The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-09
Equalizing the Tax Burden;
Five Million a Year

four horses ...........$19.95
T. P. Fackrell April with
two horses, 4 hours at Use
an hour, Apil 9, 6 hours.---..$ $50
Swan Berg of Pingree with
tractor and grader smooth
ing roads, 8 hours at 81 an
nOur ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS u o.VO
This bill was dated April 80.
From this it appears that Snyder
operated his outfit for the county
free and Swan Berg received 50 an
hour. That the other men received
wages for work done by their teams
on the same day that Snyder was
operating the grader free when they
took it away from him and he went
home disguised. He had previously
done long stretch, several miles
Just at the break of winter and put
it in fine condition and did it gladly.
He was feeling good toward the
county then, and when they took the
grader away from him he began to
feel sore about it and he now admits
that he does not like to think about
it nor he does not like to talk about
it. He admits that something was
done that made him sore.
Questions Needing Explanation
Here are some of the questions
that arise and must sooner or later
be answered by the county commits
sioners or they will have destroyed
a certain degree of their own influ-
ence. Did the commissioners decide
to humor the people of .Pingree and
pay them money just because they
held out and jolted themselves and
other travellers riding over bumpy
roads? Did they decide that it was
an injustice to the thru travel to
have to suffer the bad roads and con-
clude to spend money to deliver good
roads and money to those that were
obstinate, and go on accepting free
service from the rest of the county?
Did they have friends in the Pingree
country to whom they wished to give
employment when they were making
the direct statement to all others and
having all the papers in the county
make the statement that here was no
money for dragging any roads this
year, Did they know that it would
make all other workers sore to pay
the Pingree fellows for dragging
when others worked free, and don't
they care how the rest of the county
feels about it? Why did they let the
hired men go on using the heavy ma
chinery on the Yellowstone highway
when it was bringing such doubtful
results? Perhaps they made change
and resorted to other means, but
those of us who are not out on the
road looking into the operations
would like to know and would &C
cept statement from the commits
sioners if they would make a state
ment about it. tHl -
Commissioners Indifferent
= We tender the use of space in this
paper to answer all these matters and
as many others as they wish to ex-
plain, but they will probably not &C
cept the offer and that will be an
other diplomatic blunder. They are
already saying they do not care very.
much what the editor Of the Idaho
Republican publishes about them
and their work. They say they are
studying the county business and
getting it in shape and that in the
course of time they will get salts
factory results from the assessors
department too. When they said
this, the editor jollied them and said
he hoped they would but that over
200 carloads of cattle had been ship
ped out of Blackfoot recently
that should have been assessed for
the fraction of year and only part