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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Thursday, Jane 12, 1013.
Ashland Tidings
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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.
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The rule was adopted some years
ago, about the time of the Spanish
American war, that the enlisted men
of the United States army be eligi
ble to commissions upon the passing
of the necessary examinations, but,
strange as it may seem, this privilege
has never been extended to the en
listed men in the navy until the
present time. The new secretary of
the navy, however, has just promul
gated such an order.
This is as it should be. It is un
American to permit the high posts of
honor in the army or navy to be mo
nopolized by the graduates of any
school, though it be a school con
trolled by the government. The
civil war proved conclusively that
the rule of seniority and the exclu
sion from advancement beyond a
certain point of all who were not of
the regular schools made the army
and navy almost useless in the com
mencement of the great struggle.
The action of the navy department
in opening the door of promotion
wide to the sailors of the navy is a
wise one.
Have you bought Fido a license
tag? The dog catcher will get him
if you don't watch out.
The prosecuting attorney says a
man near Medford has litigious in
sanity. Would that apply to attorneys
who are always 'urging clients into
law suits, regardless of expense or
probable outcome?
M. Pinchot, Take Notice.
Mr. Shyclothes was seated on the
rock reserved for visitors, and was
deeply interested in the proceedings
of the Antedeluvian Congress. A
long-bearded patriarch had the floor
and delivered a speech despite the
jeers of other members.
"I warn you," announced the patri
arch, "that unless we pay more at
tention to forest conservation we will
have floods that may do great dam
age." "Who is the old patriarch?" asked
Mr. Skinclothes.
"That is Senator Noah," replpied
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