White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-11

their county Seats anu THIS 10 Aioie
esneeially tru in the motor age,
when the snow in the passes blocks
them in winter, than before. when
teams we're used and most of those
passes could be negotiated by the
slower but surer means of travel.
There are several grounds for the
demand. most important of which L
that of distance. The worst example
of this is in the case of the people
of the western end of Juab, who by
automobile must travel 1S5 miles to
visit their county seat at Nephi.
Those same people are but lilo miles
by road from Ely.
The second count in the indictment
is that the roads of the west end are
neglected and forgotten, but that the
tax collector has never forgotten to
make his prescribed calls. This ap-
plies more to Juab than the others.
Willard and Tooele have done SONG
work on their western roads, but
Juab in twenty years has never spent
as much as 81 in road work in Snake
valley. and little indeed west OF TIN
tic valley. which is where Eureka and
Silver City are located.
Willard has spent considerable
money on the Grand Central high
way. in Tule and Snake valleys and
the mountains between, but Is due
to spend a great deal more Or else
the highway will be a failure. 9th
erwise it will be one of the best In
the country. This highway REQUIRES
graveling in the valleys from Hinck-
ley to the west side of Snake valley,
and by a remarkable dispensation OF
Providence the naturally good roads
there as elsewhere in several notable
cases. begin right where the Nevada
line crosses.
Tooele stands in an especially IA
yorable light in the eyes of Ely PEG.
pie, the reason being its friendship
for the Lincoln highway and the aid
it has rendered in fighting the Salt
Lake blacklegs who have done their
worst to defeat this highway. On
mat ACCOUNT HOOOny III 1hio - (Nt
TO De rated as among those wishing
Tooele harm of any kind, and some
thing of the same feeling exists to-
ward Willard for the splendid work
in putting through the Grand Cen
trail. and for that matter toward Juab
for its share in the same enterprise.
Officials of the three counties at
focted profess 10 have no objection
To the formation of the new county
other than of losing the tax on tran
silent sheep. But this is a great item,
as they admit, it amounting TO 30 per
cent Of the total county taxes. They
are asking for an equitable division
of this but can suggest no way OF
bringing it about. They claim that
the extra expense of another county
government would be SO heavy thai
a division might not be practicable.
Years g Juab county partially
solved the division question by erect
ing c~ourthouses in towns other than
Nephi. the county seat. There Is enc
such courthouse at Eureka, where the
sheriff and the county superintendent;
have their offices. with a deputy sler-
III and school deputies at Nephi. An
) other courthouse is at Mammoth, not
ten miles from Eureka. But these
do not reach the seat OF the present
trouble. which is more than n hur.
bred miles and across three or more
ranges of mountains TO the west,
where no road work Is done and
where there has never been a further
semblanee CT government than a dep
uty sheriff and justice of the peace.
these most of the time rolled into
n person.