The Raymer enterprise., 1920-04-08
be around four or five mills and our
share each year would be from $780,
900 to $4,000.


issued and we wished to divide, We
would have to assume over $500, ,00l
OF the bonded debt. and we will moi
get 5000 Of it spent in this section
For our road problem we do moi
need any such a tax. A mill or q
half mill road tax will give us more
than we have ever had, and with hall
Of our auto tax returned to us 1t will
be more than we are likely to ever
get as long as We remain part oil
Weld county, unless taxes for this
fund are enormously increased.
We believe that any man who will
take map Of Colorado, and look II
over and will then make a study ol
table No. Q, will say that our road
problem should not be any more ex.
pensve than Adams, Arapahoe. Bent
Cheyenne. Crowley, Kiowa. Kit Car.
son, Lincoln. Phillips. Washington,
Yuma, El Paso. Las Animas, or Pu-
eblo.
Only three of those counties has
ever gone above 2 mills. Three, Lin
coin, Washington and Yuma, exceed
ed two mills last year, but their av-
erage has been away less.
The conclusion is irresistible that
we could levy mill tax for roads
and improve our present service, and
when We got flush we could sail high
with two mill levy.
We could save on road fund at
the start $4,000 per year.
7 he County Fund
We paid last year $26,230; we will
pay this year s31,5sO to this fund.
Table shows what otheS counties
pay. Counties like Cheyenne. Ebert,
>Kiowa, Phillips, Washington, pay
less than half what we contri-
butte to those funds. We can see 10
reason why We should pay more than
these counties. With that tabe be-
fore us, we again arrive at the con-
clusion that our present tax is suffi-
cient to support that fund.
Leaving the expense Of starting a
new county out. and no man can
study the figures and say that we
cannot maintain a county as to run
ming expenses for at least $40, 900
per year less than we now pay to
Weld County.
But some one says you have said
nothing about the expense Of tran
scribing records. and all the thou
sand and one other expenses that
will have to be taken care of in form
ing new county.
Here we come upon a field where
we cannot from the nature OF the
case be as certain as we can Of other
things that we have discussed here
tofore.
The experience Of others should
be our best guide. Jackson county
was created in 1909.
Moffat and Crowley counties were
created in 1911, and Alamosa in
1918.
The reports OF the tax comission
that we have access to, gives US the
figures from 1912, all OF the time
since Alamosa county was created, all
but one year for Moffat and Crowley
and all but three years for Jackson.
For some time we have had the
figures given by the tax commission
compiled In the table given. We
have written to the Clerk and Re-
corder of all three counties to supply
the missing years. We have receiv-
ed replies from Crowley and Monat,
but SO far have not heard from Jack
son.
The table No gives three coun-
ties then complete from the time OF
their organization
You will notice that no one Of
these counties has paid as large tax
In any single year as We will pay
this year in support to county gov
ernment. and the average tax is
away less.
II you will refer to table No /,
published last week. YOU will notice
that Alamosa pays NO bonds or inter-
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