The Raymer enterprise., 1920-04-15

the eastern part or the state las
year and only Uf the mountain
! counties we're higher Her road lev,
| was more than twice that off Weld
only .02 of a mill less than the entir
county levy.
Had we heloged to Logan count,
instead of Weld last year we woult
have paid s62.520 to the Road an,
Bridge Fund instead OF the $3O,2il
that we did pay. and besides W,
would have paid another $12,120 I,
support the county high school a
Sterling. In all CT he county Ia,
we would have paid s106,76O instea,
OF s62.7sO
II would have meant last year al
increase OF $3.50 on every thousans
OF your taxable wealth.
This shows that we not need Il
sever old alliances and make new
ones to better cur condition. Inde
pendence and and self-governmenl
are what We need. not entangling al
ances with any other sections
II seems to us that this also dem
onstrates that 1t Is not incapacity
on the part Of Weld county. official.
or even avoidable neglect that has
caused our complaint The entire
trouble is due to the fact that Weld
county is too large for efficient con.
duct Of county problems.
The Time to Divide
We do not know OF a Pawnee res.
ident who does not admit that come
time county division should come.
II there Is such person we have not
met him. The inyariable reply is:
oh, Weld County is too large, and
sometime we shauld divide, but wait
until we are more prosperous and
then we can afford it better
We have listened tc that same ex-
cuse for eight years. and we confess
that we have no patience with it.
Eight years ago we thought that
1t had merit. We had probably less
than s2,oO0.000 OF taxable wealth
then. but two years later we became
convinced that 1t need not increase
taxes materially. that delay meant
we would help buid court house
at Greeley, In short that 1t would be
real economy to set up our own
county government. We lost and we
paid about $4,000 toward the
court house at Greeley (more than
the Morgan court house cost and in
addition we have paid an average OF
$4,000 per year more than we have
received on our roads. The delay
cost us at least 500, 900.
Four years ago with the fight al
most won, broken promises and home
opposition. snatched victory from us.
That may not have been quite so
costly, but II has not been cent less
than 100000 per year on read fund,
or $4,000 chargeable to that delay.
Then the cost of abstracting the
records will be twice what 1t would
then, for the rerords have increased
great deal. This expense will con-
tinue to grow, II Is probable that
this item would add another $4,000
to the cost Of the delay.
We say that the cost of delay has
been more than enough to have paid
the cost Of organizing the county
and to have built better court
house than Morgan county has and
had better road work and no more
perhaps less tax.
Men will sneer at that statement
and say that 1t is impossible and it
cannot be SO; but they will not try
to show by the experience of any
county In the state OF Colorado that
II Is not absolutely true. They ask
you to take their assertions against
the figures from official records that
back up and prove every assertion
we make. They will not come out in
the open and cite figures to prove
their statements. for the simple rea-
that such figures can't be found We
We have Investigated and we know,
they have guessed and they have
guessed wild.
We do not mean that there are no