Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-29
DISINCORPORATION.
THE VITAL ISSUE NOW AGITATlNG
 TOMBSTONE.


 Jobbery in Everyt Even in Reforms
 Taxpayers at Loss to Find Relief
 Necessity of Concerted Action
 in Political Affairs.
 TOMBSTONE, March 23d.
 EDITOR ENTERPRIsE Since the date of my last letter the project to discor- porate the city of Tombstone, via the Blinn bill, has taken definite shape. Public meetings of taxpayers and others have been held; speeches pro and contra have been made; commit | tees of taxpayers and subcommittee | have been appointed, and reports Of committees have been made and pub lished in the Daily Prospector, by 1 which it appears that this Blinn bill is just the thing to cure existing evils. Then comes a lawyer of the contra side and by letter of more than two columns in the same paper, shows at least to his own satisfaction and per haps to the satisfaction of few others, that the Binn bill won't work; that it ain't worth shucks-in fact that 1t is loaded and dangerous. And to add to the confusion out comes the weekly Epitaph yesterday, in an editorial Of nearly two columns, and shows the people that the whole disincorporation move is a scheme gotten up by q few individuals to take to themselves the salaries now paid to the city officers. The Epitaph mentions no names, but all here can understand who are meant, and the drift of the article Is that two or more men here-who for the past six or more years, have been success
 full in corraling for themselves all of the taxes imposed on business and property except that necessary to pay the salaried officers, and appropriating the city water works to their own ben eft under so-called leases, while the same were maintained and repaired at
 the cost of the taxpayers-begin to find their hold on the funds and water
 works slip from their grasp, by some
 opposition from members of the coun- cil and other officers. And they also
 find that in the present depressed state of city property values the taxes cannot be made to render much for plunder after salaried officers are paid,
 and so want new deal, so that
 the salaries of officers may be less, and
 there will consequently be more for
 the deserving nlanagers who have
 stirred up all this agitation, etc. At least, this is the meaning given to the : Epitaph's editorial of Saturday by one side.
 , This, on the whole, is pretty fight
 with three sides to it, and the people appear to be divided as follows: A large majority of the taxpayers appear g to favor proceeding under the Blinn Q bill and if an election be called, which is very likely, they are apt to succeed
 But whether these taxpayers, except 7 two or three, know what they are e doing, or can see where the joker is 8 appears doubtful Another party l, the city's salaried officerswith theil
 friends and supporters, want no action 5 of any kind; they can enjoy their fa d salaries as it is, and are perfectly satis t fed to let things alone. The thirC if party, and of these the lawyer above /. mentioned has made himself th' 'i mouth-piece, say they distrust thu s Blinn bill and fear it will not give an! l. relief if they try it; and advocate tn, n total abolition of city government with all its attendant corruptions u What the outcome of this triangula e fight may be the future alone can tell J. and your correspondent can well affor' e to wait, as the city as yet imposes n tax on correspondence-that and jaw " bone being the only commodities no 'r taxed here. But testing aside, it is l. good sign to see the taxpayers mak te any attempt to manage their own al 10 fairs, and even if it be not quite suC
 cessful, it will at least serve to show 'e that there is some public spirit sti e. extant, and this, together with tn or manly and hopeful tone of "Buzfuz, in seconded, as hope they will be, b = "Kayjones," Hughes and Stafford, Tt i' wives my dropping spirits and make te me sanguine for Arizona's future. a I hope that you, MT. Editor, an is your correspondents, will continu ,t your efforts to wake up taxpayers ~ their interests, until the fools an 'n knaves cease to be majority of all or at so-called lawmakers; so that goo " laws and honest administration ma rv be the rule instead of the excel :, ton.
 'u In general business affairs her ot there does not appear any improv ne ment. We have had no spring rain IS and in parts of this county cattle al n. already suffering. Money is scare
 and the number of men employed al mining in this district does not excee ss, 225, all told. Of course we have hop' in of better times, which depend mainl ,,- on the action of the present Congre
 in reference to silver. Nothingis sai he yet about election, except that one
 two men have already put themselv,
 in training for party nominations. $ & our elections this fall promise to be, ed usual, for party, for plunder, and f ,. nothing else. Yours,
 '" QUARTZBURG. ty -