The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
BOND ISSUES LESS
Total for Eleven Months of This
Year Was $50, ,154,s7s.
During Calendar Year o I 1921
Amount Was s26,s1s,671.
REPORT BY STATE AUDITOR
Paving and Road improvement
in Lead During November.
Shawnee County Spent S196,9OO
ON Roads Last Month.
lRY the Associated Press

Municipal bonds issued in Kansas
| during the first eleven months of 1922
| totaIed $20.154,S 1881. Issues during
! s26,S19,671.11. Issues during De-
26,S19,O71.11. Issues during De-
cember will have to run well over So
| 100000 to bring the 1929 figure up to
that OF last year. This is not likely,
according to State Auditor N. A.
| Turner, from whose books these fig
ures were taken. The auditor pointed
out that the largest total-for any sim
gle month this year was $S,345.793 in
February.
November Total Was $1,e5e,220
Bonds issued during November to-
tailed 81, 56,22625, the auditors rec
ords show. Paving and road improve
ment authorizations made up the
largest part of the figure, the amount
| issued for these purposes being ap-
proximately $1.164,50O. For paving
| improvements approximately $694.600
| in bonds were issued during the month
Kansas City, Kan. issued $279,S20 for
paving work in two lots of bonds, one
of which. $246,120 is for boulevard
Kansas City also issued $46,000 for a
bridge. Kowa had the next largest
issue for paving. $1S0.000, and Nick
erson followed with $50, 500. Inde-
pendence issued paving bonds totaling
$2S,205.7S, and, also, issued bonds to
the amount of $2,669.54 for sewers.
Other paving issues: Junction City,
$17.6S2; Nedesha, $15,370; Hoising-
ton, SAP. 500; Wamego, $42. 800; Elgin.
$4,000.
Road Improvement bonds in Mo-
vember totaled $469, 900. Shawnee
county issued for this purpose during
the month an aggregate of SIZE, 900 55.
Butler county authorized a 100000
road bond issue and Allen county two
issues totaling 500 900. Atchison county
is going to spend $4,000 on its roads.
These four counties were the only
ones issuing road improvement bonds
last month.
Among the miscellaneous issues
Chanute leads with an authorization
of $125,000 for waterworks- Dodge
City is going to expend sSs,47S.55 on
sewers.
Issues During November.
Other issues during November:
Grant county, 900, school bonds.
Ford county. $4,000, school bonds.
Sumner county, $4,000, school bonds.
Trego county, ZOO, school bonds.
Dickinson county. $4,000, township
building.
Pittsburg. s1o,1Os, general improve
ment bonds. /
Liberal. s24,4s2.1s. Improvement of
Can creek.
st. Francis, $ss,s72.44, sewer bonds |
Hexie, $1S,627.20, sewer bonds.
Winona, $4,000. waterworks.
West PLANES, $4,000, water and |
lights.
Emmett, $4,000, electric light line. |
Highland, $4,000, waterworks.
Maize, $4,000, electric lights.
Clearwater, $17,500, electric light |
line.
Hamilton, $4,000, electric lights.
Auditor Turner's records show that |
in 1920 municipal bond issues in Kan
sas We're more than two and one-half /
times as great as in the previous year,
1919, and that the 1921 total was
F1u a as nf 7QOn
figure for last year was $26. 9,671.11;
/ 500, $27.201,174.17, and 1919, $9,-
74,402.78. Following are the totals
for the four years prior to 1919:
1915 .......$ 81, $50, ,363.00
1915 ....... 7,914,635.45
1917 .......... S,932.227.31
1918 .. 6,11e,676.1S