The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-22
BRIEF STATEMENT
OF FAIR GROUNDS
ACCOUNT IS MADE
Vouchers Aggregating
Around $4,000 Have
Been Filed With
County Clerk
AFTER STATE AID
Will Apply to Next Leg
islature for Sup
port

Last summer the Bingham County
commissioners made an agreement to
buy the fair grounds, re-imbursine
the stockholders the amount they had
expended for stock, the total being
little over $4,000. This money
was to be paid by the county and
accepted by the stockholders in two
annual installments payable in 1921
and 1922, the money to be raised by
taxation of l mill on the dollar of
assessed valuation, which would raise
$4,000 in a year. The farm bureau
had tried to finance it by selling
stock to the farmers thruout the
county and had failed.
III Further agreement was made that
the county should operate the fair
beginning with the 1920 exhibits and
in getting ready for the fair a large
amount of improvements were neces-
sary. 1t was estimated that the i'm
provements absolutely necessary
would cost $1,000 but it might be
desirable, to expend up to $4,000
to put things in better condition and
have better supply Of buildings.
The commissioners granted permis-
sion to go ahead with the improve
ments ranging somewhere between
$4,000 and $4,000. The bills have
been filed with the county clerk and
they have paid $4,000 on them out
Of the current expense fund but that
does not cover them all. County
Clerk Fisher states that the bills al
ready turned in for improvements
amount to about $4,000 and there
may be more to come. He says the
fair association and the county COM
missioners have been trying to get
things Strengthened up and get the
fair turned over to the county but
the fair association has to finish some
details that take time. He states that
the fair association and the county
commissioners decided to permit the
$4,000 mortgage, and to use all of
the 1920 levy of $4,000 combined
with the $4,000 loan to apply on
these expenses of $4,000. This
would leave an Indebtedness Of about
$4,000 after expending this years
taxes and the amount Of the loan.
This $4,000 is represented in the
new buildings erected, the grading,
of the grounds and improvements of
the race track and"the improvements
on the old buildings. Statements of
just what it is for and by whom the
work and materials were supplied are
covered by As vouchers filed in the
clerks office, each voucher repres-
enting sums ranging from few hun
dred dollars up to about fifteen hum
dred dollars. It does not include the
cost of opening north Broadway or
opening the new street thru the fair
grounds nor the new fences at the
front of the fair grounds. That was
all assumed and managed by men of
the town, mostly these on Broadway
who wanted to open up the new
street and relieve the crowded con-
dition of north Main street at the
south Of the grounds. By opening up
the new street thru the ground it
helped the fair and improved the en-
frances to the town and Broadway
In particular. The expenses of this
part of the improvement are said to
have gotten into a tangle.
D. A. Jenkins was the contractor
who had the work in charge and he
has not yet received settlement for
the expense. This expense Of $4,000
included the purchase Of some lots
1T the southern entrance at cost
of $500 and Mr.. Jenkins in pres
sing his claims for settlement has
again closed the streets at the point
where these lots are used and has
fled or will file lien against the
the whole property being
liable for the contractors bill for
placed upon it. 1t ap-
pears that the settlement of these
claims with Mr.. Jenkins has been
somewhat complicated or at least de-
ayed by the death of r. G.. Bills, who
was one of the men active in plan
ming and guaranteeing this part for
which Broadway meant to stand
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