PAGE TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Thursday, Jane 12, 1013. Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, B. V. Talcott, Editor and Owner . City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear . .. 12.00 Biz Months 1.00 Three Months . .60 Payable In Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class Job printing facilities. Equipments second to none - in the Interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, June 12, '13 ROAD BONDS. The petitions asking the county court to call an election for the pur pose of voting on the question of Jackson county issuing seven hun dred thousand dollars in thirty-year, five per cent road bonds, the pro ceeds from which are to be used in road construction, was started at the good roads banquet at the Medford Hotel Friday night, being signed there by about two hundred voters. The law requires that the petition be signed by at least one-fourth of the number of voters at the last elec tion. The petitions are being gen erally circulated and signed and the matter will be speedily brought up to the county court asking that an election be called. The election will probably be held about, or before, the first of August. It is estimated that it wiir take about $150,000 to complete the new grade over the Sisklyous. It will cost about $150,000 more to finish the Pacific highway from the base of the Siskiyou grade to the Josephine ounty line. That means that three hundred thousand will be required, out of the seven hundred thousand Issue, to complete the Pacific high way. If the bonds are voted by all means the Pacific highway should be Improved so that it will be the best road in Jackson county and not Inferior to any part of the highway from San Diego to Portland. The completion of a first-class highway from Mexico to Canada, as Is contem plated in the Pacific highway, will mean that from twenty to fifty thou sand tourists will be brought into Jackson county every summer. Cal ifornia is progressing rapidly with Its part of the work and will reach the Oregon line within a year. Jack son county should proceed with the road over the Sisklyous at once and be ready for the big traffic. Tour ists visiting the Rogue River Valley will leave enough money each sum mer to compensate the county for the three hundred thousand expenditure contemplated on the Pacific highway. Therefore, everybody is in favor of that road. Further, let it be un derstood that the Pacific highway, including the Siskiyou grade, is not an Ashland road, nor a Medford road, nor a Central Point road, nor a Gold Hill road; it is a county road; one contributing alike to the commerce and prosperity of Sams Valley, the Applegate and Little Butte as much as to the points along the route, because It is a highway through which new blood and new wealth will be Introduced into the whole valley, contributing its quota of prosperity to the whole. After three hundred thousand dol lars of the issue is expended for this road there will be left four hundred thousand dollars to be expended in betterment and new laterals through out the county. The law requires tlfat the county court shall include every road upon which any of the bond money is to be spent in the order for the bond election. That is, that the county court shall set down In the call for the bond elections the precise roads to be benefited and the exact amount that shall be spent on each road, giving the starting point and finishing point of the work to be performed on each road. So that when the call is made every voter may Inform himself, by reading the call, of just what roads are to be benefited. The attitude of the people through, out the county toward this bond Is sue will be determined largely by the fair distribution of the benefits to accrue to each community by the expenditure of the proceeds from the bonds. The people of Jackson county, or of any locality in the county, are not now, nor have they been, opposed to good roads. Where the benefits are equitably distributed distributed ac cording to the amount each locality will be taxed taxed as Interest and sinking fund for bond redemption the people will generally favor good roads bonds. It has been necessary in the past for some localities to op pose bonds as a pure matter of self protection because the money raised for road purposes was being used in the interest of favored communi ties at the expense of other parts of the county. Happily the law is such that now this discrimination may be obviated before the bonds are issued. It can be so arranged by each community that the proportionate share for that community will be specified to be spent on particular roads in that community. If the people of each community are vigilant and see to it that the matter is properly brought to the attention of the county court at the time the order for the election is made, no doubt the matter can, and will, be properly adjusted so that the issue will carry. At least, the matter can be brought squarely to an issue at that time and the attl tude of the several communities, for or against the bond issue, can be finally determined. The east end of Jackson county thinks the Green Springs road, from the point where it diverges from the Pacific highway to the Klamath county line, is next in importance to the highway itself. It',will thereto ask the specific sum of fifty thou sand dollars be appropriated out of the four hundred thousand lateral fund to be expended in betterment on this highway. When the Green Springs road is improved as it should be it will at once become a great artery of trade between the Klamath country and the Rogue River Valley and will benefit all the different sec tions of the valley alike. The Klam ath country Is a great consumer of fruit, and with a road capable ot transporting one and a half to two ton autotruck loads It will be a com mercial asset to this valley of ten times, the