The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-18


fore taking a single step looking to-
wards bonding the county for good
roads was to divide the road con-
struction, and improvements among
the three commissioners districts in
proportion to the assessed valuation.
Every District Gets Some
The second thing they agreed to
was that so far as it was possible for
them to do so, they would divide
road construction and improvement
among the respective road districts
in proportion to their assessed valua-
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Bonding for the Farmers
The third matter they agreed upon
was that the first road work was to
be expended where the traffic was
heaviest, and especially where the
hauling of produce would best be
served by it. The money is to be
expended primarily for the interest
and advantage of the farmer, max
ing roads between his farm and the
loading stations and between the
farm and the trading centers, and to
carry the heaviest, swiftest and most
congested travel and traffic of what
ever kind wherever it is found within
the county.
Pay in Ten Years
The terms of the loan or bond is
sue are that the repayment of the
debt begins in ten years after date
of issue of the bonds, and one-tenth
shall be repaid each year thereafter
for ten years. The rate of interest
shall not be more than per cent.
None on the Yellowstone Highway
None of the money derived from
the sale of bonds will be expended
on the Yellowstone highway. There
will be $4,000 of state money for
use in improving the state highway
and Bingham county has to put up
part of that in straight taxes whether
we want to or not. II this money
is not expended on the state high.
way it cannot be used at all in this
county. Il
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we could not take one cent of the
state money for any other roads than
the state highway, and if we approve
the bond issue, the money derived
from the sale of bonds will all be
used on other roads than the state
highway.
Doing This for the Country
People who have been planning to
vote against the bonds for fear it
would be used on the road between
Idaho Falls and Fl. Hall would waste
their votes, for it would not have
any effect on that matter in any
event. 1t is purely a question of
bonding to get money to build roads
among the farms or refusing to bond
for that purpose. 1t is a question of
making the people in the towns put
up money to build roads in the
country, and letting the people in
the towns pave their streets at their
own expense or travel in the mud
and dust. When streets are paved
in town, the cost of paving is charged
against the AUDITING property, but
when roads are paved or crowned in
the country, it is charged against
the whole public, including the town
people.
Railroad Wants to Pay
The railroad company pays IA per
cent of the taxes in Bingham county
and it has no vote on the bond ques-
ton, but the company wants to see
the bond election carry, and they
want to pay their share of the ex-
pense. They do not haul their loads
on wagon roads at all, but their
patrons do, and when farmers can
not haul between their farms and the
loading stations, the railroad CON-
pany cannot load and unload cars,
and they lose money by having their
cars standing idle on the sidings
waiting for weather and roads.
County Clerk Says
County Clerk F. M. Fisher has
been making careful computations Of
the taxes on each thousand dollars
of valuation for the next ten and
twenty years, and has reached the
conclusion that the taxes will be just
the same whether we bond or not,
but the roads will be better If we
bond. The particular levy for bonds
will be So cents on each thousand
dollars of assessed valuation in 1919,
and will increase to 80 cents per
$1,000 the tenth year. The eleventh
year it will jump to $3.50 per thou
sand and will then decline until the
debt is cancelled the twentieth year.
No Money Idle
The plan is to authorize the COM
missioners to borrow 100000, but
they propose to receive only $780,
900 year for three years SO it will
not be laying idle while they are
building. If they tried to use it all
the first year, they would be likely
to waste some, and they will take
time to do it carefully, and yet have
no large sums on interest and idle.
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