The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING
PROPOSED NEW COUNTY


Prairie and Rchand countless comprises sixty full townships and
five fractional townships and will contain approximately 216O
miles 380O Of land and the county would
be larger than fourteen of the counties existing the state
The assessed valuation for the territory to be included for
1918 $0484 increase Of 1892 1890 in
year, the valuation in 1917 being s36615O0 On this basis
reasonable to suppose that the tax valuation for the present
year would be around 50000000 conservative estimate
Taking the past records of other similar counties in actual
existence will be found that these small counties not
costly to maintain as the large
Dawson county in 1917 % mill county tax raised
$O98O7OO to maintain the county and 1918 the in
creased of mill Dawson county today has tax valuation
of $18,47O31200.
Prairie county with an area of 1868 square miles and tax
valuation 1918 $6o5 20OO eveda county of IL mills
which reduction of mills the 1917 tax which 6
mills.
Carter county with an area of 3l8 square miles and tax
1918 of 10000 county of 16 mills
which reduction of mill the 1917 tax which 17s
mills
Mineral county with 24 square miles and
valuation in 1918 of 90 levied county tax of III mills
which reduction of mill the 1917 tax which was 18
mills
There Montana 43 counties of which Ia levy 20 mills
tax for county for the 1913
unfortunate as to live in one of these counties
The public records show that it possible to manage the
affairs of small county at less than large county and
when you stop and consider the item of big criminal trial
alone where from to twenty-five witnesses have to travel from
eighty hundred miles and the county seat and back
it be that this large item itself The saving to and
from the county seat by officers the performance of their duty
would make big difference in what our taxes would be we had
county seat in the Valley.
Instead of having the expense of three or four saard de-
putes help large county and do the work, small
county of proposed deputy would be sufc
1t claimed that Dawson county heavily in debt that
it broke The last available figures which are published In
1918 report of the State Tax Commission show the bonded
debt Dawson county for 1917 be for county
poses This bonded debt does not include the bonded debt of
the various school districts in the county The bonded debt of
each school district determined the in the respective
districts and district liability and not county liability In
other words your district bonded for some other
bonded for S0O000 you living the district with the
$1,000 debt have interest liability the debt OF the other
district
Past figures remain in Dawson county, the
people probably have pay least % mills for 1919 and
% mills A0O0,OO00O valuation would amount to
but do other counties of size and vaa
have done in the and have to levy high l8
mills the first it would be saving to the tax payers owning
$OO0O0 worth of property of at least $20O0OO Stop and
figure what could be done with $4,000 enough to start
bank, good creameries, large flour mill 1t
would that you would IS each 81 600 worth of
property you and while from S. $40 not large to
man, taken in the aggregate it amounts to lot
Prairie county for 1918 levied sufficient tax to raise the
its county, Carter county for the
levied tax sufficient to raise $67649O and Mineral county is
raising $7o83 to its county for 1918 On probable
tax 1919 with 18 mill levy would have approx
atey 10000 county purposes besides share
of the money the old county at the time when cut made
This taking probable 1919 tax value at 5O0O0 and
of 18 II in the territory included $392
79OO is reasonable suppose that this natural increase will be
maintained.
The county, created with the costs OF trans
cbng the records should be able $4,000 more than it
Prairie 1918 $25OOO than it cost Carter in 1913
The bill for the creation of the county OF McConewas
introduced the house by Rep Rasmussen last week and is
in the hands of committee divisions The of
McCone has been upon of Senator Nc
Cone county The officers for the county has not
been fully decided upon by the committee in charge but
derstand all parts will be represented
Latest reports Helena that the bill for creation Of
Garfield county by the Jordan people will pass but Wolf Points
bill killed together with others Prospects for
the passage of the McCone bill good.
county created the permanent location Of the county
seat would be left the at the next general election