cost, every year, of im proving the way. With the Green Springs road prop erly taken care of in the bond elec tion call the east end of the county will fall in line for the issue. MONTHLY FINANCIAL STATE MENT. Fifty, or more, Tidings readers have asked us lately why we did not print the monthly statements of city finances. We answer, first, because no such , statement is now issued from the recorder's office, and, sec ond, there is no provision for having the same published. A large number of the cities throughout the country have adopted the rule of having monthly state ments prepared and published show ing all of the receipts and expendi tures of the municipalities. From comments we conclude it is the best investment a municipality can make. When it Is known that every re source and expenditure of the city will be published fresh each month, so that every taxpayer may know just what is being done, the ten dency is to make the officials more careful of expenditures, and is prov ing a saving of more than three times the cost of publication. Such a financial statement should be made and published each month by the city of Ashland. It should be printed in both the Ashland papers. No doubt such a rate could be ar ranged between the city and the pa- rers as would make it inexpensive to publish the statement. There is a demand among the tax payers for such a statement, and while the newspapers cannot afford to print the matter without cost to the city, the Tidings feels that it would be willing to make such a rate as that it would be a money-making business to the city to have it print ed In both papers. COMPULSORY PUBLICITY. Practically all of the charters late ly adopted, under the commission form, provide for compulsory publi cation of ail financial affairs. It is now becoming generally understood that adequate publicity works a great saving in municipal adminis tration. Officials give more thought to proposed expenditures when they know that the public will have full knowledge of the transaction at once after it is consummated. It is estl mated that the saving to the taxpay ers through publicity amounts to twenty times more than the cost of such publications. Furthermore, ordinances, which to municipalities amount to laws and law being a rule of conduct laws by which the public will be re strained and guided have In the past been ordained by the council and recorded in an ordinance book where not one taxpayer, or citizen subject to that law, in a thousand ever has the opportunity to gain knowledge of what is contained in the law, and yet Is expected to keep it Inviolate, lies burled from view and knowledge of the people. Every ordinance of the city should be pub lished bo that the people may be In formed upon the rules to which their conduct must conform. Illinois has dairy at $29,183,044. herds valued OREGON'S COUNTY ROAD BOND LAW BELOW IS PRINTED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE VOTERS THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF We print below the principal parts of the county bonding law. By at tention to that part which we have printed in black type it will be seen that all parts of the county are prop erly protected in the matter, of dis tributions of roads throughout the several districts, as it is provided that the county court shall specify in its order calling the election just where, on what roads, and in what sums the proceeds of the bonds are to be expended, and provides further that the money cannot be spent on any other roads. , Therefore, the necessity becomes at once apparent (hat each community in the county should at once deter mine what roads it desires and make that wish known to the county court at the meeting at which the order for the election is made, because, un less your road is set out in the elec tion order as one to be improved it will be impossible to legally spend any of the proceeds of the bonds on it. Here Is the Law. Section 1. Bonds may be issued by any county In this state for the purpose of raising money to be used for the construction and maintenance of permanent roads in that county as hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. Whenever a number of registered voters of the county equal to one-fourth of the greatest number of votes cast In that county at the next preceding general election, foe any person for judge of the supreme court, not exceeding, however, 5,000 registered voters, shall petition the county court as hereinafter provided asking that a special election shall be called for the purpose of submit ting to the voters of that county the question of issuing bonds for the pur pose mentioned in Section 1 of this act, such county court shall call such special election and submit such question to the legal voters of such county as hereafter provided. Sec. 3. The petition mentioned in Section 2 of this act shall set out and specify the amount of bonds pro posed to be issued, the length of time they shall run, and the maximum rate of interest they shall bear. Each petitioner must sign his own name to the petition, the precinct in which he resides, and his postofflce address must be noted opposite his name. The petition shall be In sub stance the following form: To the Honorable County Court of County. We, the undersigned registered registered voters, respectfully peti tion that you call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of this county the question of issuing bonds, to provide for the con struction of permanent roads in this county, to the,amount of dollars ($ ), to run years each. The aforesaid bonds shall bear interest at per cent per annum. Name , postofflce address Sec. 4. The petition mentioned in Section 3 shall be filed with the county clerk and thereafter presented to the county court at or before the next regular session thereof. The county court shall examine the peti tion as soon as it is so presented, and if the court is