Established 1899
Home Course
ln
Road Making
lll—Method of Financing
Improved Roads.
By LOGAN WALLER PAGE,
Director Office of Public Roads,
United States Department
ol Agriculture.
Copyright by American Press Asso
ciation. 1912.
IT is a matter of sound business
policy to require that all road
taxes be paid in cash, in the
past the collection of labor for
road building has been compulsory
aud tbe collection of money voluntary,
but experience has shown that this
system must be reversed. A tax which
is levied for the puqjose of developing
resources hitherto undeveloped, which
development would add to the people's
wealth, cannot be considered a burden
in any respect. It is an investment.
As to tbe methods of raising money
for road building purposes, there are
two systems which have been employ
ed in different parts of the country,
both with considerable success. One
plan may be called the "pay as you go'
system. Under this plan a small an
nual tax is levied, the proceeds of
which may be used partly for tbe pur
chase of equipment and partly for ac
tual work on the roads. This tax may
be increased slightly at Intervals, but
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WORKING OUT THE TAX.
it continues to be paid as an annual
tax, the proceeds of which are an
nually expended for road building pur
poses. This system has certain ad
vantages, for example. In connection
with this expenditure of the annual
tax. While only a limited amount of
work can be done each year, there is
no opportunity for wasting large sums
The people of the county gradually
adapt themselves to the changed con
ditions, and the persons placed in
charge of the road work have an op
portunity of becoming efficient by their
own experience before they come to
handle larger sums of money, and an
other thing which has considerable
weight with a large class of people Is
that the county is kept out of debt.
Another advantage of this system la
that when a county has a large taxable
wealth a small annual levy will yield
as large a sum as can be wisely ex
pended.
The more enlightened and the more
commercial a people are the larger la
the application of the credit system in
their business. In the early settle
meat of this country the money for
development and business enterprises
Wa s borrowed from Europe. Grad
ually the eastern states increased in
wealth to such an extent that they
not only paid their European debts,
but had money to loan for the up
building of their sister states in the
west At the present time some of
the western states are joining with
those In the east in lending money to
Europe. During the past 100 years
on the system of "going into debt for
public improvements" this country
has risen from n small dependent na
tion to the heed of the I'st-
The disadvantages of the "pay as
you go" system are that the work of
r °ad building proceeds too slowly. In
a county which has f>oo miles of road,
100 miles of which should be consid
erefl its main thoroughfares, if it
raises a tax sufficient to build five
rones of good road each year twenty
years will be required to Improve the
100 miles, and many of the citizens
the county would continue to pay
for years before they would re
ceive an J" benefit therefrom.
The system of raising money for
rr »id building by Issuing bonds is gen
""Popular, because people dread
the idea of debt.
The great advantage In the system
0 borrowing money for road building
s that by securing the larger sums of
®°&ey for immediate expenditure the
ork can be pushed more rapidly, and
roads which would otherwise re
im r! or thirty years for their
1 I) J ore ment can. under this system.
* nlshed in four or five years. The
P'e of tiie county begin to receive
ne,lts * rOQl the work more quickly,
( the benefits are sufficiently great
enable them to pay the Interest on
~ ofToxved money and to provide a
*./ h inR funcl to Pay back that money
♦I. more e ase than they could pay
cnm I""" 3 ' taxes In advance of the
w *t!on of the road.
HK.I7 tht " "Pay as you go" plan the
v went generation builds the road# and
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
L ,f? ratloll *** the benea t or
them Under the bond issue policy
both the present and the future genera
tions receive the benefits and both help
to pay for them.
It may be argued that the system of
borrowing money for road building is
more expensive for the reason that the
money borrowed must he paid back a*
well as the interest thereon, wbleh at
5 per cent in twenty years will amount
to as much as the principal, and there
fore for each dollar borrowed two wll
have to be paid back at the end ol
twenty years. This is not strictly true
however. The money will be borrowed
as ueeded. Furthermore, a few thou
sund dollars placed In the bank at com
pound interest is sufficient for a sink
ing fund.
The above objection would in a meas
ure apply to any similar transaction
fn the business world, and yet today
90 per ceut of all the business of tbe
civilized world is done on a credit ba
sis. If nations, states. counties and in
dividual had listened to this arjiu
meut this country of ours would today
be almost as little known aiul us little
developed as the continent of Africa.
