The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-15
Phillips County Assured.

Phillips County Assured.
Since the filing Of the petitions
praying for the new county Of Phillips
to be organized out Of a part of Valley
and Blaine counties there has been
little or no trouble experienced until
the first of this week, when the fact
was brought to the notice of the
Malta people. by some of tive fair
minded citizens of Saco that a with
draWal or remonstrance petition had
been circulated. A number of the
representative business men Of this
city called OH the people Of Saco
Monday night to learn the cause of
the withdrawal. The people Of Saco,
with the exception of one or two, are
in favor of the new county, put it is
like leaving a bad apple in with a box
of good ones, they will all spoil unless
the srotten one is removed. These
two or three howlers, two from Saco
and the leader from the little town of
Beaverton, which is in the other
county, sent up thewail: high taxes,
no roads, bonded Indebtedness, poIit-
kcal strength killed, and trade condi-
ftions cut into.
10 avoid these dire calamities some
| few voters were induced to sign
remonstrances,~ protests, and such
other Instruments as our friends on
the east brought forth to frustr
our worthy efforts for a new county
before further debts and bond issues
could be sadd)ed upon our community.
The action of our destroyers in this
matter is not only ill-adviscd, but
contrary to the intent and purpose
Of our legislature, which in it's wisdom
sought to relieve the distress incldent
to the organization of new districts
by the passage of an act to provide
for such organization by the people
living therein, when a conservative
assessaDle valuation of property
obtained Sc, 100000, and which could
be segregated and set aside without
reducing the county or counties from
which the same was taken to an
assessable valuation Of less than
5000, 900. There was no provision
in this act of the Legislature for the
invasion Of the territory proposed to
be organized as a new county, by
knockers, hoWlers, or kickers from
outside districts. The citizens from
Beaverton who are sending up the
principal part of the calamity wall
are just as much in contempt when
circulating petitions for withdrawal
in tile new county Of Phillips as
though they lived in some foreign
country. TO say that their actions
was unworthy of honest men is
putting it as mild AS it would be to
refer to the odor Of the skunk as
perfume.
The Saco Independent in it's last
issue says: "The man that can he
convinced that the proposed new
county would lower taxes could be
| IIlHOc " DtllHV6 tn6 moon WAS Dlnut
of green cheese" The fact of the
matter is that the man that could not
be shown where taxes in counties
with a smaller valuation have been
the ones with a small tax levy is Il
solid ivory top and if he had amy gray
matter in that said top it has been
removed to some other part of his
anatomy. We wish to refer the
learned gentlemen of the east who
are going to be so badly hurt, abused
and damaged by the taxation, to the
figures of the various counties in
North Dakota. and if they have a
resident who came to their country
from any Of the counties mentioned
they can verify the statements.
Rate OF
Assessed Taxation
Cou mites Valuation Mills.
Oliver ,3O5 ,912 3O.35
Mckenzie - 1854, ,757 2O.4
Mercer 1,O41 ,271 3S.
Mcintosh - 1886, 1sS 80.
Logan ------ 1924. 557 80
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