Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-07-22
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surries and Iip,oIn ccuh.y is diHf
ed hs line running north anC
south acFOss the county between
Jerome and Wendell and sOmewheI
IN The neighborhood Of Haddockanl
the new county seats are locatee
IN Gooding and Rupert. It would
become matter OF Importance 60
inquire WHO Will BE- called on TO
pay the additional taxes. q
And right here Is where the Ca
rey Act settlers Of the Richfield
Dietrich, North Shoshone, Hills
dale and The eastern half of the
Jerome tracts need to sit up and
take n"lice. Bcsause as far as real
estal" Is concerned they would
have all the additional tax to
pay for The Rupert county seat.
Not one acre of th entire Mini
doka project in which Rupert is
located will have to pay any tax
whatever hli all the water contracts
have been paid in full and that
i,nr will not come for about eight
years hence. During that period
OF seven or eight years the Carey
AT settlers of the tracts above
mentioned will have to pay The adj
ditional taxes necessary for the
building of a county seat in Ru-
pert and for the maintenance of
the new county officials besides
having to meet the half Of the pre-
sent county indebtedness.
The people of the Minidoka pro-
Jet have already been relieved of I
a great burden of taxation by rea-
son of the fact that they have had
SO little property assessed for tax
alton in comparison to the proper
ly in other and older portions of
the county. II would hardly seem
The fair and equitable thing for
hem TO do to vote still greater bur
lens OH their neighbors whose
lands are taxable the moment they
Grove up on them and all for the
use and benefit of the town of Ru-
pert and a small slice of surroun-
ling country.
Prehaps the schemers of Rupert
AVE concluded that haste is es-
ential for the success of county
eat location. prehaps the time =
when The Minidoka project VIII
~ extended to the north and north u
fest to the extent OF 10000 acres t,
or which the government has al S
eady made provisions. will make "
Inidoka or Aeequia he center of al
opuialion for the government pro- .
'ct and new county seat might |.
d located in one of those towns n
.stead Of Rupert or the building IN
p of manufacturing town at Hey IA
lrn might interfere with the Ia
ans Of the star Chamber dele OF
ties from Rupert a.
on HE other side the town OF W
lodius could no doubt use a
unly seat to good advantage. 70
me how The tnited States land al,
flee, sCheme did not naterialize we
e road 20 soldier that cost ma ira
. a dollar washed out, and the re-
$. mail route was changed back -
liailes. A boom cannot always nn'
expected TO last forever unless b
Z surrounding country can be sea
ed 10 feed H. What better could por
d The boom than a county seat vii
3. providing It was successful "ol
lut Of course twas not The in
tIon of the Gooding- Rupert plot
$ TO take The good people Of the
niy into their confidence re-
ding The matter Of building up the
new county seats at The ex- u :
50 Of the taxpayers Of the en- ,,~
territory involved in the deal. Ms
Y adopted Star Chamber meth str,
aud they expect them to win. q
might be Well to remark here ~Th
the county division crowd an
win out yet il heroic measures ssi'
not adopted at once to pre- - .s /,
!. Tie people who pay The tax ana
are the ones TO take hold of betr
matter and settle II III their ow the
rests. Beg