The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-01-28

people or LnlS county are poor,
tax ridden people, and unable to
maintain this strip. Strange is 1t
not: bit why should the citizens of
Flathead desire this strip when
they are taxed higher at present
than we are? Simply because
they are very intelligent class of
people and know good thing
when they see it. Does the idiot
know who pays the taxes of Silver
Bow county, or what they would
amount to if it were not for the
mines? 1t is very plain to the
casual observer the idiot is simply
.peating, like parrot. what scme
brother idiot has told him and
probably paid him for.
He also says that the greater
portion of the mineral belt lies 10
Flathead county. In this he ex-
poses his utter ignorance, or else
he is a wilfui prevaricator. Every
body who has ever been in that
region knows that the richer, as
we'll as the greater portion of this
mineral be lies in Teton county.
He gees on further to state that
there will be but a few miners
cabins on this strip for the county
to tax. Any sane man knows that
any mining or milling company
would not haul ore fifteen or
twenty miles up mountain and
over the summit, which is next to
impossible only to crow, in order
to get it to mill on that side.
when the natural facilities for
working it are much better on this
side. In case of this strip being
annexed to Flathead county, Teton
would have the pleasure of build
ing roads for Fiathead 20 trans.
port the products Of her mines to
. the railroad.
Furthermore, does the idiot not
, know that with veins the size o.
those in this mineral strip, nc
J company would put up one@horst
mill? And does he not<knowx thai
J four or fine mills, worth at the
! very ieast $3.50, 900 each, would b,
! 'Fquite q relief to the present tax
payers of Teton county, not taking
into consideration the numerou
buildings that would naturally b
required around a mining camp
Perhaps the idiot does not know
and if so we will state for his ben
eft, that all this would be laxabl
, property.
Poor fool! He seems to be in
very deplorable condition when h
is forced to publish a great lon;
article that speaks directly agains
his own, and his fellow citizens in
. terests in order to get possessio
=, of few paltry dollars.
" He goes on to state that tn
" ounty would be put to a
y enormous expense to have tn
Is boundary line surveyed betwec
. the two counties. Woeful ignol
y ance! The idiot does not kno
" that the treaty between Uncle Sal
= and the Blackfoot Indians settle
- that question years ago. n
better line could be wanted tina
~ the main divide of the Rock
% Noun tains, which is the presel
~ line. AS it is, there is not tt
slightet possibility of dispute
- to the boundary line, because eve
~ an idiot could tell which way Il
= water runs, and for this reason Il
~ county would be put to no exp"n
- whatever for surveying a llne.
'e We will ads it that we a
'' heavily taxed in this county, b
how are we going t. lessen thel
y, only through our mineral wealth
~ Evidently the article publish
Is in the montanian was written
10 the editor while that poor delud
10 pin head was under the influen
N' of a twenty-dollar plaster,
perhaps he imagined he W
writing to lot of pin-heads Ii
-" himself, instead of TO an intellige
community. MINER.
his District Court Proceedings.