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Show ELECTION FOR BONDS. . Selectmen Hardy and Ratter Kxplain Why They are Needed.' An election to ascertain whether the people peo-ple of Salt Lake are willing to bond the county for $300,000 to be expended in improvements im-provements will be held August 15 and Selectmen Butter and Cahoon will tomorrow ' announce the judges. j A Times man this afternoon had a conversation conver-sation with Selectmen Harvey Hardy and Mr. Butter on the subject r! Hardy is " favor of the proposition j as it is absolutely necessary. He 6ays the ; county needs the money for improvements. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the amount so raised will be expended ou the new city and county building. - The county has several improvements on hand which must be pushed. A new iutirmsrv must be built. Ihe building will cost about $25,090 or $30,000 and this is an extremely low estimate. From 00 to 100 acres of laud at a cost of $100 or $200 per acre will have to be purchased. The present county court proposes to construct a boulevard to the lake and to also build one up City creek canyon. Another An-other much needed improvement is about to be made by the court and that is the condemnation con-demnation of a strip of land 100 feet iu width along the north side of the county for a sheep drive, thus ridding the people of a nuisance in driving time, which is of such a character at times to compel the closing of the schools. "The Herald jumps on us," said Mr. Hardy, "because we have disposed of the 'surplus' that was in the treasury when we assumed our official duties. We admit disposing dis-posing of a small surplus, but when wc took our places the county had a surplus and no roads. Now we have good roads and no surplus, sur-plus, a simple changing of conditions and one which every farmer in Salt Lake county appreciates." ' Yes," chimed in Mr. Butter, "before we took charge of affairs there were farmers over uoraan wno could not get to town to dispose of their produce when prices amounted to anything. Stacks of hay have stood for years, while the owners were wishing they could take advantage of good figures offered and get to town, but were prevented by mud. We have made it possible possi-ble for a man to get to town in the winter time with his stuff." "These bonds," continued Hardy, "will prevent raising the assessment A reduction of -,() per cent this year will be followed by another next year if they are issued. But if they are not why an increase of 40 per cent will have to be made to meet expenses. "Of course," he continued, "we w ill have some revenue from the sale of property, which can be applied on the bonds: When the new infirmary is finished the proceeds of the sale of the old can bo used for the purpose pur-pose of liquidating them. The same applies ap-plies to the preseut court house site. Tho i bonds are merely needed for an emergency The selectmen think, with apparent good reason, that when the citizens thoroughly understend the matter they will votethe bonds. |