Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27
IN THE LOCAL SWIM.
A Brief Reference To and Summary
Of the city's Annual Statement
of Finances.
The Principal Source Of Expenditures
and the Several Items Of City
Expense.
Various Items of Local News Gath
cred In and About the
Capital City.
The Year In City Finances.

The Year In City Finances.
In another column Of to-day's TRIBUNE
appears a financial statement of the city,
prepaid by the city clerk from the
records, and ordered published by the
council at it's last meeting. The report
includes the receipts and expenditures
for the year from April l, 1898, to March
81, 1894, and will be examined with in
terest by taxpayers, who wish to see for
what the funds OF the city have been ex-
pended.
The total expenditures of the several
departments of the city for the year
have been, in round numbers, $1,000.
This is the amount which has been paid
out, merely for the operation Of the city
government, and the keeping up of the
departments, and does not include the
schools. The receipts for the year, like
wise exclusive Of taxes for school pur-
poses, have been about $4,000, so that
the expenditures have somewhat ex-
ceeded the receipts. AS will be seer by
the list of expenditures, the largest
amount paid by the city for any one
purpose, is for the rental Of water
hydrants, s4,320. Salaries Of city
officers follows second in size of amount,
S2,372.8O. In the year included
by the report, there were several
extraordinary items of expenditure.
One of them was for the CON
struction Of a drainage ditch, and a
summing up of the several items of ex-
pense, proves this to have occasioned an
outlay of about $1,000. This may seem
a considerable expense, but in reality it
is a moderate expenditure for the work
done, and the ditch is a permanent i'm
~provement, whose usefulness will more
than repay it's cost. Another item of
extraordinary expense which had to be
met by the council was one of nearly
5000 for hose, the purchase which was
imperative. These two items make a
sum total Of about $2,4OO Of extraordin-
airy expense, which had to be met by the
old council. Without these amounts,
the report shows the city's expenses to
have been by no means excessive, and
comfortably within the years receipts.
Lumber was a considerable item of ex-
pense, but the outlay was necessary, as
sidewalks and crossings were in need of
continual repair, and even now, there
are many places where repairs are
needed, but which we're not made, be-
cause the council felt itself unable,
financially, to respond to all the petit
tions and requests for repairs and i'm
p~rovements. Fires in the past year have
not been very expensive, not having cost
the city much over 500. Work on the
streets, and the repairing Of thorough
fares has cost about $500. Other ex-
penditures have been in small amounts
for supplies, rent, fuel, oil and various
other necessaries.
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Address, -
H.. p. BUoK1EN & Co., Chicago, Ill