Williams news., 1912-04-27
WILLIAMS BOOSTERS
 VISIT THE CAPITAL

business men O1 Williams DOarueu No. 1, bound for Phoenix. Word had been received that the county division matter was to be taken up Saturday by the committee on county and county affair and our citizens wanted to be on hand to do all in their power to help the good cause along.
 It was jolly party and the trip to Phoenix was enjoyed by all.
 The party arrived in Phoenix at S:45 D. m., where they were met by several Williams people who had been on the ground watching events for several days. They were es corted to the Commercial hotel by Hon. Geo. w. Harben and after all had been "fxed out for sleep, they scattered themselves all over the business section of the city, all bent to find a place to get square meal.
 Neat badges, bearing the words Hunt County Boosters" were worn by the entire party and 1t was not long before the badges were being pinned on great many of the residents of Phoenix.
 Saturday morning at II o'clock the Williams party met in a large room in the rear of the lobby of the Commercial hotel, and com mittee was appointed to present our side of the division matter be- fore the legislative committee and to go to the capitol building in a
 body.
 Arriving at the capitol the party
 was ushered into the regular con-
 mittee room, but it was soon found
 that the place was entirely too
 small for the boosters and an ad-
 iournment was taken to the assem-
 ply room, filling that room to over
 flowing.
 A. T. Cornish was the first to ad-
 dress the committee. He spoke o1 the value of all the taxable prop erty of the county of Coconino which according to the 1911 assess ment was more than $4,O0O,0OO t and in case of division the county
 of Hunt would have, according tC that assessment, about $2,OOO,0OO ' and if the Santa Fe railroad is as l sessed about the same figures tha : the Southern Pacific is now assess
 ed, the new county would hav' : about $3,OOO,OOO and the count. ;, of Coconino would have nearl. : $4,OOO,OOO, showing that eacl
 county would be stronger in prop = erty values than several of tn . small counties of the state at tn e present time; also proving by tn
 supervisors reports of the differen
 counties of the state that the smal
 counties are running on a smalle
 tax rate than the large ones. H J. also showed that we would receiv 0 good revenue from the sale ( l. government timber, grazing pel d mits, etc.
 7- The census figures also shove k that we had population suflicier d to class ourselves with some of th 'r smaller counties of the state. d The official vote was also show Ie for the years 1906, 1908 and 191 Is showing that we were very lit |" behind the eastern part of u 1t county in that respect.
 Is Senator Breen then answere st with his side of the question, sta y ing that he did not think the fl a- ures were correct and presented p 1e titions protesting against the divi o' ion. He also stated that the re ne son that Flagstaff got most of u 'lr road money was from the fact Fla ne staff had more than 600 miles CT roads, while Williams had only S. little more than 200 miles. VI He was answered by Represent 'e tive Thomas Maddock, who demo o strated that he was a man of ab 0i ity. He said that the love of hor
 rule and a desire to build up t
 town of Williams, make our o1