Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-10-25
ii URGES cHAhoEslN: BOARD !.

Will you please give me a little
space in your, valuable paper Tor IA
little kicking. / think it isTabout time
to get another set OF county commits
sioners as soon as their terms expire.
We, that are taxpayers 81 County
Ditch No. 81, have sufficient reason
to complain. l was one OF: three that
was chosen to see to it that the ditch
should be dug to specifications where
it was laid out. We went for the: com.
missioners time and again. to have
them go, after the bonding company
and contractors to- construct the work,
but the work under the contract ceas-
ed once and was extended one year
and still the work was not started ct
branch No. q. We. went for the COM
missioners again. They then told us
they had nothing to do with the Coun-
ty Ditch after the petition was grant
ed. Now the reports of the county
commissioners proceedings: show: that
the County Commissioners have been
up to County Ditch No. 81 several
times and charged it up from 50 to $40
apiece each time. Still they told us
they had nothing to do>'with the ditch.
The way it stands now is that we got
some kind of ditch but not accord
ing to contract plans and :speciaca-
tions. On the 28th Of August we had
the final hearing and we went down
to- Willmar and with a strong Oppo-
sition for the acceptance Of the ditch
on branches No. /, 2, 8 and also the
Skull Lake branch. Regardless of
our protest the county commissioners
accepted the ditch: Now, Mr.. Voter,
put yourself in the. place of taxpayers
Of county ditch No. 81 and see how
you would like it We are now assess
ed to full limit-1O0%-an our ditch
fund is expended. On top Of that the
commissioners have borrowed. $1,000
from the revenue fund that also: goes
into the same ditch and never will: be
paid back. You, that are tax payers OF
Kandiyohi County will have to pay
your share Of it.. Now another thing.
Take the Financial Statement for the
year ending Dec. 3d.: 1921. Read 1t
carefully over and you will find things
there that will keep you from laugh
ing. Take the heating plant in: .the
courthouse that has added a $4,000
cost on the tax payers. Take the Nest
Lake good-for-nothing survey: over
$500 on tax payers; and $3.50 was ap-
propriated to the. Farm Bureau and
the County Agent. and county nurse.
The weed inspectors and other things
we easily can get aiding without So
it seems to me that County commits
sioners should cut out such unneces-
sary expenses because the taxes are
getting burden to each and all of us.
So l will agree with one of the most
prominent men in Willmar when he
said if we keep that set of commits
sioners very much longer we tax pay
ers will be left on the rocks. It seems
to me contractors and engineers to-
gether with few other wise people
are manufacturing a brew in a certain
building down in Willmar that is not
healthy to tax payers in Kandiyohi
County. AS said in the beginning,
let US try somebody else for acounty
commissioners as soon as their term
expires; What l have said above am
willing to prove at any time to anyone
that wants me to do it. -"
G. P. TANGEN.,
New London, Mimi, Oct. %, 1922. :" =
Editors note-1nasmuch as there