The Imperial press., 1903-05-30
FOR Y PERIAL COUNTY
Further Favorable Comment by the
 San Diego Record


 ial county. That paper also publishes
 the following editorial comments
 "'For this city and the bay region it
 would be far better, from almost every
 standpoint, to form combined city and
 county government rather than to be q
 portion of an immense county.
 "A city and county of San Diego, as
 restricted in territorial extent as much
 as the necessities of the case might re-
 uuire, would be the means of saving
 from 5000 to $l00,00O a year to this
 city. city and county government
 on the general lines upon which other
 such municipalities have been organized,
 with thenecessary qualifications adapted
 to our wants would greatly simplify
 our assessments, collection of taxes, dis
 bursements of revenue and many other matters that would be attended to by one set of officials. The idea prevalent among many people that segregation of a portion of this county means financial loss is not borne out by previous similar experience. That portion of the county which helped to form Riverside county always cost more than it's revenue amounted to. The expenses of various officers, the administration of justice in the superior court, jury fees and mileage for that section of this county, as mat ter of record, ate up in one particular year more than the total revenue de- rived from it in two years. While that one year was exceptional, an average made for fifteen years shows that San Diego county, as constituted before di- vision, paid out more money each year for the benefit of the segregated section than it derived from it.
 "The people of the New River country when numerous enough to form a coun- ty of their own can manage their own affairs at much less cost to them and to . us than it could be done were they to re- main part of the county. Were the pop ulation of that section four or five thou sand inhabitants with the usual propor- ton of criminal business, the taxes of several years might be required to pay the cost of a single criminal case that would not cost one-tenth as much if tried near the place where committed. County division is not a matter of senti- ment, but of business, and there is no uupStiOO in Our mind that if NUnuld ho ! good business policy on the part of this city and bay region to offer no obstacles to any section of this county which is ready to set up government of it's own. the whole bay region will be q unit on the desirability of city and county government that will do away with the municipalities of National City and Coronado as we'll as with our own, and the people will then wonder why they did not form such government before and save money, In these days ol rapid electric transit, the folly of sen sible people paying taxes for property situatedanyWhere within ten miles from our present court house to four different tax collectors and having it assessed hy four different assessors is too apuarnnt to need elaboration. Consolidation is the WatchWord of the twentieth centprv and the people of the bay region cannot better employ their spare tune than in deVlslng simple ways and means to con SUllQate Into one muniCiDalitv and ...,