People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — For Good Roads. [ARTICLE]

For Good Roads.

The following is a statement of highest tax on each 8100 of trxable property in Marion township. for proposed gravel roads, as obtained from careful and accurate examination of the records in the auditor’s office of Jasper county. Indiana: Total taxable property for 189.1, in Rensselaer and Marion township. 81,749,752. Total estimate. cost of gravel roads, which estimate the law will not allow exceeded 839,680.74. This 839,630.74 divided into live equal payments makes 87,926.15 to be paid each year. Levy required to pay same per year, for live years, 45 cents on the 8100, to which add the interest for meantime, 2| years at 6 per cent., making 7 cents more on each 8100, thus making a total of 52 cents per year average levy, or 82.61 for the total live years. Now, when you are told the gravel roads will cost two or three dollars per year in each one hundred dollars please refer them to the records. The above estimates were made by E. L. Clark and T. J. McCoy. Let every man who wants good roads vote for the tax March 2, 1894. Last winter when the roads were bad, wood cost 83.75 per cord instead of 83, when the roads were good. The man who made the extra amount did so because the mud was deep. C. C. Sigler said last autumn, before the vote was taken, that he would build the road north of town for 81,000 less than the estimated cost. Mr. Sigler would employ men who live in Rensselaer, should he obtain the contract. In fact those who favor the building of the road would see that the contractors employ home labor. The men who oppose the gravel roads opposed the tax for the railroad. Now they would not have the railroad taken away. Good Roads.