The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-06-05

GAN DEVISE \ WAY whereby this
obligation can DO met without taxing
anybody except those using and being
benefited by IL, well aud good. II
costs $500 to clean u closet aud $4,000
to pump u %cesspool, and the board Of
health Of Tucumcari will never con
sent to anything again but tina, these
must bee absolutely sanitary. The busi
ness house which is now paying $500
per month to clean q cesspool at the
end nf twelve months will have eI
pended $4,000; aud IL tue closet is
cleaned every three months Or oftSner,
/. need be. it will cost at least $1,000
n year, besides other expenses arising
FROM the disposition Ut slops, etc, that
will add to the total This, IN the face
Ut the fact that sanitary sewerage can
he had for, say, sl2j q twenty five
foot front, looks like a business pro
position to most men who give IL a
hh'NkHAH VI NNhA N't " " WIN nav
to guarantee the bond issue, but the
city government proposes TO make the
sewerage system, to be installed, all
s%olutely self sustaining. No tax will he
assessed to meet the interest ON the
bonds ur to create n sinking fund to
l~iquidate the principal, hut instead,
those using the sewerage will be
charged. n We said i%,efore. u nominal
sum TO meet the necessary amount to
carry the bonds, aud finally to dispose
OF the slOO.OOO. which will he due aud
payable after thirty years. IL may he
said: tbs ~ q dubious proposition Al
right the answer is: IL has been, aud
j. being done ~ every part Of OuI
great country. Those whu are studying
the situation claim that 1t will he self
money than j. necessary to meet the
pa ments OF interest, right now, aud
anybody knows that a, the town In
creas-s ia population the reNenue de-
rived from those using sewerage will
Increase ~ thr wears go by. Now, IN
ease the amount necessary 10 meet the
interest, admitting It Is possible for the
sake Ut argument, then say II fell sjuu
~ even ~ 900 below, ~ vet even more,
the increase ia the tax rate that would
follow, would amount to an insignifi
cant sum per capita. All right, ~
much for that phase Of the question.
Now, uu the other hand, u u - true.
a. the city government claims II j.,
that 1t will not add anything to the
tan rate, aud that It will maintain II
self. that u !, cheaper than the present
system of pumping c%eS~Pools and
! cleaning r%lusets, etc. that u l. eminent
~ better aud safer, that II will IN
crease the price Of property; that u
will hr an iuducemcnt To- the invest
mcut nf capital aud the Development y.
Industries; that It VIA be- u drawing
card a. an advertisement 20 the out
I'D, world a. To- our fitness ~ a place
~ safe aud hcalthful habitation; that
II will h. a guarantee against the loss
ut life from e]pid-mics aud contagious
that n wa rid the city OF nauciou,
fumes aud ~Irkrniug Stinks that stag
ger YOU gu the sidewalk, when n ress
pool d. hring pumped. that 1t may save
the life Of some selfish genus homo
whose money won : hr worth y tin
the flame has ,inged his red whiskerS;
- n not true hat We should have II
The News. for one. dOu I want any al
ditiOual taxation. II - true, W. would
rather haze the additional tax. no mat
ter what IL would br, IN reason. than
take the chances II living here anon
the filth without sewerage; but II j.
the opinion OF tins paper that the cost
of sanitation L. going 10 he materially
reduced vita sewerage, aud n . busi
ness proposition At appeals to ~, a. 4
saving ~ money us we'll a. a protrr
ton 10 life aud an addition 10 the
comforts ~ living Sewerage installed
ten years, ur fifteen years from now. j.
not going to &" some 90 the nldtlmrr,
very much good, neither will the money
he might hide from taxation, he j. not
going 10 live always, aud Their. j. d
rhanre that his time may - - rome II
he nhS"rbs a little sewerage into hl.
anatomy that should be- convcye,
through the pip-s 10 the septic tank
This !. a subject that everybody shout,
study aud Ice prepared to EAST an IN
trlll.rnt vote On the 3Oth instant. Tn,
News considers Il a chance to make III,
epoch in III. building Of a great city
whirh We should be 10 a short time.
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