The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-11

resents investment of S20O000O0 and contains
5000 inhabitants Its cost exceeds the assessed
value of all the taxable property in the thriving city OF
Little Rock Ark, and its dWellers equal the whole
ation of Emporia Kan.
And beyond is the snowy taness of the Plaza
hotel, an investment of $12,0oO0o0
Here, there, everywhere are massive structures in
each of which populations large enough to make
whole towns. tremendous is the ctys growth that
one years building plans represent cost of 900 OOO
There are nearly 10000 policemen in the 5000 miles
of streets. Their pay alone amounts yearly to $780,
25s They made 244,s22 arrests last To clean the
streets they guard costs 1929 for single year.
The parks of the amazing city IA square miles,
including of it's choicest ground. is that
they contain than 100000 trees and valued
81 500 100000 words the parks owned by New
York contain land than the big city of Rochester
NJ Y. and could be sold for enough to the entire
national debts of Holland. Switzerland. Sweden and
Turkey.
Think Of city has built 514 schoolhouses at
cost of about $1OO0o0OOO and that has than 10000
teachers and superntendents educating children
the salaries being SIT 5S1 900 year! The depart
ment of education spent $27470736 this year.
And If the giant skyline of New York staggers the
imagination. what of the marvellous network Of pipes
and and tunnels under the streets? The separate
wires buried under the pavements of the metropolis
would reach 20 times around the world
Down beside the myriad electric channels hidden
the city rushes daily supply Of about 4sooooooo
gallons OF sparkling water. of which 325O00000 gallons
come clear mountain lake through two aqueducts
one of them tunneed through rock and earth for %
miles New Workers. pay their city s11ooooo0 year for
One would think that the government of city that
spends S2O0000,O00 and employs 10000
would be in the hands Of its abest and most trustwor
thy business
It would be natural to expect its four and half mil
lion inhabitants be excited the fact that the
nua cost of maintaining the municipality has in years
grown from $9352O0S2 to $15654514S-an increase Of
s43O25 year. not to speak of something like $780,
900 900 added the citys debt in those 10 years.
Yet the the taxpayers plundered the prouder
they the dimensions Of government, meas
ured in terms of millions Of dollars. makes the New
Yorker lift his head haughtiy when he should hang It
In shame.
citizens bureau of municipal research has for
three years digging into the ctys accounts and
publishing thriers for the taxpayers, who smile and
ready for government to be proposed by the
old gangs Of saloonkeepers grafters professional
oiceseekers and the omnipotent fnanciers who direct
them through stained but highpr1ced lawyers
Who do you think the three principal hackers
this bureau municipal research to which the people
New York seem be looking for light public affairs
Just now?
John D. Rockefeller. of the oil trust.
Andrew Carnegie of the steel trust
Robert Fulton Gushing. of the trust. whose fam
lily recently managed sell protless ferry to the city
at enormous price.
When the greater New York" organized IL
years ago the delivered the city again to the