The Raymer enterprise., 1920-04-15

are not acting from good motives,
on the contrary we are confident
that many. like Saul OF Tarsus, ver-
lily believe that they are doing right
but II they will only look for the
truth and allow 1t a chance to ap-
peal to them they will turn square
about, We purpose here to give the
views OF one such.
The way we came to have the
letter is that we solicited IT,
An article In Greeley paper by
r. R. Rollins charged that the coun-
~ division movement was being
urged in this section principally by
newspaper men and bankers. We
knew that he was wrong on the
bankers, and SO, since we have been
unable to find any other to put his
name on paper, we wrote two bank
ers and told them they were report
ed as opposed to he movement and
asked them to state their views for
publication. Only one responded,
but 1t Is such fair and candid
statement of the usual objections
that We commend careful reading
by all of our readers. The letter
follows:
Mr.. c. r. Graves,
New Raymer, Colo.
Dear Mr.. Graves.
am In receipt of your letter Of
Yesterday, and am very much inter-
ested in the question under discus
sion. and have thought a great deal
about the matter the past month,
wondering whether or not 1t was ad-
visable to work for County Division
at this time, and personally feel sat
isfied that 1t would not be a wise
course to pursue at this time
There are so many things to CON
slider along this line that 1t is real
ly hard for one to decide what should
be done. OF course, there is no
question but that Weld county is
too large. However, owing to the
fact that this country has suffered
two partial crop failures, and the
fact that there Is so much dissatis-
faction among SO many people, who
complain Of high prices. for neces-
sary commodities. as well as high
taxes, and knowing that II would
mean an enormous expense to move
the county seat, or rather to estab-
iish new county seat, change re-
cords, and after this is done, to keen
up the new proposed county, II seems
to me that at this particular time
1t is certainly not very wise move.
ment. do not doubt the figures as
10 the taxes paid by the proposed
Pawnee county, but | do think that
when II comes to a matter OF taxes
we do not know anything abou.
what high taxes mean now, as COM
pared with what they would be II
the change we're made.
The only advantage in particu.
lar, that | can see at this time in
dividing the county. is that 1t nigh,
nave a tendency to increase the val
ue OF property Of the proposed coun
~, since the county seat would DO
nearer than 1t now is So far as tb,
trip to the present county seat is
concerned, ! would Just as soon
drlve on over to Greeley when once
on the road as to go to Keota. New
haymer, or wherever the location Of
the county seat might be decided
upon.
II appears to me that the princi-
pal thing we. want is that We get
our share Of tax money distributed
as 1t should be, and improve the pro-
posed Pawnee county more, and
then. at time later when more of
the people In the district feel MOI |
like doing soethingwe etaoin shrdlu
more prosperous, and like doing
something, we bring up the qnes-
tion, which would doubtless carry.
] do not feel that so far as the road
question Is concerned the average
country road would be better taken
care OF after county division, for
quite a while, as 1t would require so
much money to be spent nea.' the
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