Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-01-08
ABOUT COUNTY DIVISION
CONTINUED from first pape)

our two bridges crossing the river
near us! Or to part with even a half
interest in them for new county3
What would a new county care for
bridges coming this wav? In case of
necessary repairs we would have to
wait until their board of commission
ers was ready to do busiDsS waiit
would be blqTikafaf Tikaa north side to go to
U1rdwav and to their county seat in
stead of coming to Rocky Ford as
many of them do now. 1t means
bigger stores for Ordway and COM
lete loss to us. We have to pay our
large part of the unfair tax to keep
up the high school at La Junta; if We
Sc the north side we will have to
pa" inst that much more and last
car we put up just $2,soo for that
PURPOSE alone. We will have to keep
Up the court house expense just the
same after the county is divided and
it will cost the people of Rocky Ford
lust that much more to keep it up.
when Otcro county Withdrew from
Rent county. 20 years ago, we had
90 per cent more population and 100
rcr cent more valuation than the pro-
Dosed new county now can show.
We are eighth county in size in tn
entire state now in population and II
we are divided we will never be back
to that point and we are now just
getting in a position to get show
ing in Denver and over the state. and
must we now give that up? Must we
be set back where we can never re-
cover ourselves? Can we expect to
get anything from the legislature
with a county only half as large?
think not. We are now in population
in the class of counties with Boul-
der, Larimer and Weld and our coun-
r. ii. I,,s
with division We cannot ever get up
that far again. There will have to be
built in the next few years four new
bridges. making an expense of over
$4,000 in getting over the Arkansas
River in places now inconvenicnccd
by long travel. Should the south side
paw all this expense when both sides
profit equally. We will have to
ear all this expense alone il the
county is divided. Their main plea
is that 1t is too great an inconven-
fence to get to the county seat. We
have that same trouble. for trains
never have helped us a particle while
they run ideally for the county seat
to be IL here. The people in the west
end and the south end of the county
are troubled just As much as in the
north end: in fact there ara more
than 20 counties over the state that
otCro County WHctC
it is more OF trouble to get to the
county seat than it is to our north
side friends in Otcro county. Ii
means great trouble to us politically.
for it puts another county in our rep
rcscntativc, senatorial and judicial
districts. so that there would be no
end of wrangling and make it worse
than the present inconvenience only.
The matter of transportation from
the north side to the south side has
""n solved for some time but our
friends do not appreciate the plan at
all by their anxiety to get out of Otc-
ro county The Kansas-Colorado
railroad promised to build branch
lines from Rocky Ford to Ordway
and Sugar City and make transpor-
tation easy all over the county and
solved the inconvcnient question sat
isfactorilv all around: but with di-
vision of the county no such branch
lines will be built at all and this
would mean an increase in valuation
OF more than 4 half million and
should appeal to every citizen of the
entire county and should put stop
to the question of county division.
IL means too much for us to lose and
every person in Rocky Ford and vi
cinitv should let Senator Crowley
now and should let Representative
-IcCaskill know that we do not want
co-ntv division at this time.
want every citizen of Rocky
and vicinity to go over this very ser
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