Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-08-30
TAXPAYERS and VOTERS
Of Elmore County, Look
to Your Interests.
Read the Facts and Figures that
Can not be cOntrOveTted.
Words that should Cause the Ad-
yocatcr OF County Seat Removal
to Pause and Reflect.

have called an election TO be held
Oct /, 1890, for State and county
officers, also for the location of the
county seat for Gilmore.
| 1t is not intended here to discuss
the legal points raised, as whether
county seat election is legal at
this time, or whether it requires a
majority or n two-thirds vote to de-
eide the question; but, laying all
that aside, we wish to place before
the voters and taxpayers Of Gilmore,
in fair and square way, the rea-
sons why Rocky Bar should remain
for time the county seat.
Rocky Bar is the consumer of the
surplus products Of the other parts
Of the county, Mt. Home is depend
ent upon ii for the larger share of
her business, and most of the small
settlements of rano hers find here
their only market, and one where
they can always sell their produce
at the highest cash prices. 1t also
pays nearly double TO its laborers
what they can get i'll other than
mining pursuits, and gives employ
ment to large number Of men,
that but for the mining industry
here, would have TO compete with
the present labors in the lower part
of the county or leave the county
altogether.
We do not disguise the fact that
by continuing the county seat at
this place, men Of means on the
outside are more likely to come here
and be brought in contact with our
hundreds of gold lodges and are
likely to invest the capital needed
to open our mines. But every such
investment brings men into the
county to work, which consumes SO
much more of the farm produce OF
the county and gives employment
to large numbers in hauling for and
supplying these men, The more
business done in a town and the
I larger the number of people there,
the better the market so the
rancher has a direct personal inter
est in every mine opened in our
county, and in making our camps
larger and prosperous.
! One of the great needs Of Elmoro
is more people to help build our
roads and bridges and help pay our
taxes.
This is young county and with
the exception of Rocky Bar, most
of her towns are Of 30 recent growth
that no one can now tell what place
will die out. To change the county
seat at present is to change to some
town which is very likely to be
nothing but the county seat five or
ten years from this time, with no
business, no people and no build
ings but the expensive county
buildings, wrung from the tax-op-
pressed people of Elmore. BY
waiting till the county is better
settled, We will avoid all this ex-
pense and can then locate our
county seat in some permanent
town convenient to all sections.
But all these considerations
strong as they must be to every
thinking man--are cast in the shade
by the consideration of the county
finances. In order to properly ul,-
derstand the situation, let the facts
of the county's taxes and indebted
ness be submitted to every man in
Gilmore who has an interest i'm our
welfare and who wishes to have
the taxes light and the least OPP
pressive as possible, with a good
county organization and improve
ment.
A statement Of the county's in
debtedness as made approximately)
by the County Treasurer is as fol
lows:
Road fund ... $4,000
General fund .. .. 1900
Old debt 81 600
lotai .,.... $1,000. W ,UUO
Our debt, as will be seen by the
above statement, is more than $40
per capita Tor for every man.
woman and child in the COUNTY,
a debt on every family of six.
of more than $3.50, being largely
greater than the per capita neces-
sary to pay off our national debt.
Think of it, taxpayersl A debt
Of $3.50 on every family of Ska
lien of $3.50 on your ranches, your
houses, your horses, your plows and
drags, on everything, and all liable
to be sold by the sheriff to satisfy
the debt the county has already in-
CURED, If not paid when due.
A change of county seat at the
present time means an immediate
increase of our debt and a conse-
quent increase of taxes. If a
change of county seat is made,
suitable court house, Jail. and
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