Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-07-20
HIGHWAY DIST.
70 BOND.
Commissioners Call Election
to Vote OF $4,000 Bond
Issue for Road Purposes.
May Get State Highway.

At an ay7Durned regular meet

.a ing OF tt2@poaEu OF CoIItHlSSiol-
erFsefst,. 9'local highway district
IN this city Wednesday evening
the board granted the petition Of
some seventy of the heavy tax
payers of the district and passed
a resolution calling a bond cleo
ton to be held on Tuesday, July
3lst, for the purpose of voting
on the question of bonding the
district in the sum of $4,000 for
the purpose of providing funds
for the completion of the state
highway through the district at
some future date and to improve
all of the highways within the
district. According to the petiA
tion granted the money to be
raised is to be spent on condition
the state highway passes through
Cottonwood and shalla use as
much of the existing highway in
crossing the district as is practiE
cable. The polling place selected
was the Creelman hall and the.
polls will be opened at s o'clock
in the morning and remain open
until 7 p. m. Any qualified yot-,
er within the district can vote at
this election.
In calling the bond election the
highway commissioners have TAX
en- action after a full realization
of the necessity Sf changing the
present methsa 81. handling road
construction within the district
and the needetos secure greater
returns from the money spent
than can be had by doing a small
amount of work each year and
handling this5work by days.
Dor instead or pys contract WIFI.
experienced road builders.
1t it estimated that the dis
trict's share of the state highway
will not exceed S22, 900 to $25, 900.
and that this highway will take
care of two of the most expen-
sive stretches Of highway con.
struction within the district,
while the state will maintain this
highway entirely after it is COM
pleted. This will leave from
$25, 900 to S28, 600 to be spent on
other. roads in the district and it.
is conceded all. of the principal
roads can be placedin first class
shape for this amount.
1t is also pointed out that the
voting of the bond does not mean
that the burden will be placed on
the taxpayers this year but that
the guarantee for our share Of
the state highway viii be made
in order tosecure the permanent
location of the road through the
district and the bonds will not be
sold until road construction is ac-
tualIy commenced and perhaps
half the amount would not be
needed for a year or two, the
bonds remaining unsold until
that SHssse.
Ths gstednwood district is un-
Fortunately situated in having
some of the most difficult road
problems to contend with in
the county and the commission
ers maintain that it viii prove
material saving. To- the residents
of the district to bond for suffi-
cient to fix the roads up properly
by contract than to drag along
year after year doing a little inn
proving and a lot of repairing
each year and being held back
by lack of funds from completing
many piecesof work ID one sea-
son. 1t is also. claimed the full.
amount of the bond win be need-
ed whether the state highway
comes this way or not, for in the
latter event the entire expense
of constructing two Of the most
Important roads in the district
will fall oh the district, whereas