Arizona weekly miner., 1876-09-01
A PRETTY HARD NUT FOR PIMA TO CRACK.

! "o uo hot WISH tO De CoNslucreu lnqulSl- tive but at the same time would really like
 to know how it happens, if Pima County
 alone has population so far exceeding that
 of Yavapai as the Citizen asserts. public
 meeting resolves and their Tool-e swears to,
 that layapai's assessment roll shows val
 uatlon of taxable property exceeding that of
 any two of the three counties whose Super
 visors have taken it upon themselves to aues-
 ton our census report in court. We find upon examination of the tax roll of this
 County vaiauation of property, real and
 personal, amounting to one million four hun
 dred and sixty eight thousand dollars and
 eighty two cents. The tax roll of Pima is
 reported at one million four hundred and
 SIX dollars and eight cents. Yuma County's
 tax roll shows three hundred and thirty one l thousand nine hundred and seventeen dol l lars. Pinal County is assessed for three hun dred and eighteen thousand four hundred | and forty one dollars. Surely the assessor has not been committing fraud and reporting more property than there is in the county. and 1t Is of course impossible to suppose the Assessors, or any body else, in those three righteous counties have under-estimated the value of thelr property to save paying their equal proportion to the Territory or for any other purpose. Such a thing is entirely out 'f the question, they wouldn't do it for the world. Then why is it, we ask, that Yavapai { vlth no steamboats to tax, no trade with q iexico, involving the carrying of stocks of :. pods amounting to hundreds of thousands dollars each, Tn fact nothing but her own " lternal resources to rely on or be taxed. and W
 large proportion of her population newly a rived with nothing to assess, should report amount of taxable property exceeding ny two of the counties named. one of il men claims population of several thou tr md more than Yavapai. This showing ti one should teach the court and the Terri. oi rai Secretary that they have been and are 70 ing trlfied with by people whose only ob ", ct Is to use them for selfish ends, and that ce
 II be true, as charged, that the Yavapai pl nsus report Is false and excessive. it is m; ually true that the Pima census renort is '. Ci ,cb ,,,o r, ioPoi' S liO 'ch more so. The better and safer plan fal
 an officer seeking to perform his duty = iscientiouSly would be to presume that
 sworn officers of the law have perform. their duties honestly, in the absence of N showing to the contrary, and act upon is7t leaving the consequences witt. ..those who Stat C committed the wrong, if indeed wrong wha
 been committed. Tbe law presumes 9 y officer has done his duty until it is VII to the contrary; and because one off. Is accused of fraud it is no excuse for -her to either neglect or refuse to do F. c, the law srequires of him. Had not - Ia County the advantage of taxing NJ nDoat property, which represents com ~ lively no population, Yavapai would - an amount of taxable property exceed
 that of all three of the Counties have gone into revolution, and impli- wasor ~ at least, threaten to attach themselves to ra Tn order to find more congenial com.
 than the barbarians of Yavapai. Mo. tbn hnG NY, N and Maricopa. And with all the advan-
 we have enumerated in favor or Pinal and Pima they, all three together only favapai in the amount of her taxablc ,-, rty In the sum of $lS9,2 .26. Yaya- quarter ceeds Pima and Yuma together, s1s9-
 |; exceeds Pima and Pinal together ITO, -l.'i' and exceeds Pinal and Yuma AU' CT, sS11,027.S2. These are no estima.
 ures invented for the occasion. We RE one to the trouble and.,expense of tel
 Ing to the officers of the various Ch 'S Tn order to have them correct and BRUS 'n figure in the statement that can 'eSsfully disputed. We expect to see aa;.. a ridiculed that the assessment roll 's''' 'thlng to do with, or bears any rela- Chic the census of a country, but the good rc, Il common sense of the people will morning lem that, next to the report of tho - taker, 1t is the surest critcrian that
 adopted, and that if there is any ad- either way it is in favor of those
 e large foreign trade and line of d..cpip,io qip , to tax neither of which represents OFFICE. ma population