Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-08-21

ICNy Tic SAME IdASS every year Itldt
we are levying now and use the
amount that we would save by hav-
! ing the state take over the main
road and put it on our branch roads
and our taxes wouldn't be increased
a dollar. In very few years the
roads would be in first class shape
all over the county, and without any
additional cost. This is the great
big reason why you should vote
yes".
Fourthly. We now have a state
automobile tax and every automo-
bile in this county is taxed every
year from $500 to $250 90. That
money goes into a road building
fund and can only be used for that
purpose. Seventy per cent of the
amount collected from each county
is set aside each year to pay interest
on road building bonds, and it is
figured that in year from now. i'll
the automobiles increase in Bear
Lake county as they have during the
past year, our percentage would be
sufficient to pay all the interest on
the $4,000 bond issue, for these
bonds can readily be sold at 5 per
cent, so the interest would amount
to but $2500 per year. Persons
who are quite competent to judge
of the matter are all of the opinion
that the automobile tax will not on
ly pay the annual interest on the
bonds, but will finally pay off the
bonds themselves, SO that for all
this vast and permanent i'm
provement the people in general
would not be called upon to pay
one dollar. Another thing about
this law is that unless we bond the
county for road building purposes
we don't get anything back from
the automobile tax and the counties
that do bond will be using our pro-
, portion of it.
This is another and by no means
the least of the many reasons why
we should vote for the bonds.
Filthy. The road, if built at all,
will be built out of the material
, found in the county along the line
, of the road, and by the people of
Bear Lake county, if they want to
lido the work. 1t will be built by
contract and our own people will be
!. given the preference, but should
!, any outsider get any of the contracts
lit will be with the understanding
! that the people of the county viii
be given the opportunity to do the
work, SO that when the road is final
ly built and completed we will havs
both the money and the road.
\ Can you beat this for a roae
! building scheme? This is another
: big reason why you should vot'
yes"
Sixthly and finally. We canno
o figure out one good reason why an!
e taxpayer in Bear Lake county shoult
Ie vote against this proposition. It
4 wonderful opportunity to get
Ie good road running through tn
IT heart of our county at time whel
'e the state will pay one-third its cos
a and then take it off our hands for al
re time to come. 1t is such a plain
II common sense business propositio
IS that we cannot understand why
s. single voter should oppose it.
" EZRA j. HOWELL,
lt JOHN T. PETERSON,
u JOHN QUAYLE,
10 County Commissioners.
E. A. BURRELL, Chairman
: OLE TRANsTRUM,
!. ALMA FINDLAY,
= JOSEPH R. SHEPHERD,
Z. NJ. PUGMIRE.
D'ORR POINTER,
G. G. GRAY,
ALMA HAYES,
CHAs. E. WRIGHT,
County General Committe
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