The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-13

year. when Will require ltNS Oh
.14l9 cents on the one hundred dol
lars valuation This will give you
five thousand nine hundred and for
.ty dollars, or practically two hun
dred dollars more than is necessary
The increase in the values should be
one hundred thousand dollars per
year for the first three years.
The third year you would need TO
Ipay your interest, sinking fund and
expenses. five thousand six hundred
and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Your values would now be four
million two hundred thousand dol
lars A rate of L. u cents would give
| five thousand six hundred and sew
enty dollars, the exact amount. BY
this time your good roads should be
! built and values would hardly in
crease more than say, fifty thousand
! donars per year. You would there
fore be paying one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five dollars and
the interest each year, which would
| be gradually growing less and would
require one half cent less levy each
year until at the end of the first ten
years your good roads will be cost
ling you ten cents on the hundred
dollars valuation.
/ At the end of the second ten
years or twenty years from date,
YOU will owe thirty-seven thousand
five hundred dollars, your tax values
would be about six million dollars.
Your levy of 5 or 6 cents on the one
hundred dollars valuation and so on
down until the bonds are all retired.
! As you see ! have used 5 per cent
bond when ! believe a 4 or 4 Y per
icent bond can be used which of
course would lessen the proposition
/ in the some proportion.
! Now let us look at our regular tax
! levy for road and bridge purposes.
! Until the present year the rate was
Is cents. II is now ten cents This
rate will necessarily have to be
maintained. if not increased, fer the
present The difference in cost of
maintenance of macadamiZed roads
and dirt roads is, as stated above.
about So per cent. If you con at the
end OF three years place your roads
in good condition and reduce the
maintenance or general levy to say
) cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation, you will be paying for
your bonds and maintenance only
about 10 cents on the one hundred
dollars valuation. At the end of the
first ten years you will be paying all
told only / 5 cents on the one hun
red dollars. the same amount you
have been paying for years until the
present year. At the end of the sec
ond ten years you will be paying
only ten cents for all ROAD and
bonds, the same as you paid last
year At the end of thirty years your
children will be paying for all roads
and bonds only about cents and at
the end of forty years about OF
G cents for one hundred dollars val
uatiou.
Under present conditions The rate
Of ten to fifteen cents viii have to
be maintained all the time for ten.
twenty. thirty or forty years, unless
conditions change
Now let us figure on construction
Of good roads First, the county has
been building first class concrete
culvers aud bridges, That they are
permanent cannot be questioned
Their maintenance is less than two
per cent OF their cost. That Ellis
county has handled this feature OF
her road wolk well is shown by the
: fact that Dallas county paid clever
dollars, Tarrant county nine dollars
81 and Ellis county, five dollars anc
sixty cents per cubic yard for theil
[ concrete work. ] believe we can con
: tinuc to build them this cheap anc
probably cheaper if we get into THIS
work more extensively.
We have only / 9-16 miles 81
p grayeled road near Waxabachie. This
, was built by day hauling and con
: Wet loading. II cost owing to new
ness OF the movement and unusua
formation of gravel, etc, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seyen dollars
per mile II was made entirely OF
? gravel on the worst piece of road II
Ellis county, and is made OF 10 Zee
Of gravel - inches thick. An auto
p mobilist on his way from San An
tonic to Denison asked citizen o.
= our town recently how much gooc
, roads Ellis county had. When tolf
p only one and one-balf miles, he said
you have not much, but you have
the best mile Of road between here
: and san Antonio"
The secret of road building Is
, drainage Four inches OF gravel wei
1r.innl ie hpttar than ten inches