Arizona republican., 1899-02-16
CARVING OF COUNTIES.
A Petition for the Disintegration CT
 pinal.

There ia strong petition from the heavy tax payers in the eastern and southern portion Of Pinal county to be annexed to CT absorbed into Pima county, says the Frontier. That's a | little different from the ordinary move.
 There are half a dozen programmes Tor the formation of new counties.
 sSs are always open to suspicion
 the placehunters and the
 TX both ends against the middle"
 Rows are pretty numerous and ubi- qtii-ous nowadays. Sometimes, Of course, the move is legitimate and based on fair reasons and demands ia VOrable action. But in the case Of IabsorbtiOn, when the cry is take us in out of the wet it's different-its al most conclusive proof that something is radically wrong. If it is impossible. by strict economy, to conduct q county government within it's OrdiQary rev enues the tax payers should take up the problem and solve the future. iH you wait on those who hold office. you will wait in vain.
 There was some talk few years ago of dividing Pinal county between MaricOpa and Pima. That is evidence that the trouble is deep seated. It is now proposed that Pima county take all that portion about the Riverside and Mammoth country and run the line straight west so as to embrace Casa Grande. This would give us about thirty or thirty-five miles more of the Southern Pacific railroad. The balance of said Pinal county to be ab- sorbed by Maricopa.
 We understand that a large majority of the tax payeTs-Of all classes 1of. bus iness-in eastern and southern PinaI- have already signed q petition urging division as above indicated, and we have been told that the residents of said section were practically unani- nous for readjUstment of their COhti- cal status. until the news came of the adVeTes decision of the United States supreme court on those depI0rab,c Narrow Gauge railroad bonds. That scared Q few. And it is no wonder. However, the local attorneys are talk ing a hopeful view of the case (which is naturaD and we might as well eli IT, mate this possible burden in figuring the benefits or drawbacks Jf carving up PinaL. What the indebtedness Of that county is, we know not, but pre- Sume-like her sister cOuntics-She s i'll bad shape, financially, of course. 1 But it can't be worse than Pima, so all we need now to look at are the physi- | cal characteristics, the business and the people. Possibly tho reverse or der would be naming them in their impOrtance.) From this standpoint | the trade would be a good ore fer | Pima. The section mentioned em- braces some fine farming lands. prob | ably as good as any in Arizona: min erals and cattle are also largely in- cluded. The inhabitants are Of the | best class-law abiding, thrifty and | If added to Pima county | the political expense Of that section . would be nominal. The assessed vaII- ation of property in the half Of PmaI the eastern and southern portions is computed to be between a half and three quarters of 3 million possibly mOre-with vast opportunities for speedy and immeasurable growth.
 If NOgaleS and vicinity is discOn- tented and determined to "cut loose and go it alone" it might be well fer III hands to get together and see what he possibilities are for all amicahle settlement of these political troubles. f "Papago" county does not take in )rO BlancO and Arivaca, we might |, gain. materially speaking, as much as we lose if we succeed in anneXing that portion of Pinal county designated; i, md our gain socially would be enOr- nous. Not that we cast any slur on ,ur good neighbors to the south, but imply on the proposition of having a 'contcnted" population within the boundaries Of Pima, or having @ ais ontented' population. Nogales will be contented until She has ested the cornucopia fondly supposed : 0 be hidden up the sleeve of ''c1unsy eat
 If Pinal is .'willin'," if Maricopa CT1' mi 1I rN71't e fer eyes to a good trade, let US get ! own to facts, figures and people and ee what we can agree upon in the way of using q carving knife on Final !
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