Arizona citizen., 1877-03-03
Yavapai's Portion.

and 1t is becoming more and more
 recognized throughout the nation that a large portion of the ills of which the country is heir are the evil after effects of bad legislation. Fortunately for this section, the stupidity and blind rapacity of the controlling power in the last Legislature turned the brunl of the legislation toward the northern part of the Territory. The moving power in the Legislature, (the fraudu- lent Prescott delegation,) was so intent upon corralling everything, and the members of that delegation were so eager in examining the capacious maw of their cOnceited cluster of bedbug haunted pine slabs, that they really had no time, if they had the capacity, to fully compass for other sections all the evil which brooded in their hearts. Occasionally, like the carrion crow. they would rise from their feast and cav, cav in derision at and opposition to some southern Legislator endeavor ing to secure his constituents from savage rapIne and slaughter, but their repulsive feast would soon claim them again
 There is nothing particularly new m the above to our readers and We only refer to It in passing. What we do wish 10 note is the remarkable cOmplacency or assumed ignorance pre- served and displayed by the Prescott newspapers Tn regard 10 legislation by the last assembly, which so deeply affects the people of Yavapai county. The Miner, with its usual effrontery, in the issue of February g, publishes the various legislative acts which unblushingly despoll the larger portion of Yavapaj county for the enrichment of Prescott, without deigning one word of explanation to the despoiled. Then there is the Enterprise, protesting enter prise Tn character as in name. It can nose out a mole on the most private part of .he Eumblcst citizen in this section of the Territory. It had quite full and comparatively intelligent reports of Legislative proceedings. It has had tune since the return of the Lcgisla- lure 10 Prescott, to ascertain the salient points of the Legislation affecting Yavapai county. It promptly learned and published that the Legislature had made Prescott the capital of ArizOna- on paper; but here it's knowledge comes to q dead halt and in it's issue of February l9, it lnuocently remarks: There are many others laws which passed the Legislature, in regard to the provisions of which we are entire ly in the dark"
 Well, as we are constitutionally Op- posed to darkness on any subject, we propose from tune to time, as far as lies in our power, to explain 10 the people of Yavapai county just what their Prescott delegation has done for them
 Prescott has always sligh;ed the out side districts of Yavapai county. But the day of slight is past, No more shall the lonely ranchman and the isolated miner of Yavapai mourn the inattention of Prescott. By various acts pushed through the Ninth Legis- lature by the Prescott delegation, their constituents will have the pleasure of yearly paying over to the tax collector, Tn addition to all other taxes, an annual tax amounting to something over $20,000 This is supplemental to, and has nothing to do with other taxes.
 IL is brand-new and especial feature in Yayapai's taxes. And what is it for? If it is going to prOportionately benefit the rural sections of the county it may not be so bad, although in that case it would prove a very burdensOme load 10 even an ordinarily rich and well settled county, and much more so to a poor enc. What is It for? It is in the first place for the purchase and building Ot lot of roads running from points in the Prescott locality to that combus,ible burg and designed to act as feeders or chutes 10 the latter h the second and last place it is to pay for public buildings Tn Prescott This is the simple story, and how do you like il? You, min.r on the lonely mountain lodges Of Yavapai, as the morning sun g!ints and glislens on your shining pick and spaTkles on the silver threads in your ore and stars your sands with the blushing gold; {; and you, plodding plowman of the rural sections of Yayapai, as that same sun wakes you 10 follow your blow adown the long. long furrows, stop occasional ly to mediate. Clifton, Little Cobra do, Verde, Williamsons, Walnut Grove, San. Francisco mountain,-with your teeming thousands, (accOrding to the late census what is your share of this enormous special county debt. the in terest upon which amounts 10 some $2O,000 per year? IL is little rough, but the simple truth is that your share is to pay your pro-rata of the annual S2O.O0O interest, and Prescotts share is to appropriate ihe benefits. IL was q