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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1921)
Wasco Co realest Historical Pageant will be staged at the fa The Dalles Auto Camp Ground AY 21 sift (So3 R ML Men, Women and Children 1 ' 100 Indians will take part in this Great Production ADMISSION FREE EASE d; BETWEEN The fast Warm Spring' Indian Team and The Dalles City Team, Friday, starting at 2:30 P. M. CITY WILL BE CLOSED AT 4:30 P. M. The Dalits, Oregon, May 2nd, 1921. TO THE TAXPAYERS AND VOTERS OF WASCO COUNTY, That you may have a belter understanding oi the promoted $M,C(.'0.C(i i; nd kitse TO BE VOTED ON JUNE 7TH, the carrying of which means a ljeimanent macadamized road through Wasco County, we submit some statistics which we believe v. ill prove of interest and conclusive i;s far as your influence , and your vote is concerned. These figures are based on the cost to you when the entire $800,000.00 in Dundy are SOLD. The 1920 assessed valuation of Wasco County was - - - $20,162,072.44 The interest on $800,000.00 at six per cent per annum fa - - - 48,000.00 The $800,000.00 Bond Issue (should the entire issue be kold at once and it will not be) will cobt YOU PER YEAR ONLY $2.40 for each thousand dollars of assessed valuation. For each unit of $100,00?.0Q of Bonds. sold, YOUR taxes will increase per year ONLY 30 cents ftr every thousand dollars of YOUR asse&sed valuation. By voting this Bond Issue The Dalles-California road will be built as a State Highway, which means that it will thereafter be MAINTAINED ENTIRELY by the State. ALL COUNTY, MARKET, LOST and LOCAL ROAD FUNDS may then be spent on other county roads as none of these load funds will be needed in maintaining this main Highway. If this Bond Issue carries, it meana fuilher that the State will put up an equal amount or $800 000.00, making $1,600,000.00 to be tpent largely here at home for material, labor, etc. We then secure two dollars worth of road for every dollar we epend and the money left in our own county. In conclusion, you should realize that The Dalles-California Highway WILL BE DIVERTED through Sherman County if this Bond issue fails to carry in Wasco County, and we will pay our propor tionate share. Sheuuan County along with other counties thioughout the State will the have a STATE HIGHWAY" which Wasco County has helped to pay for but receives no direct benefits. Are yo'i going to allow this opportunity to get away -an opportunity which may never come again the opportunity of having a trunk highway built and maintained upon o r jpjirg only fifty per cent of the building cost? Shall Wasco County take its place with other counties or &hall we remain an isolated section of the State? IT CANNOT, MUST NOT, WILL NOT fail to carry. WORK FOR IT - TALK IT - VOTE FOR IT BOND ISSUE COMMITTEE The Dallcs-Wa?en County Chamber of Commerce BLACH3MITIIING and General Repairing Chilled Shears Ground HORSE SHOEING All Prices Way Down A. F. Martin Jackson Rice was a Maupin caller from ' Wapinita Monday. The Maupin Times Published every Thursday at Maupin, Oregon Jersiline K. Mottison, Publisher Subset iption: One year, ft.m; six months, 75 cent?; three months, 50 Filtered as second class mail 'nutter September 2, 1914, at the iKtoffii-e at Man pin, Oregon, tin Ji 1 'he ict of March 3, 1879. Sotvt Fenlures of Bond Issue Of the assessed value on rolls for Vr o County amount inpr to f 20,162,072. 4 i percentages paid by incorporated ei''. public utilities and farming inttrfttf are aa follows: Public Service Corporation $5,210,072 11 or 25.8 percent Values in Cities 4, 15', 110 00 or 20. G percent Remainder ofCovnty, (Farming &. Timber) l' 796,500. 00 or 53 G percent Tolal $:!'), 162,072. 44. 100 peicent 1. Fiom tbis you rill tee that the fanners pay approxi mately 50 penent of the taxeof the county. I be state matches the bond ifsne. Therefor, for I $1.00 which Urn farmer pays on this road he receives back $1.00 in pern anent tosds. A chance for the farmers to obtain their own road at 25 percent of the actual cost. Ths cities receive $10.00 worth of . ro.id w ork for every -H.00 e.vptnded and the public ter ice corporations pay 25 percent of the total cor.t of the road to this county. 2. Even if the entire bond issue should be sold atone time which it cannot be the yearly cost to a tax payer for interest on the bonds will be $2.40 per $1000.00 of assessed valuation. Thus a man with $10,000.00 assessed valuation would pay 2.00 in taxes for the road. The road as it stands causes more then the loss of a Ford ca3injr per year to every fanner who o.vnsa car. Gasoline laving! would be equally aa great. 3. If we do not get the road another county will, and we will be forced to pay for part of it just the same. 4. The state will maintain the road after building it and will thereby release more money for keeping up lateral roads so that all roads will benfiet This high way in the winter especially, will draw all the traffic possible thereby leaving other roads in better condition. 5. The cost of maintaining the present dirt road with the ever increasing wear due to auto truka will pniount in 20 year3 to a large share of the bond issue. A lar-je share of the total road 1 money in the county goes into the present road and in 20 years t:i? mad as it 6t?nd3 will he wor-e than now due to truck trad c. 6. This is 1 ! most important of the six points Think it over carefully. Tr ie' and auto traffic will continue to grow and even now our lords cannot stand it. Our soil is-too light and no diit road in the county will remain passible under heavy truck haul ing. Our present plan of a "Bidget System" with a maxi mum increase of 6 percent per year makes it nnpossioie to, obtain permanent roads in any other way. By building this main highway e can get on a per manent road buliding program with the aid of market road money and money saved in main taininz the present road. Alii roads will soon feel the benefit.