The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-01-22
A MATTER OF PUBLIC POL|TY
REASONS WHY THE TOWN SHOULD
BE TAKEN INTO THE IR-
RIGATION DISTRICT
without Sacrifice the People of OrO-
vile Can Help Out Most I'm.
pOrtant Enterprise

Bond buyers have at all times pos.
itively refused to seriously consider
the purchase of our irrigation district
bonds by reason of the small assessed
valuation and population within the
district. While it is true the Great
Northern railroad officials were at one
payment for constructing the system
they were taking them not as an in
vestment but by reason of the bene-
fits to be derived. In conference with
the district officials they stated that
under the present status they would
not attempt to put dollars worth OF
the bonds on the market as they
would not be salable at any price, they
have also stated at different times that
it would greatly increase the selling
value of the bonds if the town were
included. This can be readily under
stood when it is considered that in
cluding the towns of Oroville and To-
nasket will more than double the as
sessed valuation and will increase the
population about ten times.
The towns will be greatly benefited
by having an unlimited supply of
cheap water it being estimated that
the maximum charge for each 50-foot
lot would be not to exceed $1.50 per
annum also that the water will be
available at any time and would be an
additional fire protection, therefore
should decrease insurance rates.
1t would do away with the necessity
of an addition to the pumping plant
as the present plant is sufficient for
the winter months and will be for
some years to come, though the sum-
mer needs are taxing it almost to it's
limit.
The present security to offer the
the Great Northern and their future
action seems uncertain. Reputable
concerns have signified their willing
ness to undertake the disposal of these
bonds provided the towns are included.
Your property if not your existence
here depends on the successful carry
ing out of this irrigation system, then
tC put it as Mr.. McDOugal of Guthrie,
McDougal company put it, IF the peo-
pie of the towns haven't sufficient faith
in the success of the irrigation sys-
tenn to back it up, how can they eX-
pect bond buyers to have faith in it. y
The following is an extract of
Judge Meals opinion of the effect the
bonds would have on the town prop
erty by including it in the irrigation
district.
THE bonds of the district consti
tutes lien on all land within the
district in the same sense that school
districts and other municipal bonds
are lien on the property. All bonds
in a sense constitute lien on the
property within the municipality au-
thorizing the bonds, that is such bonds
are to be paid by taxation and the
taxes when levied, of course, become
a lien on all of the property. No lien
is created on the land by reason of the
bonds, which can be foreclosed if the
bonds be not paid. The assessment
when fixed and levied by the board OF
directors does become a lien on the
land against which the same is as
sessed for the payment of the assess
ment, and if such assessments are
permitted to become delinquent the
land may be sold for the payment
thereof in the manner provided by the
statute, and the same is true of al
other tax levies imposed for the pay
ment of any other sort OF bonds
Every piece of real estate in Orovillt
is, in sense, liable for its proportion
ate part of all of the Oroville munich
pal bonds, and the same is true of the
school district bonds. When a levy
has been made to create fund fol
the payment of such bonds, it, thu
levy, becomes specific lien agains
the property within the corporation
for the payment of such tax thus lev
led against each individual piece o
property, and the property of cours'
can be sold for the payment of sucl
taxes or assessments.
Each individual lot or other sub
division of land should be assessed
on the same basis as other land of lik
quality and acreage That is to say
ii certain lot should contain on
quarter of an acre, it should be as
sessed and taxed on basis pro rat
to one acre or a ten acre tract O
like land. If corner lot in the tow