The oasis., 1901-06-22
A TAXPAYER WANTS TO KNOW.

flat. Eacn district with 20 scholars up to g draws $500 Any district with more than 25 gets in addition to S500 the sum of S20 for each additional pupil. In Santa Cruz county all the districts but three draw $500. Tubac with ? gets S540, Crittenden with 2S gets S560. Nogales with couple of hundred or more pupils gets the rest of the fund. Now last year the out side precincts got all the law entitled them to, and with the remaining money Nogales school district had only seven months of school, and went in debt for supplies some $500 Yet last year there was one more saloon running in Nogales than this year, and in that saloon there were two gambling tables which paid $50 per month each, which with $75 per quarter for the saloon, made $l020 more paid into the school fund last year from that quarter than has been paid this. Per contra there is one gambling license paid by saloon which last year had no game, which would reduce the above figure to S660 But there was one more saloon than now at the Washington Camp last year. and the license from that quarter made the deficiency this year count up to s7l0. Take from that the ss0 which the property tax in- creases the school fund this year and we haxe s630 as the amount which the school fund last year ought to have been in excess of the same fund this year, had the license tixes been all ripidly collected aad correctly accounted
 But, according to Judge OConnor, this year there has been far more school All the outside districts have had the full amount guaranteed by law, and when they were so paid there was enough in the school fund to give Nogales 9i months of school this year instead of months last year, with an extra teacher at salary of S6O per month. an addition of Sl0 per month to the salary of the principal, to pay the debt incurred last year, to pay several others items, aud to carry oyer surplus of nearly Sl, l0O How is that for high?
 Here are Judge OConor's figures; Deficit last year, $500, and only : months school. This year 9i months school; one extra teacher 94 months at s6O per month, S570; principal, additional BIO per month, S95: paid debt carried over last year, with in- terest, S325; new gate for school grounds, Sl50; Floor lights in school house, $50; cottage for janitor, S7l0; chairs, pictures, etc, sS2; pay for all the teachers 2i months longer than last year, deducting oi course the extra 2 months above accounted to the one additional teacher and the principals increase S3S0; serplus Sll0O; total. S3I37. Add to this an amount paid out for laboratory, which l have forgotten. So you see the school fund has expended more than 5000 more than it did last year, with a possible revenue of more than 5000 less Is it not very plain that the excess in the school fund this year came from the license tax collections? all but SS0 Is it not equally plain that if the license taxes last year had been carefully collected and honestly accounted, there would have been in the school fund nearly S4,000 more than there was? And is it not plain that it is the duty of the board of supervisors to find out the reasons for .. ....lo o 1tVarapno m tha school fnnd