Graham guardian., 1915-05-07
THE LEADING TOWN


removal and the place i! will be
moved to.
The campaign for county seat re-
moYal has gone along quietly, yet
earnestly. and with the best feeling
everywhere in the county. The
people realize that the time has ar
rived when a new county seat will
be chosen and that new court
house will be erected that will help
materially in bringing Grahamcounty
to the front.
Both questions: Shall the county
seat be removed from Solomon
. vilIe?" and If the county seat be
removed. to what placer" will ap.
pear on the ballot.
The question of county seat re-
moval is of such vital importance
that there is little doubt but that
large vote will be polled, and both
questions decided without recourse
to second election, which would in
Volve an expense Of at least 81 900.
Both questions should he decided
finally ut the election next Tuesday.
In order to carry the election for
county seat removal, more than 60
per cent of the votes cast must be
in favor of such removal, and in
order to locate the town for the
new county seat, majority of the
votes cast must be in favor Of one
of the towns that is a candidate for
the new county seat.
Thatcher, Central and Pima are
candidates for the new county seat :.
The people of each of these towns
are ambitious for the success of
their particular town. The people
OF Stafford are equally ambitious
that their town should be the one
selected and undoubtedly have the
very best reasons for believing that
when it comes to final choice the
people will realize that the claims of
Stafford for the new county seat out.
weigh all others.
The fact that Stafford is the center
of business for Graham county can
not be denied. Neither can the fact
that Stafford has the largest popula-
tion of any town in Graham county.
AS the leading business town in the
county, and the recognized fact that
such a town is always selected by
the people as the capital of the
county. Stafford should be chosen as
VIC hS" SOubty scat.
Stafford was the county seat of
Graham county until it was re-
moved to Solomonville thirty years
ago. Yet all these years Stafford
continued to grow and its citizens
continued to be progressive until it
has become the leading town of the
county, and there can be no denial
of this fact.
Several months ago when the
telephone company was planning to
build the copper circuit through
Graham county to make long dis
tance connections with the cities of
Arizona and Ell Paso, Texas, and
Los Angeles, CAL, it sent a man
here to make survey of the county,
and to determine, approximately,
what the population would be sew
eral years hence. and what town 10
the county would reach the proper
tions of city.
The object Of the survey was to
gather such information for the
telephone company that would give
II some idea when the county would
reach the position, through popula-
ton and business, of giving back
some return for the large amount
of money that had to be expended
in building the new long distance
line.
After several weeks work, dur
ing which this man visited every
section of the county, he made up
his survey and gave as his opinion,
that the valley proper would increase
in population. mainly through the
larger farms being cut up into
smaller tracts, bringing in new peo-
pie, and through new industries.
The average yearly birth rate also
helped In the calculations. And the
time he had figured to accomplish
the larger population and increased