Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-03-24
GOOD ROADS FOR kANDIYOHI
Article III.

By H. L. Wadell, Co. Road Engineer.
Kandiyohi county has about 1900
miles of road, of which 1854 miles
are paid entirely by county and state
aid. The remaining 1865 miles of
town roads are paid by towns and
county aid. The proposition is, how
miles of State Road and also the
1865 miles Of town roads. At the
pdesent time all of the county levies
and state aid is spent on this 1854
miles of road, and at the rate of pres
ent levies it will take Is to 20 years
to build this 1854 miles of road, and
then the amount of the present lev
les would barely be more than enough
to take care Of the maintenance of
these 1854 miles.
If we want good roads we will have
to provide some other means of rails
ing money to build them. This can
be done in two ways.
LIST. BY increasing our county lev
les each year, which means a consid-
cradle increase in land taxes. We
would then be able to shorten the
period of completion of the c0unty's
1854 miles of road, so that we could
take over additional town roads as
county and state roads. Under this
proposition our county will have to
| stand the entire cost of building these
roads.
End. This following proposition is
taken care of by Amendment No. 1.
| The passing of Amendment No. 1
| means that the State will take over
86.5 miles of our most expensive
roads, where 80 per cent of our coun-
| ty and state aid levies are spent to-
| day. This 80 per cent of county and
state aid money will be used for lay
ing out and building new state roads,
That is the county will be able to
take over some of the 1865 miles of
| town roads, as soon as Amendment
No. passes. By Amendment No. / !;
These roads will be paid for by a
direct tax on automobiles. The av-
erage tax will be SIS per car There
will be no additional tax on land.
| IS to 80 per cent will be paid by cit
les and villages.
! The right road to build is one that
is dry, when the market is high.
| Who Am /?
| The foot that battered in primeval
slime gave me birth, unchanged while
the ages pass, have endured, Time
has but served to increase my inf
mite variety. Earthly born and with
out a soul, yet l live.
From the beginning have I been
mans enemy.
| A dust-covered python am I, stretch
| ing my length across hills and await
! ing my time to crush endeavor.
l have shared caravans and left
bleaching bones in land now desert
Empires have fallen because of me-
I have turned victories into routs,
l have trapped mighty leaders and
have crushed enemies.
am without faith, and those who
trust me, deceive.
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joint the endeavors of man.
tug at the wheels of the gristing
cart, that bread may be dear.
l hamper those that would feed the
1 am an enemy of church and
school.
1 mire the healer on his rounds
am disrupter of the home.
I speed the first born to the cities
when l am fair to see; and when he
would return I face him with my for
hidden depths.
I minister to bitterness and lay tax
on all the world.
There is none who lives who does
not pay me tribute.
When man plowed with a crooked
stick, was there.
When the ancients covered me
with stones, I slipped away to other
lands. ~." -.
/ am tho oldest line that lives today