Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1914-09-25
FRIDAY, SEP. 25. 1914.

In last weeks issue of the
Grangeville Globe A. F. Parker,
who seems to have been consti-
tuted the official figure head
for the anti-division forces,
quotes figures to show that Idaho
county paid less taxes last year
than did Nez Perez, Clearwater
or Lewis counties and tries to
show that this county is CORE
spondingly better off than our
smaller neighbors. He failed,
however, to include our levy for
warrant redemption, which made
our levy greater than that of
either Lewis or Nez Perez and
almost as large as that of Clear
water according to his own fig
ures) and failed entirely to men
ton our big county debt of some
$65, 900 as compared with the
thrilling Indebtedness of our
neighbors.
Mr.. Parker gives some very
good argument for county divis-
ion in the following comparison
of Lewis and Idaho counties:
1.-THE divisionists are also prone to
make comparisons between Lewis and
Idaho county. The comparison is I'M
fair, Lewis county is actually the small
est county in the state $4,000 acres)
while Idaho county is the largest e.
222, 400 acres). Practically all of Lewis
county is tillable land, while in Idaho
county we have unproductive mountain
country. Lewis county has 43 school
districts while Idaho has So. Lewis
has only II election precincts, as
against so in Idaho county. Lewis is q
small, compact county where county
official can leave the county seat after
breakfast, ride all over it and return in
time for his evening meal. The condi.
tons are otherwise in Idaho county,"
And these conditions in Lewis
county are just what the west
side people have been fighting to
attain for the past four years.
Again he says:
There is no hardship for anybody to
remain in Idaho county for the present.
Only jurymen and witnesses are under
the necessity of ever visiting the coun.
ty seat. Business is done with the
court house by mail or over the tele
phone. Taxes are paid by money order
or personal check"
Arguing on this basis, then,
there is no need for a state wag.
on road nor a north and south
railroad, for all of our business
at Boise can be done by mail OF
parcel post-a sort of mail order
buslness-or we can go around
several hundred miles by rail.
And for all practical purposes
Grangeville is just as far remov-
ed from many of the residents of
our county as is north Idaho
from south Idaho, of New York
from San Francisco for that mat
ter. Yet Mr.. Parker has always
been a strong advocate of a north
and south railway. Funny how
blind personal interests will
make one, occasionally. And
our friend Parker must have been
blind or sleeping for some time,
for he asks to be enlightened as
to the conditions on which the
people are demanding county d.
vision. 1t is passing strange that
a well read man like Mr.. Parker
should be in such dense ignorance
after four years of county division
fighting when the majority of
the population of the entire coun-
ty understand the conditions 80
we'll. 10 shatter his slumbers at
this late hour might prove more
than he could bear.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Parker
stated in the Globe that one of
the main reasons for the county
division agitation was that Cot
tonwood and Kooskia had a bunch
or ne'er-do-well office seekers
VINO must be taken care of.
This, coming ont of Crannoy;lIo