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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1926)
4,250.00 1,040.00 Charter No 224 Reserve District No. 12 ItEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE MAUPIN STATE BANK at Maupin. in the state of Orepon, at the close of "business June 30, 192G. : RESOURCES Loans and discounts, including: rediscounts shown in item 29 and 30. if any $123,566.73 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 178.17 U. S government ? cunties owned, lnciuairg mose shown in items SO and 35, if any Other bonds, warrants and securities, including" for eign government, state, municipal, corporation, etc., inclining those shown in items 30, 35, if any Banking house Sj.7UU.lk) lurniture ana nxiures $2.800 00 i 8.500.00 UMiewts OA-iel other than bunking house.. 6.145.17 (ab) Cash on band in vault and due from banks, bar.keis. and trust companies, designated and unproved reserves agents in this bunk 34,936.00 Checks on tank outside tnty or town of re lu.rtinir bank Hiulother cash items 36 05 Total cash and due from banks, items 8, 9, 10, 11, 34y72l5 Total ... 178.652.12 LIABILITIES Jfi. Capital stock paid in ; $25,000 00 17. Surplus fund..... .......... 2,000.00 IS. (a) Undivided profits .$11,459.16 (b) Less current expenses, interest and ' taxes paid t... 5,101.82 6,357.34 11 Uncle Sam and His Nephews, ihe States, Are Collecting Over a Billion Dollars in Yearly Tolls on Motor Vehicles and Fuel Mow Than MeUth Nation'. Billion Dollar Highway Building Bill Thorn. H. MacDonald, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roadi, TelU Striking Detail. 23. Individual deposits subject to check, including de poses due th state of Oregon, county, cities or other public funds ....113,975.89 25. Cashier checks of this bank outstanding, payable on demand.... ; 1,21011 Total of demand deposits, other than bank deposits, sub ject to reserve, items 23, 24. 25, 25, . .$115,16.00 27. Time certificates of deposits outstanding 30,108.78 Total of time and savings deposits payable on demand or subject to notice, items 27 and 28, $30,108.78 By JUDSON C. WELUVER America has reverted to the ancient system of collecting to!l3 wherewith to build and maintain highways. In 1925 these tolls amounted to $1,094,000,000, collected through motor licenses, gasoline taxes, property, corporation, income production and other taxes on automobiles, automobile manufactures, the petroleum industry, etc. In the same year $1,003,000,000 was spent on rural roads. It took near a century to build $20,000,000,000 worth of rail, roads. A highway system costing that much will bo created in twenty years at present rate. These tr some of tbe b'ga point , t?24 mllos. were to be Included In ths presented by Thomas H. MacDonald. ! national system, eligible for Federal Chief of tbs Bureau of Public Roads, 4 aid. Nearly every mile of that 2.3CV Department of Agriculture. In an in- : 061 was a candidate for deMgnatlos tervlew on highway development ' as a Federal highway. But In the end "The equipment of this continent the system was laid out as a truly na with modern roads has been the most j tlonal one. mating provision of a public utility "When the map wai published II that n rnmmiinltv ever accom i showed nearly the 200,000 miles ol Total $178,652.12 S'ate of Oregon, County of Wasco, ss. t, F. D- Stuart. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowl- and belief. . F. D. Stvart, Cashier. Correct Attest: F.S.Fleming. I Directors JM. Conkun. factors. Subscribed and sworn to before e this 3rd day of July, 1926. , Geo. McDdNALD, Notary Public. My commission expires January 13th, 1928. WAPLMTIA NEWS Rev. J I. Purker, former U. B. minister here, with his family, is visiting in Wapinitiaa few days. ' Mrs. J. M. Powell, whd "has been very ill for the past three months, is at home again after a time spent in a hospital at The Dalles. A new store building is going up six miles west of this place. Its owner will handle groceries and refreshments. ft ; W. A. Mershon made a trip to Portland Friday and to Fossil and Arlington Saturday, returning Sunday. This village was deserted Sun day and Monday, the people turning out en masse to the mountains and various other places. ; Work on the new highway is progressing nicely in every de- pllshed In a similar period." said Mr. MacDonald. "Historians say tbe Roman Empire was held together by Its highway system, radiating from Rome to the Provinces. But America has converted a continent Into a neighborhood within a few years. "This accomplishment really repre ents the Inauguration of a new sys tem of taxation; a system of licenses and excises levied against particular privileges or classes of property, the proceeds being dedicated to highway development. "For 1925 state taxes on gasoline aggregated fl43.000.000. Add to that $2(3.500.000 (or automobile registra tion and licenses; $150,000,000 as property taxes on the 20.000,009 auto mobiles: $143,430.70) as the Federal xcise tax on automobiles, parts and accessories tor 19S5; $50,000,000 to represent wheelags taxes, special taxes on gasoline or csrs, and fines collected from motor drivers. The total reaches approximately $749. 