Show r THIGHS OF EPHRAIM ISSUE PROCLAMATION ON PROPOSAL TO BONO DOND fOR COURTHOUSE The following proclamation has been prepared by br some of the leading citizens of Ephraim and is being mailed to tax tux payers payers pay pay- c ers of Sanpete count county PROCLAMATION ArION BY HI Or CITIZENS OF UN EPHRAIM UTAH Ephraim Utah June une 11 H JujU 1918 To Whom It May fa Concern The citizens citizen of Ephraim at a public meeting held June 7 i lUlU 1913 having declared that they cannot at ut present support the proposal proposal pro pro- J Osal to bond the county for for the erection and furnishing furnishing furnishing furnish furnish- ing of a courthouse we deem it advisable to make known to our fellow citizens of Sanpete county our reasons for taking this stand t We therefore set forth the following reasons which were endorsed by the meeting mentioned above i. i Time after time within the past few years ears we have been called upon to pay taxes into newly-created newly funds notably those for public roads improvements and for high schools and the indications indications indications indi indi- are that the latter demand will vill continue indefinitely indefinite while Mile le the former was never more j justifiable than now Moreover it is reported this week that our state officers are considering the advisability of raising the assessment on property throughout the state 10 per cent 1 Like many other outer cities of or Sanpete county Ephraim has lIas recently recently recently re re- re- re made extensive municipal improvements which must be paid l for by taxation or otherwise We Ve are aware of the fhe fact that our pr present sent courthouse is not all that might be desired but we do doC donot C not consider its usefulness sef so suddenly terminated that it cannot s serve a good purpose at a time when the demand for the taxpayers taxpayers' tax pay ers' ers motley money lor ey is so 80 great In view of these facts we wet t would consider the bonding for fora a new courthouse unnecessarily unnecessarily bi li burdensome and we propose to do what we can to bring about its postpone postponement n nt until we shall have Kaye J lad had d an opportunity t to recover fr from n the drain on our finances resulting from front the present heavy taxation Respectfully lly yours d CITIZENS OF EPHRAIM I |