The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-20
EMERY COUNTY pInIsIoN.
Price, Feb. 9, 1894.
Editor Salt Lake Herald:

Price, Feb. 9, 1894
Editor Salt Lake Herald:
am sorry to notice in your valua-
bic paper two or three articles in the
past few days that are very much
! opposed to the creation of a new coun-
/ " by cutting off the north end Of
Emery county. This being such a fair
and just cause ! am led to believe YOU
have been misinformed in this matter.
hence your objections which have APP
peared in your paper. BY careful ex-
animation you win find that there are
several counties in Utah that have
less revenue than Carbon and Emery
! if the county was divided. Emery, you
understand, is a very large county, and
the county seat thirty-five miles from
railroad; this is very inconven-
lent and expensive for the residents of
Emery county living along the rail-
road. Your informer is very much mis-
taken when he says the majority of the
people of Emery county are opposed to
the division. We have some 900 names
on our petition in favor of the divis-
ion of the county, and there are about
500 on the remonstrance petitions, and
most of them are school children. in
fact the only people in the county OBJ
iecting TO the division are a few at
Huntington who are always Kicking
and fussing about something. If the
bill creating a new county had been
amended SO as to bring Huntington in
to Carbon county there never would
have been a word said in opposition to
the measure.
The future welfare of eastern Utah
depends largely upon the creation OF
this new county. There must be a mar
ket for the farm products if there is
any money made in the business and
with a new county, new county seat
and other enterprises that would nat
urally follow, there will be an increase
in the population of the town and
would necessarily increase the demand
and the progress, wealth and enter
prises of the new county would HELM
their sister county Emery, and as the
county progresses Democrats and Re-
publcans would be equally benefited,
but as the matter stands now with
the county seat thirty-five miles from
railroad, there is very little hope Of
any progress.
1 hope you will reconsider this mat
ter and give the citizens of the north
and south ends of Emery county an op-
portunity to present their side of the
question, as well as few sore heads"
at Huntington.
A SUBSCRIBER.
We publish the foregoing commune
cation which, though it is dated Feb
ruary 8, has only just reached us 1t
does not, in our opinion, help the
cause of the divisionists. The gentle
men who are here in that cause can do
much better than that.
About the revenue of the county we
happen TO have some official figures.
They are supplied by the county clerk
and arrived here on Monday. The
cash in the treasury December 81. 1893,
was IS, 22O.42 OF this there was due in
warrants in circulation $S,16O.SS; county
school fund, S1,112.67 This would leave
a balance of $94Zs7. But the county
received in 1893 from the territory for
roads, bounties and maps, s2,12ZS1,
which it cannot expect to receive every
year, and without that amount there
would have been a deficiency of ST.
1871.
The actual county tax is shown by
this report to foot up $5.s41.S7 This
divided between the two counties
would make very small sum for