, 1913-05-01
Carbon County and Its Expenses.

' we lave D6IOr6 u q some OmClaI nRure6 Oh the expenditures OF
the county of Carbon for 1912, under the old board Of County Com
missionersn pa In the first place the assessed valuation of this county is
Sl5y0ss, 975 90 with a population of II, 2S2. The amount Of taxes re-
ceived, so We are informed, is about 100000; these figures are not
given in the cost of maintainance.p For the year 1912 we spent a
total of all expenses in this county sl34, 344s2. The most glaring of
the expenses are the poor and pauper expenses and the roads and
bridges. The poor and pauper expense was $13344 50 and this added
to the poor farm expense of $9,215 SO makes a total totalof ~s22,5605O,
and the roads and bridges for the year 1912 was $50, 73667 This
added to the poor and pauper expense makes a total of ~$S2,29717, or
nearly all of the taxes received, leaving the rest Of the expenses,
$52 36767. @'"r1'F a'' ~ " "f
In comparison with Laramie county-the biggest county in the
Lstate-with a population of 26,127, or more than twice the population.
of Carbon county, with a total expenditure for the year 1912 of
~sl16,O3109. Laramie countys spent for roads and bridges, ~$20,J13.79
or about one third the amount spent by Carbon, county" For poor
and pauper, Laramie county spent s8645Os or trife over one-third
the money spent for the same thing in Carbon county. fT'nRoa' O. "
What we want to know is. WHERE'S all our paupers in Carbon
county. We haven't got them up here in this valley. Tt would seem
from looking over the figures of the fourteen counties in the State of
Wyoming, that for expenses, Carbon county, for counties Of equal
population has them all skinned about 100000. OF course we can't
say but what we had the expenses, but we are unable to see where
these expenses came in at insofar as being visible to the eye The
expenses of this county are given in cold black type, but we are IN
able to see where it all took place. If nearly %$60OOOOO we're actually
put into the roads of this county, where wasi it done ? If our pau.
pers cost u 8 over %$22OO0OO, where are they p1sh ons sr7tssmao7h
~ei There has been too much intimation, that there was d chance for
something to be wrong, that some one who really understands wbere
this money was spent and who can put his hand on the work, and say
there was 80 many hundreds or thousands spent here, or over there
there was so'much money spent, and here is where the paupers are
that cost the county S22,OOOOO, etc, so that the people who pay taxes
know dehnately where this money wen'''Vsomeo one ought to explain.
for the benefit of the tax payers. Not that there is anything probably
wrong, but 30 the people would have a chance to see just where and
why each and every dollar was spent and that they got dollars in work
for dollars in silver. " aa' .H-. IsV'n jnaim 80 a'97o "o1- ~
ni OF couse fit is, as one official was, supposed to have remarked,
"o h with the law" then lit ii time that there was something
done. If we learn of many more who feel the same way, it will be
good and sufficient reason to look to some one to explain, some things,
that to stupid people don't look clear. For instance where are all
those paupers 2 Again We say that, for equal population, Carbon
county has spent over $62,000OO more than any other county in the
state for the year 1912 under the OLD Board Of County Commits.
lsioners, and we arein the field to find out if we got dollar for dollar
for the money expended for improvements, and WHERE is the.
ROADS and BRIDGES and the PAUPERSP 'n'ui7IuPa COZ r"]
Eo. THIS QUESTION Is GOING 70 BE ANSWERED, and if
the OLD board don't do it we are going to look to some one else
This end Of the county hasn't got her Share of the paupers MOI has
she gotten anything like her share of the $59OO0OO spent for roads
and bridges in 1912. ...- -.r. u .rl