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PAGE 8 CROOK COCTTTY JOURNAL (VTonun so, ioib Vote for ti ROADS November 7, 1919 $50,000 Crooked River Road. $90,000 Shorty. Davis-South Fork Road. $40,000 Ocho co Canyon Road. $30,000 Bear Creek Road. $10,000 Prineville-Lamonta Road Put Crook on the Map With these Progressive Counties OREGON COUNTIES VOTE BONDS Following is a list of the counties in Ore gon which have voted bond issues to date, to gether with the amounts of such issues as fur nished by the State ' Highway Commission of Oregon. Benton $220,000 Lane None Baker 500,000 Lincoln 180,000 Coos 362,000 Linn 600,000 Crook 95,000 Lake 200,000 Clackamas None Marion 850,000 Clatsop 400,000 Malheur 230,000 Columbia 360,000 Morrow 290,000 Curry 98,000 Multnomah ..1,250,000 Douglas 500,000 Polk 265,000 Deschutes 125,000 Sherman 350,000 Gilliam 250,000 Tillamook .... 400,000 Grant 140,000 Umatilla 1,050,000 Harney None Union 1,498,000 Hood River 75,000 Washington .... None Jockson 500,000 Wasco 260,000 Josephine None Wallowa 300,000 Jefferson 100,000 Wheeler 124,000 Klamath 347,000 Yamhill 360,000 GRAND JURY ENDORSES BOND ISSUE Endorsement of the proposed bond issue of $220,000 was unanimously made by the Grand Jury last Monday in its report at the conclusion of its duties. The members of the jury were W. I. Dishman, Chairman; C. B. Gwinn, W. M. Clay baugh, J. A. Moffitt and Wm. Arnold of Powell Butte ; and James H. Scott and Chester W. Starr of Howard. The bond issue as proposed was endorsed in the following words: "We very carefully went into the state of the county's finances and in connection there with have considered the advisability of voting the proposed bond issue of $220,000 for per manent road improvement We earnestly ask and urge every taxpayer in the county, if pos sible, to learn for himself by personal investiga tion the state of the county's funds and resources and not to take for the truth any rumor until it has been backed, up with authoritative figures. "We find that owing to cirsumstances over which the voters and taxpayers now have no con trol, the county is approximately $100,000 in debt. It is limited to about that amount in its tax levies and owing to the increased cost of main tenance, no money can be raised to pay off that indebtedness and leave anything for the upkeep of the county's roads and bridges. "Therefore, we believe that one of the meth ods of relieving the general fund of the county from road expenditures and maintenance of bridges, would be by voting the bond issue pro posed, permanently to improve the roads with the help of the government and the state and thereby allow the funds raised by direct taxation to be applied on the general fund indebtedness instead of being used continually to patch the old, unwisely located roads 3,000 miles of them that we have. "This is only one reason why we urge the taxpayers thoroughly to inform themselves upon the proposed bond election. There are other and very important reasons why the bond elect ion should carry, another one being that Crook county will get no good roads within the next three to five years unless it does carry, and that every other county is forging ahead with its road program and Crook must act or be behind." Our Money Will Be Matched Dollar for Dollar By the State or Government COUNTY COURT PLEDGES EXPENDITURE "October 18, 1919. "To the taxpayers of Crook county : 'We your county judge and commissioners, comprising your county court, do hereby pledge ourselves, In pursuance of an order to like ef fect entered of record today, that if the people by their votes on November 7, approve the pro posed $220,000 bond issue for permanent road improvement, that no part of that sum will be spent on any project that has not been approved, surveyed and designated by the State Highway Commission of Oregon, or by the United States Bureau of Public Roads, as the case may be, and no bond issue will be authorized and no bond will be offered for sale until the funds are require ed by the Highway Commission or the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. N. G. WALLACE, County Judge E. T. LUTHY, Commissioner, HUGH LISTER, Commissioner. mt mm m . - i Ihis bond issue or $220,000 is unqualifiedly endorsed by the undersigned taxpayers and business men. We believe that the issue as proposed to be to the best interest of all of Crook County and its citizens CROOK COUNTY BANK THE MICHEL GROCERY CO. OROFINO RESTAURANT LYRIC THEATER JOHN J. PRICE STEWART & CARLSON J. E. STEWART & CO. DBS CHUTES POWER CO. OAKS CAFE BOSTWICK & COX CORNETT A CO. TRI STATE TERMINAL CO. W. P. KING & CO. ,. . ) CENTRAL OREGON ENTERPRISE; FIRST NATIONAL BANK FREDERICKSON & CLARK BRENT & STROUD INLAND AUTO CO. CROOK COUNTY J TONAL C. M. MEYER l-RINEVILLE DRUG CO. ROBINSON A CLIFTON D. P. ADAMSON ft CO. OSCAR O. HYDE PRINEVTLLE MEAT CO. LAKIX HARDWARE CO. NEWEL MOTOR SALES CO. OCHOCO WAREHOUSE CO. nwiiMiiiffliffiMfiiif