Amador ledger., 1910-02-11
THE CITY's FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

government for the year ending January 31 1o1o-the
fourth year of acsons life city of the sixth class The
showing deserving of notice in several respects. does
surprise those who fairly and mparay anticipated the
expenses of maintaining separate government and the
probable income for the support of the On the of
acksons Incorporation December 1st, 1905, the Ledger
published article the pros and of the Incorporation
proposition The article gave estimate of the for
the support of the city establishment and also rough
estimate of the of keeping up the city household 1t
will be remembered that the time the article published
the therein made criticised by the rabd and
interested advocates of putting city airs 1t
tended that the items of bill wildly exaggerated
the salary list and other probable charges ovedrawn
We laid away copy of the Ledger containing the article at
the time published confident that estimates
conservaivey drawn and that the march of in
incorporation carried would vndcate the stand then
took giving impartial and disinterested opinion the
issues involved We placed the Ledger in pigeon hole
where could lay hand it any time it might be
needed show the Ledger that embarkng in
arship, but rather those who loudly procaming
that the question of all profit and loss In
another column repubish this article, that
readers will be able judge for themselves whether
correctly gauged the situation that time Underneath
that article reproduce the receipts and expenses of the
city for the year, shown by the clerks
official The figures speak for themselves, and
need part.
Coming back to the showing for the past year, find
the total expenses $12o28 This about IS per
head reckoning the population Of the city at 25Oo This
for regular running ordinary expenses that
be provided for every year Dssecng these figures
find that the items of salaries commissions and eat
up $4,000 of this Sprinkling and water took
$8o1.12 Street lighting cost $I31I Under the head of
that must every year with slight
variation and which contribute nothing toward
improvemens-we figure $136S94. Labor and team hire
which presume represents work Streets $5o6o22 1t
is be disputed that in the matter of lighting and
sprinking there is improvement upon the system in
vogue before Incorporation also done the streets
than formerly But the question getting anything
like value for the vastly increased expenses compared
with former years. We have system any
than formerly The sanitary conditions in this regard
anything unsatisfactory than they before And
this is said in no spirit of faufndng but is based the
assumption that the city funds have been spent the best
advantage
Now let us turn to the Of income The writer
public stated years before Jackson incorporated that
municipal government must necessarily entail increased
upon the peope that taxable property
sufficient to maintain separate government without
additional burdens somewhere and that the business
would be called upon to put up the deficiency Now the
financial balance show that last year there raised
from propc $39oo-less than one third the total
revenuewhie licenses furnished $oooo or nearly one
half of total amount expended The managers had to
come to the conclusion that city could be maintained
without raise somewhereconrary the claims put for
ward at the outset when it claimed that municipal
Government would not involve expense The feasible
method of increasing the income in the matter of liquor
licenses and these jumped from SIS to $50 quarter
We are not now discussing the wisdom of this increase but
we simply mention to show that the Ledger under
rather than over the mark in its estimates given four
wears