The copper era., 1909-02-18
LINCOLN COUNTY LEAGUE.
County Divi-iOn Meets With Approval of
 CitizenS--- Resolutions Adopted.

An enthusiastic Lincoln county delegation composed of Wm. HofT. NJ. H. Kane, J. Backstein, F. O. Bacon, George Carlton, Bob Dunagan H. Hill and other leading citizens of Clifton, left last Monday for Phoenix, where they will spend a couple of weeks in the interests of county di- vision. The party was joined at Guthrie by number of divisionists from Morenci, and when the train reached Duncan the delegation was increased again.
 These citizens will spend their time in Phoenix supporting a cause which Is of grave importance to, and has re- ceived the endorsement of an unlim- ited hunter of promn Ut citizens of Graham county. An enthusiastic meeting was held in Clifton last week at which resolutions were adopted, organizing what will be known as the "Lincoln County League" These resolutions were prepared in list form and circulated with amazing success in the obtaining of signatures. l The resolutions were as follows: | WHEREAS, The people of the pro- posed County of Lincoln:
 Pay school tax enough to provide for an unsurpassed system, yet their schools are perenially short of funds. Our annual payments to the road should have suffiCed to MaCademized the roads Tor road) of the District, yet we are denied even the poor sub stitute of few public trails; neither is there county road or trail to the County seat.
 We are required, in order to reach the County Seat, to make d railroad | journey of One Hundred and Fifty miles, over three and four lines of road, by way of the Territory of New Mexico and the County of Cochise, the alternative being railroad trip over one and two railroad lines and a stage trip over thirtv-tive miles of Toll road, over a mountain range that separates us from the County Seat. We, who live on the eastern | border of Arizona, may journey to the capitol at Phoenix and back with as little loss of time as to and from the County Seat
 Our public officers are far removed, and our official records by the dis tance and difficulties of travel are practically unavailable to our people who constitute the great majority of | the residents of the County.
 | Our citizens are called away and held for Ing intervals, at great eX- pense of time and money, on Jury duty and Court services, whereas such services and duties might be performed with comparatively little loss to the citizen if the Courts were located at the center of Dopula tion.
 The criminal arising in a pOp1lous district ordinarily involve a host of I the distant location of the County Seat in Graham County, must be transported, fed and housed at pub lie expense. The mileage and eX- pense for officers, witnesses and prisoners, tor the same reason, is rendered enormously excessive.
 All tfis great and utterly useless waste of the public's money is. the direct result of an arrangement which locates the County Capitol far from the majority of the citizens, and tue bulk of the public business, waste that could be saved entire, had each section a county govern meut of it's own.
 There fore, we who live east of the | Piloncillo range, who for years have borne the greater part of this waste tul public burden, and in addition, l time and money that falls personally V on each of our citizens when called away on public duty, we are seeking a county government of our own and seperatiOn from a distinct, distan nt and dissimilar community, from whom we are now separated by the natural boundary of forty miles of ] high mountain range and desert. 1 And whereas the building of q new county court house is imperative on account of the inadequate size and poor condition of the present county court house, we therefore consider this an opportune time for the division of the county.
 | Therefore. we, the undersigned residents of the proposed county of Lincoln, believing the attainment of a county government ot our own to he m economic consideration para ! mount to all others, have joined our selves together in The Lincoln County League and faithfully agree to set aside every political obligation and consideration, binding ourselves to oppose the political aspiration of every individual or orga n,za;i jn that opposes our just dtma ndS
 Male Help Wanted.