The Nevada County picayune., 1922-11-02
REPORT OF
 COUNTY JUDGE
Finances of County in Good Conditfon-keviews lm- provement During
 Year.

To the several Justices of the Peace. composing the Quorum Court of Neya- da County:
 In presenting our report to your Honorable body. we are pleased to say. that the finances of our county are in good condition. If is true, that the funds of the various road districts are eX- hausted. as they usually are at this time of the year. but the county proper. has sufficient funds to meet all obli- gations, if ordinary conditions prevail. This condition of the county has been brought about and maintained, largely through the good judgment of the Quo rum Court, but the Court, at this tune, is confronted with q problem more ser ions than for several years, and one that calls for the exercise of your best judgment The problem is, ''to keep the appropriations within the revenue. on declining tax values. The expenses should not exceed the revenue. Our county is growing and it's business ex- banding. which naturally calls for greater expenditures. tax values should increa SC. but they are declining rather than increasing. Last year the assess ment was reduced 20 percent and still another reduction this year Then the duty deyolves upon this Court, to so curtail expenses, that they will fall within the revenue, which is the only safe and sound basis for any govern ment. County or State. Your acts today, will control your county's finances for the next twelve months. Therefore, each member of this Court should, and doubtless does. feel the grave re responsibilities that rest upon him.
 All things considered. we are well pleased with our years road work. II has been an unusually hard year on road work. as we'll as other lines of business The heavy rains the first four or five months of the year. made it impossible to handle the work satis-  done further than dragging the roads, repairing dtches and drains which work depleted the funds of the road districts and badly crippled our sum mer's work. But. after all. through the persistent efforts of our oVerSeers, coupled with the co-Operation of the people of the county, We have made good showing. While our roads are not what we would like them to be we are of the opinion that they will compare favorably with the roads of other counties of the State
 Our bridges are in reasonably good repair. To take the county as whole. they were never in better condition II is true. there may he few bridges that need attention. but the heavy traffic of today. make il impossible for the oyerseers to keep all bridges and eulverts in good condition
 In addition to the usual road and bridge work. we have done some very valuable work in the way of graveling. We have .raYeled the Gale leyee. which meets q long felt need This stretch et road has been an eye-sore for many years. bat We feel that it will now be one If the be>1 pieces of toad III the county. We have graveled about one third of q mile on the road from Pres cott to the river bridge. at Il place known as Kings hill. This also has been n piece of road that has given much trouble. in fact almost impass- able during the winter season. And further through the financial help of people of Prescott, and the cooperation of the people along the road. We are making substantial improvements on the Prescott and RosSton road and be low RoSStou to the oil well-aireadS having done considerable work. lnelud- ing grayelne at the South end ot tue leyee in the Carouse bottom and re srfac'ug the main leVee. This Worh on the Rosston road will he ah exam pie of what can he accomplished through cooperation, and we thank the people of Prescott, and the people along the road. for their help, and hope the results will inspire the al- ready interested people in road work in ather parts of the county, to dc even more than they are now doing. We have also done some good work on ..- IL. EarnnAn hntt hn-