Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-12-29
County Supervisors Going out and
Coming in Misunderstanding In Jan
u2ry-Remarks.

The mentors OF the county Board
whose term OF Office is TO expire the
the lst of January are Addison Burr,
Chairman, Cyrus Sergeant and I'll b
Wood Gen Moore and A. W. En-,
cry hole over another year The
new members are TO consist Of J. IL
Evans, Jared Warner and Joseph,
Allen. A meeting is - be held on
the fifth January 70 organize by he
election OF a Chairman, and for the
transaction OF any other business
that The Board may deem advisable
except the auditing of accounts
Tine old Boar3 are holding q meet
ng this week for settling with the
Clerk and Treasurer.
The retiring members have mani
tested generous aud progressive
spirit in their transactions. They
have erected mere and better bridges
and laid out roads upon more direct
AVID practical routes than any pre-
gious body Of public guardians =
4 hey have erected public buildings Of
unprecedented subs antiab'lily, and
so econvmised the public income a,
% pay for such works with hardly
any increase Of taxation. They have
so enlarged their compass and view
Of business as 90 look upon The coun'
" and people as but a vast home
stead and populous household, viii
increasing wants as time rolls aloul
and wealth piles mp among the masso
They have fully realized the impor
lance OF improving the ways to lh,
railroad and river markets, and thu
equalzed the interior towns witt
those more favored with handy mar
kets. Their action in giving away
the Muscoda tax claims wort HES,
and burthen 10 the county, and
thereby securing bridge across the
Wisconsin at that place, was the
grandest policy We have ever known
6 County Board 20 entertaia and ex.
ecute, BY this action the tax basis
Of that town and the county was IN
creased st least 100000; besides,
the lots donated ut once became a
source Of tax revenue after having
been an annual loss TO tbe county oI
$1,000 for q dozen J cara.
The new members, Warner. Evans
and Alien, wo Judge, Will doubtless
pursue the same enlightened policy
with view to the equalization OF
landed valuations, the intercommun.
icaticns Of trade between the pro-
ducers and the markets, the enoour-
agement Of local and general COM
merce, The safety and order Of BUSH
ness, the security Of the public rec
ords and Of private interests-all
these and more according to Il gener-
Gus and enlightened public policy,
Just as common sense and forethought
would suggest TOR the management
of large r,,ato and 2 popolous
household.
The time was when tho narr4wesj
policies and most iIliberal Practice
was pursued by the Grant County au~
pervisors narrow and small IN
. ed that not bridge withstood the
food and not public building was so
constructed as 70 0Vercomo the ten
dency Of the parts TO separate aud
tumble down. There IS this DAY ac
tuaIly nothing in the county to show
for the vast expenditures by The old
county Boards.
Bat those days he poopja were
marrow and small minded from ne
eee,ily for they We're poor AMI ali il
doubt whether 10 stay in the county
" escape. They dwelt in huts
chi, fly, aud manifested not half the
CTS llzation and domestic virtues OF
'be present. Aud il may DO said Of
such pioneers most are gone from the
county and OF their tenaments hard
Is log or corner stone rests upon
another.