The Empire County argus., 1854-07-22
COUNTY sEAT.--Ra9M0VAt..

| COUNTY SEAT.--RA1M0VAL.
| Since the organization of the County Of Ell Do
RADIO Cooma has been the seat of Justice Coloma
is pleasantly located and accessible, from every di-
recton, by as good roads as can be found in the
vicinity of any Mountain Town in the State; be-
sides this its location as nearly central as that Of
any town within the limits of the county. and in
addition, it contains the only public buildings be-
longing to the county, true, these public buildings
are not as commodious and ornamental as county
buildings should be, still they are in such state of
repair that they viii answer every purpose required
FOR number OF years come.
A removal Of the county seat then, will inevita.
bly, involve the county in the construction Of new
buildings; to do this will require at least $4,000
to ruise which we viii be compelled to resort to
direct tax. and moreover, we must add to the
amount required for buildings, The cost Of collect
ing and removal, say $4,000 more in all the snug
sum of 100000 will be required at least
To tax the people to raise this large sum in add-
ton to the already enormous scale Of taxation would
be truly oppressive. and that too without any cor
responding benefit arising to the mass Of the people
of the county, whole.
To expect that money will be accumulated in the
Treasury from the present scale of taxation pre-
posterous in the extreme.
We have the Official figures before us, showing
that under the present administration os our county
affairs, our current expenses have been increased
and above the preceding administration, at the
astounding rate of S4336 81 MONTHLY, an increase
Of expenditure for FIVE MONTHS Of S2l, ,G84 %
Yes, INCREASE Of expenditures for less than half
the fiscal year, since l4th January last of treatg-
one thousand siT hundred AID eighty four doHars-
Continue this rate through che year and we have
an increased expenditure Of over fty-f1ro thousand
dollars per annum. And if "Criminal business
goes on "increasing" corresponding with its pro-
gressye strides heretofore the county will most as
suredly be- at the end Of the year, without dollar
and perhaps ten, twenty thirty thousand dol
lars in debt"
With the plain bat lamcnt-5le fact stareing Us
in the face, that S38505 81 has been collected and
S35,320 49 Of the amount has already been dis
bursed, we cannot reasonably hope for accumu-
lation Of money in the Treasury, with present rates
of taxation, to erect new county buildings more
especially are we adtnonshed not to expect his,
when we remember that the present incumbents in
the county Offices to remain another year, and
they having already given us such q convincing
proof Of their financial skill skill too, which costs
the county four thousand ltolia1s and upwards MORE
MONTHLY than the Efficient services of the former
administrator, which at the time paid off q
large amount of DEBT and that too with an income
less than the present.
There is, then, not shadow of hope that the
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her Treasury, under the present system of lavish
expenditures. The tax payers Of the county will
therefore see, 20 a certainty, that REMOVAL will in
yolye largely increased taxation to erect new build
ings, and to detray the expenses Of removal and
collections We are ready to admit that the present
rate Of taxation ought to be, and would be if econo-
mcally disposed Of sufficient to do much toward
the erection Of new buildings besides paying cur
rent expenses.
But official figures prove clearly that thus far we
have only s. lS5 70 in the Treasury with dam
gcrous rock Just in sight Of Dormant Scrip
Hence the people Of this county must not look for
large balances in The Treasury they may look with
certainty Of finding comparatively empty trca-
sury and if Remouai should be the course adopted,
then additional taxation will be the unavoidable
consequence. Our taxes are at the very least one
third larger now than they should be, to pay for
every needful expenditure We should have this
year expended on the improvement Of roads and the
construction Of bridges, with present collections as
basis ut least fifty thousand dollars but instead
of this, roads and bridges left to private enter
prise. and the substance Of the people consumed
like stubble in the fire, for services of which the
people are about as ignorant as Of financial trans
actions in the dark ages.
We hope the people will consider we'll before de-
Gliding to involve the county in debt for new build
ings aad then not do it.
UuDLusHING lMPUDENcE.--1he coalitionists after
having voted with Wings all of last winter and en-
poyed Wings to hold primary meetings for them
in this county and after having affiliated, eat and