The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-14
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
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of both houses give these questions
consideration. We are endeavoring to
encourage the farmers Of our state to
diversity and to change their present
ways and methods of farming and
much can be done to help the farmers
if the laws relating to security upon
crops that are to be grown and secur-
ity upon future increase of live STOCK
shall be gone over carefully to so ad-
just those laws that they will prove
more beneficial to the farmers
Cattle and Hog Diseases.
1t is not alone necessary to attempt
to cure diseases that may break out
among the horses, cattle and hogs Of
the state, but we ought to do some
thing to prevent the disease from COM
ing in. l understand that hog cholera
and the hoof and mouth disease in cat
tie are spread largely by reason OF the
contamination in cars that come into
the state from infected districts for
the shipment of live stock out of North
Dakota. Ontario, Canada has law
requiring that all cars that have been
used for transportation of live stock
must be cleaned and fumigated before
being allowed to come into Ontario for
live stock shipments. We should have
similar law and if we had and stock
, cars brought into the state were
: cleaned, we should be able to keep
cattle and hog diseases out of North
Dakota.
Good Roads.
In the National congress good
roads bill has passed the house, called
the Shackelford bill. If North Da-
kota shall obtain it's part of the appro-
priation under the provisions of the
bill, provided it shall become law,
it will require that North Dakota ap-
propriate a large sum of money to
meet the conditions imposed and it is
not possible for us to appropriate the
money necessary from the general fund
of the state.
Two years ago l recommended a
change in the auto license law. The
past year the auto licenses brought
into the state treasury little over
$54,000.00, and this money was dis
tributed among the counties of the
state, an average of about one thou
sand dollars to each county. Within
Ia short time with the rapid increase
in the number of autos used in each
state the auto license will amount to
at least $100,OO0.0O per annum, even
if the license fee is not increased be-
yond the $500 for each auto which is
charged at the present time.
l believe the way to use this auto
license money would be to provide for
the issuance of a million dollars worth
of state road bonds. This can be done
by amending the constitution of the
state to provide that the state shall
have authority to issue road bonds.
Then use this auto license money to
pay the principal and interest of these
road bonds and if the bonds were
, taken by the common school fund of
the state at four per cent interest, it
would require $4,000 per year to pay
the interest, leaving 100000 to be ap-
piled on the principal of the bonds, and
if provisions were made that some of
the bonds should be retired, each year,
thereby reducing the annual interest
charge, in twelve or thirteen years the
bonds could be entirely retired, both
principal and interest from the auto
license money and without any ex-
pense to any farmer or business man,
unless he owned an auto. This plan
is feasible and is worthy of the consid-
GRAFTON of this body and l. hope that
an amendment to the constitution Of
the state may be passed to provide
for carrying a measure of this kind
into effect.
This would give a very large
amount of money to be used in build
ing trunk lines of road. This money
would be spent in the state and would
be earned by our people. It would en-
able us to meet the conditions imposed
by the Federal government, if they
shall pass good roads bill; it would
increase the value of property in North
Dakota and would bring many people
in from outside the state if We had
good trunk lines of roads running
through North Dakota.
would also recommend that the
present law providing for the use of
the auto license money be amended to
provide that until such time as the
auto license money shall be needed
to pay the road bonds, as suggested,
provided that such q change in o,,r