When a community Us building pub
lie roads for the use of Its (teopie nil
of the money borrowed for this pur
pose is placed in circulation arnoug the
people. They use it in their business
transactions; they make it earn an in
terest often worth far more to them
than the interest which the county
pays for the sum. In other words, tlie
county bas the roads and the mouey
which has been spent upon them.
The whole structure of our indus
trial and governmental fabric rests
upon the mechanism of credit. The
amount of legal tender actually In Hr
culation in the United States in 1!>10
was only $34.52 per capita and would
be pitifully inadequate to' meet the
demands of business if all transactions
were conducted on a cash basis. The
building of our great railroads, the
financing of our war of independence
and subsequent conflicts have been
conducted through the powerful agen
cy of credit. Our entire banking sys
tem, involving $1,853,834,000. rests up
on the foundation stone of credit.
Would it be wise to advise a thrifty
young farmer to refrain from buying a
farm because he had uot the entire
purchase price in cash? Would it have
ever been possible for the vast do
mains of the early landed proprietors
to be divided up into small farms if
the practice of partial payments bad
not been introduced?
It is evident that tha construction of
a large mileage of improved roads at
pne time would result in a lower cost
per mile than if the* roads were butlt
a mile or so at a time, as the contrac
tors having large plants and the quar-'
rles furnishing large quantities of ma
terial could utilize their equipment and
material at less relative expense than
on small jobs.
Because improved roads benefit all
Interests In the country all interests
should help to pay for them. A coun
ty bond issue usually levies the cost
upon the town property as well as the
country property and thus relieves the
farmer of part of the burden which
he now bears under the old district or
township system. In nearly every
county in the United States which op
erates under the "pay as you go" plan
the country property alone bears the
entire cost of road building.
A bond issue is not an unjust bur
den on posterity, because through the
increase in the value of land and the
development of agricultural resources
posterity is benefited. Therefore the
son who inherits the wealth thus pro
duced by the preceding generation
should certainly help to pay the cost
of the factors which are Instrumental
in bringing about this wealth.
The increase in farm values as the
result of road improvement Is so great
that the tax rate is frequently lower
than before the issuance of bonds. To
substantiate this point the following
BUILDING ROADS T7NDER A CASH BTBTKM
OF TAXATION.
extract is taken from a letter written
by Hon. John Lu Young, county Judge
of Dallas county, Tex., on June 21,
1911:
There is one very Important item |n
connection wiUi this county that I would
call your attention to, and that is tne re
duction of taxes for the past five years,
or rather, since the building of good
roads in this county. The value of prop
erty has increased to sucly an «xt ent th ~
the rate has been reduced from 9 1 - cents n
1900 to G2 cents in 1910. or a reduction
taxes of 32 per cent. alt^Xv) omin the
issued bonds in the sum of *I.aOQ.OOO in the
meantime.
There Is one thing certain, nnd that
is that we must have money for road
building and that this money must be
raised by taxation. Whether we adopt
the "pay as you go" policy and build
the roads only as fast as *be money
can be raised by taxation or fcsue
bonds and thus borrow money in large
quantities and build the roads now is
a question for each state, county or
township to decide for ,t ln
lag this decision that method should
be adopted which will give the quick
est and best results with the least bur
den upon the Individual taxpayer.
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 11,1912
| COMMENT j |
"CATAWBA LEADS THE
WAY."
Under this heading the Raleigh
News and Observer prints a dou
ble leaded editorial in advocacy
of the preferential primary. We
are proud that Catawba has lead
the State for this reform. Mr.
W, J. Shuford, Mr. L. Eugene
Isenhour. The Newton News and
the Democrat have been advocat
ing it, and now it has come. Says
The News and Observer:
The most serious objection to
a primary is a second primary.
It imposes a fearfui strain upon
the vitality of the party. It ac
centuates personal bitterness. It
entails great expense upon the
candidates.
The Democracy of Catawba
couhty recognizing the evils and
burdens of a second primary,
nasset the State an example by
adopting the Wisconsin prefer
er tal primary. We believe that
che resolution in favor of the a
doption of this plan offered at
the recent meeting of the State
Democratic Executive Commit
tee by Hon. E. L. Travis, and
supported by Hon. E. J. Justice,
was defeated because it was to
most of the men present "some
thing new under the sun," and
had not been studied, considered
and digested by the people of the
State.
