The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-27
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LaSt eunesuay AFTERNOON news
came by telephone that the Sanford
segregation bill, by which Neihart is
annexed to Cascade county had pass
ed the senate at 4 p. m, and only
awaited the governors signature.
This signature has been attached,
and we are now living in Cascade
county. Great Falls is our county
seat, and our political affiliations will
all be made with the people to the
north.
This is a movement of good in
many respects, at the same time it
bears its bad features. 1t has it's
points of favor and of disfavor. And
so complicated becomes the question
in its many phases that there vas
really nothing to warrant the exhub-
crane of enthusiasm %evinced by
some in their zeal for it's cce
Notably among the favorable feat
ures is the facility with which court
business or political business may be
effected. All who have business
with the county officials or county
records can comfortably ride to
Great Falls, transact any ordinary
business and return next day by
train. To all such the advantage at
certain seasons of the year is worth
a mans life. For the stage ride
over the Belt Mountains is a terror
to saints and sinners alike, and those
having to make it are vastly bene-
fitted by this Legislative move.
Taxes will not be changed to any
considerable extent. But the new
acquisition to Cascade makes that
county next to Silver Bow the veal
thiest county of the state. While
jobs upon jobs have been perpetrat-
ed in Meagher county to bleed the
taxpayers, there is no day when
Meagher has suffered the magnitude
nous system of leechcraft which has
prevailed in Cascade county. Mel
hart has turned away from the devil
only to fall into the deep sea. We
used to take an occasional political
trick, but now the occasions will be
only once in the life of an ordinary
mortal.
But we are in Cascade. W. will
easily acquire the necessary political
friendships, the party affinities, to
make us feel at home. For we have
always done business with the people
of Cascade, and ever since the rail
road reached Great Falls she has
been the supply point of all this Belt
Mountain country. Acquainted with
her people in a business way, it will
not be long till acquaintanceship
will grow strong politically.
The passage of this bill is feather
in the cap of representative Sanford,
and a fitting rebuke to certain
would-be wheel horses of the White
Sulphur Springs ring, who adopted
the hoggish methods best calculated
to perfect conditions for this change.
We are sorry for White Sulphur
Springs, and for our friends in that
locality; but the blame lays at the
very door of a few of her citizens,
and we shall rejoice to see them re-
ceive their just deserts-on the chute
to oblivion. Some men are too
bright and cunning to live in this
world, and White Sulphur Springs
is not without her sprinkling of these
same individuals.
One other feature of advantage to
come from this change--probably
the most important advantage of all
lies in the fact that all our indust-
rial enterprises for the past ten years
have come either from or through
Great Falls. Within that period
but few people from any other direc-
ton have taken any interest in the
camps of Neihart and Barker. But
with all our records in White Sulph.
ur Springs, the access to which is SC
difficult, and unnatural, we will soon
realize the benefits of the new order.
For with the county records at Great
Falls, anyone Investigating the title
to ground, or seeking any other in
formation concerning Neihart OF
Barker property will find it quite to
their convenience while in Greal
Falls. Anyone who knows how
delicate a matter may influence a
mining deal, pro or con, knows that
men of means will hardly stop long