The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-03-27
Will be an Investment That Will Make
Property Double its Value. Voting
For the 70 cent Road Tax is Merely
Saving Your Money. All That is
Needed is the Start. Watch
Us Grow.

II was said in last weeks article that
road tax is not tax but an investment.
Let us consider a moment why this
statement is true.
1t may be stated upon authority that
the average rate of valuation for land
given in for taxation in Breckenridge
county is below Ten dollars per acre, but
for the purpose of this article we will say
that 1t is Ten dollars per acre. Well by
simple calculation we findt hat 20 cents
on the hundred dollars, the proposed
raise in the road tax, would make a rate
of cents per acre increased in the far
mer's taxes on his land. Well, then
Just point out farm in this county that
would not double in value when a we'll
connected hard surfaced road passes
within even few miles of it. Then try
to. figure what kind of an investment
this is.
Spending a few cents per acre you
double the value of your property. Now
be honest, did you ever in your widest
dreams of get rich quick schemes, find
one that was honest and straightforward,
that Yielded even a small portion OF this
fabulous return for a small investment
of funds. We declare to you that stat
fistics prove that there is not on this
earth to day any single investment that
will yield return, not even excepting
gold mine bonanzas, any way near as
great as money put into hard surfaced
roads for it is fact known to you all
that the increased value in property is
not all or the only return that comes
from an investment put into road.
lust think for moment OF the amount
of TIME that could be saved in year,
If every bit of your hauling could be
done during weather that would be
absolutely lost when you are living on
bad roads, simply because of the fact
that weather that is to bad to haul is
usually too bad fol- one to work at any
other kind of work. You know that
YOU can use hard surfaced road every
hour of the day or night, every day OF
the 365 days in the year.
This saving Of time alone will yield a
return fabulous and in every way abso-
luteiy SO great as to be inconceiyable.
No man could calculate the matter OF
hugh sums saved in this mater OF time,
when they can make all deliveries OF
products, in time that would otherwise
be wasted, as has-been said before on
account of bad weather and bad roads
comming together, making it usually
too bad to do any kind of farm labor, as
it is today we must use pretty weather,
and precious daylight hours to do haul
ing that could be done on hard surfaced
roads, the worst day in the year, and
often even at night
But many farmers are opposed to any
kind of TAX! Can any body find a
better way? If SO, let him come forward
with it, for mercy sake at once. For
we are in dire need.
But consider this thing a moment.
This is no Revolutionary Measure.
Only a few thousand (ten to fifteen) are
raised by it. But we must learn to walk
before we fly. This is good start
FORWARD and one that must be made.
sometime, then, WHY NOT NOW.
What other counties have done, we can
can do. We are just as well educated
and enlightened as were Shelby, Jeffer-
son and Bourbon counties when they
began their efforts to get good roads and
their bone and fibre was not then one