The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-03-04
TAXPAYERS IN ANNUAL MEET ELECT NEW
 OFFICERS

The first annual meeting ,of tbe Greenlee County Taxpayers Assoc1a- ton, organized in this county six months ago, was held on Monday evening last, February 2s at the V M c. A. building in Clifton.
 The primary purpose of the meet ing was the election of a Board of Trustees of the organization to serve for the ensuing year and hearing the report of the Secretary of the Associa- . tlon, MT H. E. Brubaker. Approxfm- ately twenty five taxpayers attended
 he annual meeting which was called to order by MT. c. E. Hull, vice pre- l s4dent, from Morenci, in the absence of D. H. Green, President, who was unavoidably detained from being present.
 Several out of town taxpayers were noted in attendance from Duncan Morenci and Franklin, and the in- tcrest manifested by those present SHOWS that the Taxpayers Association or this county proposes to continue militant organization for the pur. pose or putting into effect the prin- ciples embodied in it's constitution. The hrst order of business an- nounced by the Chairman of the meeting was the reading of the au- nual report of the Secretary The i report embodied several typewritten pages and was clear and exhaustive, presentation of an analysis of county afalrs in general, and the admins. trat1on of each county office. MT. 1 Brubaker drew comparison over period of four years since 1916. as well, showing the steadily mountins ] expense of state and county govern ment, and predicted a much higher i state tax rate in 1921 Space will not permit publication of the Secre.
 tary's report at this time, but after :! it's adoption by the Board of Trustees. ! the Era expects it to be published
 and placed in the hands of every
 taxpayer in the county for their iu- | formation.
 Following the reading of the repor.
 a' motion was carried that the report
 be received at this time and referred
 to the Trustees of the Association,
 for investigation, analysis, and adop-
 tion.
 The Secretary also read to the
 meeting a copy of a resolution adopted
 at the recent meeting of the Cattle
 mems Association in this county. The
 resolution was addressed to the Board
 of Supervisors by the Cattlemen pro-
 testine against the appointment by
 the sheriff. by and with the consent of the Board of Supervisors. of a ran"er deDnty sheriff. The complaint of the cattlemen. as embodied in the ! rnc n1r1ti th,4 not necessary. from the cattlemen's
 viewpoint, at this time
 A general discussion of some fea- lures of the secretary's report was
 indulged in by the taxpayers with re. ference to the maintenance of the . county garage. i1 which Supervisors Stanton and Hightower took part : The supervisors stated that the policy :, of the new board was to keep a close
 check on the cost of continuing the
 present garage arrangement with re ference to the amount of repair work . done. and if it was demonstrated fol . fact. that the repair work could he ! done elsewhere for a less cost. dit T ferent arrangements would he made A but that this fact would first have t. he demonstrated to their full sati5 [ faction
 n The taxpayers association ther 5 proceeded to the electi17 of a Boart T Of Trustees for the ensUing year ani l. c T Brooke. of Clifton. w. B. Kelly
 of Clifton and T. R. Fowler, Of Dun l. can. were named as a nominating J. committee. t The nominating committee retired d and after short recess submitted c the following nominations for tn, r ensuing year:
 y Clifton-Mat Danenhauer. F. H !. Green. Jas Cromh. Norman Carmi l chael. q. T Brooke, w. R. Davis e Richard Stephens.
 MCrenci-C. P Hull, R. P. Kyle
 Jos. P Hodgson. F A. Stewart Ches
 ter Davidson and Mike Hannon. -R Metcalf-E. A. Spriggs, H. Bine Ie ham, w. c. Scott.
 e Duncan-B A. Wilson, S. A. Foste 1t I. P. Fowler
 n Franklin-Jesse Sims.
 heldon-Tucll Edwards.
 York-W D. Tucker.
 Gnthrie-J. H. Brown. <; Blue-J. H. T. Cosper. al Eagle-T. A. Wilson. T. The Board of Trustees. as nomi' ated by the committee. were unan IT, mously elected. whereupon the al IS nual meeting of the Association wa el' adjourned and the first meetin@ Il, Tn the trustees was held for the electio IL Continued on Page Three ]