It is a fair presumtion that in
a second primary the men who
supported the candidates still m
the race, will stick to their first
ove. The result of the second
primary will be determined by
the second choice of the men
whose first choice is no longer in
the race. Therefore, the object
of the second primary is to as
certain the second choice of the
men whose first choice has been
eliminated on account of being
the lowest man in the first pri
mary. The Wisconsin plan as
certains this second choice .in
the first primary, ascertains it
with fairness and. accuracy and
without bitterness and expense.
To illustrate: In a county pri
mary there are three thousand
votes cast. There are four can
didates for the nomination for
sheriff. % The count shows that
the candidates received fiirst
choice votes as follows:
A 1,200
8 800
C 600
D 400
Total 3,000
No candidate has received a
majority. Dis dropped out. An
examination of the ballots cast
for him shows that these men
voted their second choice as fol
lows:
A 200
B 100
C 100
Total 400
We add these votes to the first
choice votes of A B ahd C, giving
A 1,400
B 900
C 700
Total 3,000
Still no one has a majority.
Now C must be dropped out and
the ballots cast for him as
first choice show that these men
voted their second choice as fol
lows;
A 200
R 300
D 100
Total 600
D being eliminated, the votes
cast for him are discarded, but
we add to the votes of A and B
the number of votes they receiv
ed as the second choice of the
men whose first choice was C,
giving
A 1,600
B 1,200
Total 2,800
A having a majority of the to
tal vote of 3,000, is declared the
nominee of the party It will be
observed that no man's votes are
taken away from him as long as
he is in the race. The men whose
first choice has lost out are al
lowed to vote their second choice,
and this is exactly what happens
in a second primary.
When once we eliminate the
personal equation and consider
the plan in terms of A, B, C and
D, the reason m favor of the pre
ferential primary are so convinc
ing that they must secure its ul
timate adoption.
*'Dr. Thomas' Eclectic"OT 4* the
best remedy for that often fatal dis
ease, croup, It has been used with
success in our family fo* eight years.*'
Mrs. L. Whiteacre, Buffalo, N. Y.
Democrat Polices for Cataw
j ba County.
There are two place 3 on the
State Corporation Commission to
be filled by the Raieigh conven
tion. And the people should be
alive to their interests and name
the members instead of the Rail
roads. Heretofore they have
been stated months before by the
railroads and the "Bosses."
Here is the rub "the milk in
the cocoanut" in our political af
fairs. It is up to you. You
pay no attention to your pre
cinct meetings and allow a few
to say the party in Catawba
county and other counties stands,!
for this man as for that policy
and confident of yowflk inaction a
few have assumed to take con
trol. Democrats of Catawba you
as good citizens and loyal Demo
crats must attend your precinct
meetings and vote your convic
tious there. Then you will not
be disappointed in the nomina
tion and parties declarations, and
be compelled to stultify yourself
on account of party loyalty in
voting for men who are against
yonr views. You can ask your
candidate a thousand questions.
I am not criticising candidates,
but am comparing methods for
results.
We must have parties but the
views of the democrats constitu
ting the party will not be effec
tive unless you attend the pri
maries en masse on May 18. and
instruct your delegates to write
in your county platform what
you want. I have convictions on
education. Have you? Then in
structfor 6 months school as a
means to that end. Declare for
placing your county officers on a
fair salary basis. The sooner
the better as the salaries and the
county grow, the policy will be
bitterly assailed bv the officials
as well as their friends.
Ledell county is paying some
of her officials more fees than
the governor's salary amounts
to and the fight is on there.
Guilford county made a saving
of $35,000 by pushing its officers
on a salary basis in the line of
fees.
The chairman of your county
boaid should have a salary and a
good one
Catawba county preemientiy
deserves recognizing by the
state in legislation tending to
develop agriculture, dairying and
stock raising and that we may be
alert to our interests. We should
favor a county commissioner of
agriculture in our platform.
South Carolina recently by leg
islature, and nearly every other
state in the union, compells the
railroads to accept milage books
on the trains.
Tne railroads now have ticket
collectors and conductors, and
certainly to demand the regula
tion would be reasonable to the
roads and fair to the public.
