OCR Text |
Show OOND ISSUE 10HED By WEBER QMIY TREASORER County Treasurer A. V. Huish stated stat-ed today, In reply to an inquiry, that now is the time, while money is cheap, to bond the city and county for necessary neces-sary public improvements, and he earnestly expressed a hope that the $200,000 school bonds may bo passed by a large majority at tho special election next Thursday, April 26; also that the other bond issues be carried at the following special election, at as early a date as practicable. There are about 17,000 taxpayers in Weber county qualified to vote on bonds, said Mr Huish, of whom 14,--000 reside in Ogden, 3,000 of them paying a property tax of from ?2 to $3. Actual Cost Trivial. The per capita cost to the 14,000 taxpayers of the ?200,000 school bonds will be, he said, about fifty cents a year at the start, reduced "thereafter ns the bonds are retired. The direct benefits from these bonds, while not measurable in money terms, said Mr. Huish, will be many times fifty cents in the case of each family having children, and the educational advantages advan-tages to be gained will be beyond estimation. The same is true of the proposed $300,000 in bonds for the Third ward sewer, which is an imperative necessity, neces-sity, the treasurer said, to protect the health of the people and keep the city growing; the $100,000 to pay the 1915 warrants, saving the difference between be-tween four per cent and six per cent, and the $50,000 for paving street intersections, in-tersections, etc , must be voted if public pub-lic improvements are to continue. Bonds fpr the city and county building build-ing also should be voted at the same time. All Bonds Desirable. "Money is now cheap and plentiful," said Mr. Huish, "cheaper than it will be again, perhaps, in a long time, and the bonds can be sold In the east at four per cent. The proposed improvements im-provements are imperatively necessary; neces-sary; therefore, I am strongly in favor of voting all of them. "I believo that a large majority of tho 17,000 taxpayers and tho poor who cannot qualify to vote- on the bonds will be eager to carry all of these Issues Is-sues when they understand the imperative imper-ative need and the lightness of the individual in-dividual burden. "The entire first cost per annum of all of the bonds, amounting to $050,-000, $050,-000, will bo only about $1.70 per annum an-num for each taxpayer, though the tux will not be equally divided, of course. The coBt will bo so low that tho poor will not feel It and tho rich should bo eagor to pay their share to protect their Investments and assure prosperity and the city's growth." Economies Effected. By a system of practical economies established Immediately after he assumed as-sumed office, Mr. Huish has been able lately to loan one of his deputies, Ralph McNamara, to Assessor Owen M. Sanderson for temporary work. nrt |