The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-04-28
teen years aro

teen years aEo
This Increase In state Income cor
tlnues right along The tax on "a,
ingr tanks deposits ihis year va
be- sixty thousand dollars more tina
$40 years ago and 100000 NOR
than IN 1903 Don't think thi
money viii be left In the stat
treasury for ID won't Il is bonnl
70 b. spent but the state can hav
IL spent IN building state system
Of main roads II the voters OF thi
state will send men TO Montpellc
mex, fall pledged TO that purpose.
So far | have dealt only with IN,
natural increase ia stateincome bu
Il III possible 10 DO better than that
The state is already appropriatin.
s750se a year all Of which praeti
cally goes into work on those road'
which would be- included In stat,
system. Surely s50.o00 OF the $3.50,
0o0 appropriation could be added tc
the trunk line fund without injus-
tice.
All this. remember, does not take
penny OF income away from any
town. In figuring the state income
above | have not included tho state
highway tax which the state collects
and pays back to the town would
not favor taking this money fol
state roads for the towns need II
10 put into their other roads, ex-
cept. perhaps, when the state built
stretch of several miles of state
road through town IL might be
thought best to use that town :
state money toward II for that yeai
only No town would object &c
that.
Let us look little further in the
direction of ways and means. II
reading the last biennial report OF
the state auditor | find that for
the two years ending July /, 1908
the state spent good deal OF
money in special appropriations
Some of the larger OF these ap-
preparations are as follows:
Storage vault and gliding dome
S3.645
Morrill, hall. $4,000
jamestown exposition, 10000
Battleship Vermont silver service,
4,02S
Revision of statutes. 10000
Sand bar bridge. 3,700
Taxation commission, $3.50
Just in these few items there is
a tidy total of s125.000 and to
them might be added some special
of the last session
such as $4,000 for the Tercenten-
AIRY, $4,000 to ventilate the state
house, $4,000 to the state faii
and doubtless others which i dc
not now recall to mind. Altogether
the special appropriations. spent OF
to be spent in four years will
to from 100000 10 $780,
600 This remember is without
the regular state expense
In which we all know it Is possible
to make some thousands OF dollars
Of saving.
realize O: course that II is not
possible 10 do away entirely with
special app op.iations. Cases will
arise wnere they are bound to be
allowed bnt | feel sure that II Is
possible Tor a few years to keer
Lhese special appropriations at q
minimum and devote the money to
state roads and at the same
line compelling the use of the |
Increase In state income for the |
'ame purpose.
Through building the system as
outlined, almost ninety per cent OF
he towns of Vermont would be re-
ieved of the care and expense OF
tretch OF from six to ten miles OF
cad while still having the same
mount of money as before for their
Dad department. The work of state
Engineers and road experts through
nut the state In building the trunk
ines would educate all the people
nd especially town selectmen and
Dad commissioners In the art OF
Dad building and this would direct
Y benefit every town in Vermont.
do not claim to know all there
S about road building | would
Iot insist on any one kind OF road.
travel might be all right In one
lace where good gravel Is obtaina-
lie while another locality might re-
uire macadam or telford. would
cave that to the engineers, but
eel sure that by following in the
main the plan ! have imperfectly
utlined It is possible for the state
1 Vermont to build a system OF
tate roads at the rate Of around
ne hundred miles year that will
ot favor one town or section above
mother, without bonding the state,
nd without adding a dollar Of bur
en- for the towns to bear. but ra-
her, in fact. taking away some
that from their present load
Sincerely yours.
Frank u. Howe.
MiddIebury Summer Session.
Middlebury College is sending out
he announcement OF It's second Sum