White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-15

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more than 10000 population the excess
of expenditures for governmental
costs. including interest and OUTLAWS
for permanent improvements, over rev.
enues during the fiscal year 1918
amounted to $70,923, 800, or $3.48 per
capita. In the remaining eighty cities
the excess of revenues over expendi-
lures vas $22,323,060. or SLIGO per
capita. Taking the entire DOT cities as
a group. the excess of expenditures
over mi amounted to $48.6OO,-
$50, or SLAP per capita. The net in
debtedness of these cities averaged
$77.53 per capita.
The aggregate revenues of all the
cities during the year were 81, 124, 094,-
500, the aggregate expenditures for cur
rent expenses and interest, 1894 .332.-
392; and the aggregate OUTLAWS. S27S,-
363.437. OF the total revenues, $780,
577,4S7, or 70 per cent, represents re-
ceipts from the various kinds of taxes.
The bulk of this amount. sos. 723, 158.
was derived from taxes on real and
personal property.
Liquor Taxes Decline Sharply.
OF the remaining receipts from taxes.
the largest item, $35, SIC. 1888. was de-
rived from taxes on the liquor traffic.
This amount is smaller by $1,398!00O
than the corresponding sum for the
fiscal year 1917. Next to taxes, the
source OF the largest item of revenue
Ia found In the earnings Of public
service enterprises. which amounted to
3118. 404,645. This sum Is considerably
more than double the amount Of pay.
ments for expenses Of public service
enterprises, S55,174,48O, thus leaving a
net revenue of SCI, 800, 1865. The bulk
of the earnings Of public service enter.
prises came from water supply sys-
tens. from which receipts aggregated
SOC, 139. 7O5.
Another important source of revenue
consisted OF special assessments and
special charges. the bulk of which
were for outlays. a~ggregating S72.673..
785. This sum is appreciably smallei
than the corresponding amoun for the
preceding year, $50. 1876, 596. For all
the cities taken as a whole the per
capita receipts from property taxes
amounted to S21.03, from other taxes
So: from earnings of public service en-
terprises, $3.50; from special assess.
ments and special charges for OUTLAWS
s2.12; and, from all other sources com.
bined. $4.20.
The expenditures during the year for
governmental costs in these 227 cities
which aggregated S1.172.6 95, S29, were
in the order of their importance: For
expenses of general departments, $780,.
160,2S3; for OUTLAWS, S278. 363, 4S7: for
interest on indebtedness. S14S,9 97 500
and for expenses of public service en-
terprises, S~55,174,4S0. The amount *
pended for OUTLAWS was somewhat
smaller than the corresponding sum for
the preceding year, S2S6,529.990.
The average per capita expenditures
for all governmental costs. including
interest and outlays, amounted to
S3416. and for all governmental costs,
including interest but excluding out.
lays, the average per capita payments
were S26.05. The payments for gov.
ornamental costs, including interest and
OUTLAWS, exceeded the by S4S,'
6O0,9 or S1.42 per capita. but the
revenues exceeded the payments for
current expenses and interest by 1920.
752,5O7. an amount equal to four-fifths
Of the total OUTLAWS. which aggregated
S27S.363.437
Cities About Paying Way.
In other words. the cities Of over
10000. taken as a group. are paying
from their revenues all their current
departmental expenses and interest,
and four-ffths of their OUTLAWS. In all
but four cities the revenue receipts
exceeded the payments for current gov.
ernmental expenses and interest. and
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