The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-12

ton of the state under the manage
ment, ] suppose, of the state highway
department. In the apportionment
of the one and q half million dollars
among the counties it was done ac-
cording to their assessed valuation
and they were not given any money
back on those bills; or looking at it
, the other way, they would get their
share of the money the bonds sold
for and c3acel the claims they had
against the state. That view of the
matter did not set very well with
the representatives of those counties
having bills against the state, bat
they decided, or most of them de-
cided, that they would rather have
the money that way than not TO get
it at all. So the measure was finally
passed in that form and under that
agreement. Bingham county will
receive $4,000 Of that kind of
! money, and $4,000 of it goes direct
to the Aberdeen highway district,
leaving the rest of the county $47,-
! 5000. At the same time we cancel
something like 100000, which the
state owed Bingham county. All of
the other counties in the state hay
ing bills against the state are cam
ceiling them in the same way as they
receive their apportionment Of the
$2,000,000. 1t gave each county a
sum of its own money on condition
that it would mark all other bills
paid.
The Great Deception
Here is another way of stating the
situation. When Bingham county
receives $4,000 of the state money
from Boise, apportioped according to
the assessed valuation of the various
counties it is merely making the
state it's broker CIR loan agent to
secure a loan for it on our own
bonds, and the state makes all the
deals, hands us the money, and we
raise the money in future years to
hand to the state to pay Off these
bonds. The state will levy against
Bingham county for exactly that pro-
portion of the whole 100000,
which the assessed valuation of Bing
ham county bears to the assessed
valuation to the whole state. Bing
ham county has appointed the state
of Idaho as a firm to buy some money
for it and the state will appoint
Bingham county as a collection
agency to collect that money to pay
back to the state and the state will
pay it back to the bond holders.
In 1919 Bingham county wanted
some money for road work and it
decided at a bond election that it
would issue it's own bonds for $780,
600 and sell them itself. 1t seems
to me we have gained nothing by
bothering around with the state to
get it to put up part of the cost
of the roads. When our officers
have been running back and forth
between Blackfoot and Boise and
when the state officials have been
running back and forth between
Boise and Blackfoot arranging for
these things, and making other trips
back and forth to negotiate the set
Elements of these various claims we
have simply been using the state Of
ficials as guardian or brokerage
firm to attend to our business for us.
When we built some roads and pre-
sented the state with bill for their
share of it they sent an engineer
over here to survey the road, to see
whether we had done it to suit them
OF not before they would allow our
bill and when they allowed our bill
they could not pay it. After all the
years, when the bill is paid it is paid
with bonding money we shall have
to put up to redeem the bonds. 1t
does not matter what view we take
of the subject, every dollar of the
money which the state furnishes to
us is first collected from Bingham
county, passes thru the state treas
ury and then passes it back to us