The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-15
The west Gallatin Park Road.

LIE OUIOillClc 1IdSs UcCl III oOiIi
time urging the building of said roa
and learn petitions are being circu
lated. so / have concluded tits time t
| protest. Now we have no objection
to building the road, but we do Objec
to being taxed to build it; let you
Bozeman clique OF ring who are urg
ing tile measure furnish the none.
and not ask the board Of commission
ers to tax the people to build it. Art
our people in condition now to stant
being taxed thousands to build use
less road up through the wild, unset
tied regions of the West Gallatin t.
accommodate a few rich people to sc
sight seeing!--poor people can't afford
the time. You hurrahed for the rail.
road and prophesied glorious times
when the road should be done, but how
has it TUNED out! Let us see. last
year oats weighed 40 pounds to the
buShel and was worth a cent and a
half. Now oats weigh 80 pounds and
are worth one cent--just half. Wheat
eighty cents. This year nine -tenths
of the crop was frozen and won t make
flour at all, and can't be sold for 40
cents. and with few exceptions (eggs
and buttei) everything the farmer
raises is in like proportion. Then the
blessed civilization the railroad
brought us has filled our jai]s with
criminals. and four weeks term of
court in June last couldn't try the
criminal cases. Two years ago there
was not case Of felony on the docket.
That much for the railroad. 1t has
killed the country deader than II
plague Of grasshoppers ever did
Kansas. Again the railroad brought
all kinds of improved farm irnple-
ments, and farmers have bankrupted
themselves buying them. | venture
to say that four-ifths of the farmers
are in debt more than, their present
crop will buy, and our taxes have in
creased 25 per cent. Now, in the face
of these facts, wouldn t it be better to
curtail expenses than to run deepel
inl Every farmer IN Gallatin county
will have to do this sure, or Ego
busted" Then is 1t good policy for
our county fathers to appropriate
thousands of dollars to a worthless
Your engineer has not toll
us what the road will cost, but ven-
ture to say that $4,000 will not near
build it.. There are miles of the road
that will cost So, 900 to the mile. Let
charity begin at home. It we have
more money than we know what to do
with let us build some road in the val
ey and bridges across the West Gal
ATTN, that somebody would travel.
The idea that there is any country up
he West Gallatin is grand mistake.
It is too frosty to raise anything any
where above the lower canyon, and
here is no valley that amounts to any,
hing anywhere. That tourists would
come to Bozeman and outfit and travel
;he road when they can so up the
Yeliowstona by railroad to the very |
inc of the Park is nonsense to dream |
f. Gentlemen, "a drowning man will
grasp at at a straw that is the case
With your Bozenlan clique. who are
rying to increase the taxes OF all al
eady overtaxed people.
There is some sleek tongned fellow
ut hele getting signers, and some
oor, ignorant dupes thought the gov
was going to build the road,
nd didn't know that the people would
e taxed to build it. They say now,
Oh, we would not have signed it if
re had known that
ask our county fathers to wait,
hink and give us farmers chance to
rotest. We are slow, but when you
,uch man 5 pockeLbook you touch
is soul.
DIR. w. J. STOvER.
ALEsvILLE, Mont. Nov. IL, 1888.
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