930.709. Nearly $1,100,000,000 Ysarly Tolls "But these figures do not Include income and corporation taxes derived from the motor car business. Nor do P ORTLAND nkki Denaftnsfc 305 SECOND STREET Over round's Jewelry Store, The Dalles Oregon, will niak you A Full 6et of Teeth fully 'guaranteed to fit ami give satisfaction for $40.00 Bridge Work $9.00 per Tooth Painless Extraction $?.00 W. T. Slatten, D. D. S. Proprietor Harvest is atartincr and the 1 they Includs state, local production, yield of wheat promises to be j "Vdu .iTr" ud designated routes. Since then 4I.4SJ miles of thesa roads have been Im proved, nearly 1.1.000 more are under construction, and over 2.000 have bees approved for early beginning of work. In addition to that many states have built, without Federal aid. extensive sections which are Included wltbln this national system. In fact, these 1 stato contributions aggregate 55,000 miles, so that approximately two thirds of the 200.000 mile national highway system has already been Im proved. Uncle 6am as Road Supervisor "Along with all of this, there Is the Federal supervision over construction and maintenance. When Uncle Sam helps build a road hs reserves au thority to require Its proper main tenance. Then there Is the business of uniform marking along hlghwsys, which makes It possible for motorists to drive thousands of miles on a des ignated route whose markings be come so familiar that after a few miles he need not ask directions. "Finally Federal participation has made possible a great number of bridges at strategic points. Some of these have been needed for years, yet state and local authorities have been unable to provide them, partly be cause of the cost, partly because of good. . I try has a capltalliatlon of about j competition between routes. When Mrs. Nova Bothwell, who has been quite ill, is much improved ' at this wnting. Oregon News Notes Portland is estimated to have 347,781 population, one of the 12 fast growing American cities. Burns More than 100 new homes have been built here, in 18 months. Deschutes County votes $185, 00') road bond issue. Cottage Grove Discoveries reported of gold and quicksilver in Bohemia district. j Klamath Falls Building per- 1 mita tnf-QlInrr 178 Kfl-?' iaouprt in one week. Astoria ?70 tons asphalt ar rives from California, for high way improvements. Marshfield Daily News pays 8 npr npnr dividend on preferred partment, and much progress 3 ! stock Hood River Ideal company ships six large apple grading I machines to Africa. GASOLINE TAXES BY STATES Oat Tax G Tax tstts Ptr 0U Collections Statu ptr 0l. Collections 1S24 192S MC 12 Ala, 11 X.HO.IOl N. H. It I 100,00 Ark 4 S,t.S N. J. None Aria. I S48.27S N. Max. I M1.IM CaL t 1S.S6J.MI N. T. None CoL I 1.SS4.M1 N. C. l.m.Mi Conn. I 1.SOI.I0I N. D. I 657.I"! DA I IM.580 Ohio I 1,129 IIS Flm. T.024.10S Okla. Stt 614J.MT Oa. 4 4.431.814 Or. I - I.IM.HI Idahe I MJ.I71 Ptnna. 1 lO.l'iO.Oftt III. None R. I. 1 1.S4 Ind. I S.TJUtl 8. C. 5 I.1M.7H Iowa I 1. 115.404 r B. D. 1 1.93 111 Kaa. I I,S7.S4 , Tonn. t ' S.191.46J Kr. I I.040.0UO Tox. 1 1,744. AO? Li. t t.339.641 Utah IV I75.SGS M. S Z.000.000 Vt t tlt.ttri Md. t 1,022.98$ Va. I 1,615.174 Hut, None Wash. 1 1.000.000 Minn. 1 M4J.940 W. Va. IVi 2.155.790 Mich. I S.OOO.WH) Wis. 1 2.447 .234 Mlaa. 1 1.439.48J Wyo. I 460,971 Mo. 1 4.894.260 tlt- of Co. I 117.(54 Mont 1 ' 735,000 g J STlim Total. $142,987,749 D n lfn .bm ilinirow JUS We mean that old tire that's gone haywire We have the latest equipment for Balloon and High Pressure Vulcanising F. D. Frazier's Tire Shop DUFUR, , OREGON 5 being made. Roy Batty has just completed a modern dairy and hay barn A. L. Hartman made a flying trip to Portland Friday. Wauna Channel, in Columbia River, blasted out to low-water depth of 33 feet. I Delarhue Optical Company Bfr; Voght Block, The Dalles, Ore. V" . .ilftT AM AM ' i . $9,000,000,000. A modest estimate tor these, added to tbe preceding .figures, makes a total ot $1,094,910,703. which Is considerably more than the entire amount spent on country roads. "You observe that I have not In cluded the government's expenditures of nearly $100,000,000 In Federal aid to road building. In tbe eight years from 11S to 1925 Inclusive, the Gov ernment has contributed $460,000,000 to help tbe states build roads. That Is considerably les3 than half of what the country spent on roads In either 1924 er 1925. Moreover, in the