Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
are more capable than Klamath to
take on the responsibility.

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take on the responsibility.
w. A. Freeburg: 1 am for the
bond issue tooth and toenail. / was
dead against the former bond issue
and am very reluctant to increase
taxation or indebtedness-yet the sit
uation in front of us makes this issue
great deal larger than good roads
matter. We practically decide the
Pacific Highway route next Tuesday
/ cannot see how we can afford to
let the matter rest and l believe it
the duty of every property owner and
citizen to get out to the polls.
E. V. Carter: I am in favor OF
the bonds most emphatically. 1t
would be public calamity were they
to be defeated under existing condi-
tions. Jackson county endorsed a
road bond issue of $1,5OO,0OO less
than two years ago. To fail in voting
one-third that amount now would be
a backward step from which we
would not soon recover. Further
more, the Pacific Highway is at stake
and we've got to have it. | believe
the proposed highway will benefit the
county to its uttermost limits and re-
sultant prosperity will be so evident
to property owners that laterals will
come fast.
George R. Scott and son accom-
panied F. G. McWilliams to Leland
last Tuesday to look at the Duncan
ranch of 400 acres. This is the ranch
on which is located one of the old
stage stations-also the burial
ground of fourteen soldiers of Indian
war days and of Josephine Leland.
for whom the town and the county of
Josephine are named-she having
died on the trail while passing
through the country in pioneer days.
Mr.. Scott is looking over various land
offerings in the valley. The Duncan
ranch is one of the best in its section
of the country,
E. E. Bagley: l am enthusiastical-
ly in favor of the proposed road bond
issue, believing, as l do, that if same
carries it will begin a new era in
the history and development of the
Rogue River Valley. The issue
should carry as an economic feature,
1t should carry as an advertising fea-
ture, it should carry to insure us the
Pacific Highway, and it should carry
to enable us to get over the divide
into the land of something doing"
The cost will be so light to each in
dividual taxpayer that it should not
be given a second thought by the pa
triotic, progressive and go-ahead citi-
zen. For instance, the annual inter
est on the proposed 100000 bond
issue will be $4,000. Add to this
$3,600 per annum for collection of
this interest and other incidental ex-
penses relating thereto and add there
to sinking fund of $4,000 per an
mum for the next ten years to take
up the first 100000 of bonds and
the total amount of taxes necessary
to care for this bond issue for the
next ten years will be $39,6OO per
annum, or'one and one-tenth mill tax
on the present county assessment of
about $36,000,000. Therefore for
each $1,000 assessed to a taxpayer
he would only pay $1.1O per annum
for the next ten years towards the
building of this great highway. What
does this tax amount to in compari-
son to the immediate benefits that
will accrue from the distribution of
such a large amount of money and
in addition thereto the states allot-
ment, and the permanent benefits
that will be derived from the usage
of this great highway aside from the
immense amount of advertising we
will secure as being a progressive,
active and up-to-date community
with whom it is good to live?