El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-11-12
Ell PAS0 ROAD
TAX VERY Low
Other Texas Counties Vote
Heavier Taxes Than
People of FL Paso.

-The defeat OF the road amendment
to the constitution Of Texas on No
vember &. was calamity to the state
Of Texas" said judge Adraln Pool
1T means that every county in Texas
it matters not how poor that county
may be. VIII have to build its own
roads. and It viii make It almost
Impossible for the state Of Texas TO
have state system of highways.
But we are going TO build high
way number one. because we are 60
ing to put 1ha same spirit back Of It
that the citizens Of III Paso showed
when they voted for the road amend
mend fourteen 10 one. The highway
commission is. determined 10 build
road number one across the state Of
Texas. because Its members realize
that this gives the people o. the uni-
ted States an inlet into Texas. and
the people Of Texas an outlet TO any
other place that they desire TO go.
state Liberal wa Us.
THE commission has been very lib
eral with west Texas and had it not
been for their coming 20 the ala Of the
thinly populated counties on highway
number one in west Texas, we would
never have been able 20 make this
connection Tor example. IN Huas-
peth county the highway commission
has carried one-half Of the payroll In
that county to keep road number one
in condition IN Culberson county.
they are giving liberal aid and the
state is spending three-fourths Of the
money to build across the Monlhans
sands. and az long as we have the Ell
Pas0 and west Texas spirit to back
up the commission we VIII continue
TO build and improve highway num-
Der one through west Texas
Big Bond Issue voted
THE p counties traversed BIZ high
way number one, have already voted
or VIII vote within the next 80 days.
e26-795.o 900 to build roads IN these
counties, ana hishWay number one is
the main road I'm each OF these coun-
the people 10 vote the bonds.
eCuiberson county alone voted
bones 10 the amount OF 500 for
each man, woman and chiid live
Ing in the county 20 help con-
struct this road
El Paso county has already paved
50 miles Of this road and the next
work done By the commissioners
court viii be the continuance Of this
road from Fabens 20 the county lues
giving as 65 miles OF paved road on
highway number one across Ell Paso
county The road wiz be paved I'D
the way from Mount Pleasant 70 abb
Iene. a distance Of $50 mixes.
FL Paso's Rate Low.
III Paso. has lowest read tax rate
Of any county on highway mum Der
one. due 20 the fact that The road
problem IN FL Paso county is very
simple problem. we only have 6Q--
600 acres In this county 20 build roads
through while the average norm
Texas county has $4,000 acres OF
land to build roads through. In other
words, it takes twelve tlmea as many
roads in Lamar county TO give the
people the same service as % does 10
FL Paso county. and Lamar county
Only has one-half Of the assessed val
uati0n Of Fl Paso county.
Counties SHOW Grit
These counties that have voted
these big bond issues have shown a
great desire for roads and a lol u
grit. fer it gives them very nigh
road rate tax For example. Dallas
county's road tax rate IS 50 cents Oh
the. sl0os Lamar's is 90 cents; Titus
county's IS $50 and RockWalls is
s126. while the FL Paso tax rate en-
Us road bonds is only IL cents on the
500. less than one-third OF that Of
Dallas county. and one-ninth Of TITUS
OF Rockwell and one-titlh or t1at OF
Lamar or any other north Texas
county that has roads. So when we
take this into consideration we must
admit that we have other prcgress- We
citizens on highway number one In
Texas, besides those in El Paso coun-
ty.r