Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-09-28
The Affairs Of Our Neiehbors.

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1t is the least of our intentions to
interfere with the home affairs of
another county, but there is at pres
ent a question agitating the public
mind of our neighboring county,
Rando. ph, in which We must confess
that we feel more or lest interest,
and that is the proposition now before
the voters of that county. to be voted
upon by them at the coming Novem-
Der election, whether or not the
county seat shall be removed from
Huntsville to Moberly. Our readers
will remember that a few weeks since
the court house at Huntsville was
burned down, hence the county is
without a court house, and now the
question before them is, shallthe new
court house be built at Moberly or
Huntsville? OF course we feel some
interest in Moberly, our sister city
only an hours ride from us-and pos
sessing many things in common inter-
est with our city. She is the largest
city in Northeast Missouri and pos
sesses many local advantages not en-
joyed by other cities of this part of
the State while Huntsville is an old,
dead-on-her-feet sort Of a town and
enjoys no other distinction except
that it is the county seat of one of
the most populous and wealthiest
counties in the State-a distinction
she could never have enjoyed were it
not for the fact that Moberly was not
in existence when the county seat
was located there. Moberly is geo.
graphically very neal the center Of
the county; is the center Of the pop
ulation and does three-fourths of the
business of the county and lacks only
the county seat of her county of be-
ing the queen city Of Northeast Mis-
souri,. The expense of building a
court house in Moberly will be less, If
any difference, than building the
same in Huntsville, and be right
where it naturally should be. Ran
dolph county is at the extra expense
now of keeping up two courts, the
circuit court at Huntsville and the
Moberly court of Common Pleas.
When the county seat is located at
Moberly then she Will be rid of the
expense of one extra court. To a
dis%interested looker-on it seems like
downright foolishness in any part of
the general public to try to keep the
court house away from Moberly be-
cause she is bound, sooner or later, to
have it. This makes the second time
the question has been submitted to
the people. We admire the pluck
and effort of our sister city to secure
her rights and think surely that this
time her effort will bring forth fruit.
Railroad Tax.
Louisiana & Missouri, River K. r.
Valuation, S2s0,552 state tax. ST.
1920; county evenu tax and
municipal, s2,1s3.25. Total tax,
So. sO5.45.
Loui.iana & Missouri River R. r.
(South Branch). Valuation, $751;
CTS; state tax, 70; county and
municipal tax, s251.l2. Total tax,
$685.
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R. r.
Valuation, 1906, 741 !; state tax, ST.
225.56; county and municipal tax,
s2,404 ~. Total tax, s~4,229.6s.
Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago
r. R. Valuation, $ls7,952; state
tax, $752.4s; county and municipal
tax. $1,l45.74. Total tax, $2,19S.22.
Western Union Telegraph Co. Val.
uat;on, sl5,ss6; state tax, $3.50
county and municipal tax, sl19.62
Total tax, S183. Is.
Making the total taxes collected in
Audrain county on the above rail.
roads and telegraph companies, state
revenue and internal tax, 50, 29O. 48
county, municipal, roads and schoo'
tax, s6,403.85 Grand total, $lU,.
294.33.
The total valuation of railroad
property in Audraln county is 1922
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