Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-16
APPEAL IS MADE
FOR SUPPORT OF
THE BOND ISSUE
Letter Of Explanation Is Is
sued by Advisory Com
mittee Named by County
Commissioners.

good roads bond issue in Ada county
at the election to be held this month,
has issued the following letter In ex-
PLANTATION of what the bonds mean to
residents Of the county and the bene-
fits to be derived IL the election auth
orizing their issuance is carried
ION Tuesday, April 20, 1915, an cleo
ton will be held in Ada county Tor the
purpose of determining whether or not
we shall vote county bonds in the sum
Of 100000 for the purpose OF compiet-
ing the good roads system heretofore
begun. The polls will be open from III
a. m. to 8 D. M, and any qualified cleo
tor is entitled to vote, without regis
tering.
every man and woman in Ada
county is in favor of good roads Just
as they are in favor of good schools,
churches and comfortable homes. The
only reason why there will be single
vote against the bonds for building
good roads is the fear on the part OF
taxpayers that the, voting OF these
bonds will increase taxation.
at is the purpose of this letter 70
present certain facts which will SHOW
that the building of good roads viii not
increase taxes. but on the contrary
will reduce them.
before stating these facts there is
certain information which should be
given.
.'The question is often asked, If these
bonds are voted, where are the new
roads to be built?
"Answer-Under the law the board
OF county commissioners designate the
roads.
2. I'm this connection, however. it is
highly important that each section N
Ada county should be represented by d
man conversant with the condition IN
his particular section to advise with
the county commissioners in laying out
and improving the roads in each local
ity. with this in mind, a committee
has been selected to advise with the
board of county commissioners, WHICH
committee is composed of the following
named persons: Frank Gardner. Eagle;
j. E. Roberts. Star; e. G. Prairie, Me-
ridian; /. l.. Truax, Five Mile
"The above named men are promt-
net in the business affairs OF their par
ticular localities and will be able to
give the county commissioners great
assistance in determining the proper
roads to be built.
10 Fay interest on ooHuos
Prior to 1918 there was no state IL
cense upon automobiles and motor
cycles Each city and village licensed
automobiles and motorcycles In such
an amount as was provided by It's To-
cal ordinance. This license money was
paid to the city or village government.
1.-THE legislature in 1913 created a
state highway commission and pro-
% fnV IN
mobiles and motorcycles; the license
for automobiles ranging from $50 to
$40 and on motorcycles $500. This IL
cense money was paid to the state
treasurer and kept in separate fund,
known as the state highway fund
The governor of the state appointed q
state highway commission, which
commission had authority to. use the
funds in the state highway fund for
the purpose of constructing state high
ways.
"The legislature evidently thought 1t
best to make some provision whereby
each county could take portion of the
money from the licenses sold in its
particular county and build its own
roads, so a provisi4. was made that u
any county in the state would vote
DOuuE LOT Int phIpOoC VI JulldAhe 5OVh
roads then the board of county COM
missioners should have a right to draw
from the state treasurer enough of the
money raised from the sale of auto
mobile licenses in such county to pay
the interest on its outstanding bonds,
the maximum amount to be drawn not
TO exceed 20 per cent of the total money
raised from the sale of licenses in each
alo cd hot
bonds were voted then the county
should have no portion of the money SO
raised.
In 1915 this law was amended so as
to give each county 10 per cent of the
money raised from the sale of auto
mobile and motorcycle licenses and fur
ther provided that in addition to paying
interest upon bonds from such licenses
each county might create a sinking
fund for the redemption of the bonds
outstanding.
TN 1913 Ada county took advantage
of this law and voted its first bonds in
the sum of 100000. There was some
opposition at that time, based upon the
fear that this bond issue would in
crease taxes and that the license money
] from automobiles would be insufficient
to meet the interest charges. These
bonds were voted and sold at and s -
per cent interest.
Every dollar with which to pay in
terest on these bonds has been secured
from the state highway fund.- under
the provisions of the laws hereinbefore
referred to, and without expense to the
taxpayers
we have not only been able to pay
the interest on outstanding bonds from
automobile licenses, but last year we
created surplus OF $500. and this year
we will have a surplus of $500 or more.
Money to Pay Interest.
Below is given 4 statement Of the
n oneys received by Ada county from
the state treasurer from sale of auto
mobile licenses:
1918 ethe year the law went into
effect .......... ..S 1850