The Yellowstone journal., 1894-12-26
NOTHING IN 1T.


fight the Forsyth Times is putting up
for county division. The only point the
conspirators hope to make with the peo
pie in the proposed new county is that
taxes will be lower. and here is one of
Joe Aliens Arguments that he c. all
eLges this paper to answer. in proof of
the statement that taxes will be lower.
This statement of the lowering of the
rate of taxation We stand ready to prove.
Read the figures on the 81 yt' page of tn
two new counties that were created at
the last legislature and their low tax
alton and compare them with Custer
comfy.
"On the sixth page" which, by the
way is the fifth page-but that don't
make any difference; it is nearer than
Joe usually gets to the facts-we find
an enumeration Of the tax levy in each
county in the state, AID adjoining this,
in prominent display type, the facts are
set forth that Valley county's levy for
this year was only l. mills and Teton
county's .171s mills. These are two of
the five new counties created two years
ago, and 10 the tai Ie so obigingly fur
nished by the Tin IS, we find the tax
levy for the others S as follows: Gran
its. Is msls; Raw Iii, 20ls mills; Flat
head. 2l mills. = he latter is the richest.
most prosperous and most resourceful
county of the Fl ., and its levy, without
stock taxes. i one mill higher than
Custer county levy. including stock
taxes. With the record of three of the
five new counties against his argument
old Joe has the effrontery and the dis
honesty to make big display of the two
that he thinks will serve his turn, and
overlook(?) the others; and this he calls
fact it is neither one or the other. The
question interesting the people who are
residents of the western part of Custer
county is not what it has cost the new
counties to maintain themselves. but
what it is liable to cost them to maintain
Mr.. Alexanders pet scheme. This paper
has shown that IT will cost them THIRTY
MILLS taxes the first year, and the figures
given cannot be monkeyed with to pre-
sent any other result. 1t is true that the
taxes in Custer county this year are
high ,bnt the one-sideed one .ideaed Times
does not tell the people that the levy
last year was only 13 mills and the year
before only 1871 mills. and that the
jump to twenty mills this year was rem
dered necessary by the locking up of
$4,000 Of the county funds in the Stock
growers bank where they are yet; nor
does it explain when enlarging o. the
fact that Custer county has 81. 6.SSS, ,349.00
of taxable wealth, that sl.0O0,0O0O0 of
this pays no taxes as yet and is only as
sessed to maintain possible legal claim
Oh. it is nice, honest. falr-minded pa.
per. this Forsyth Times and it dosn't
publishes in big display that the west
end of the county only received sl.I9i.-
50 of road funds last year, while Miles
City got s2.J00.00. This statement is
made for the purpose Of stirring up a
feeling against Miles City, but it is lie
pure and simple. Miles City did not
get one dollar Of road tax last year,
and has not since it was incorpora-
ted in 1857. Miles City road dis
district. embracing every road leading
into town. and extending twenty miles
or more in every dirse,ion and embrac-
ing the most important and most con-
tInuously Travelled roads in the county,
did perhaps get this s2,5O0.00; we don't
know but are willing to admit it. but
we object to the statement made by the
Times that Miles City gets any sum
whatever from the road fund, and we
object further to the whole argument"
put up by the Times as being 'incom-
petent. irrelevant and immaterial.-