same eight yevrs, while the Government was distributing that $460,000,000 to the states, It collected $973,000,000 In Internal revenue taies on motor cars, parts and accessories. Other hun dreds of millions were collected In In come and corporation taxes from mo tor car manufacturers and dealers Thus It appears that Federal con tribution to roads as compared to the contribution of people who make and use the cars, and 'the gasoline has been decidedly modest "But, while Federal contribution Is nly about 10 per cent of highway ex pense, It has accomplished results al together out of proportion to Its amount. First, it was an Incentive to the States. Tb. Government required them to invest as much as it con- I tributed. Then the Government takes i part in a general supervision of con struction and i. share In determining routes. So we have built roads on better standards, and bare got them organized Into a truly national sys tem instead of forty-eight state sys tems. Unifying the Road System "Some day It will be realized that this was the most valuable contribu tion. Driving from Boston to New York, a man may pass through tour states Every one might have a splendid blgjway system; but if these did not articulate at the state lines the trip would r" almost Impossible. Thanks to the systematlzatlon under Federal Influence, country roads are as superior to state boundary lines as are railroads "Tbe Federal highway act of 1921 required that a complete nation-reaching system of roads be designated within two years, as the roads to which Uncle Sam would give assist ance. It was found that there were 2,966,061 miles ot highway In the sou n try Of these 7 per cent, gr 200 I stream separates two counties, or two states, It Is often impossible to get them to agree where to build or how to divide tbe cost of a bridge. In such cases the Federal authority has repeatedly mediated differences and secured construction, Let ma men tion some Instances. "Missouri has been a state for over a century. Divided east and west oy the Missouri river, communication be tween the two sections has' been lim ited, to the state's disadvantage. Four bridges across the river were required in the national highway program, and Federal co operation with the state of Missouri has made them possible. Two are completed, the others are un der construction. The four will cost a little more than $2,000,000, the Fed eral contribution being nearly $1,000, 000. Getting Bridges Constructed , "Another bridge tbat has a peculiar Importance, both locally and nation ally, has been needed for generations across Rarltan bay, New Jersey. It Is one of the links In the chain ot com munication between New York city and the country at large. In 1924 New Jersey had some $700,000 of Fed eral aid allotted to her roads and in 1925 over $1,000,000. So the state agreed that this Radian" bridge should be built, costing about $4,000,000. Federal funds made up about one third of the amount. The bridge, over a mile and a half long, is now nearly completed. "Such Illustrations might be multi plied Indefinitely. National participa tion has repeatedly mado possible the accomplishment of vitally Important highway development." , According to the American Petro leum Institute, the gasoline tax was first Imposed in 1919' In Oregon. It has now been , adopted by all the states except New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The ten dency has been continually to in. creaBe the rate of tax per gallon, As. late as 1921 gasoline taxes for the 'en tire country were only, about 95,000, 000; in 1922, $12,000,000; In 1923, al most $37,000,000; In 1924, $79,000,000, and In 1925, $142,937,749. With good prospects that the "gas" tax will be adopted soon by states which do not have It now and with tbe gallonage rates being Increased Ic other states, It Is calculated that this tax alone will soon raise $200,000,000 a year, quite possibly during 192$. , AUTOMOBILE and General Machine Work Cylinder Grinding. General Machine Work, Truing Crank&balts, Making Pistons and Rlngi, Bearings, All Sizes Made to Order. Sheet Metal Workers Complete Line ol Parts for All Makes of Cars Full Line of Lahers Springs Electric and Oy-Acetyiene WELDING READ a. (QALLOWAY L 609 East Second Street Phone 400 THE DALLES. ORE Phone 383J i Vacation Days are Here! School is out and it's time to take the little folks to the ocean beach for that vaca tion so long counted on. Clatsop Beach Seaside Gearhart the premier beach resort of the Northwest invites you. Hotels, cottages, golf, surf, bathing, etc. $10 Round Trip via Oregon Trunk Ry. Return Limit Oct 31 Trains leave 12:58 A. M. daily except Saturday. 11:48 P. M. Saturdays. Tickets, Reservations, Folders, etc., of - . W. Griffin, Agt. J. C. Wright, , T. F. & P. A. mm Central Oregon line