Arizona republican., 1912-03-25
But Judging From Appear ances It's Pretty Safe Bet That Nothing Like That is Going to Happen Just Yet
THREE OF THEM
 ARE CANDIDATES
Desire for Convenience and for More County Seats Seems to Be at the Bot tom of the Scheme to Divide

Maybe the number of counties Tn Arizona will be largely increased be- fore the end of the present session Of the legislature: maybe CoConino coun- ty will be split into two counties- reduced to its integral clements, so 10 speak: maybe the Winkelman dis trict Of GiIa county will be permitted to sccede from the mother county and be benevolently assimilated by Pinal county: maybe Cochise will be divid- cd. with a county seat in each county and courthouse in each county seat Maybe all these things will happen and then maybe they will not. From indications the one best bet seems to be that they will not.
 By this time the Coconino situation seems to be pretty well understood. In that elevated section of the coun- try there is town named Flagstaff. This town. according to the best au- thoritv extant, contains some enter prising and rather voraciouS citizens. Tn fact. it is positively asserted that the Flagstaff citizens aforesaid not only have good and well established appctites. but they possess the happy faculty of being able to satisfy them on occasion at the political pie count CT. Wherefore and by reason or which. there is more or less gloom in other sections Of Coconino.
 This gloom is shickest and blackest in the Williams vicinity. The peo- pie of that enterprising burg say it IS about time something was being done for them They say they can't do
 
 Flagstafritcs are able to Outvote them. So the plums have all been going to Flagstaff on- the-hill.
 The Williams people say: Let us have two counties. Coconino is too big. anyway. Set US off to ourselves. with county and courthouse of our own and let us have a chance ar the perquistes.
 And that is one of the propositions the legislature has before il.
 Then. there is Gila county and Winkelman. Winkelman people say they are tired of living in Gila coun- ty. Every time they have to go to the county seat, they say. they have to traverse the outer rim Of an acute triangle; and they have 10 start the day before yesterday to get to Globe the day after tomorrow. So they want to be amputated from the parent coun- ty and annexed to Pinal. so that they can travel to the capital of the county without taking week for the trip.
 And what does Pinal say? Pinal. of course says: Come in. boys. the waters fine
 But Gila doesn't look at it that way. ID ,1 game and she will have none of it. So there you are.
 Next is Cochise. The public has been hearing something about Cochise for the past good many months. The historic town of Tombstone wants a new courthouse. The more modern village of Bisbee says its . shame to build a courthouse there. that the business is all transacted in Bisbee, anyway. and that the building sites in Bisbee are perfectly good building sites and one of them should be uti- lized. Then. say the Bisbeeites. if the Tombstone contingent can't be happy otherwise. let them take their play things and go to themselves.
 So. that's the situation as 1t will perhaps come to the legislature. And maybe the legislature will say. De lighted. boys any little thing we can do like that will be done with pleas urc. Just say what you would like and consider the job done"
 Maybe the legislature will say that and maybe it will not. The prepon- derance of the evidence is that it will say nothing of the kind In fact it's Aaf fc h6H |, Of lawsIniths shall have adjourned there will be just as many counties ir Arizona as there are now, and nc more. Moreover. it is d reasonably safe guess that the boundaries oi those counties will not have beer changed in the smallest particular