The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-10-30
REASONS WHY ONE Is NEEDED
IN
ALL the VAULTS CROWDED
And Besides Not Fire Proof Loss
Of Records Would Cost
County $4,000.

"sIall We or shall we not have a
new court house and jail" This "
the substance 0f u proposition, which
the taxpayers will be called upon TO
vote on one week from today, Hoyem-
her .. For u couple of years there has
been more or Loss talk about q new
court house, but this II tho drst time
tho board Of county commissioners has
ever submitted the question 10 the tax-
payers Ut whether or not the county
should be bonded 10 Greet y new build
Ing, Yellowstone county has come IN
the parting of two ways and . do
eisiop will be made on next Tuesday.
The proposition which will BIO snb-
mitted NJ that time Ii M follows,
Shall bonds Ia tho sum ~ SbO, 900
DO issued for the purchasing 0f q site,
erection and furnishing Of y new
court house,
A week ago Tbs Gazette published
m article showing That the interest
annually on such bonds would amount
10 only 300 and that would only IN,
crease the taxes ~ cents on every
WI, 900 of taxable property, and that q
Sinking fund was being vet aside oacll
yenr VI take care ~ our bonds ~ they
come due,
What taxpayer IN the county, who
has ever Ind Occnsi0n 10 yisit tbs
present building and noted its copdi-
fi0n viii deny thnt tho county needs
n new cDnrt house, IN tho nrst place ~
Inns been ontgrown by tbe needs ~ The
county, AB the county llns Expanded
III the way Df incyoased taxable prop
erty, 10 bas the business ~ tho conn
Wy Offices Increased until y building,
which several years lgo WAS Alply
large enough, ~ today mnph TOO smnh
Besides " " not large enough W nc
eommpdate pll W. officers, tho county
attorney and surveyor being compelled
To sepk locations away from thD build
ing, The county pays DHl Mnpnlly
1920 fov Office rental foF tho county
attorney which " about 0ne-third
what The interest would. nmoRnt ~
ipnpnlly on tho bonds for fhe new
court hopso, This " M itaW ttnt
should rDDeiyo tho consideration ~ mo
tpxpayprs, Thp man Offices, those NJ
HVHNlt H'NEPHFHPl hHNR MH .fbHusInNfl
md clerk NJ thp court, would afford
food lW thonKht fW any taxpnypr ppv-
lug w Investigate lhn hnlldtnR, W
thp first ono there N 4 vault about hxh
fHet, which w n0t HvevpF00f ann w n
yery poor Woteoti0n f0r thp ynlngblp
d~ncHInonts eonfninnd therain, Besides
The treasurer III not provided With \
Steel safe, ~ m fadt my sAfe,
which ~ deposit thn money which
IAsspb int0 his hands, This yANlt "
already crowded Win heavy books nnl
tlle room N W fAlpn np thRt " " WITH
grpnt dletlnly fhHl 0nn. ppsspf ~ nnd
from tllp Mlne, What w fVNn ~ thla
vault W equally trpp ~ fhe other tWn,
with possibly thp pxppptlpn thRf thpy
are s0nlp larger, Rnt They nge crowd,
pd, books hoinH piled on the H0nr and
MI NJ thp peiIing on MI Sides w, the
clerk ~ thp pQHrt's YRHh fhp WaH M
the building hAs begun w nraph nWay
from thf yanlt, Vhp doors ~ NV those
YRplts Ara III y very thln Mnfnrlnh
which would sbriyel W. NM glvn WY
In almost my Nm,
Vhnt Tho yanlts Dpe not lige pl00f "
n mAttnp Tint ahQnlA hn M the hnnpesl
concern w pynvy tAspayprL faL " nm
building should oyer onion WE !nn
rpnpV1s avp dpnmRd Nh. Quo WahahN
has any idnA whaf tIn lnss ~ Ihasf