We should stand for good roads
until the utmost limits of the
country are served.
Standing for this is the sincer
est evidence that we are in ear
nest and alive to all those other
issues. A good road is a edu
cator. It encourages schools
churches and homes. It enhan
ces all values and a new spirit of
progress among all the people is
the result wherever tried.
Write these five issues in your
county platform and send to Ral
eigh only men who you know to
be in accord with these policies
and will act independent of any
assumed control or faction.
Men whose individual successs or
selfish intereste will never be of
less consequence then vour wel
fare or your instructions.
Don't get the foolish idea into
ycur heads that you can obtain
these reforms outside side of the
democratic party. A. republican
would stand no show at Raleigh.
You would be check mated at
every move. This is a demo
cratic year, and the progressives
are looking for democracy in the
nation. Make the fight within
the party for the purpose of us
ing the power by the people to
whom it rightfully belongs.
All democrats and all you Ca
tawba men who were wrocked in
democratic cradles and favor the
ideas or any part of them pro
mulged above are seriously urged
to write the editor of this paper
at once what reforms you stand
for and your views as to them
and the ability of candidates
and democratic policies. A full
expression of democratic senti
ments will mean 500 democratic
majority in November for Cataw
ba county. The way to get a
victory is to get it. Now let
every member of the party do
his duty and express his views
by postal card, if no more to the
Democrat. You have never
spoken. What is your senti
ment? Help write the platform.
E. L. SHUFORD.
Hickory, N. C, April 8,1912,
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Reported by Our Corps of
Correspondents
Catawba Items.
Catawba, N. C., Apr. 9.—Miss
Edith Arey spent her Easter
vacation in Elmwood and Salis
bury with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pitts spent
the week-end in Salisbury and
Spencer.
Mr. William Moore of States
ville and Miss Ethel Moore of
Alanta, Ga., are guests at the
home of Mr. A. C. Moore.
Mr. Claudie Smith of Greens
boro was among the Easter visi
tors.
Mr. Wili Robinson and chil
dren of Spencer returned to
their home Sunday after spend
ing a few day with Mrs. Sam
Abernethy,
Miss Mary Lowrance accom
pained by Miss Janie Carpenter
of Davenport College spent Eas
ter with Mr. and Mrs. J. W,
Lowrance.
Mrs. F. A. Sherrill of Moores
ville returned to her home Mon
day night, after spending Easter
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Walker
spent Sunday ir Conover with
Mr. and Mrs. Min'oh.
Mrs. Miles Clodfeller of Moor
esville is the guest of her sisters
Mr 3. G. F. Gilleland and Mrs.
John Yount.
Misses Vera Setzer and Ivey
Linebarger of Dallas were guests
of Mrs. L. L. Mingus last week.
Mrs. Blair Lowrance of Ben
oit, Miss, arrived here Sunday
night to visit her parents Mr.
and Mrs. J. TJ. Long.
Mrs. R. M. Abernethy of
Mooresville spent last week with
her sister Mrs. A. H. McNeil.
Catawba College Notes.
Miss Cecilia Davish, a teacher
in Lancaster, Pa., visited Mrs. J.
H. Buchheit at the college last
week.
On Saturday night Mr. M.
Locke McCorkJe, of the Senior
class, entertained his classmates
at the home of his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. George
McCorkle. Everything that fan
cy could imagine had been pro
vided for the inner man. After
a meal most delightful,both from
the social and gustatory stand
points, the guests assembled in
the parlor for a very pleasant
hour at games and music. All
went away feeling tnat they had
been with the best of hosts.
Prof. W. R. Weaver made a
most interesting and helpful ad
dress before the Y. M. and Y,W.
C. A. last Sunday afternoon on
the subject of "Work."
Miss Margaret Bost, of Hicko
ry, and Misses Holtzendorf and
Barringer, both of them teach
ers at CJaremont College, were
visitors at the college last week.
Miss Sloop, of Harrisburg, vis
tea Miss Boystian at the college
during the Easter vacation.
The Dr. Clapp and also the
Peace Contest preliminaries will
be held in the college auditorium
onJFriday night, April 12, at 8 j
o'clock; the Idahian declaimer's
contest will be held on the follow
ing night, April 13, at the same
hour. The public is cordially in
vited to both of these contests.
