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Show Campaign Launched to Put Over Bond Issue for $700,-000 $700,-000 to Be Voted On LOGAN, May 15. Cache county has just launched a big publicity and advertising ad-vertising campaign to put over tho road bond issue for 700,000 which is to bo voted on ne:ct month. Tho open-ling open-ling gun of the campaign was fired Thursday when full page display advertisements ad-vertisements were run in the local papers pa-pers explaining to the taxpayers just why the road money is needed and how it will be expended. A large map" of the county appeared in tho advertisement adver-tisement showing just where it Is pi'o- I posed to construct the roads to form i tho modern system. 100 Miles of Road. It is estimated, if the issue carries, that over 100 miles of permanent roads will bo constructed, including some hard-surface roads. The slogan of the Cache county road j committee is using to popularize the bond issue is "Vote for the bonds and lower your taxes." Literature prepared prepar-ed by "the committee shows that this is possible. C. M. Harris, chairman of the campaign committee, has issued the following statement concerning 3 the saving possible if the bond is fl voted: 3 "The assessed valuation of Cache S countv is ?3G,000,000. Last year a levy I I of 5 mills was made for road purposes. r This year a like amount will be levied. S This means $180,000 a year for roads. The road bond can be paid off, princi-5 princi-5 pal and interest, and 2S,000 spent I each year for maintenance, more than I road engineers estimate is necessary i, for 3 mills levied for twenty years. This means $10S,000 a year, an annual i saving to the taxpayers of $72,000 or a a saving for the twenty years of ?1,- 140,000." j! Aid to Prosperity. I Roy Bullen, former mayor of Logan City "and chairman of the Cache coun-5 coun-5 ty "road committee, says that times were never more favorable for the t passing of a road bond issue. To sub-L sub-L stantiate this view Mr. Bullen points I to the apparent need for the roads and f to the prosperity of the county. "By voting for the bonds Cache county will secure a modern road system, ! reaching every community in the county," says Mr. Bullen. . I "The value of 'these road improvements improve-ments can hardly be estimated accu-J rately. But it can easily be proved that a saving of from $400.0u0 to $500.- 000 will be saved in transportation costs every year. The beet haulers In the. fall of the year will be saved an immense amount. It is hard to est!-! mate the saving to the 100 milk wagons wag-ons that traverse the county roads 3G5 days every year. Tho great saving in moving all other farm products can hardly be measured. The saving to the 2500 automobile owners every year will be upwards of a quarter of a million mil-lion dollars. "When the bond is voted and the money spent as planned, Cache county i will have an investment that will Ue saving her people interest on upwards of five million dollars." Federal Aid. Mr. Bullen also calls attention to the Tact that Cache county will in all probability receive $350,000 from the federal government for road purposes" if it has available a like amount. The committee in- charge of the 1 hnnrl ismip nnlloil 1hr Osinhn Pnnntv Road committee, is made up of representative repre-sentative citizens from all over the county. Its personnel is as follows: Roy Bullen, chairman; 1,1, R. Hovey, secretary; Logan, Roy Bullen, Gqorge V. Skidmore, Robert Anderson, C. IU. Harris, S. H. Blair, Reid Shamhard; Lewiston, S..F. Wiser; Wheeler, William Wil-liam Bowman; Stephensen, M. W. Kent; Richmond, J. W. Funk; Smith-field, Smith-field, William L. Winn; Hyruni, C. J. Christensen; Wellsville, Harry' C. Parker; Avon, to be appointed; Paradise, Para-dise, Joseph White; Providence, Henry Hen-ry Theurer; Mlllvllle, Ernest Scott; College, Joseph H. Olsen; Hyde Park, Henry Hancey: Cove, S. 'W. Allen; Benson, John C. Ricks; .Riverside, A. V. Reese; Cornish, Alfred Jensen; Trenton, B. Y. Benson; Clarkston, John Raveston; Newton, J. E. Griffin; Grif-fin; Pelcrsboro, Fred Peterson; Men-don, Men-don, W. I. Sorenson; Mt. Sterling, James P. Cooper; Cache Junction, . H. Barker; North Logan, "J. H. Kainp; River Heights, Karl Wood. Finance committee Robert Anderson, chairman; chair-man; campaign committee C. M. Harris, Har-ris, chairman; advertising committee, S. H. Blair, chairman; publicity bureau bu-reau of chamber of commerce, D. E. Robinson, chairman. A special expert bond advisory committee com-mittee has been appointed, to have oversight of tho sale of the bonds, as follows: A. II. Thompson, president Utah Mortgage Loan Co.: H. E. Hatch. president Thatcher Brothers Banking company; John H. Anderson, president First National bank; William M. How ell, president Farmers and Merchants 1 bank; B. Y. Benson, merchant, Tren J "ton; and C. J. Christensen, mayor of Hyrum. |