Arizona republican., 1921-02-01

county and most of that around Parker where the county highway commissioner Mr Marsh. lives. Wa, were robbed of about s7o,000 on this one bond issue alone-and not ono cent was spent on the main highway in Yuma county, on the Buckeye Blythe route Last year we were entitled to over s1ooOo in this end of the county. We got nothing This year we have got nothing We voted s1.3e0,0o0 addi tional road bonds. The supervisors have already received $100,000 of this money and we are entitled to over s2o, 900 of this. We get nothing. Last October I asked the county engineer and members of the board of super visors to send me road drag and would drag the county roads around here free of charge. They even re- fuse this because they don't wants northern Yuma county to have any good roads and wish to force people
 to travel the long way around by
 Yuma. It is time the people of Arizona
 who pay taxes and travel from Phoenix and other Arizona points to the coast knew of such oGtrageS as fhis.
 We don't ask or expect anything we
 are not entitled to, but we certainly are entitled to our proportion of the Yuma county road moneys and to a share of state road funds and national road funds, especially as no one can deny that the Buckeye Salome- Blythe < route is the shortest and best natural | route from Phoenix to Los Angeles and is the most travelled road. Why ap- propriate hundreds of thousands oH dollars of state money to build the long-l way through the sand to Yuma and nothing at all for the recognized ands main travelled and shortest route bysI way of SaIome, Quartzite and Blythe. Zl
 Let the state build a road to Yuma if anyone wants to go there-or roada out of there if they want to leave-buc' in tho name of common sense, economy
 and justice, build the main state high way where 1t belongs, over the shortest and best route, nearly hundred miles
 shorter than the Yuma route, and through a country where the road can
 be built at a reasonable cost and not
 buried in the sand hills.
 We don't ask for any concrete road shortest route We don't need it.
 Practically all the route is a natural road bed as 1t is. All we ask for and need is a graded road, some sort Of a road that is built and not made by au- tomobile tires smoothing it out and automobile axles dragging down the high places. That is the kind of a road we have now--and thousands of peo-
 pie travel it every month because It is a better road than they have ever
 been able to build yet over any other route. Give us a good graded road OF the natural road material that we hava all along the route and you can give Yuma a concrete paved road and no
 one will travel the Yuma road. be cause our dirt and graded road will bs
 so much shorter and over so much bet ter a country the people will all travet | the direct route That is why Yuma does not want us to have any kind or a road up here.
 1 If tho Yuma county supervisors do not give the northern end of Yuma county some of the road money it IS and has been entitled to and if the Buckeye Blythe road where it passes through Yuma county is not improved I very quickly now, and if all state funds are appropriated for and spene on the long wrong way around ny 4 Yuma and none for the short direct
 route by way of saiome, Vick ksnurE. lQuartzite and Blythe, then suit is go < ling to be started and an effort made Ito tie up every dollar of Yuma county road money, stop the sale of all Yuma
 lcounty bonds and stop all road work l, within the borders of Yuma county ' until northern Yuma county gets Jus- tice and the proportion of Yuma coun-
 jty road moneys that it is and has been
 entitled to for the past few years. We
 have been robbed of our rights Ions enough. If the people of Phoenix and Mari. . icopa county and all Arizona to the
 leastward, are alive and awake, they
 will also demand that the state high way from Phoenix to Los Angeles bs : built on the short and direct route by
 way of Buckeye and Blythe, or at least : a part of the state money used to i'm
 prove the main travelled highway now E being used and not all of the money I used to build road hundred miles lout of the way around through the [ sand hills en route to Los Angeles 7 Very truly yours.
 Fl DICK WICK HALL
 For the People of Northern Yuma County and Automobile Travellers