Quite a number of students
went home for the Easter va
cation, but those who stayed at
the college had a very pleasant
time as they were given many
more privileges than they usually
enjoy.
The Concatenated Order of
Hoo-Hoo will hold a concatena
tion at the lodge room of the
I. 0. 0. F. next Friday night,
after which they will have a
banquet at the Hotel Huffry.
There will be quite a number
of members present from Ashe
ville, Lenoir, Statesville, Greens
boro and other parts of the state.
Almost A Miracle
One of the most startling changes
ever seen in any man, according to W.
B, Holsclaw, Clarendon, Tex., was
effected years ago in his brother. "He
had such a dreadful cough," he
[writes, "that all our family thought
he was going into consumption, but
he began to us* Dr.: King's New
Discovery, and was completely cured
by ten bottles. Now he is sound and
well and weighs 218 • pounds. For
many years our family has used this
wonderful remedy for coughs, and
colds with excellent results." It's
; quick, safe, reliable? jrnd guaranteed.
Price 50c ars Trial bottle free
at C. M. Shuford, ' Moser & LuU,
Grimes Drug Co,
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
Newton Notes
Newton, N. C., Apr. 10. -Eas
ter passed off very quietly. Some
little drinking among the toys.
There were special Easter ser
vices at most ail the churches
Sunday morning and night.
Mr. Harry Abernethy, of
Statesville, spent Easter with his
cousin, Glenn McCall.
Mr. Lock Kale spent Sunday
at Barber Junction.
Mr. I. A. Abernethy, who is
putting up a sawmill at Mt.Creek,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
his parents.
Mr. Lesly Keever, of Ashe
ville, spent Easter with his
father, Mr. L, A. Keever.
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Rev. M. A. Abernethy and his
little grand-daughter, Marie Mc-
Call, will leave today for Raleigh
to spend several days, and will
stop over at Greensboro, to visit
Rev. E. W. Fox and family. Mr.
Abernethy goes to Raleigh to
represent the Farmers' Mutual
Fire Insurance Association of Ca
tawba and Burke counties.
Married at the residence of
Rev. M. A. Abernethy Friday,
sth, Mr. Ernest Hefner and Miss
Susan Travis, both of Catawba,
Mrs. Catharine Wilkinson and
daughter. Miss Eva, spent Easter
with Mrs. Wilkinson's father,
Mr. T. F. Drum near Catawba.
Rev. M. A. Abernethy carried
the inmates at the County Home
a nice treat Sunday, which was
very much enjoyed by them, .
More New Farmer Telephones
for Hickory.
In the last two weeks there have
been three new fanner telephone lines
organize 1 and being buiit into Hicko
ry. One has already been completed
and is called the South-east Hickory
Telephone Line has the following sub
scribers: J. T. Cline, Lonnie Cline,
Geo. W. Bolick, O. B. Cline, Pinkney
Cline, Wm. Smyre, and Jno. Hull.
This line is finished and is now enjoy
ing telephone service and transacting
business over their line.
Another line which is nearly finished
which is called the Dutch Telephone
Line has sixteen farmer subscribers
whose names will appear later.
The third line is a telephone line
which goes into the neighborhood of
the South mountains and this line is
also on the verge of completion. The
subscribers on this line are the Wright
Brothers, Geo. W. Hilderbran, Mr.
Young, Mr. Johnson and others
The Hickory Telephone Exchange
now lias connection with over 150 tel
ephones m the farmer or rural districts.
It has almost gotten to the point where
one can talk to every neighborhood in
and around Hickory over the tele
phone.
There are more telephones now con
nected to Hickory through her ex
change than all the rest of the country
put together. This surely speaks well
for the progress of Hickory and her
rural districts.
We believe that in the near future
every farmer will see the necessity of
having a telephone and there will be
one in every farmer's house.
The farmer has already seen the ad
vantages and necessity of the telephone
and there will be one in every farm
er's house.
The farmer has already seen the ad
vantages and necessity of the tele
phone and we believe he will see the
necessity of good roads and come to
Hickory on the lifteenth day of this
month and cast his ballot for same.
Hickorv aud Hickory township is
in the front and is bound to stay in
the front.
Auction Sale of Half of Bridge
water.
