, 1901-10-10
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1901.
u. T.. Trains at WalcOtt-
WEST.
Bottom Facts About That Gold Hill
Road.

The Sun in reference to the road which
Rawlins wants the county to build from
that place to the Rudefeha mine:
at is manifest that Brother Crawford's
memory is a little short and his dispos.
ition to be fair somewhat warped, or he
would not indulge in comments of this
character.
when the proposition was advanced
to build a road TO the Gold Hill mining
district some II years ago. the people Of
Saratoga professed to be very much in
favor Of it. According to the best recol
lection the people OF Saratoga subscrib
ed something like $500; the citizens Of
Rawlins subscribed $500 and $500 was
appropriated by the county commits
s%ioners.
'Rawlins citizens paid every dollar
they subscribed and the county appro-
I~riation was given, but less than one.
half the amount subscribed at Saratoga
was paid. AS n result Of this effort at
road building a good wagon road was
constructed which made the entire Gold
Hill section tributary to Saratoga
1t is very manifest that somebody's
memory is rather short and somebody's
disposition to be fair is very much warp
ed. We will see whose it is before we
get through with this%a article.
In the first place, as Brother Perry
wds not a citizen OF Rawlins twelve
years ago, we must e%xonorate him from
any blame except it be a too ready belief
in what has been told him by ]prejudiced
men concerning Saratoga and Saratoga
people.
The work OF promoting the Gold Hill
road was in the hands OF the Saratoga
Board of Trade, OF which w. B. Hugus
was the president, j. b. Hassett the
treasurer and the writer secretary.
Therefore we can speak from u personal
knowledge, and will not have to depend
on any one else for our information.
[ The Saratoga Board Of Trade sub
scribed $3.50 in money, the citizens aud
r%anchmen subscribed $500 more in work,
the Rawlins Board Of Trade subscribed
$500, and the county commissioners
$500, making $3.50 in all. The Sarato
GO Board OF Trade, the ranchmen and
citizens and the county, each paid the
amount subscribed, but the Rawlins
Board of Trade never paid Il dollar OF
the amount it pledged. The Sun goes
further and says hat not a dollar of the
expenses Of that road was paid by the
Rawlins Board OF Trade.
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for several months, but in vain, to get
the Rawlins Board of Trade to come to
time with it's subscription, but outside
of some very fair promises. not a dollar
Of the promised subscription ever mater,
ialized aud the Saratoga Board Of
Trade gave it up in disgust. As 10 the
truth Of the above We nave but to refer
any one to the following named mem,
bers OF the Saratoga Board OF Trade:
W. b. Hugus, Capt. l.. q. Davis, j. b..
Hassett, W. IL. Greene, G. W. Burdick,
Dr. IL. NJ. Bennett and any other citizen
OF Saratoga who was a member of the
Saratoga Board of Trade at that time.
The correspondence concerning this
matter passed through the hands OF the
writer and he knows what he is talking
about, while Brother Perry has to de.
pend upon someone else Tor his inform
alton.
The Republican has before made the
assertion that the Saratoga people did
not contribute toward the making OF
that road, and the people Of Saratoga
raannt EnGh an tmHntHtIan vary Atr,p.,
ly, and well they should, when. outside
of the help given 10y the county, they
built the road without any help what
ever from Raw,ins. Ii il the very quInt
essence of gall for the Rawiins people To
come in now and claim TO have built the
road.
The people OF Rawlins have tried in
vain to build a road to Encampmcnt,
las they tried TO build 10 Gold Hill
without coming via Saratoga, but every
such effort has been abortiyc. In all
such efforts they have, us many Of their
citizens openly acknowledge, tried to
miss Saratoga just a few miles.
As to the Republicans assertion that
o%ne.fourth Of the assessed valuation Of
the county il within the limits of the
town OF Rawlins we very much doubt.
but VT hope II IT is hat tho county
commissioners will see To 1t that the
town OF Rawlius pays one. fourth Of the
taxes, something which We will bet our
whattle they have never yet done, The
assertion is pure buncombe.
Afterward-a and this Is within the
time, il not the memory, Of Brother
Perry-whcn the citizens Of Rawlins
proposed to build u road from that
place, VIA the Nevius ranch, to Saratoga.
they were going to build it at their own
expense. When it was completed every
dollar Of the expense OF its construction
was saddled outo the county,
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