The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-02-27

To the Congress OF the United
States.

On the 18th day of February, 4.
d. 1885. the Honorable Board OF
County Commissioners OF Idaho
county, l. T., met in special session
to demonstrate against the bills for
the admission of the northern coun-
ties of said Territory to Washing
ton Territory or State. Present, Z.
NJ. Day and c. b. Wood, Commits
sioners, and I. J. Rhodes, Clerk.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
To the Honorable Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States, in Congress assembled:
WHEREAS, At the Thirteenth and
last session of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Idaho,
convened at the Capital of said
Territory, on the Sth day of Decem-
Der, A. ID. 1884, said Legislative
Assembly, with full knowledge of
all the facts and circumstances
relating to the subject, passed Joint
4 Council Memorial No. 2, addressed
to your Honorable Body, memorial
ling for the segregation of the
four northern counties of Idaho
Territory and attaching them TO
the Territory of Washington, when
that Territory should become a
State, and especially defining the
south line of the COuty of Idaho
as the boundary between the future
! State of Washington and Idaho
Territory, and setting forth fully
the reasons for such segregation,
which memorial is hereby referred
to and made a part of this remon-
STRANGE and
WHEREAS, The south line OF
Idaho county has been changed
and so established by Legislative
enactments as to meet the wants
and interests of the people living
on each side Of the natural barri-
ers to communication, mentioned
in said memorial, and the whole
people Of idaho county, rs at pres
ent established, having a commu
nifty of interest, any division of
Idaho county making Salmon
River the southern boundary, in
whole or in part of Idaho county,
| would be ruinous to the people of
said county living on each side
thereof, their business relations
and all means Of communication
being identical; and the tract of
country lying between the Salmon
River and Snake River for more
than fifty miles from the mouth Of
Salmon River being narrow
peninsula, in no place over sixteen
miles in width and but six miles
wide at Horse Shoe Bend, fifty
miles from its mouth and
/ WHEREAS, The whole taxable
property Of Idaho county, as shown
by the assessment roll for a. ID.
1885, was $640,G71, and $116,430
thereof was upon property lying
south and west of Salmon River,
and over one-fourth of the personal
taxes, to-wit: Poll, hospital and
road taxes, were assessed and col
lected in the same portion of the
county; and should line be estab-
lished, commencing at the middle
channel of Snake River, thence
directly east to the head of Rabbit
} Creek and thence down Rabbit
Creek to its mouth and thence up
Salmon River, as provided in bill
: introduced in the United States
House of Representatives on the
, eth day Of January, y. ID. 1856,
, and numbered 2,S41, Idaho county
would be deprived of one-sixth of
the revenues by making Salmon
River the boundary from its mouth,
nearly one-fourth of the population
of the county would suffer all the
Inconvenience herein set forth,
, and
WHEREAS, The bills that have
/, been introduced in Congress for
the annexation of the four north
ern counties Of Idaho to Washing
ton provide that the segregated
. portion of Idaho Territory shall be
responsible, by counties, for their
, respective portions of the bonded
debt of Idaho Territory, less money