The Placer herald., 1872-02-24
COUNTY MANIPCLAIlONS.

Elsewhere in to-day's HERALD will be
found the proceedings Of meeting of citi-
zens Of Western Placer, held at Roseville on
Friday, the 10Th instant, to consider the
propriety of remodeling Placer, Yuba and
Sutter counties. The proceedings, as furn-
ished by the Secretary, are not very full
"The citizens of Sutter county and the
southwestern portion of Placer" as the pro-
ceedings read, must mean that every man m
Sutter and southwestern Placer was at Rose
vile on the day named promptly at 2 o'clock
Pm. This being the case, it was an oversight
that some enterprising aspirant did not draw
up the preamble and petition, and right there
and then obtain the signatures of every man
in Sutter and southwestern Placer. This
would have saved much time, travel and ex-
pense in hunting up this vast body of men
at their private homes to get their signatures.
"Strike while the non is hot, " If you see
dollar, put your foot on it" are good mot
toes, and it was a great error, after having
corralled all the men Of Sutter and south
western Placer not to make them put their
fists to the proposed document; but as they
were allowed to depart, we think " the bird
in the hand " is gone. If the Norwegian
Lion (Dameron) had been there (this was
his thunder, anyhow no such mistake would
have occurred. Territorially, politically and
consequentally, this is an extensive job.
Let us hint some of the obstacles in the way
and the magnitude of the consequences that
might follow it, if successful. 1t proposes
to take Nchoaus and Vernon townships OF
Sutter county, territory only equal to III
miles square, with all the books, archives,
records, debts and officers, elected for two
and four years, as a new starter for old Sut-
ter. The other four fftbs of Sutter are to be
robbed of its name, records and officers, and
turned over naked to the tender mercies OF
Yuba. This the people of Sutter will like,
as then they will have the privilege of going
over toll-brdge to get to the county seat,
Marysville. To this small portion of Sutter,
records and officers, it proposes to add one
third of the people and property of Placer, a
territory and population three times as large
as that they are to be attached to, to the
fraction of Sutter. This would make the
mountain 60 to Mahomet. The records
of Placer would have to be copied for Sut-
ter; the records of Sutter must be copied fol
Yuba; Yuba must help to pay Suffers debts
and Sutter help to pay Placer's debts. Our
revenue and assessors districts would be
knocked all to shtter-shatters, and so would
Suffers, because assessors can't assess the
property of people who had no chance TO vote
for or against them. OF course we only men
ton these things so that the managers may
take them into consideration, and provide
for them as they proceed. Seriously y-the
time may come-when our county is densely
populated and rich in taxable property, and
taxes reduced to about one half the presen,
rates-when territorial changes may be talk.
ed of and accomplished. But just now We
prefer to acquire more territory to losing any
of what we have. We are looking to the
acquisition of all of FL Dorado north and
west of the south fork of the American river
and Meadow Lake township of Nevada
The people of those districts would be bene
fited in the change, financially, commercially
and socially, and doubtless would vote al
most unanimously to be attached to Placer
We don't like one horse beds, counties, ol
politicians.