The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-03-10
ROOSEVELT COUNTY
IN DEBT $l,OO0,OOO
Pretty Fair for County Only
Three Years Old.
yON HINDE WEINRiCH
T., MASTER HAND

pooserait county surely has been
no shrae. as the colored lady said.
go ;t was created three years ago.
Si'ese Senator B. c. White of Judith Bas-
in County, who has been travelling
+hbro,1gh - several counties of the state,
taIlGng on subjects of taxation and
u.ho s has Investigated the subject of
pnoseyelt county indebtedness is re-
.nnncible for the assertion that Roose-
,eel+ county is. nearly if not, one mil
,;on dollars in debt: which fact is a
.nlanaid monument to the ability and
~reeeonrcefulness of Won Hindie Vein
ricb the polished and accomplished
nago boss of. Roosevelt county, and
al of this has been accomplished in
the course of three short years.
WHITE URGES ACTION
Sen: White in a letter to a citizen
If Wolf Point, says that Roosevelt
county must sell funding bonds, and
that county is in the worst condition
If any county in the state, that he
has vet Investigated.
The Wolf Point Herald, comment
ing. on Sen. Whites letter says under
the following caption:
sTHFY ARE WATCHING ROOSE-
VELT COUNTY"
SIN letter, dated at Buffalo a few
days ago. Senator B. c. White, who
recently spoke here on Taxation,
shows a sustained interest in our
county affairs. The senator gathered
data concerning the indebtedness of
Roosevelt county the day he was
here and used it in his talks at Pop
lar and here.
.DThere was a marked lack of en-
thusiasm over the figures at Poplar.
Over there they knew all about them
before and have them constantly on
their minds. But at Wolf Point the
statistics were learned with surprise
and constrenation. They brought a
fuller realization of the possibilities
Of politics, when followed as a regu-
lar business and efficiently managed
by competent boss.
In his letter Senator White says:
'' Have your people in Roose-
Welt County gone forward to
organize q County Taxpayers
League? From investigating
the financial condition of your
. county | Judge you will need
some of the best business brains
that you have in the county to
take hold of your county affairs
and put your county in, better
financial condition. [ can see no
way out of meeting your out
standing warrants of s284, 100000
:. except another bond issue at
high rate of interest
"Here is fine job for the Tax as
sociaion to tackle as starter"
I MANY are watching every mail
and every paper for that statement
by the County Treasurer. Maybe he
is waiting to present it before the
County Tax Association"
WHITE WRITES PROMOTER ALSO
Sen. White in Letter to Wolf Point
Promoter has the following to say:
WORK IN THIRTEEN COUNTIES"
=. Buffalo, Montana.
February 27, 1922.
Editor of the Promoter,
Wolf Point, Montana.
Ny Dear Sir:
| have spoken in thirteen counties
on my trip TO-. promote economy in
taxation and county affairs, and
there Is not a county that | have
been in that needs a live Taxpayers
League more than Roosevelt County
does. You are upwards of a million
dollars in debt and only three years
old How can you expect investors to
come into Your county with such a
lmgh tax levy and you have no court
house, pr jail and the county seat is
not as yet established.
On top f3this adverse situation
many thousand Of acres of land in
your county are in an Indian Reser-
vation, and are not taxable.
\ Very truly,
II 3. C.: WHITE.
\ COUNTY LOOTED
Roosevelt county has been looted
Of more money in the last two years,
than has been lost in the industrial