Arizona republican., 1920-05-03

had been appropriated from the D per cent fund by the supervisors which, with available federal aid, would be sufficient to pave Grand avenue from the city limits of Phoenix to the city limits of Glendale, was, in reality, a mistatement of existing facts.
 I naturally presumed that the board of supervisors having taken the action they did at their meeting Monday, April 26, and having announced in the public press that sufficient funds had been appropriated to pave Grand ave- nue. were sincere in their intentions and announcement. One would hardly credit the belief, which in light of your communication now seems a certainty, that the supervisors had deliberately made the announcement that an appro- priation of funds sufficient to pave Grand avenue had been made when they knew, as a matter of fact. that there were not available in the 75 per cent fund sufficient moneys to pave even a. small part of that important thoroughfare.
 Even now I am loath to believe that the sole object of this superviSorial an- nouncement of the proposed paving of Grand avenue was but another attempt at the great American game known slangily as the double cross" Far be it from me to draw any deadly paral- lelS of significance between the an nouncement of Supervisor Bowen that He "dS d Cdluludle loT Ie-eltCllOIl, dllQ the announcement of the supervisors action in appropriating funds Chat you tell me do not exist) with which to pave Grand avenue.
 Concerning your assumption that the supervisors may submit to the peo- pie a bond issue for the construction of a joint city-county building and the Grand avenue paving, the Tempe road paving and other items covered in your letter. it may be well to bring to your attention the fact that when the super visors held a mass meeting of county delegates at the Water Users building Monday afternoon. April 26, to discuss this proposed bond issue, not a single suggestion was made by any super visor at that meeting that any items be included in the proposed bond issue other than the joint city-county- build ing. The paving of Grand avenue was not even mentioned at that melting in connection with the proposed bond issue.
 l take it from your letter that of Maricopa county'S 75 per cent fund available for the coming year, esti- mated at $95.000, the board of super visors had already appropriated sums totalling S75,000 for the construction of bridge across the Hassayampa and another at Arlington. and an additional $27, 900 or $28,OO0 needed for the bridge across the Agua Fria,- before they so magnanimously appropriated the re- mainder of a fund which, if my arith- metic is correct, was already exhausted, for the pretended paving of Grand avenue. While conceding the neces- | sity for these bridges I do not concede, | nor do the great majority of taxpayers of this district concede, if I correctly interpret their expressions, that these are of such greater benefit to the greatest number of people as to | warrant their having been provided for | at the expense of such an important | main artery of travel as Grand avenue, which is well known has been in a most deplorable condition for many months.
 Inasmuch as these seem to be the | real facts in this matter, I shall most | willingly comply with your request that I make the necessary corrections | of the former statement in this | 
 Yours very truly,
 RAYMOND DYAS