The record-union., 1897-12-03
JUST WHAT IT WILL Be,
A FOLSOM ROAD COMMITTEE
ANSWERS OBJECTIONS.
Just What the Tax VIII Be-No
Possible Chance for Waste
PLAIN Showing.

One of the canvassing committees
appointed by the Chamber Of Com
merce on the Folsom road proposition,
last night reported that in the district
given to it it met with the objection
from some that While they favored the
road and understood its high value 10
the county. they wanted to be assured
that the money would be honestly eX-
pended
The answer to this is obvious and vas
fairly advanced by the committee,
namely, the road must be built accord
ing to specifications and on contracts
let, and under engineering supervision
by the State Department of Highways
and the Folsom Road Commissioners
ated for the purpose under the law and
who are three well-known citizens.
Moreover. the State pays two-fifths
of the cost of the road, and the remain
der. three-ffths, is the sum to be raised
by the county This has been ascer-
tanned by careful and rigid engineering
survey and every cent will be needed
to build the road and the bridges, the
mileage cost being accurately ascer-
1ained. so that there cannot be a cent
of waste or the smallest possible mar
gin for wrong doing, even if such a
thing was possible under the law.
The committee also met some objec-
tions on the ground of fears of high
taxation. The answer was made, and
it is simply irrefutable, that the cost 10
the general fund now, and to which all
tax payers contribute for sprinkling the
present road. exceeds the proposed in
terest tax, namely $1,000 a year for
fvct +ay1 that 1T iS a DOSi-
tive saving for ten years to carry the
proposition and accept the States Of
fer. Thereafter, it was answered, the tax
will be insignificant compared with the
benefits, and the fact that the State
assumes the cost of maintaining the
road, thus relieving the taxpayers
wholly from present and what will be
a continuing heavy cost should the
proposition be rejected.
Finally, the committee answered the
objections as to individual taxation by
showing that the tax on property val
ued at $1,000, is just cents year On
the basis of the present assessment
roll. S33 100000 But the building of
the road will make the assessment roll
much larger, by the enhanced values of
property generally, so that the tax will
decline as values increase.
But assuming that it does not lu-
crease at all, then the man with S2,O0U
assessed values will pay less than ~
cents year. The home assessed for
$4,000 will pay less than 30 cents
year so on, for the first ten years.
In 1909, assuming that the county
has not by that time advanced a single
step in wealth, industry or population
an absurd assumption-the man with
81 900 assessed values will have to pay
the startling sum of 80 cents in that
wear. 81 cents the next, 30 cents the
next, % the next. 2S the next and SO
on by declining tenths to 1918.
Meanwhile said the committee, he
will be gamer by paying nothing what
ever for road maintenance for which he
is taxed now. and win continue to be,
If the proposition should not carry.
The committee said that in every
case where all this was made clear a
vote for the proposition was gained.
The committee expressed the belief that
the proposition Will be in danger only
from its friends who neglect to turn out
and vote. The opponents will all go to
the polls; if the friends do not do like
wise they will imperil their cause. The
committee was therefore, very urgen,
in its appeal 10 every friend of this ben
eficent proposition to turn out and
vote. since ii requires a two-thirds af-
firmative vote to carry the proposition.