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Show A NEW COUNTY IN IDAHO. Clmu Prairie Want to Out Lasee Vrem Logan. Hailey, Idaho, Jan. 14 Petitions were in circulation asking the legislature legisla-ture to segregate Camas prairie from Logan county, and annex said prairie to Alturas, the argument advanced being that Logan county, in less than two years after her organization, had run behind financially, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing taxes were raised in excess of what they were when prahieites belonged to old Alturas, and the further fact that such are the state of finances now, without any expenditures for eonnty buildings or jail, aod but little expended on county roads the prairie receiving the insignificant sum of llBo in two years. What will our taxes be when county buildings are built? But two years of , county existence, and county warrants are worth but 75 ceuts on the dollar. Opponents of the measure argued that. noLwithstnnriin the admitted had financial outlook of Logan conuty, yet her property tax exceeds that of Alturas Altu-ras almost three to one, with many miles of railroad, and if her warrants aro worth but 75 cents on the dollar, they should under proper management be worth 100, wSlle those of Alturas are worth but AO cents, and unless the legislature grants her relief, will even go lower. So warm was the excitement that a mass meeting was called at Soldier to consider tho whole auestion. Many attended at-tended and the result of a long and earnest ear-nest debate of the question by a number num-ber of leading ranchers present was in favor of petitioning tho legislature to create a new county from the western portion of Logan, to wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of Logan county, where same intersects Klmore and Alturas. thence running directly south 20 miles, thence directly east 88 miles, thence directly north 20 miles, and thence 30 miles to place of beginning, begin-ning, giving a county of 780 square miles. Without exception, I believe all present pres-ent voted for tho proposition. It is now being circulated for signers, with every prospect for being almost unanimously unani-mously signed by the entire body of ranchers and business men of the prairie. |