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From A Property Owner

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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To the Editor : The common council has submitted to the people the proposition to use $5,000 to advertise the city and push her advantages to the front, and already some croakers begin to say, " Yi. u wish to get the city in debt ; vou want to increftse the rate of taxation ; what good will ït do to have a new depot for the Toledo & Ann Arbor Railroad ; or to have manufaotories locate here ?" This is to say that no honest man interested in this movement to boom Ann Arbor wants to get the city in debt, and none of these men wiil stand by and see any such thing inaugurated. We propose to raise $5,000, but put our hands into our pockets like men and pay our taxes this or next year, and pay up as we go. We will not favor bonding the city ; we will pay each year the expenses of the ysar. We can make the city grow, and every dollar we expend will come back to U8. It will noc be lost or wasted. Of course we must see every dollar judiciously expended. Kalamazoo grows, we can. A corner location held in Ann Arbor for $1,500, for the land alone will bring $5,000 in Kalamazoo. We can doublé our valuation, doublé our population, and make everybody happy by doing so. It any one d3likes to have the hum of business or noise of machinery near him, let him move upon the top of the billa where his eyes can feast upon the beauties of nature, and can witness the improvements made which his ears cannot possibly hear. Let us advertise. Push this idea, Mr. Editor. Ann Arbcr, Aug. 10, 1887.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register