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Show is a well known fact that all the roads need fixing Is a few small streams on parairie every spring for it is a level couutry and natural hard roads and nobody out there will take the position of road overseer for the is nothing to do. I think when the AHu-ras AHu-ras lobbyist tries to convince this legislature legis-lature to divide Logan county the members mem-bers will remember the old Alturas ring so well that Logan county will be, as it is, with the stars and stripes thrown to the breeze, and Bellevue as the county seat of Logan county. Knowing, Mr. Editor, your paper is a lover of fair plav, we want to reply to your correspondent in Hailey, aud not be misrepresented to the world. Even If we do live in Idaho we are perfectly able to take care of Logan county, as it is for we are in the richest mining district dis-trict and agricultural district in this part of Idaho. We always look for The Times for we think it is the best paper published in Salt Lake City. The above letter is from one of the prominent business men and at the same time one of tho pioneer residents of Bellevue. Ed. WARRINGJOUNTIES A Word About Logan (Idaho) County Warrants and What They are How Worth. BANKEUPT POLICY OF ALTURAS A Prominent Business Man of Bellevue Explains the Situation as it Now Stands. Bellevue, Idaho, Jan. 16, 1891. Editor Timer: I see in Ts Times of the Jan. 15th a communication from Hailey, Idaho, in regard to a new county for Idaho. I do not know who your correspondent can be, but must judge from his statement state-ment that he is either a "Johnny Come Lately," and knows nothing in regard to what he is talking about, or the boss liar in the new state of Idaho. In the first place Logan county was cut off from Altauras county two years ago for this reason. In 1882 when the county seat was moved from Rocky Bar ' to Hailey the whole indebtedness of the county was under sixty thousands dollars; dol-lars; since that time there is ten times as much taxable property In the county than there was in 1682, but the indobt- i edness rose from $60,000 to nearly $400.-000, $400.-000, and still running behind. The taxpayers in this part of the county determined de-termined in 1888 to form a new county and put a sjop, which they did, to the i ring who was managing for their own benefit, Alturas county finances, .and petitioned the legislature to form Logan county, which they happily granted to the taxpayers forming in the new county line between Hailey and Bellevue. Belle-vue. The two last assessments in Logan county is but $2.30 on the $100, while in Alturas it was always $3.00 on the $100, and running in debt all the time. As soon as Logan county was organized there was the nocessary things to buy to run a county, such as f ecorders books, office furniture, steel jail, etc; also to have the abstracts of Alturas county transferred to the recorder's re-corder's books of Logan county, and our propertion of Alturas county's whole indebtedness which the interest lone for Logan county amounts to $11,000 a year. And another thing, eince the organization of Logan county Altauras county fought the county of Logan up to the United States supreme court, costing Logan county quite a sum of money, and bankrupting them-solves, them-solves, and they are still fighting us in the present legislature on a sort of a dog in the manger principle. In regard to Lognn county warrants if your correspondent corres-pondent in "Hailey is so lucky as to have any he can come down here to the bank and get 05 ccDts on the dollar cash for them. And be can go and buy lumber, coal or merchandise with them just the same as cash. That don't look as if the county was bankrupt. He tells the truth in regard to Alturas Altu-ras county warrants. I don't believe he can get fifty cents on the dollar for them, but why don't he tell you why? I will. Tho management of Alturas county funds by the class of people the Hailey ring elected for commissioners for the last eight years would bankrupt the United States treasury if they got a show, and for the year 181)0 they did not assess their property more than half what they did in 1889 and 1888. Why? So they could come before this legislature Rnd say they are bankrupt and will have to annex or be annexed to some other county, Logan in particular, so thev can pay their indebtedness. We of Lgan county are perfectly willing they should be annexed toCusteror Elmore county, but we lived together ten years and'we are no hogs, we know when we have had enough, and don'i want any part of Alturas county undo anv consideration. I think if I tvi ytinr correspondent and iived in llaiiey tho last thing I should ever put in print would be anything concerning mismanagement misman-agement of conntv funds. He mus forget the old adage that people who live in glass houses should not throw Rtnno.4. About l he great mass meeting On Camas prairie. Tho citizens of : Jin place are no fouls; they had onotteh o Allni-as county in tho past; they knov in Loan county they have 20) miles o railroad to help pay their taxes, an' they are g-'in' to let well enotig' a oiie. Of course there ai alwavs siime ' kickers in a con; ni'ini'y. such a dKappointotl oflic seek-rs. etc.. bnt in the Inst election f-' conntv seat tliev voted 1 to 1 for Belt, vue. 'That don't look as if they wa;. . to cut loose so last, ami they know the present time they have not eiiou? tiuttlile property to make a ghost ol -c.einry. end in reuards tun that ' the had for the roads j |
