Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-10-20
THE BOND QUESTION
Fact. ana Figures Concerning
Many Bcneflts Derived by
Voting these Bonds.
TO THE PEoPLE OF MoRRIsoN
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nds or from motives Of prejudice, Ii
re around misrepresenting the h
mount OF the taxes the people will {
ave to pay. AS a matter OF fact the /
axes on the county bonds 1866, 000) 1
will not average fifty cents a piece
or our farmers, but why do we need
o guess about this thing. at all? We
now that the interest to be paid on
hose bonds is ($325o) and that the
resent assessed valuation OF Morri-
on county Is over $500, 600, which
will make one mill on the dollar, or
o cents for each 800 of the assessed
7aluation of any person. Inquire
what is your total assessment and
7ou can tell at once what the bonds
will cost you each year. The average
n Morrison county is thirty-one
cents to each 80 acres Of land to start
with. Those who are opposing the
bonds are very careful not to give
detail figures. They know that a
farmer living anywhere in Morrison
county owning 80 acres of land will
be benefited more than thirty-one
cents, so these fellows have to make
other kinds OF pretense to work on
the sympathy OF the farmer or other
persons. All parties should figure
for themselves and inform them
selves. A single load of wood, or
load of potatoes or load Of cabbages
will sell for enough more in a large
city to more than enough pay the
additional taxes. A man residing
over in the town of Morrill, not long
since sold load of honey in Little
Falls, he could not sell it in Royal
ton because that place was too small
to consume that much honey at one
time. Humid reds of loads of veget-
ables are sold every year in Little
Falls that could not in any way be
disposed of in q small town like
Motley, Royalton or Swanville, but
even Little Falls at present is>not
large enough to take all of the small
produce that the soil Of Morrison
county is capable of producing, but
build it an additional road and the
city OF Little Falls will soon be Il city
of $4,000 Or 10000 people, and when it
reaches that point the farmer cannot
haul in his produce too fast. -. =
The valuation of Morrison county
in ten years from now will be twice
what it is now, or over $6. 600, 900. Ten
years from then, if it doubles again,
it will be $12 ,OOO, 900, and at the same
rate OF increase in 80 years it will be
$N 1000, 900. We will try to be very
conservative and say that in 30
years the valuation will be $10,OOO,-
600. Each man then owning 80 acres
Of good land will pay on the princi-
pal $3.50. What objection can our
children or our successors make to
paying up that small pittance OF a
sum when we have built the schools
got their roads in first-class condition
their county all settled up. When a
man can start from any part Of the
county and find the roads good
enough to haul to any other part oil
the county as large aload as cannow
be hauled upon the best roads
our children and successors will be
very ungrateful If they criticise us for
such deeds. Why did merchant OF
Royalton say at Elmdale that the
taxes ON land in Iowa worth $50 an
| acre were no higher than in this
county where it is worth from IS to
$15. He did not think the farmer
present would stop to reason that
the, early pioneer Of that country had
paid up all the taxes for the perma-
nant improvements, but he mfstook
the intelligence OF his AUDIENCE. They
saw the argument was q good one
for the bonds. The land goes higher
in value as the improvements OF the
county are made and the faster the
county is developed and improved
the sooner will our taxes be decreased
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When in the county OF Morrison you
will find upon every 40 acres improv.
ed land and upon every so farm
all these improved farms will not he
long in fixing up good, roads, will
not be long in paying fol
teachers, school houses and all that
Instead OF one farmer paying for fix
| ing up one or two miles Of road six
or eight farmers will do that and dc
it good with less cost to each o.
them. Instead of ten or fifteen
farmers paying for teacher. 1900 o,
$500 yeartO teach a country schoo
twenty-five or forty will do that al
the same cost. Instead of $4,000
people to pay all the expenses d
running our county 10000 will dc
lit. And then when all the land is
lsettled up the land will grow to be
worth from $50 to $40 per acre in.
tstead of what itisnow and our taxes
will be less all around. What WE
want to do is to make lots Of prop
lerty to pay our taxes and the only
way we can do that is to improve
Tour county. Our taxes will not
lgrow less until we have a!l on
roads built, our lands settled, pui
school houses completed. These
things will not be done till our ad
vantages will be such as to get out
side people to come in and help us tic
it. Build Little Falls to city an6
roads will get more help from genar
al road tax. Little Falls pays large
road taxes and they are used in tn.
|county to FIX up the county roads.
The Increased valuation that will ii
added by reason Of Il large city al
Little Falls will do more to rednc,
taxes than anything else that car
be accomplished. Simply taken a
q tax proposition 1t will he business
/ to vote the bonds for none who hal
fully investigated the question car
doubt that in Little Falls alnne there
will. If the honds are voted, be more
il ~, q !, 8 mn non - aaoscnd va1ms fSO.