Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-02-09
UNION COUNTY ONCE MORE.
% the Editor of the New MEXICAN.

To the Editor of the New MEXICAN.
SANTA FE, Feb. 81 am constrained to
oppose the creation of Union county for
the following reasons:
LIST. Because large majority of my
constituents both of Colfax and Mora
equities, as well as the people of Folsom,
and some others embraced in the pro-
posed new county have commanded me
to do so.
I'd. Because of the shifting nature OF
the taxable property in the proposed
county, and the absence of real estate
subj oct to taxation sufficient to support
county government; hence the risk of
imposing burden on the peop.e which
they would not be able to carry.
Sd. The county is now in a formative
stage and the new county lines can be
better defined when the county is more
fully settled.
4th. The continued decline in the stock
business, and it's future uncertainty; hence
the risk of basing future calculation, ON
an uncertain proposition. ="
5th. The critical financial condition in
which Mora county would be left, grow
ing out of the exemption act, which after
close calculation reduces the number of
tax payers in Mora county to about 400,
and the taxable property to less than ST.
100000 with debt of about $62, 900 to be
provided for, the interest on which
amounts to over $4,000 annually, over
and above the current expenses of the
county.
9Th. The certainty of the new county
at once contracting large and unavoid-
able debt without solid taxable property
to warrant the same.
7th. The instability of the inhabitants
of the proposed new county, the tax pay
ers of which can at any time remove their
property beyond the limits of the county
thus depriving the county of the means
of support after large debt has been in
Cured, thereby doing great wrong to
the people who through lack of means to
get away, as for other reasons, might be
compelled to remain in the county.
8th. The utter want of desirable agri-
cultural lands which alone can make a
county the desirable and permanent home
of contented and prosperous people.
9th. The evident determination on the
part of some parties to boom certain
localities with view to self aggrandise-
ment, which always results in reaction,
producing shrinkage in property values, a
falling off in tax receipts and discomfort
among the people.
10th. The earnest protests of the best
informed, and the more directly interested
people coming as they do from all parts
of the territory affected and especially
from Folsom, praying that their present
relations be not disturbed till the country
is further developed, and the people have
more permanently fixed their habitations
and settled down, before they be burdened
with the care and support of new
county.
18th. From recent communications
am convinced that the delegation lately
here from Mora did not represent the
people, and that they have repented of
their acts because they spoke without due
regard for the best interests of the people,
and that they themselves join in the gem
eral protest against the creation of Union
county.
From the foregoing reasons together
with others not mentioned here, feel
that it is not safe to grant the petition;
although it may work hardship on the
people in some portions of the county
we had better wait for further develop
ments. L. FRAMPTON,
Representative from Mora and Colfax
counties,