The searchlight., 1909-01-08
COUNTY DIVISION
In Eastern Valley Co.
Favorable to the Making Of
q New County.

in session in Helena and Senator
Truscott, of Glasgow and Repre-
sentative Frank Arnett, OF Culbert-
son, are looking after the interests
Of Valley County in that body.
One OF the most important bills
that will come before the state leg
,slature at this session, which will
be Of interest to our people gener-
ally, is one to divide Valley Coun-
~. Itis proposed to take strip
off the north end Of Dawson Coun.
ty, which added to the east end OF
Valley County, will form the new
county. The western boundary OF
the proposed new county is several
miles, west of Poplar, the southern
boundary beng the south bound
airy of the tier of townships known
as a north, or about "a miles
south of the Missouri River, the
north boundary the Canadian line
and the east boundary the Mon
tana Dakota Stale line.
II the bill for the new county is
passed AS proposed il will make a
new county about 10 miles wide
from east TO west and about 90
mites long north and south. en-
closing about $500 square miles or
sections OF land.
Valley County as now constitut.
ed rs about the size OF one-tourth
OF the area OF Iowa. Iowa is taken
for the purpose OF comparison and
contains an even 100 counties. 1t
will be seen that Valley county is
as large as as of the counties in
Iowa.
1t IS a we'll known fact that eS
tremely large counties are camher-
some to handle by the county COM
missioners and that the expense is
much greater in proportion than in
handling two or more smaller
counties, and it has been the poll
cy in all stairs to divide counties
as soon as the assessed valuation
OF the property will permit and
thus to save expense to taxpayers
and secure a more equitable distri-
button OF the benefits, such as the
building OF bridges. roads, etc.
The people in all parts OF Valley
County ieel that that time has now
arrived Tor US. While there was
some opposition in some parts Of
the east end OF the county when
the subject was hrst brought to
their attention, as soon as the mat
ter is discussed intelligentlv that
opposition melts like snow in a
chinook wind.
Some Bainville citizens at first
opposed the idea OF county divi-
sion, but after a thorough discus
sion OF the affair, are now in favor
OF it to a man. z Bruegger
went down there last week and ex-
planned matters to them and all the
prominent citizens nov favor the
proposition.
As will be seen in an article Civ
en- below from the Yellowstone
News. Mondak favors the proposed
division. So the sentiment grows
for County division all over the area
Of the proposed county as fast as
the citizens understand the silua.
tion.
One Of the main objections to
the proposed division is that many
people think they would nave TO
pay higher taxes. This is not true
as the taxes have been assessed to
the limit allowed by law all along
and cannot be raised any higher.
II It were necessary to raise more
money than the taxes amounted to
bonds would be issued which
would be paid when the present
valuation would be many times
greater than il is now and at tha,
time would be no burden to the
taxpayers.
The benefits arising from having
a more comnzcf local eounfv or-