Arizona republican., 1920-12-12
vOt. th. Additional Road Bonds

The only reasonable objection that could have been made against the proposed additional county highway bond issue has been overturned by the opinion of Mr. Bennett. counsel for the county high way commission that the proceeds of such bond issue could not applied to the present contract. To that Twohy Brothers company, the contractors acceded, and have sgnified their willingness to compete for another contract.
 It is popularly believed that road making ma terias. particularly cement and will be lower than they were when the present contract was awarded. Naturally citizens believing that would oppose the extension of a contract made at time of high prices wages however favorable the con tract may have been then. Many of them would oppose the extension by withholding additional funds that might extend it.
 But now they are not in that extremity. The funds MT. Bennett informs cannot be used for the extension of the contract and told by Twohy Bros that they will bid another contract, basng their bid on wages and the price of cement at the time of bidding. Thus would receive the benefit of any drop in prices that may have taken place that time
 With this thing out of the way, the only question before people is whether they want good roads or not They said they did two years and they said so decsively. We are now getting the roads under good contract. getting better roads than was contemplated at the time the bonds were voted but such roads as the people almost unani mously afterward sgnified the commission they wanted. We believe the roads being laid In this county the best six-inch concrete roads that have ever been laid anywhere. because the methods used the latest and the best
 But on account of the better type of roads than contemplated at the time of the bond issue, and because of the greatly increased price of cement there will be money to carry out less than half of the original program. If additional bonds not I,o 1ess half mile of permanent roads expected. We shall have short, stretches good roads here and there else all of the good roads will be in two most three localities, that is, within three of the nine projects, most of them the Fowler and Chan dler "set-ups." And if it should happen that there should be serious delay in securing the of the money for the bonds already sold, the program will be further curtailed to the mileage which be laid within the next ninety days.
 The only other objection to the additional road is that it opportune that the people are temporarily without a plethora of money in sequence of the cotton situation they are asked for The bonds would for period of twenty-two years and within that time, sup pose there will be many alternating periods flush and hard times. But thing is certain, that when the bonds this county will be of such wealth that the payment of the bonds will not be a serious task.
  ister interest the defeat of the additional bond They have not been allowed their "whack" at tho money already voted and they limiting that the money has not been wisely and honestly ex- pended People are always too prone to accept such hints without investigation.
 We believe that the money with which the people entrusted the commission a year ago last May has been we'll conserved. The commission apparently took its time in awarding contract but when it did award it good Meantime it's engi- neers busiy engaged in preparatory work and that was finished when the contract was awarded.
 And the contract, have said is good one The contractors of excellent reputation and most capable. What they now doing can be seen on the Yuma road, We believe that any fair minded taxpayer who would look at that work must feel that he would like to have roads of that type laid all over the county and that he would vote on December 31 the bonds necessary to complete the program oi 2S3 miles.