The record-union., 1897-11-07

year we will require a tax rate
of a little more than .OO90; at
the end Of the tenth year we
will pay the first bond due, which will
require a tax rate Of a trifie more than
031S on the 500. If you are assessed
for 81 900 your taxes will be increased
each year for the first nine years 900
| cents If you are taxed $4,000, your
assessment will be increased 80 cents.
| If 100000 constitutes your assessment,
the increase in taxes will be So. AT the
end of the tenth year your tax rate
will be .O31S on the $780, If you are
assessed for $1,000 your taxes will be
increased S3 Is. If you are assessed for
sessed for $4,000 your taxes will be
increased $3.1S. If you are assessed for
/ 800 900 your taxes Will be increased
S31 50. Your taxes will gradually be
reduced until at the end of the twen-
tieth year when they will be 02363.
Now, let US see what would be the
cost to the county to maintain a road
constructed upon the plan of the Fol-
som road. At a low estimate ST 800 per
year viii be required to sprinkle twen-
ty miles of road; it will cost not less
than $40O for repairs per year, making
total expenditure to the State after
| the sprinkling plant is established of
1920. This amount you are saving
every year by passing the road to the
! State, therefore, it is fair to deduct
! this from the rate of your assessment
| for nearly all of it will come from
| the general fund of the county. This
sum in twenty years will amount to
| $44, 900. This expenditure would re-
ouire levy of 2-3 of a cent per year
on the 500.
The bridges which must be built if
the road remains in the hands of the
county will not cost less than $10-
| coo for the next few years if construct
! ed properly, but leaving this last item
| out of consideration, the county can
not maintain the present road and
| sprinkle it for less than 5000 per
year Therefore, the taxpayers by the
/ issuance of bonds will have to in
crease their taxes only .00243 on the
| 500, Instead of .00909, as above stat
| ed The tenth year the tax rate would
| be 02152, instead of O31S1, as above
stated: and the county would continue
to receive the benefit of the reduction
of taxes to the amount of 5000 every
y
| road.
| This item alone will pay the interest
| on the bonds and leave balance at
the end of twenty years to the credit Of
the road of 500, so that the man who
objects to paying interest may disabuse
his mind of that fact when considering
the bond issue. The probabilities are
that should the county refuse to vote
the bonds the Folsom road in the next
twenty years will cost the county nearer
$4,000 than $4,000, as above esti
mated, and all these twenty years the
people will be required to travel the
same dirt road that they have for
! the past half century.
If the county should gravel the road
bed in the next twenty years, it cannot
cost less than $4,000 if properly done,
and then the road bed would still be
of the ordinary type. The question
then before the people is, will you build
your read now and pass it to the State
or will you still follow the silurian plan
of pouring water into a rat hole until
time shall be no more?
| With this statement of the case, we
| leave the question in the hands of the
people of Sacramento County; whether
you can afford to ignore the very lib
eral offer of the State rests with you.
The electric lights from the dome of
your Capitol, shedding their rays upon
| The most productive lands in the State
are monument to your enterprise and
your modern advancement. Let the
Folsom road be constructed and illum-
| mated by the same power that kindles
| the beacon of energy and determined
| enterprise which from the dome of your
| Capitol beckons you on to a more de-
! termined struggle for the development
| of the latent resources of your favored
| county. j. r. PRICE,
w. L. ASHE,
Commissioners, Dept of Highways.
A. l.. Henry, Secretary.
c. A. Luhrs, President of the Fol-
som Highway Commission, says: Il
| approve the course suggested in the
above address and concur in the SEN
timents expressed as to the necessity OF
the proposed enterprise. I can assure
the hearty cooperation of all the mem
bers of the Folsom Highway Commits