The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-03-06
A LITTLE MATTER OF TAXES.

A LITTLE MATTER OF TAXES.
A Few Figures Anent the Tax Rate in
Cambridge and Princeton-Some Com
parsons.
The Isanti County Press takes the
statement the UNION recently pub
lished showing the tax statement per
500 of assessed valuation in Princeton
and compares it with that of Cam
bridge. 1t makes difference in favor
of Cambridge of Sl.94 per 800 of
assessed valuation. The Press thinks
it is matter that the residents of
Cambridge should congratulate them
selves over. According to the figures
of the Press the county tax of Isanti
county amounts to S1.12 on every 800
of valuation while in Mile Laos county
that is new and undeveloped county
compared with it's sister county, the
tax is only So cents more on the same
valuation. Isanti county long since
finished paying for frame court house
that is heated with complex system
OF wood heating stoves, every county
official being his own janitor. Then in
Isanti county which has been settled
for many, many years the road and
bridge tax is almost nominal. Here in
Mile Laos county the people are pay
ing for a brick court house that is
steam heated and occupies court
house square of it's own. The county
is also paying for some railroad bonds
and as practical business proposition
they were a very good Investment for
the county. Isanti county really in
tended to be doing the same thing,
and would be but for the fact that one
township refused to cast majority of
votes for the proposition. So much
for the county tax. AS to the village
tax Princeton is paying a tax of 6.3
mills for revenue and on water works
bonds and in addition to this she is
paying, including the local one mill
tax, a school tax of Is mills, making
in all 1928 mills for school and local
village taxes, as against 1913 which the
village of Cambridge is paying, and OF
this tax it is all for school purposes,
the village getting along on its So, 600
license from saloons.
Princeton has an electric light and
power plant of it's own which is net
ting the village over $1,000 annually,
while Cambridge has no light and
power plant but pays a private cor
poration to light the village The
electric light and water plant of Prince.
ton is worth nearly $4,000. Prince
ton has village hall, lookup, etc.
that is worth $1,000. Cambridge has a
small two.story frame building on a
corner lot and uses the county Jail for
a lookup. Princeton has two-story
brick high school building that is
worth with lots $4,000 and another,
the Whittier school building, large
two-story frame that is worth $4,000.
She has $50 pupils in her public
schools. These things are not alluded
to in any boasting sense. Cambridge
is smart and lively sister town and
the UNION would say nothing deroga-
tory of it's prosperous neighbor, but
when Cambridge gets it's water plant
installed and equips herself with a
good fire department and all the aux
iliaries that go with it, and when she
can rank up with Princeton for school
advantages, we hope the Press will
send over tax statement of village
taxes. And then if perchance the good
people of Cambridge should forget to
throw boquet at their saloons some
chilly March day there will be tax
statement for Cambridge that will
make some of the old tax payers hair
stand on end. The moral is you can't
get good thing for nothing.
Another Electric Line.
A special telegram from St. Cloud
announces that the Twin City Rapid
Transit company is about to close a
deal there for the purchase of the
water power rights at Sank Rapids. 1t
is known that negotiations with this
apparent end in view have been pro.
ceeding for some time. It is said that
the acquisition of the Sank Rapids
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