The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-24
COUNTY FINANCES"
Williamson County Steps up
Alongside OF HscLennsin.

Several days ago the EXAMINER pub
lished report of the condition of Nc
Lehman county as found by the county
commissioners at their recent session.
! This report was telegrsphed to the diff
ferent daiIies of the state by their cor
RESPONDENTS here, among others to the
San Antonio Expire s. The county iudCe
/ of Williamson county writes to the FIX
press as follows:
1 see from the dispatches in your daily
paper of the 18th nit. that it is there
stated that McLennan county taxes for
ISS2 are lower than any other county in
the state, being only ten cents. Our
commissioners court has Just closed its
regular session, and we levied tax only
OF ten cents. The county is out of debt.
has on hand a cash general fund of
S3,I5l So jury fund, 1856 10 road fund.
81 ID y, making total cash on hand Jan
uary 81, 1892 of S., 1876 81. We have one
Of the b st cOurt-hoUses in the state.alao
good Jail We put about $4,000 last
year III Jail and bridges, so | think we
are also IN good financial condition.
Yours truly, GEO. GLAsseocK.
County Judge Williamson Co, Tex.
This clipping appears under the head
ing of "Another County Heard From"
Williamson county Our friend Nat. O.
should have given publicity to the fact
that in that county the rate OF taxation
had been reduced tox ten cents on the
one hundred dcllars.' When he gets
through swapping himself and other
democrats ~ to the republicans, he viii
10 doubt let the people at Washington,
where his paper circulates mostly,
tI.n al
of the county is. We are glad County
Judge Glasscock is able to make so
good a owing, and we willingly divide
honorS with Williamson county. Al the
time we wrote CIR article We were not
aware that Their was another county in
Texas where the rate f taxation is as
los as ten cents on the one hundred
dollars. What We dwelt on more than
anything else, however, was that since
1875 the rate of tax ton in this
county has been reduced from
9S l-3 cents to 10 cents, $1,000 in old
debts have been paid of and $4,000
expended IN building court house. pur-
chasing a pOOr-farm and erecting poor
house thereon, buying up four toll
bridges and making them free, erecting
other and opening up new and repair
ing Ola fOaUS. Alter All IIllS We nave
left in our county treasury over $4,000,
and the whole people are prosperous
and cOntented. We consider Williamson
count, equally fortunate with McLennan
and between the two We have no com
parison to make, but We would like to
hear from some other county that has
got as good man ut the helm as Judge
Glasscock, of Williamson county, or
Judge Gerald, of this county. When we
hear his name we shall not fail to give
HIM due credit The EXAMINERS ar,icle
was published and the information tur-
nished at this office to Geographic cor
respondents for the purpose of
showing the condition OF this
county six years ago in contrast
with what it / to-day, hoping that other
counties might be benefited thereby.
Williamson IS out Of debt, her taxes as
low as ours, and We are dad to see her
our rival in prosp ri y. Both ccantIes
have cash balance" thai makes the
cold alcaide's" seem tritliug, and While
W do not hold the two mp 10 make
glazing contrast with others, W. do pre- |
sent them as examples worthy OF iInita- |
ton in financial stan ing, and hope to |
see equally favorable figures from other !
COMMITTEES very soon.