Show THE BOND ELECTION at the election held here on tuesday august 17 the people of this precinct voted against the issuing of bonds by a vote of 19 I 1 to the vote was exceedingly light all over the county roosevelt being by far the largest precinct jhc where re a total of votes were cast myton cast 91 and duchesne SO for several days prior to the election it appeared that considerable I 1 sid erable opposition had developed ed various reasons were given one of which was that the taxes in this county are too high already the present debt is about 1 the total amount asked for was to be expended as follows thirty thousand d dollars 0 1 1 to build and maintain roads roada and to furnish and equip the court house and jail thus far from the returns received duchesne and boneta are the only precincts where the bond issue carried the vote in duchesne was 72 for and 8 against boneta was 40 for and 28 against the total from all precincts heard from was for and against but there are quite a number of precincts to hear bear from not enough to change the result it is conclusive evidence that the people of duchesne county dont want a bond issue at this time |