Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-25
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Relative to the need Of improved sanitary conditions in the city, as Q demonstrated by the above appalling typhoid record for 1904. the Review is interviewing taxpayers regarding the building of a sewerage system. Wheth- CT for or against a sewer. whether for or against municipal ownership, the expressions elicited in response to the following questions will be founo in intervews printed below;
 Are you in favor of an issue af s1oo.- 000 in bonds for. the purpose of install ing a sewerage system? 4.
 Do you think that this bond issue will cover the amount of expensey
 Do you think that the extra taxation will be justified by resultant improve ment in health conditions in the city?
 Do you think the system should be owned by the city or by private indi- yiduals or corporations?
 Do you think that by installing sewerage system the ravages- of ty- phoid fever and of all infectious dis eases will be lessened?
 Can you make any suggestions as to a remedy for these conditions if the sewerage system is not installed?
 II. E. Daniels expressed himself as follows when asked his views:
 q do not own much property to pay taxes on. but I have a three-room house. am perfectly willing, more than that, anxious, that the council should provide a way for the building of a sewer. provided that it is Q nun ,1A ya-i- vate corporation getting hold of the franchise. All our franchises are now owned by private corporations, and it seems to me that in water and light rates we have a sufficient object les son to keep us from giving any more franchises of that kind.
 That a sewerage system in the city is a great need everybody realizes. The council realizes it, and I hope that the taxpayers will find a way through their expressions to tell the councilmen to go ahead and get the sewer in regardless of any trifling in- crease in taxes. The proposition is altogether too serious a one to be halted in any way by a few paltry dol lars.
 T work under ground and get the ordinary pay of a miner, but l haven't the slightest hesitation about saying that l would gladly cramp myself a lit tie in living expenses to see the sewer go in. l have a wife and children, and I should feel in paying extra taxes that I was investing money in the best possible manner to add to their comfort and good health. And I know that the most people in this town feel the same way about it. or if they do not now will when they think it over.
 'It does not seem to me to be possi- Dle that a town of the wealth and great prosperity that Bisbee enjoys could be stopped for a minute by the lack of s40O00 on it's assessment roll to carry out an enterprise of the merit of the sewerage system. and do not believe that it will be stopped. partic- ularly when it is understood that to raise the assessed valuation $40 900 means only the payment Of total of s400 by the taxpayers in addition to what they will have to pay anyway
 A. W. Wood said that he was very ItlkA III AdfOA Ol AlAt StNtl DaOPOol- ton, and that he thought the extra tax was entirely justified by the good he believes the sewer would do the city.
 T am certain that it would do away with typhoid to a great extent. don't see. however. how the city can vote the bonds. when the whole as- sessed value of the property of the city falls short of the needed million and a quarter by over s46.0c9."
 Mir Wood said that he had not thought enough about the matter to express his opinion about the council raising the taxable value of the city Dro~erty.
 '"The only thing could suggest to better the condition of the city. if the proposed bond issue does not go through. is that the city should issue bonds to the full amount it is able to