June, 1937] 



Land Utilization in New Hampshire 



43 



the budget as low as possible. For the year' ending January 31, 1934, 

 (Fig. 5) this town raised $5,649.54 from property taxes and spent 

 $7,354.18 for local operation expenses." 



A large part of the highway expense was devoted to new construction 

 of the State-aid road. In addition unemployment relief money was 

 made available by the State for special work on highways. It is diffi- 

 cult to estimate the relation of these expenses to the normal expense to 

 be expected in the future. If, however, good highways are to be con- 

 structed to all locations and the snow removed quickly from all high- 

 ways, larger appropriations would probably be required. 



Groton with about the same total area and road mileage happens to 

 have about nine miles of high tension power line which adds $173,300 to 

 its tax base. (Table 13) Nearly $16,000 was raised from local prop- 

 erty taxes and the local operating expenses were $14,832.44 or double 



FbomLoul Taxes 



FeoM UCAL S*aK£S 

 OTHEKTHAN TAxCSl 

 ^ISB.rZ I J 



FeOMI STATE 0|:| 

 NEIV UAMPSHIBE 



FromTempobW FbOM 



LOANS 

 ♦l.OOO.OO 



OpE.ejkTi ua I2E.CE.I pts 



SALtOF 



rewMPaoMsn 



♦ I03.47 



DccKeAseiN 

 Cash on manc 



♦ I3&.9S 



Capital. Rbce.if>t: 

 ^ i.'2 40.4*2 



Total. I2ece.ipts oe Totai- Pavments 



Opekatinc Ra-vments 



HICMWAVS 



sfen. n 



Schools 



3940.Ta 



6e>i'l. 

 Gov't. 



State 



TAXES 



icAT.ao 



LOCAL OPCKATIMC P«^rMeNTS 



J 



Capital Paymekts 



COUNTV 

 TAyE3 

 998.IO 



PAYMENT ON 

 POlNaPALOF NOTES 



* i9sa.9& 



Taxe 



BOUGHT 

 14^39 



HT I 



State $. county 



CI20T0N N.ftl. 1924 



Fig. 6. The town of Groton used $14,832 in local operating expenses. 

 This included some road construction. 



that of Dorchester: $8,617 was spent on highways, $3,941 on schools, 

 and general government costs were $2,275. (Fig. 6) The highway 

 expenses consisted of $2,105.23 for maintenance, $611.30 for snow re- 

 moval, $1,559.74 for repair of washout, $1,418.63 for unemployment 



^ From Fig. 5 it will be noted that the State contributed $3,119.40; $1,841.- 

 97 of this was emergency relief unemployment fund. This does not include 

 a small item of State-aid for schools of about $273 which was not included 

 here on account of difference in fiscal year. 



^ Operating expenses as used here do not include payments to State and 

 county nor taxes bought or sold. 



