Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-09

sion by having President Rice ap
point A. j. McKinnon and w. w.
Windham to serve as committee to
ascertain the feasibility of such a
proposition.
1t was decided to refuse the re-
quest of the Good Roads association
to send in the annual dues of the
| local chamber and to send a delegate
to it's convention at Yuma this month
on the grounds that little has been
reported on the progress of the as
sociation or on it's work.
General approval was accorded the
suggestion of President Rice to have
a motorcade make trip soon to the
Pinery Canyon road project and as
certain the progress being made there
and also express it's interest and ap.
probation in the proposition
AS there is some question about
whether or not the road will cut
through the property of John Riggs
in that section or take a roundabout
course, it was thought best not to |
conduct the tour until members of
the board of supervisors of the coun-
ty will be able to accompany the
motorcade and ascertain the exact
status of this issue. Dave Adams,
chairman of the board of supervisors /
who was present at the meeting and
John Hart, the Douglas supervisor,
also in attendance, agreed to go on
the proposed trip at a near date and
plans will be made at their conven- !
ience. 1t is planned to include inter-
ested Bisbee and valley folks in this
inspecting tour.
AS Col. B. A. Packard is to be in
Phoenix on January IL, it was voted
by the directors to have him repre-
sent Douglas at the colonization
meeting of the Arizona Industrial
Congress planned for that day.
The matter of removing the rub
bish from alongside the Bsbee'
Douglas highway near the round /
house is to be investigated as we'll I
as the complaint by several local {
people that mail from Tombstone to
Douglas is taking three days to reach
this city. Valencia onion seed which
is offered at so cents a pound by
Naples company will be purchased by l
a local concern or through interested /
onion growers for SAFE in Douglas to i
meeting decided.
A suggestion that one bridge be
built across Moffat's draw instead Off
two as now planned, due to the pass
ing of both the Central and State
highway over that depression within
close proximity to each other, was
refused the endorsement of the d.
rectors as not being financially ex-
pedient A change in the road bed Fl
would cost more than the construc- Il
ton of the second bridge.
The directors decided that they Il
were not interested at present in the 4
proposed bond issue backed by the Il
Phoenix chamber for road work 4
throughout the state. A report that 4
the road to Slaughter's ranch is not Il
in coed condition was replied to by
Supervisor Hart who said that it is
now being worked over and improved
apon.
1t was voted to investigate the
report that there is certain amount
of Federal Aid money left over from
1925-26 which might be used on wild
ening the Benson road between that
city and the river. The directors in
general expressed themselves in fav-
or Of using such money on the Ben
son road if it is available and II It
it assured that work on the north
and south highway will go on regard
less of such work.
S. p Applewhite who, with Mayor
A. E. Hinton and Alfred Paa1l was
an interested visitor at the meeting,
reported on the delinquent tax stu
alton in the county, stating that II
has been progressing we'll but that
the blanket suits instituted by the
county attorney and the printing en-
tailed therein, has quickly exhausted
the $4,000 appropriated for the use
in the collection of these taxes. AL
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