The daily morning oasis., 1919-10-23
CAN Give
SURETY BONDS

ed bond ssues NOgales-county, city
and school district bonds.
One article was an editorial utter
ance; tre other in the guise OF a
communication.
Win one gets TO the meat of either
OF these articles it. is seen that the
real point at which criticism is i'm
d, is the present. City administration
In fact the closing sentence OF the
communication is a veiled intimation
that the present board is not compe-
tent:
Let us loob into the history recor-
ling the expenditure of former funds
provided by bond issues in this County
and Town in the past and, in accord
ance witr wrat we find here, let us
holm up the present bond elections if
necessary until we can decide how to
expend and to whom we may intrust
the fund we are to authorize
Back of that paragraph of animad-
version with regard to the city in
debtedness will be paid out of the
proposed city bond issue.
mat Indebtedness is put at $685.
OOO And the author of the communi-
hints that there is something that is
dark and devious administration of the
City (town) funds.
Now, for information of the author
of that communication, "The Oasis
will state that $64 900 of the sum
mentioned wa sexpended by the Town
Council which went out of office in
June, 1918, and it went for an addi-
tional unit at the municipal pumping
plant on the Santa Cruz river, with
other Municipal improvements.
Those expenditures were paid by in
terest bearing warrants or certificates
of Indebtedness, whicA were vurchas-
ell by two of the banks, and conseq-
uently the money was and is owing the
banks. NBesides that the town coun-
Gil which went out of office on the
first Monday in June, 1918. left for
the present council to pay unpaid
bills to the amount of $4,000, which
hvae been paid with certificates of
Indebtedness, which the banks have
ALSO These figures are given the
Oasis by the City Clerk, Mr.. Frank E.
Cole. Now, then, in addition to the
$4,000 thus accounted for Mr.. Cole
states the remainder of the $4,000 is
for interest upon these certificates
of Indebtedness up to the time it is
anticipated proposed bond issue will
provide funds to liquoate them. That
is the "etcetera" which the author of
the communication hints covers some
thing dark and devious
hen the a..;.ur of the commune =
ton cited made an assertion that a
bonded employee of the town Gt was
town then. city now embezzling pub
lie funds, and his bond lrawn so it
cannot be collected. Yesterday the
opening paper published a statement
received bp wire from the bonding
colpany, that it will pay the amount
of the bond, whicr, however, is some
$500 less than the actual shortage.
That shortage was $16,5O0. 1t was
incurred during the administration of
which went out of office on June Sd,
1915; and the present municipal ad-
ministration is responsible for no part
of t.
The growth of the city has reached
the limit of capacity in both water
and sewer plants. Those are the
major part of the proposed bond is
sue. Nogales is destined to grow. 1t
is growing. When the present sewer
and water systems were laid it was
said they would meet the demands OF
the town for twenty-five years. The
town has out grown them in seven
years. The extensions now proposed
will be outgrown before the original
limit of twenty-five years is reached; (;
and the city may have to make an
other bond issue before 1887 to meet
the wants and needs of that time.
Purchase of the city hall has been
an agreed arrangement between the
municipality AMI the fire department
ever since the latter organization was
built.
At the rate real estate values are
expanding it is better to take the prop
erty over now at $50 900 than to pay
$4,000 efor it few years later.
Paying ire citys share for covering
the arroyo is mere bagatelle in the
proposition, and it may be dismissed
with the expressive adage: "The
tail goes with tre hide"
i The object of the diatribes and crit
cism leveled at the present City Coun-
Gil is hardly fathomable. In the mat
ter of the forser town treasurer's de-
ficit, whic is in course of arrangement
with ire bonding company: That was
legacy from the town board which
went out of office June Sd, 1918. The
Indebtedness that it is proposed to
fund nod at a lower rate of interest
came from that sare council. On be-
half of that council The Oasis resents