Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-11-04
SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS
GOLD CASH IN BANK.
Reasons Why the County Seat
Should be Changed.

To THE VOTERS OF IDAHO COUNTY:
Grangeville is at present the
commercial center of Idaho county.
The principal mercantile houses,
banks and milling interests, are
here, and when the people come
here to transact other business it
would be convenient to transact
their county business at the same
time, in place of making special
visit to another point for that pur-
pose alone.
The people of Grangeville have
raised the necessary funds to erect
new buildings for the county at
Grangeville in place of the old ones
at Mt. Idaho, and do not ask the
people to establish the county seat
permanently, by the erection by
the county, of expensive buildings
at Grangeville, but are willing to
have the question of permanent
county buildings to be determined
after the commercial center of the
county has been settled by future
developments.
The question to be settled at the
coming election is strictly between
Mt. Idaho and Grangeville, as to
which point is the most suitable for
the county seat for the next six
years; the people are to decide. 1t
is not right to cause injustice and
Inconvenience to large number of
citizens and to the principal bust
ness interests of the county for six
long years on the presumption that
at some future time some other
sections may desire to compete for
the county seat. The people of
Idaho county will do justice to 9TH
er points when the time comes,
but for the present the contest is
between Mt. Idaho and Grange
vile, and the efforts of designing
persons to create a feeling of jeal-
Ousy and prejudice among the peo-
pie of other sections should be con-
demned at the polls.
1t is said that Grangeville wants
the earth: to which we reply that
she has paid we'll for all the favors
she has received. The Govern
ment Experiment Station located
half way between Grangeville and
Mt. Idaho would not have been
located on Camas prairie but for
the efforts of Grangeville people,
who contributed more to secure it
than all the rest of the county COM
bined. The new enterprises, such
as banks and roller mills, which
have been induced to come to
Grangeville, were much needed on
the prairie and all the people OF
Idaho county will reap the benefit.
Why tax yourselves to keep the
old county buildings at Mt. Idaho
in repair, when by voting the coun-
ty seat at Grangeville, you can get
new buildings free of all expense to
the taxpayers.
The citizens of Grangeville dc
not pretend to be more solicitous
for the welfare and interests of the
Taxpayers than any one else, ant
therefore it would be folly to claim
that We want the county seat here
on that account alone. The gair
to the taxpayer comes in in getting
new county buildings for old ones
and in having the court house a
the most convenient and accessible
! point to the bulk of all the peOpl,
of all the county.
Section ., article 1S, of the con
3 stitution of the state of Idaho read
as follows:
SEC. q No county seat shall be removed IN
less upon petition Of a majority OF the qualife
electors of the county, and unless two-thirds o
= the qualified electors of the county. voting OF
) the proposition at a general election. shall vot
in favor of such removal. proposition 10
I removal of the county seat shall not be sui
mitted in the same county more than once Il
six years except as provided by existing law'
= No person shall vote at any county seat elet
tion who has not resided in the county ei
. months. aud in the precinct ninety days.
There is no provision of law 70
: vote oftener than ONCE IN SIN
YEARS.
). TREASURER'S AFFIDAVIT.
). STATE ra,ll5s OF ds IDAHO IoAHn IS.
John Bower, being first dull
!. sworn, says:
That he is Treasurer of Idah
county, State of Idaho.
That fbara was On tho ond do
of November, 1892, delivered
'' him, as such Treasurer, a certif
y cate of deposit, which certificate {
deposit is in the words and figure
!, following, tO-wit:
If CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT.
u BANK OF CAMAs PRAIRIE,
Grangeville, Idaho ,Oct.31 1892.
Six Thousand Dollars (s6,OO(