Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-01-16
WOODSTOCK, JIRGINIA.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. 1925.
THE GLORY or BONDS

County. Virginia, for road con-
struction. Lizzies and linn
cuisines dashed along its high
ways without tremor or a jar.
Hard surfaced thoroughfares
made life worth living from the
West Virginia line to the
borders OF Dickinson, Russell and
Smyth, and Tazewelltonians
viewed the future with hope and
accepted the present with COM
placency.
The County had good roads,
aud plenty of them.
It was an easy matter to float |
bonds. So easy to figure that
the interest charges could be TAX
en- care of without burdening the |
tax payer, and the old story of
enhanced values creating the
additional taxable basis for the
liquidation of the debt were told
aud believed from Pocahontas to
Paintlick and Cedar Bluff to|
Cover Creek. The benefceut
results of bonds were so elo-
ouently expatiated upon that the
same suffragists who are now
suffering supported the bond
issue, and Tszewell was held up
as a farseeing and progressive
County, riding on bond built
highways to sure prosperity.
For time all seemed serene,
but, alas and alack, there was
fiy in the ointment used to re-
lieve the road itch with which the
Tazewelltonians were affected.
The bond built roads are not
perfectly maintained the income
from taxes is net sufficient for
their upkeep.
1t is self evident that the tax
rate in Tazewell has become
burdensome, and the Board of
Supervisors, realizing the con-
ditiou of affairs, has sent forth
a plaintive appeal to rob auto
mobilists througbo Virginia,
by a prohibitive gasoline tax, in
order thatTazewell might recover
from its acute attack of bonditis.
It may be that the 300, 900
automobile owners in Virginia,
many of whom have been so in.
tent on bonding the State, may
find some consolation and a lesson
in tine Boards appeal.
Here it is. Read it
DO YOU WANT ROADS FINANCED?
VIRGINIA AT a meeting
OF the Board of Supervisors of
Tszewell County. held at the
Court House thereof on the 14th
day of October, 1924.
Present Frank Z. st. Clair,
Chairman, John l. DeBord, and
Alex Beavers.
Whereas. this County has
issued bonds for road improve
ment in excess of one million and
a quarter dollars within the past
dozen years, and from the pro.
ceeds of said bonds there has
been constructed approximately
one hundred and sixty miles of
hard surface roads, many bridges
aud miles of roads improved by
grading and draining ard
whereas. through lack of funds,
the said improved roads and
bridges are now in a more or less
unsatisfactory condition and not
properly maintained and where
as il is evident to this Board
that the annual income of this
County for road repair and main.
tenance is entirely inadequate to
meet the needs of said roads Il
and whereas we believe that the
present rate of taxation on
property for road purposes as is
high as is now advisable and
whereas there is now a tax of
three cents per gallon on gaso.
line for roads and whereas we
believe that a tax of from five to
ten cents per gallon on gasoline.
invested in the improvement of
the county and state roads would
be saving to the road user, a
sound investment, and not an
or burdensome tax and
TO be eminently just and fair and
further than this is the MAJORITY
sentiment of the tax payers of Il
t'as Comfy and the State at
'arge nd whereas the con-
dition of our roads to day and of
our treasury as regards road
funds 10 such n to amount to an