Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 5

SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1918 : THE SS DStLY TRIBUNE GRADUATED TAX BASED ON WEIGHT. ~ OF AUTOMOBILES MEANS OF AIDING ROAD PROM 4 ue eeneosee [3 PROPOSED fo = | Measure Being Drafted for Submission at Early Ses- sion of Legislature Would Provide Fund for Building and Maintenance of Roads roads movement in direct proportion to the weight of their cars. In-- stead of paying a direct tax on their autos, they may have them taken off the tax rolls, and in turn asked to contribute directly to the state’s highway improvement fund. Under that plan a Ford owner would pay $10 a year, and a man driving a heavy truck would pay as high as $40 or $50. This proposition is now worked out by the state highway de- partment and a bill embodying its provisions will be introduced at the coming session of the legislature. Under the present system of $5 license fees the 1 0 autos in the state enrich the Wyoming treasury FOR SAI 2-Room frame house to a FOR RENT t room for yage, fur Rag. Coe “NOT. | move 2 E.” sShas ; Don’t Wait From the Wyoming State Tribune) oom house and lo raul Wyoming autoists may be called upon soon to support the good loce ae new, 1250 SEE BEN fe + 3400 cash, bala Get that auto license for f 1-Rdom house; level lot; water anc ae ; , | lights, $1250: nks on hand. eS ay walk 1000. HANG 2 TRADE Office Open Evenings being : = BEN mobile f at | SIR H. BABINGTON SMITH SEE Bee INSURANCE tock or land Call ' qui od om 8 Ton nice clean h ; dilohs oltalierianadl live: | age; will sell one or All Kinds ck or i lsh g IRE, LI HEALTH 5-Passenger For ACCIDENT ‘ : : by $80,750 annually. This of course does not go very far toward meet- ing the road improvement bills, espe- cially at the present time, when there are under construction seven federal aid projects which will call for an estimated cost of $470,418.62. The present state tax for good roads is one-fourth of a mill, and by means of it about $60,000 a year-is realized. If the bill fathered -by the state highway department were to be passed, containing as it does a clause requiring that all auto. license fees be turned over to the state highway and that these funds be graded according to the weights of the cars, the average per car would be about $15 and the annual revenue would be something like $250,000. This weuld mere nearly approach the state’s needs and give it something to work with in its efforts to build up its highway system. It has reported that the highway department would ask the legislature for authority over all the roads in the state. This is incorrect. Z. E. Sevison, state highway engineer, ex- plains that his department merel: wishes the authority to build ar maintain one main road thru each county, and that the county commis sioners with whom he has discussed the matter have declared themselves in complete accord with the move- ment. Mr. Sevison’s department would like to secure the withdrawal to put the Lincoln, Yellowstone and ‘Ye low & Black” highways in such condi- tions that the complaints regarding them would become a thing of the past. Last year some sixty miles of the Lincoln highway were put in splendid condition, but the county authorities afterwards n clad the stretch, and it is now s bad as it was before. Mr. Sevison be-- lieves that if the state were to be al- lowed to maintain such stretches after having built thém there would be no such difficulty. The plan of fixing the license fees according to weight has been tried out in higan, West Virginia and other states, and has been found highly successful. Other states closer to Wyoming have fixed their levies in such a way 2s to provide for state road building, and they also have been successful. Colorado, for in- stance, raises $450,000 a year thru its one--half mill levy, nd with that amount has built many miles of per- manent roads. Nevada has a two- mill levy, and neither its population nor its physical valuation is equal to Wyoming’: Mr. Sevison returned this week from Chicago where he attended a meeting of the American of State Highway Engineers. / number of methods to give the good roads movement 2 boost were discussed and the association en- dorsed a bill, now before congress, appropriating one hundred million dollars a year for the next five years as a means of getting the move- ment under way. If that measure is pass¢d, Wyoming will share in the money to the extent of 309,000, but under the terms of the Sb leford federal aid law, have to put up an equal amount. The present federal. aid law fixes a minimum federal appropriation of $10,000 a mile for road improve- ments. Inusmuch as the cost of con- struction of both concrete and brick roads is now higher than $20,000 a mile, the $10,000 appropriated by the federal government and the $10,- 000 forked over by the state are in- If the new law is passed this limit will be done away with. Wyoming is receiving its share of the federal Next year it will get $308,000. 1917 legislature accepted the terms of the federal law, but failed to make adequate provisions for meeting it. This will have to be done at the coming session if Wyoming wishes to take full advantage of the helping hand extended by the govern- ment. Of the $470,418.63 now being Spent on the seven federal aid pro- in W yoming, the government i 43, that being one- excepi the Sheri- halt the cost “OF dan project. Owing to the state funds, these improvements never could have been completely fi- nanced had it not been for popu subscriptions from citizens in the communities most directly benefitted. — our money—buy a meul ticket | ave at The fetaryase lack of |! modern hunter will travel in an airic¢a. : = FORGET THEIR MANNERS | | “bus.” | es ame ek ne From casual discussions the possi-| -Home Cooking—at-The Harvey. BE ECEPHONE? | cunning order; will ‘an be seen anytime Automobile - Hail “| {and with foe IL or . | Team 4-year-old geldings, halter c stailion or bul broke, very nicely matched sir | | — | | | WANTED RTY BONDS WAN PED HIGHEST PRICE PAID E i 153 SOUTH CENTER STREE Sir Henry Babington Smith, K. C. B., C. S. 1, is assistant commissioner to) cD QUICK—Moder 1 Ss idtraee! La u 5 Lord Reading, the high commissioner” four Gr ‘more roo! - ; ; in contro! of the British war mission. ide iY | Sir Henry” has occupied numerous i Ss ur 4 | posts under the British government. we of | » ! ¥ YANKEES WELL EQUIPPED FOK WINTER, CLAUH Better Prepared to Withstand Rigors of Severe Cold Than in Civilian Life, Declare Army Quartermasters ribune. NPANT ahility Johns, TED—Re: Re mp to do odern home Houses for Re -hone nursemaid for one ASK FOR JONES stoves and bedding. Ph TOURS, Dee. 23.—Correspond-|™ . = ~ ence of the Associated Pre a 3 ine Mothers, stil ental America tection nee of one 896-0 are to The that the boys are beter an the majority of them ated Pres: quipped t ever were in civilinn life — ; Each soldier has two pairs of ‘ heavy nail clinched and shoes hich are impervious to five pairs of wool socks} three suits wool underwear, two complete woo! t t nt uniforms, two O. 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