Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1915 — Jasper County Gets More Auto Tax Than It Paid. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Gets More Auto Tax Than It Paid.

Jasper county this year will receive from the state more money for road repairs than it paid out in automobile tax. The difference is less than $250, but it is good to be on the right side of the ledger. A statement just received by Auditor Hammond shows that the gross receipts of Indiana for auto taxes was $536,962.19 and the expense of collection was $36,634.40, leaving a net sum of $600,327.79, which will be apportioned among the counties of the state, based upon the three divisions provided by law. Jasper county has 209 miles of free gravel and stone roads and will receive $4,316.58. It paid in auto taxes $4,077.00. There are in the state 28,263 miles of free gravel and stone loads and there will be $500,327.79 for repair work from the auto tax fund. The amount seems large but as a matter of fact it will be only about $17.70 per mile. It seems like it would have been a wise provision of the law if something like 25 or even 50 per cent of this money could have been used for constructing a permanent state highway between Indianapolis and Chicago and Indianapolis and Evansville. It would only take a few years to have permanent highways running in each direction from the state capital and by the employment of other means of raising money after the value of the permanent state roads was e3tabished we would soon have many miles of roads that did not require such a vast expense of upkeep.