The Winslow mail., 1921-03-25
NORTHERN ARIZONA ROAD MONEY IS
MOSTLY LOST THROUGH THE
POWER OF YETOE

we are not gong to Crltlc1Se
Governor CampbelPs sincerity when
he vetoed seven paragraphs in the
omnibus road bill. He probably did
what he thought was right and just
but there are multitudes that think
he has placed Arizona out of the
race when it comes to hoping to re-
tain transcontinelntal motor traffic.
Governor Campbell charges the
men who framed the bill with en-
ploying log-rolling and pork-barrel
tactics and that the outstanding de-
sire was to secure slice of the pork
for some particular locality The
omnibus bill as passed by the legis-
lature carried an appropriation of
S1,125,O0O for road work. 1925 900
Of this amount was for roads in
northern Arizona, which allays any
suspicion that there would be reduc-
tion in the price of pork in this part
Of the state, and then when Cover
nor Campbell exercises his prero-
gatlve OF veto he slices SITS 900
more off the small portion appro-
priated in the first instance for
northern Arizona roads. In the first
instance northern Arizona had ap-
proximately 20 per cent of the ap-
preparations and finally gets less
than 7 per cent. The facts are that
all the hams, shoulders, tenderloins
and sow belly is down in southern
and central Arizona and the offal
has been generously handed out to
the people of the north.
We quite positively agree with
Governor Campbell when he states:
Local self interest and not the
benefit Of the state as whole SEEM
ed to be the dominating idea in
framing senate bill No. 81. This
selfish and narrow spirit was in the
ascendancy at all times and is found
deeply imbedded in the measure.
Log rolling and pork barrel tactics
which are always concomitants of
poor legislation, were markedly in
evidence. The outstanding desire,
casting aside other considerations
which should have had weight in
the framing of this bill seemed to
be to get slice of pork for some
particular locality"
When you notice where the road
appropriations are going the proof
of the Governors statements need no
further verification and he never
said a more truthful thing in his
life
Governor Campbell commenting
further on his reasoning for cutting
from the Omnibus Bill the appro-
priations of $4,000 for the road
across Apache county between Ada
mana and the New Mexico line;
$4,000 between Holbrook and Ada
mana $4,000 between st. Johns
and the New Mexico line near Zuni;
and the 100000 for the Arrowhead
Trails in Mohave county, states
"It is therefore best, in my judg-
ment, to temporarily eliminate from
Arizona's road program the projects
which cannot properly be classified
or regarded as links of the highway
system
The situation in northern Arizona
is bad The connecting link of the
National Old rails road which has
carried during the years past go to
70 per cent Of the nations trans
continental motor traffic is eliminat-
ed from improvement. The National
Old Trails is located from Albuquer
que west by way of Gallup to Hol-
brook The Springerville road is
an alternate route, detour from the
main road, and is not a portion of
the original National Old Trails road.
The fact that it is 80 miles longer
and many miles away from a rail
road and with long stretches of un-
inhabited country, makes it a
road that will not be travelled. when
shorter and better roads are con-
structed through inhabited districts.
And this is the situation today. The
Lincoln Highway is improving all