Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-03

to 1.-THE. olds n. amendment.so f the tsd-
under rosd aot Approved Noy.. IN.
erai' az. I soyernnent EasreessAtos pay
lsI.' III cnst Of constructing seven
half y ~ the roads ut the. stAta;
per cens can't known assprt1nSty 7Or
three ". rnads and four Per ce1ts0f
Interest," nr inter-county f0aAhs Nfl
s%econoals government reallysSWAnts
the nav state like N0fthspAkotA.
to help q Construct the interstate
why ~ ~ ali the work andItake over
roads, w "a federal prc3ec4s.Ahd
tnese nsnnle Of the state build@tho
let .nS ~ or inter-county ROADS. with
eco. utarfarence by the: federal TOAD
u They can or we'll furnish al
ouIea 10 construct threelpersc cent
Inc nv roads as to furnish half the
OIL .nv ~ construct seven per. cent.
mome !. vav there would be Q .chAnce
~ n%ver-lapping Of duties OF; dupt!ea-
10 ion Of supervision and enelneerins.
1rba counties would do their OVID effS1-s
.ne-;ne and construct those second
~ roads With their own money ana
.he government could ais constr1ct
The Urinary roads with tneirs Iun9A
There would then be no Founl u
trying to satisfy two -
engineers. -.o.~ ..+,r,s -
ia n the Herald Of March 3Sth,
pea.e the action Of the Good
pneds association. says toNthe. AK
nswer IN pointing out the advantages
pas., Iii he derived FROM the adoption
of1he amendment, that no bond issue
i. contemplated; tnas real estate
.xes will not be increased and that
nnt univ Will the counties have re-
ne,yed The state highway projects al
ro.dv constructed Cor that will be
constructed) without expense to them.
INIT The state will have taken over the
CONSUMPTION and maintenance OF the
n,ost costly to build and maintain
| h;rhways in the states Counties and
townships will consequently be r.
1;ayed Of his heavy burden and, their
antire road funds can be used Tor tho
Improvement and care Of county roads
leading into the state highways
Now if the gentleman will prove -
me that his can be done ! am with
him. u / am from Missouri. and he
has got to show me. II there, 10 any
wav of having roads constructed lin
our or any other state without the ex-
! nense falling either directly or indi-
rectly on the taxpayer, ! would b
very glad to find that way. The gen
tleman further states, that regarding
criticisms of engineering. in the case
Of Grand Forks county, all engineer
ing was done by the county and that
criticism by the Commissioners Of
that county is self criticism. In an
swer to this ! will say that Grand
Forks county did do the engineering
| of practically all Of the road. projects
in our county, nevertheless, We paid
our part of the expense OF keeping up
the North Dakota Highway Depart
ment of Engineers at a cost to u
ties, as we'll as to the other counties
Of the state, Of approximately $4,000
per mile for all roads constructed.
This money came out Of the taxpayer
as we'll as the rest Of the money that
has been wasted in the construction OF
roads in our state.
The County COMMISSIONER associA-
tino Of our state are DESTROYS Of hav-
ing a law enacted Whereby the coun-
ties can collect their own auto tax as
it can be done at a very small expense
to the taxpayer. We of course could
buy our tags from the state; the Off
GERS Of u respective counties could
enforce the laws which could be done
much cheaper than sending officers
from our state capital. This auto tax
money could be used OF the highways
Of our own county where tax
payers would get a direct benefit from
the license as, at least, 90%, at. our
people do the greater part Of their
travelling In their own county. Let, us
have a little more home RULE and not
quite so much outside supervision of
the expenditure of our own money,
10 not believe 1t is necessary. ia
have a staff Of engineer at Bismarck
to look after the building Of county
roads. The voters of the counties of
this state elect a county engineer who,
IN my opinion, is just az capable Of
supervising the construction Of roads
as the engineers of the state highway
department and they are on the
ground at all times and know. condi-
lions much better than the engineers
from outside their county. /.
realize, however, that en- a
state highway department but in m,
opinion it should be sin, an. al.
visory board connected with the STATE
engineers office to see that the road,
he properly located to connect witt
the principal roads of the adioirins
counties; ! believe such a law woult
, w ~salls,actory to Y people and
SNOW our roads could be CONSTRUCTED
m.ueh cheaper than they can be doDl
l law. ,' $500 =
, T%hanking you. MIR. Editor, for you,
> valuable space l am, 4
Yours very truly. ~
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