $30,000 ap- which the board of SUI pervisors considers entirely too much as this road is a dirt road and should have been constructed for less than S2O, 900. The board finds on seeing ! bills of supplies for this road camp that the purchasing agent for the state engineer Is paying in most cases more for supplies in quantities than the regular retail price in single packages.
 During the construction of this piece of road, the state engineer from time to time had small force of men