Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-08-23
A NrGOEn ~ THE WOOD PILE.


years before they move the county
seat. The object Of the BULLETIN /
is very plain. If il could retain the
county seat at Rocky Bar at this
election il could probably keep il
there permanently. II will require
two-thirds vote TO move the
county seat at any time after the
present opportunity. A very small
minority would hold the key 10 the
situation, and would be able to de
feat the will of the majority. There
is no standpoint from which TO
argue that Rocky Bar is the proper
place for the county seat. The peo-
pie should move it away from there
now while the majority rule pre-
walls. If they do not, small min
ority might keep it there for the |
next twenty years. The present
generation will not care to wait till |
they are ready to take their long
vacation before the county seat is
placed where convenience and
economy demands it should be
placed. The "wait awhile" racket
is too thin. Build us another paper
railroad. Try another real estate
scheme.-Idaho Mail.
The ELMoRE BULLETIN is not
selfish. It does not believe that
the retention of the county seat here
is the only salvation for Rocky Bar.
We have other resources that will
maintain and cause Rocky Bar to
flourish for a generation, at least, to
come. The editor Of the BULLETIN
is the fortunate possessor of small
interests both in Rocky Bar and
Mt. Home, and if he believed that
the removal of the county seat to
the latter place would cause it to
bloom as the rose-that it would
make it the metropolis of Idaho
that each foot of his ten or twelve
lots in that town would by such re-
moval enhance in value al hundred
fold, he would still insist that the
removal at this election would be
detrimental to the interests of all
taxpayers. 1t is plain enough TO
any man who is not blind with
selfishness and can read the signs
of the times that should Mt. Home
secure the prize, it would only re-
main there few years. A railroad
along the South Boise in the near
future is an assured fact, notwith-
standing the Mail is pleased to ridi-
! cule such an enterprise and tri-
umphantly proclaim it n railroad
on paper" This railroad will
doubtless cause an important town
to spring up in a few years on Little
Camas; it will give Pine Grove a
boom not now dreamed of, and the
central position of either of those
places would entitle them to a
. claim for the permanent location Of
the county seat Of Gilmore.
But admitting that our Mt. Home
friends are right in asserting that
the above mentioned project is
"only a railroad on paper" that
as they seem pleased to communi'
cate to all strangers, this immense
gold mining belt lis too dead to
3 skim" that "the bottom has dropped
| out Of our mines" etc, (Which every
: one familiar with the situation o.
e affairs here knows to be false), there
are other important matters thai
D should be calmly considered.
/ The first State Legislature o
e Idaho will be asked to extend the
r eastern line of Gilmore so far as K
take in Bliss station, and the Glover
! creek section, which request will
doubtless be granted. This woulc
:, place the thriving town of Glenn'i
I Ferry much nearer the center o
the county than Mt. Home and si'
years hence the Riverside Cit,
: might justly claim the location o
Z the county scat at that place, anC
= with its present strides toward pros
: perity not only claim it but de
mznd it and get it.
If the county seat is removed thi
fall it should go TO Pine Grove. |
:, is the most central town now in FL
= more and at the present has tn
= greatest claim to that honor. Blu
y il would simply be suicidal to GU
:. prosperity as county to now lc
y cate it at any other point tina
:. where it now is.
y Removal otherwise than unde
= the laws of the Constitution woul
'' cause endless litigation.
1t would necessitate the erectio
d of new county buildings-which
rs manipulated by the noble twelve
in who are now chuckling over ii
IN anticipated plum, would bankrur
a. the county before the buildings wei
q half completed.
al 1t would raise taxes from $2.4
this year to at least $500 or $3.5
no rs, tha hundral naxt war