Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-27
MASS MEETING WILL BE HELD
 0CT. 4IH
Mayor Caven Issues Call for Meeting of Citizens to Take Up Matter of Getting New Charter for the City,.

The movement started some time ago with an idea of taking some defi- mite action towards securing for the City of Bisbee charter under which it will be possible to make needed i'm provements, and, in short, conduct the business of the municipality in a man. ner creditable to the city, has met with general approval, and Mayor Cav en announced yesterday that a mass meeting of all the citizens would be held at the city hall on the evening of October 4th for the purpose of dis cussing ways and means of accom- plishing the end in view.
 At the present time just about 15 per cent of the expenses incidental to the running of the city is collected n taxes, and the remaining S4 per cent is made up by the licenses.
 Under the present system, the city council is empowered to levy a tax of not more than one per cent for all purposes. Four-tenths of this one per cent must be levied for what is termed the general fund" This is the fund from which salaries are paid. and all other expenses except those of maintaining roads. and paying interest on bonded indebtedness. For the maintenance and construction of roads a tax of two-tenths of one per cent nay be levied. This goes into what $ called the road fund" and can only be used for the purposes specified. The peculiarity about this fund is that un- der the conditions which confront the citizens of Bisbee, it takes all of the fund and quite a good deal more to maintain the roads in any respectable condition. Now that sewer bonds have been voted. the city is allowed to levy tax of three-tenths of one per cent for the payment of the interest on these bonds. This is the extent of the tax levy at the present tima because the remaining one-tenth of one per cent can only be levied for certain purposes specified by the Ter ritorial statute
 The assessed valuation of the city, according to the latest assessment, is approximately the sum of S2,000, GOO. The tax roll for all purposes is nine mills. from which can be seen that the sum which the city will get from taxa ton this year will be about s1S.00O. while it costs something like S75, 5,000 to run the city.
 The remaining expenses are defray- ed by the licenses, which are assessed to the different class of business.
 The tax rate in Cochise county this year will be s2.65, whereas the city rate is 30.
 The City of Bisbee at the present time is paying the sum of S25 month for street sprinkling, while many of the prominent physicians of the city say the dust is the cause of a great deai of disease.
 Besides affording a means of better ing these conditions. it will be possi. ble to give to the city increased fire protection, an absolute necessity; and many other things too numerous to mention, which a city of Bisbee's size is entitled to.
 Everybody who owns one dollars worth of property in the city is inter- ested in the movement, and should give it his support by attending the meeting and offering any suggestions which might be helpful.
 Several of the attorneys of the city have signified their intention to be present, and it Is expected that they will address the meeting on the legal features of the matter.