Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-22
CAMPAIGN COUNTY
FOR ROAD BONDS
ACTIVE EFFORTS IN FAVOR OF
ISSUE FOLLOW APPROVAL
BY GOVERNMENT.

Meetings explaining to the voters
of the various districts of the county
the features of the 100000 county
road bond issue to be voted on ut
the special election next Tuesday,
are being conducted by advocates of
the plan, while circulars showing O..
map of the paved highway plan and
OBTAINING information regarding It
are being mailed to the registered
voters Of the county. e
Receipt of official informati0n,i
Tuesday that the capital issues COM
mittee Of the federal reserve board
approved the expenditure OF the first
100000 of the issue, for completion
of the Pacific highway pavement to !
Camp Lewis and the construction Of
the Westside bridge for military rea-
sons, resulted in energetic efforts by
advocates Of the plan to acquaint the
voters with its details in the short
time remaining before the election.
The information came in q tale
gram to Commissioner j. G. Sans
from the capital issues committee, in
which It was stated that 'Fayoeable
opinion regarding Thurston county
road bond issue will be forwarded -
soon AZ name of bonds. dats, date Of
maturity and serial numbers are re-
ceived."
Form Good Roads Association.
Monday evening advocates of the
plan, at a-meeting at the ChM1nberof
Commerce, temporarily organised
the Thurston County GoodsRcGdS A..
ISOLATION. and 1t is this Organization
that is conducting the campaign in
favor Of the issue. Jay Bolsters mas
ter Of the Pomona Grange. was
named temporary president, s. L.
Lester secretary and c.. Lord treas-
urer. The plan,. as announced by
DR.. P. H. Carlyon, who called the
meeting to order. Is to call general
mass meeting in this city after the
election. when . permanent crganf-
zation will be effected.
The meeting authorized Chairman
Bolster to appoint the following conn
mittees. ssFs ~ = 's'ss ''''s y : 7' IS
constituticn and byrhws>r HI
Caflyon. WI II. Yeaser aud LII.
Peters.
Publicity-A. g. Cation. Fred w.
Lewis. Eagle Freshwater, M. J.sNsy-
lon, Jesse +. Mills. and s. L. Lester.
: Finance C. J. LORD, ex-ofdcio.
SpeakersJ. Bolster, p. H. Car-
lyon, g. a. Rose. d. d. Axtslle. Emery
Chaplin. Frank Kotick and H. L. Co
nine.
Precinct workers III M. Fuller.
Charles Winslow. Otto Ferguson,
George Parse. Frank Kotick. ]. b.
Martin, M. E. Meek. Dell Kagy snd
J. "A. Morrow. Ia the country. and In
the city councilmen Forstelt and
Knox, assisted BY the other coEnctl-
men.
snchomish County SasaSaed.
Mr.. Cation. one OF several who
went to Snohomish county last week
to learn how their bona plan il
working cut, reported ttAt tiAt conn
|ty hed already consttneta 306 milea
OF paved roads out of III 800. geo
issue. that 35 mi1eS ren1ain to be
constructed, and that penple Of
the county. peIt.cul6thkf fhef farwers,
are so satisfied with the plan that
they are clamoring for another bond
issue so that all the roads In the
county may be paved.
"They have found that they can
have paved roads and still pay lees
taxes than when they had the OLD
gravel roads," Mr.. Cation said. De
cause the enormous expense Of keep
ing up the gravel roads has bean
eliminated. a.,s
They are paying on their bond
issue at the rate Of 100000 on the
principal. and their taxes are t.
mills less than they were before. The
result is that everybody 10 very on
thusiastic, satisfied that 1t is . good
business proposition. and there is no
criticism In any quarter"
DR.. Carlyon then explained the de-
tails of the financing plan, showing
by charts the issuance of the bonds
over a series of six years. the repay
ment of them and the taxes neces-
sary, and the division of the county
road funds as ct present levied to
meet the obligations without increas-
ing taxes. tsss