Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-22
thus spent should constitute good
investment, with ample and adequate
returns.
THE FAIR BONDS.

: thoroughly familiar with conditions
surrounding the proposition to ISSUE
bonds for the purchase of grounds on
which to permanently locate the coun-
ty fair, generally speaking it heartily
endorses the measure, believing Dal-
las to be the logical place for the
annual exhibit and that it should
provide ample accommodations there
for. Although the immediate dis
bursement to assure its permanency
here may seemingly be large, it is an
investment that the people of this
community cannot overlook. The re-
turns will be many fold within a
comparatively few years, not only
from financial standpoint but an
educational standpoint as well. Dal-
las is largely dependent upon the ag-
ricultural, horticultural and dairying
industries of the contiguous territory,
and the development of these may be
materially bettered through compari-
son of exhibits and discussions by
those engaged in these particular
lines of endeavor at a common gath
ering such as is made possible through
county fair. Polk county enjoys an
enNiable reputation throughout the
Pacific Coast country for its products
as well as its productiveness, and no
opportunity for still further advance
Those public-spirited citizens who
advanced the money to hold the pro-
posed site until such time as Dallas
felt financially able to take it over,
are, in our opinion, deserving of
commendation. They profit nothing
by the transaction, except in the
same measure that every other citi-
zen profits. The property in question
was puIcHdseu IoI pow pei dcle,
which, considering the fact that it
is practically in the city, may rightly
be termed cheap, and it is their pur-
pose to turn it over to Dallas with
out advance. The additional tax that
would be incurred through this pur-
chase would amount to only four
ffths of one mill on the assessed val
uation of the city's property, or
eighty cents additional the first year
on every $100 Of taxes paid. The an
nual decrease would be one-tenth for
a period of ten years when the OBJ
legation would be discharged.
1t is feared that unless the oppor-
tunity now offered to secure a site is
taken advantage of the fair may go
elsewhere, and such a possible ca
Iamity should be averted. There re-
gently came under the personal OBJ
of the writer a case SINH
ar to the one now confronting Dal- s
as. A county seat town failed to
provide adequate accommodations for {
holding a fair, and a less populous {
leighbor came forward with sufficient l
Inducements to cause its removal |
rom the seat Of justice. From
mall beginning five years ago that
air has become one of the acknow-
edged institutions of Southern Ore c
,on, and those people who permitted '
to get away would now congrat- I
late themselves if they could get it
'ack at ten times the price originally
sked. There can be no logical ar I
.ument against the county fair, here I
T elsewhere, provided it is conducted T
long the lines for which it is in g
ended. The Observer believes, with y
is present knowledge of the situa- v
ion, that the proposed bonds should Il
e voted