The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-10-01
BOOST FOR THE COURT HOUSE
Rousing Meeting Held at Buhl Saturday to In
form Voters of Conditions

roneous idea. If every one looked at
the matter in this way, the country
east of Twin Falls would have just
cause for complaint in the expenditure
of the road moneys for the past year.
The records of the auditors Office
show that there was expended the past
year the sum of $20,0334 AS on roads. of
which amount Buhl district received
S7,0S5.96, or about Qne-third of the
total amount expended in the entire
county, when this district is one of
the seventeen road districts in the
county. Now out of $4,000 received
and expended for roads, Buhl contri-
buted one-sixteenth and received over
| one-third. This is an actual fact The
| five road districts east of Twin Falls
received less than half this amount
in the five districts combined, or an
average less than one-tenth the
amount to each district and if the line
of reasoning mentioned was a proper
argument, the residents of the East
End would have just complaint against
the Bull district in the expenditure of
their moneys. There is no county in
the state that is more in need of an
adequate court house, than Twin Falls
county, and no county in which such
a large volume of business is being
sary that the records of the county
in which such large volume of busi-
ness is being transacted should be
properly cared for and protected, and
the amount asked for, for this purpose
will be necessary to provide an i'm
provement in keeping with the growth
and demand of the county.
Nov we have our roads and bridges,
and while you did not help us pay for
, them, it is right that we should con-
tribute to the building of your roads
and bridges, but on the other hand, it
is just as right, and just as just, that
: you should help us in properly hous-
2 ing the records of the entire county.
J. Twin Falls district is taxed on valua-
2 ton of 81 1,696,3o6, while Buhl district
g is taxed on a valuation of $685., ,S67 In
!, other words, Twin Falls when paying
} interest on these bonds will contribute
7 $500, where Buhl contributes $1.00. L
give you these figures in order to show
? you that Twin Falls is still bearing the
t burden. | do believe it is in the power
of Bull to defeat the bonds. Now
what | want to bring to your atten-
| tion is the injustice of using your
| power for that purpose. If you were
all on the tax roll and all bearing the
burden equally, there would be no OBJ
5 lection to using your votes as you saw
| fit. But as the taxpayers of Twin Falls
) have been bearing the burden of the
larger proportion of the county's taxes
J for sometime, it seems to me an in
, justice to the taxpayers in the East
| End to use your votes at this time to-
, defeat this proposition, because they
have been bearing the burden hereto
) fore.
| 81 think the fact is pretty we'll
: known that the Office we occupy is
!, very much crowded. l am now piling
books on the vault floor. We have a
vault 6x6. We have no room to move
J around in, even. There is no more
room available in the building. Every
} available shelf is now occupied by
record books. We have now 81 books,
J with shelf room for 80. and l had to-
, order three more yesterday. The vault
, in which they are kept is nothing more
than brick closet, partly built out on
t a board floor, and would fall If the
wood work of the building burned.
: Every property owner in the county is
: entitled to protection for the county
5 records, which means protection to
every property owner in the counly.
: Your property is worthless If you have
2 no title to it, and the records in the
4 Office of the county recorder is your
. title. The records of the county are
: growing at phe omenal rate and the
E recorder is at present taxed to the
: limit tn sud accommodations (such us
: the arc, COR the records. This count,
2 Is '."'u.r.:s more instruments each
e month an a,s two OF the largest
q co,ii.tles in e state combined. Their,
: we're 3S17 instruments filed for reco q
f Turing the last three months, or an
s average of 55 instruments for each
]. working day. This volume OF busi-
: ness will continue to increase for some
s time, and this county will be at a cor
e responding disadvantage in transact
v ing the public business. AS matter
t OF business, as matter Of economy,
e and as matter of safety, there never
' has been in the history of Idaho, a
( greater demand for the building Of q
{ court house" (Applause)
e DR.. Geo. L. Crocker, one OF the COM
| missioners, was next called. He said ::
I "Mr. Chairman: can sanction
/ what Mr. West has said as to the
0 amount OF business done. I know his
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