Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-01-29
NORTH FORK ON BONDS.
NORTH FORK. Jan. 25, Is

displayed when YOU yankcd our friend
Reno up to the Bull ring, and put him
through the cvolutons in the last i>Su,
Of the CnRoNlCLE; because he didn't
want Custer City 10 have all the election
am now satisfied. after your cXplana-
! ton, that it was an error of the com
positor or copyist. bat have YOU heard
| this instance not bad pay bu. bad fai h
killed him, and don't You know that
this would be Il very obtusc community
if somebody didn't pick that proposition
up and put hole in it, especially. when
everybody knows how the last election
w"s carried i'm Custer, and that the law
is often made the vehicle Of wrong and
oppression in that very same sly way,
by substituting single word or sentence,
which is calcnatcd to change the import
of the whole instrument into which, il is
Incorporated, and though the friends of
such a measure are always loud in their
prote stations of innoccnSc in the matter.
they are always ready to take full adj
vantage of the opportunity thus gained.
New as to bonds there are some coun-
" improvements which could bc adj
vantagcously made, and some are i'm
pcrativciy necessary and the question is
now being reduced to, how and which.
and ways. and means The first turn
ont of the box is the debt already incur
red, Of about $1,000. This paper cost
the buyer from - to 30 cents on the
dollar, by funding it its value would be
raised to nearly par. This would he
very nice for the holder. but my per
ccption Is too dull To see how it would
Immediately benefit the county. The
principal which thi. increased valuation
of bonds over certificates sewers to
hinge appears TO he this: That i, gives
some party of means chance to get Il
first mortgage on all the taxable pro-
pcrty in the county. at a rate Of interest
length Of time to run, and measures of
security that would double discount
United States bonds
As to the county road. it is Il good
thing and | would like 10 see ii an ac-
complishcd fact, but You strained a little
in your reply to Reno. when YOU init
mated that the want OF such road was
the principal reason. f.? our having to
pay su much more for provisions here
than they do in Dcadwpid are We not
go miles nearer the railroad than Dead
wood? Yes DO our merchants have
heavy rents 10 pay? 10, Then why
this excess; because there is not a
healthy competition, and because they
lru,t too many high toned hnnmcrs
and those who Il" pay have to make up
the deficiency. A. understand it the
route has been surveyed, and one gentle
man runnrrtcd with the county board.
has been viewing il for Il considerable
length of time. After his extensive cx-
animation, if he cannot inform the
board how much quartz and mica there
is along the route; how many places To
bridge, and how wide; how many feet
OF corduroy must be placed, and approx
innate near how much cutting and filling
must be done to make the road passablc
for trains, let some competent person be
appointed by the board to view it again.
Then let the board advertise for bids to
&c :ha: a:::o"": o! "c:k according .c !he
specifications, and let the lowest res
ponsible bidder get it. Apropos, to this
| talked with many of the citizens of
that part of the county last fall, and
they all seemed To be willing to chip in
with work and help build that road, if
the county would locate and survey it.
As to the Jail there ought certainly to
be a better one, but how good, leave to
the voters of the county. The court
house can be postponed for year or
two without hurting anybody, or at least
until the county stands on a firm found
alton of prosperity.
If the legislature can empower our
board Of county commissioners to issue
bonds to the amount of $4,000, it can
empower them to Issue bonds to pay for
legitimate improvements as fast as they
are made, and no faster We have a
board of county officers Of whom We are
very proud, and in whom the effects of
early piety are still plainly discernable,
and we have no doubt that the burden
Of their daily prayer is. lead Us not
into temptation but deliver us from
evil" and having ever before our eyes,
the sad and startling experiences Of the
eX Officers of our sister county Of Law
renee, (to say nothing Of the experience
of the taxpayers of the county, we
should as n humane and charitable
people, remove as far as possible out of
their way, such quag mires and sloughs
of despond as this bond business, or al
least mitigate the evil as much as pos
sible.
] am not opposed to any necessary