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Show to satisily the m t incredulous, let us ted uce tlie estimate just two thirds. This would calculate on but one yearly year-ly visit to the voter as basis, making no account whatever lor the expenses of the hundreds who are not voters, but who have business at the county seat, as witnesses, and in othei ways. This leaves the yearly expenses of Mt. Fleasant 18.062, Manti $ 16.942, and Kphraim$i4,u4;in l.tvur it hphraun less than Mt. fleasant and 1 2,902 less than Manti. At these unreasonably low figures, in ten years lime, the saving in the county expenses between Ephraim and Manti would amount to (,29020; and between Ephraim and Mt. Pleasant, J10 jjo; enough at either case to build a veiy creditable Court Mouse. A Parting Shot. Various Political Matter of Interest. Moroni, Ephraim and Fair-view Fair-view on County Seat. Some facts and figures by "No Kicker' There is Ephraim. July 21, 1890. Editor Register, Agaiu I ask, to be beatd, not as a kicker, but as one who desires the square thing in regard to the County Seat; one who considers the interest in-terest of the whole county in this im- Were the county seat located at Ephraim Eph-raim instead ol at Manti, mv figures show a saving for 40 years, of f 116.080 calculated cal-culated on our present population; but our county is bound to grow in an ever increasing raiio, and I see nothing improbable im-probable in the estimate that 40 years our voting population will be doubled tripled, or even quarupled. Say it is only doubled; countv business could be transacted at t'phraiiiiatasaving in 40 years time(which is the lenglit of time that Manti has had the Countv Seat) of 232,160 as compared with Manti, and 321,760 as comparedwith Mt. Pleasant. I said in my former letter I could bring more solid argument in favor of Ephraim Eph-raim in one line of type than was contained con-tained in the whole circular sent out by Manti, your qtiondam'correspondent from Salt Lake to the contrary notwith stand ing and now I ask a candid public if I have not kept my word? Can your readers be convinced of what is for their best good? I do not ask them to take my figures, but I have pointed out the line 011 which they may like to make their own calculations. It appears to me that prejudice, jealousy jeal-ousy and selfishness are leally too :ost-ly :ost-ly to be admitted into this question. Gentleman, my arguments are facts and figures; which, we were told time out of mind, will not lie. Mr. Editor, if any man can produce stronger arguments in favor ol his town, he can get my vote freely and ungrudgingly. ungrudg-ingly. No KiCkeR. portant move. The rii st consideration in regard to the removal of the county seat, is economy; econo-my; and as this being my theme I will get down to the bedrock of mathematics as quickly as possible. Judge lohnsou made a statement in the County Seat Convention, recently held at Mt. Pleasant, to the e fleet that 8oo people attend the County Seat yearly year-ly on individual hus.uess. He did not state how many times yearly these 8oo people were called to the County Seat, but for argunent's sake 1 will average it at four times. This would give 3200 visits a year; now suppose half as many persons summoned as witnesses, etc., this raises it to 4800 visits. Again we will presume the officers of the county were called upon to travel to and from the cou nty seat, the number of trips which private individuals make that is. 800 (judge Johnson said he averaged one trip a week, and that is 52 a year ) this would raise the total of trips to 56 00 a year. This divided amongst tiie 1792 voters registered last year, would give an average of 3i yearly v,sits to the County Seat. To simplpify matters, I will drop the fraction and call it simply 3 yearly visits for each voter, as an average. In order to make my calculations clear, I will here append a table ot distances between be-tween the outlying towns and the three central points in question Manti, Eoh-raim Eoh-raim and Mt. Pleasant, also the number num-ber of nips each town would need to make, basing my calculations on the number ol voters each place registered last) ear, and the three yearly trips for each voter as already estini Ued, Lawful mileage is 20 cents, to be added ad-ded to the per diem compensation of witnesses and ofhceis. Since the railroads will so soon be completed; in which event the manner of travel is sure to be accordingly changed, chan-ged, 1 have thought best to calculate distances by tail. South of Ephraim, and West, it will take two days to go to the County Seat and attend to business. In the Manti list it will take two days for those north ofEphtaim, and "West," and iu the Ephiaiin, those north of Mt. Pleasant; also Gunnison, and tayette, in the south so that 1 place the estimate of those towns at $per diem, for two days lime Instead of est ma-nig Winter Quarters -omme'ucni'g with indiaiiola, we have to registered voters making 3 yearly trips to the county seat, at a distance of 19 miles. The return doubles the distance, dis-tance, making it 38 miles. 38 x 20 cts, equals $228 yearly expense. Suppose each individual could attend to his business and return in one day and his time worth 2,00 a day; 30 days at (2. a day equals $60. $22$ added to $60. equals $288. yearly table. Showing number of votei of each town in the county coun-ty according to trie last yean Retpsteration list (1889) with distancea between the various towns and the three principal places interested in the removal of the County Seat Manti, Ephraim and Mt. Pleasant, together with the cost of mileage to the County from the various towns to those three points, estimated al 3 trips for each registered voter each year, and the distance doubled for the return trip, and charged at the rate of 20 cents a mile. Also the per diem at s a day for each trip, counting in the case of Mt Pleasant, Pleas-ant, double the amount, for two days each trip, in the cases of all the towns south of Manti and the west towns Via Ephraim, (the way the railroads wilt ran; in the case of M anti all the towns north of Spring City and west except Chester, and in the case of Ephraim all the towns north of Ml Pleasant, and in the south, Gunnison and Fayette. REGISTERED VOTERS: The number of registered voters last year were: Mt. Fleasant, 321; Indianola, 10; Thisle, 17; milburn, 32; Fairview, 161; Spring City, 142; Ephraim, 254; manti, 255; Sterling, 39; mayfield, 52; Gunnison, 143; Fayette, 43 Chester, 26; moroni, 142; Fountain Green, 100; Wales, 55; DISTANCES, Ml.P Manti Ephr'm mt. Peasant, 00 22 15 manti 22 00 7 Ephraim. . . . ', 15 07 00 Indianola.. . 19 41 34 Thistle 19 41 34 milburn 11 33 26 Fairview. ... 07 29 22 Spring 05 17 10 Ft. Green. .. ,35 27 20 moroni 28 20 13 Chester ; 23 15 08 Wales 29 21 14 Sterling 28 06 13 mayfield 33 11 18 Gunnison.... 38 16 23 Fayette 44 22 29 COST By adding milege, and per diem, together the following, totals are foundas the expences from Mt. P. Manti Ephr'm TOWNS. as the as the as ihe place, place. place Idianola f ,93 61a I 128 Thistle jgo 1040 897 Millburn 3,4 1651 138a Fairview a3,g 7534 618a Mt. Pleasant..... IQ36 12336 7704 Spring City I704 3748 3556 Ephraim 6 3657 1534 Manti y79j 1530 367 Sterling 778 514 841 Mayfield 683 908 1435 Cunnison . 8336 3603 5663 Fayette 97g6 1393 aota Chester 1039 634 40s Moroni 6475 511a 3067 Fountain Green.. 5400 4440 3000 Wales 2574 3046 1354 Total 154188 150828 tnaiaa According to my calculations, to make Mt. Pleasant the county seat would cost the county $54,188 a year; Manti $50,828 Ephraim;?42, 122. Ephraim's expenses would be $12,066. less than Mt. Pleasant and $3,oo6 less than Manti's each year. Mann's yearly expenses are $3136o less than would be Mt. Pleasant's. I suppose the majority of your reader! will thin': the figures here given rather large; so for the sake of argument, and |