Tombstone epitaph., 1922-03-12
c0CHIsE ROAD FUND

The state highway department has been called to task by the board of supervisors of COchse county The cha enge of the head and chief clerk of the department send to Phoenix competent auditor to check the countys D per cent fund accepted and the results be thing but pleasing to Mr. Maddock and to Mr. lnghram
 It is with some humOr that reproduce the last par agraph of editorial printed in the Douglas Dispatch during the latter part of January relative to the matter
 followed considerable number of letters and demands made upon the state engineers office for details of the construction of the middle section of the Bsbee Doug las pavement During the time it was figured out that ter of $124.OOO It now develops that the amount only $12OOO But the part of the editorial in questions Even when Maddock completes his detailed report of expenditures there still will be certain element in the county whose minds warped with partisan prejudice Quoting Inghram) and who will continue to doubt But figures do not lie and Engineer Maddock and his depart ment have goOdly number of digts which tell story not to the liking of his political enemies
 The Review remarked, following the foregoing. that while figures do not lie, sometimes people who pile figures have writers cramp That has been proven to be the
 H. T. Cuthbert, the leading public accountant in the of Arizona engaged by the board of supervisors to investigate the matter Cuthbert not be accused of having political bas He is stOckhOlder in the Doug las Dispatch and is considered very fair Republican in politics. He not doing politics. however, he de erminng what became of Cochsc county Q per cent fund
 What MT. Cuthbert found was summarized by M C. HankinS clerk of the board of supervisors letter o the state highway department Mr. Cuthbert has deter mined that $120O1s.05 properly credtabe the coun tvs seventyfive per cent fund placed in the gener
  county road authorities.
 Cochise county practically speaking underwrote the construction of the middle section of the pavement lt would have been necessary either for the county init this out of seventyfve per cent unds for the state engineer do of the twenty-five per cent fund In this undoubtedly both funds contributed But the cOuntys seventyfve per cent fund the which largely utilized for the purpose. This proceed because federal ad secured projects paid the state until work is completed When it returned however it should be credited the fund which drawn upOn In the of the Bsbee Douglas pave ment this not followed.
 The charge has been frequently made in the Review. that the complained of. has been diverted to other project This the state highway department de- nied As indicated by the clerk of the board of supervs ors there is possibility that this expended up either the Benson-Vai road upon the Dougas-Ro deo highway Of ths however there doubt and before the matter is entirely clarified there will be found sary considerable amount of explaining The entire matter clearly indicates that there has been good deal of juggling of accounts by the state highway department In this instance Cochse county appears to have been the goat Further light may dis close other interesting features of the transaction and if the state engineer prove to the satisfaction of all concerned, that he has expended the taken from the seventyfve per cent fund he be accused of no ing except lack of frankness in dealing with Cochse county and its authoritics.-Bisbee Review.