The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-19
IS
URGED TO GRANT
TIME EXTENSION
Commercial Club Gives Reasons
Why Lot Owners Should Get
Extension.

reached at the last meeting of the
Nenana Commercial club, at which
time it was decided to request Man
ager Christensen, of the Land and
Industrial department of the Alas
kan Engineering commission, to
grant Nenana property owners adj
ditional time in which to make pay
men for improvements made under
direction of the townsite manage
! ment, the following letter has been
prepared by Secretary H. B. Joseph
and forwarded to Mr.. Christensen,
at Anchorage.
Mr.. Joseph has made careful study
of the problem confronting Nenana
property owners and his argument
| in support of the request for more
liberal time allowance, is regarded
by members of the Commercial club
as amply convincing to bring about
the desired extension, if it is within
the power of the manager of the
Land and Industrial department to
alter the regulations. And it is gen.
orally believed that he has that au-
thority.
The letter explains the situation
in detail 1t is as follows:
Nenana, Alaska, April IT, 1918.
Mr.. A. Christensen, Manager Land
and Industrial Department, An
chorage, Alaska.
Dear Strive are informed by
Mr.. Ryus, townsite manager, that
assessments for Improvements in the
Nenana Townsite, are to be levied
as follows:
For water and sewer, four equal
yearly installments.
"For Sidewalks, two equal yearly
installments.
For street grading, one imme-
diate payment
when the present general assess
ment of approximately $4,000 for
maintenance and operation, has been
paid there will still remain some
thing close to $4,000 due the Alas
kan Engineering commission for
townsite improvements; this for the
period ended Dec. 81, 1917.
"This amount represents the
charge for the above named items
of water, sewer, sidewalks and grad
ing.
1--WE would like to invite your at
tention to the following statemnt Of
conditions.
/ ''The lots here were purchased at
a time when things were at low
ebb in Interior Alaska; and as yoa
yourself know, certain factors en-
tered into the sale, so that prices
offered were uniformly high.
"On "a street, for three blocks
where the business center has de-
veloped, the price for 25-foot lot
averaged $4,000.
with one-third paid down, there
falls due yearly payment of 5000.
"The charges that correspond to
general tax in an incorporated
town, will average $3.50 for each
business in this section; which a.
mount includes a regularly assessed
school tax.
Naturally, in these three blocks
of "a street, it was essential that all
: of it be graded and sidewalked, as
well as being piped for water and
sewer
SIN order to arrive at an estimate
of yearly payments, let US suppose
that the charges for the above i'm
provements were to be distributed
over four-year period.
"This would add 80 to the yearly
payments, making a total of $3.50 to
be paid by normal business, occu-
plying one of these lots; where it
is corner lot it reaches a total
of about $500.
"a number pay considerably more,
due to the school tax, which was
assessed on all property, but the
above figure is a good average.
Sand the figures for the resi-
dence district are proportionately
high.
"Many of our business houses