The Arizona champion., 1890-03-22

cOCC CO the fecR mine, distance O
 3l miles. The Prescott boys said
 "Ed that is a good proposition, th'
 S30,000 will come back to Prescott
 You will get your road and we vii
 get the capital"
 In about f to 6 months after tht legislature adjourned, low and be
 hold, here came the capital rolling
 into Prescott from Tucson drawn by
 spike team, (two yoke of cattle
 and an old mule) twas rusty look
 ing bird but it cost Yavapai county
 S46,000 for the two votes to get it
 The road was built, and the next
 year the timber took fire along the
 line of the road and a great portion
 of the road burnt up as it was made
 of pine logs and brush. This roac
 has always been big expense t.
 the taxpayers but we will have tC
 repair 1t for old man Donlan must
 get his mail. I will now explain tc
 you and Morris, ''your running
 mate," las the Board of Supervisors,
 the exact limits of my reservation.
 From Prescott east, 40 miles to the
 Verde river. From Prescott west, to Williamson Valley, 20 miles.
 From Prescott north, to Banghards station, p miles from Prescott. South 40 miles to the summit of the Bradshaw mountains. Be very careful about spending any money outside of these lines as 1t will be a dead loss to Prescott.
 By the way, boys, there is our $7S,000 court house, it will need a little repair this spring it was built about l2 years ago, at a cost of 70, 900. A better building could be built now for $20,O00, but we needed the S78,00O put in circula- tion around town, and the people of Prescott was afraid that Tucson would steal the county seat of Yava- pal county and take it to Tucson. By building a fine court house it would help hold the county seat in Prescott. This building was built when there was only a few ragged miners and a few poor farmers in the county struggling hard for little bread and bacon, and the county has been paying interest on those bonds all these years.
 How about our Town Clock, that is on the court house, does the coun- ty pay Geo. Curry one dollar day or S365 per year for winding it up? The people of Eastern Yavapai complain about not hearing it strike and think the Board refuses to pay county money for keeping it run hing. At the rate of $365 per year for l2 years it has already cost S4, 380 without the interest. 1 would suggest that the clock be sold and the proceeds go in the way of an appropriation to the Prescott Courier, as that paper has always been great friend to Prescott.
 We must prepare a county sack, IS we did years ago for the purpose of buying the Capitol back to Pres colt next winter, and if we fail to get the Capitol we will buy or trade for white elephant to give tone to our town, you know.
 Price you made a bad break when you promised the people of eastern Yavapai new county next winter. you kow there is our pet railroad that runs from Prescott Junction to Prescott. It has already cost $2SS, poo, or S4,000 per mile for 72 miles. It will soon be entended to the Maricopa county line, distance of about 80 miles, that will make 5320,000 more, which will make in Ill $608,000. A nice little sum for the tax payers to dig up. If you let eastern Yavapai go, it will lurt the sale of our bonds, and per laps we will be unable to raise any money on them to build the road The appropriation being an act of he legislature, it makes the bonds ! little shakey anyhow. It will not 10 to weaken them; if we do, all is ost. You see 1t takes a great mount of gall and cheek to ask so much from the taxpayers, but Pes ,ott has always had plenty of cheek md if it takes the last bit of bread | rom the widows and orphans of the county we must have the road built, l Is 1t appears to be the last straw in lght; out II It proves to be as blg a | allure when quilt as our other roads nd SpecuIations have been all Is ,one. The Plaza will go to Judge 5rooks for goat ranch; the bats md owls will take the court house, md we will have toroll our blankets md find a new country, and there ay out a new reservation and com hence life once more.
 MR. EDITOR: Uncle John has made good statement of the way politics has been handled in the ounty for the last 16 years. Now what bothers me is this, how do hese old Bosses of Prescott expect O meet their maker with such pad of sin on their backs. They re getting old now they will prob bly, soon dress themselves up in