Col. M. E. Thornton is prepared to
have an aution sale in about a month of
part or nearly half of the town of
Bridgewater, in Burke County. It is
being laid off into a town in lots and he
or Mr. Buchannan will sell them abont
the latter part of May. Bridgewater is
on the first maps made of North Caro
lina; so its strange that just now in
1912 it should be laid off for a town.
It is the best town site in Western, N.
C., and already has a large business.
The original grant from the State
and one Deed of conveyance is all the
titles that have been made to the en
tire property. The deed was to John
Rutherford. Mrs. Thornton is John
Rutherford Jr's. widow. Due adver-1
tisement of the sale of this highly val- j
uable property will be made. It may j
be a two or three day sale. Unless ,
some one meantime should not buy it
at a price and have the sale them*
selves.
A Good Doctor
of South Carolina said: ' 1 have used
Dr. King's Remedies a great deal in
my practice and find that they give
perfect satisfaction on both myself and
patients. I heartily reccommend
them. W. R. Clyburd, M. D.' f
And they still grow in favor because
they cure. Guaranteed by all medi
cine dealers.
Build /Ell the
Foids AtOnce
*
Progressive fonnties Do Hot
Fear Merest When They Get
the Benefits of Borroved
Money
To the editor of tlie Democrat;
The writer had the pleasure of
listening to the good roads talk
by Mr. W. A. Seif on Saturday,
and was particularly impressed
with his illustrations of. two
home-builders. One of these in
vested his yearly savings ($100)
and built the foundation of his
house the first year. The second
year another $lOO was added,
and so on until the end of the
sixth year, when he put the fin
ishing touches to his house by
adding the roof. The ravages of
time, however, had in the mean
time played havoc with the foun
dation, the roof iell in, and the
man's vision of a home was
v recked. The other home build
er, profiting by his knowledge of
the fact that every business man
finds it profitable to borrow
money to advance his interests,
sought the Building and Loan
Association for aid, built his
home at once, and he and his
family enjoyed the privileges of
that home from the start.
The happy illustration an
swers so well the arguments of
some ultra-conservative people
who are opposing the bond issue
for roatl improvements, that I
thought it might be worth while
to give the above brief outline
tor the benefit of you readers
who were rot fortunate enough
to hear Mr. Self's speech.
Our conservative friends who
argue this way say thev can
build 6 miles of road every year
at a cost of $4,800, and have
$1,200 left to keep up repairs on
the other 74 miles of road in
Hickory Township. By this
means they calculate to build 60
miles of road in ten years with
out having to pay any interest
on borrowed money,
I do not fancy there are many
men who would like to have the
responsibility of selecting any
six miles of road on which to
spend $4,800, while the rest of
the roads, about 74 miles, had
to get along with $1,200. What
a howl would go up from the rest
of the township. On the other
hand with a bond issue of $50,-
000, every taxpayer would re
alize that an immediate or con
tinuous improvement of 60 miles
or more of Hickory township
roads would mean that his home
would be reached very shortly
by a good road.
Again, the cost of equipment
(estimated at $1,500) has not
been reckoned with by our neigh
bors who argue this way. Instead
of a continuous use of the ma
chinery purchased for making
roads, they would be in use but a
few months each year.
Gov. Turner, in his speech at
Hickory on the night of April 1,
said that the progressive cities,
townships and counties, like pro
gressive business men, were all
borrowers, and that if a commun
ity wanted to lose its young men
and young women all it had to do
was to remain a non-borrowing,
back-numder district. The pro
gressive young people are bound
to seek the progressive sections
through the law of affinity.
Interest on borrowed money
is only an impginary bugaboo, if
you stop to consider that you are
receiving the benefits of that
borrowed money right along and,
as in the plan proposed for this
bond issue, provision has been
made for meeting the interest
and principle without adding
one cent to the amount of taxes
you are already paying. As an
illustrarion of this benefit we
will suppose that there are
200,000 trips made ovtr Hickory
roads every year, which is a con
servative estimate. Our interest
will not be $3,000 per year, as we
will issue bonds only as we need
the money, but for convenience
we will say it would be $3,000.
That would make a cost of 11-2
cents per trip. Of this amount
the property owners of the in
corporated towns in the town
ship will pay more that 11-4
cents, while the farmers will pay
less than 1-4 a cent. Surely that
is a paying investment for the
farmer.
A. K. JOY,
Secretary,
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