satisfied that the peti tion substantially conforms to the re quirements of Section 3 of this act and. contains the names and postof flce addresses of the requisite num ber of voters as required by Section 2 of this act, the county court shall then make an order directing that a special election shall be called and held in that county for the purpose as specified in the petition at a time to be then fixed by the court, which shall not be less than 20 nor more than 40 days after the date of mak ing the order; the order of the coun ty court shall state the amount of the proposed bonded indebtedness, the maximum rate of interest that it shall bear, and what particular roads within the county are to be built and improved by the money so raised, and the minimum amount to be expended on each road and where located within the county, giving the beginning and the terminus thereof and the county court shall not use any of the money so raised under the provisions of this act, ion any other road than those mentioned in said order, nor for any other purpose than those emlHared therein; said order may contain any other details which the county court may deem proper, not inconsistent with the prl visions of this act. There shall be no appeal from that" order. If the county court shall determine either that the petition does not substan tially conform to the requirements of Section 3, or that it does not con tain names and postofflce addresses of the requisite number of voters as THE COUNTY BONDING LAW required by Section 2, it shall make an order declaring that fact and par ticularly designating the defects and refusing to order a special election. Within 10 days after the entry of such order any one or more of the petitioners may appeal to the circuit court in the same manner as appeals are taken from, the county court In actions a', law, except that the notice of appeal if not entered in the jour nal at the time the order is made Bball be terved on the county judge and no appeal bond shall be required. If the circuit court upon such ap peal shall be satisfied that the coun ty court should have ordered an elec tion, that court shall direct the coun ty court to proceed as if it had de clared the proceedings sufficient. If upon such appeal the circuit court shall decide that the judgment of the county court was correct it shall make an order affirming the judg ment of that court. There shall be no appeal from the judgment of the circuit court. Sec. 5. Whenever a number of registered voters of a county equal to one-twentieth of the greatest num ber of votes cast in that county at the next preceding general election tor any person for judge of the su preme court shall petition the county court as provided in Sections 2 and 3 of this act, the county court shall take the same proceedings respecting such petition as is provided for in Section 4 of this act, except that if the court is satisfied that the peti tion is insufficient as provided in Section 4 it shall so adjudge, and there shall be no appeal from such judgment. The county court, how ever, is not required to call a special election upon the petition provided for' in this section, and the difference between the proceedings provided for In this section and that provided for in Section 4 is that this section is intended to authorize but not require the county court to call a special election, whereas Section 4 is intend ed to be mandatory upon the county court. Sec. 6. Whenever a special elec tion shall be ordered as provided in this act the county court shall cause printed notices thereof, signed by the county clerk, to be posted in like manner as notices of a general elec tion are now posted,, which notices shall particularly specify the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, the length of time they shall run, .and the maximum rate of interest they shall bear, the road or roads to be Improved, and the amount to be ex pended on each. These notices shall be posted at least 20 days before the date of the election and shall be substantially the following form: Notice of special election for issu ing road bonds for county. Notice is hereby given that on the ....day of 191.. a special election will be held in county, to determine whether the county court shall issue bonds of said county to provide for permanent road construction to the amount of dollars, to mature in.; years, no more than dollars to be Issued in any one year, and to bear interest at the rate of per cent per annum; and the funds so raised shall be expended In building perma nent roads, described as follows, to wit: $ shall be expended on the road from. . . ; . . .to and $ shall be expended on the road from to .' , etc. County clerk for county. Sec. 7. The county court shall have printed to use at such special election the same number of ballots, both official ballots and sample bal lots, as would be required by the election laws at a general election. The election shall be conducted and votes canvassed in the same manner as a general election, and the judges and clerks appointed for the next preceding general election shall act as judges and clerks at such special election. The ballot shall be sub stantially the following form: Shall there be issued bonds of county to the amount of dollars, due in years, with interest at per cent per annum, to provide for per manent road construction? Yes No '. Sec. 8. Only one special election shall be held in any county in any one year. SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland ldings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine is $1.50 per year. The PORTLAND EVENING TELE GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year, $5.00. WE SOLICIT the opportunity of handling your bank ing business knowing that we have the facilities, the resources and the disposition to serve yon faith fully and efficiently. 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