Show COUNTY SEAT QUESTION l. l Our last issue itsue contained an article from our Mt Pleasant h t- t stating the offer Coffer that will be made by that F 1 city cit to build a court courthouse I house that's if the people of ofSan ofSan w San Pete County will be bribed Y money We admire the ph pluck k and push that the citizens Citizens citi- citi zens ens of our showing show show- f ing ingland and such push and plucks pluck i s P worthy s of praise if f it were only in the right direction i k- k We Ve cannot cannot look at this matin matter mat mat- ter in any other light for all C the e e speeches that were delivered j L ered t d at the meeting held but butI buta I a short hort time since and PJ ij h I. I f In in the Pi ar ii Worlds World's Fan P X j ll not one relation County at atto to this would be city if tl this t s 2 accomplished S uttered in in r re-j re J great injustice the vand and inconvenience of i largest portion of f San Sait Pete Peter County but each and every everyone r their selfish made plain nc-ma nc one a One On of the speakers J the hc i following remark reman made J that it s was wasa Business prof proposition prot pro pro- Pleasant f- f t position n for Mt I have must What hat a gall th they y t of San SanPete th the people i- i to make plak P Pete av a proposition said 1 d If Mt it i Another er sp speaker aker house builds a Court i P it t t takes kes kesa a burden burd ix o of 25 of this from the ta taxpayers froDl i County and md they would say J Jt c It Plea Pleasant a t has as don done let her have the j f and aid they the taxpayers 1 i eat 4 Mt Pleasant would vote ote for i t a election We vVe at t the lC next that Ephraim i Van kan can a answer for to bite on they do not propose bait of that kind And Arid any t of the f following are a few o i Manti why reasons g It 4 is much closer than Mt Pleasant Pleas- Pleas Manti is level the road to i. tint ant r nd good one i in fact it is isi i 1 I 1 miles of the best seven seve distance The in in the county I is 16 miles Pleasant Mt i to over which will win always be a drive and aud disagreeable rough i i this i-this is a fact which the people J I Itt turn turn- rl t ticket to Mt Pleasant costs 50 50 o cents more than it does to Manti so the people of Ephraim can just justas as wellY well pay y their proportion to tb the erection of a Court aCourt house atM at at- l I. Manti M as to pay the extra i- i railroad fare to Mt Pleasant for three trips I Another reason is that as asa s sa a prominent citizen of M 11 Manti I said aid i if there thee was was- vas iio ho 1 court COUTt courthouse courthouse I house in the County and it a place should be s selected would be ni most st con vinent forth for th people of f San Pete it im All will vill admit that Manti fanti is too far south and and- Mt Pleasant too far north If we take Fairview Fairview Fairview Fair- Fair view and Ft Green on th the e north it is nearly 20 o miles to Ephraim and about the same sam e distance from froth Gunnison and Mayfield oh on the south To move the County Court house to Mt It Pleasant would be an ano o outrage on the people of San Pete It would be simply to benefit the few at the expense of the many and so far as the people of Ephraim are concerned concerned concerned con con- we dont don't- think they would vote for the removal of the County seat to Mt Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Pleas- ant even if they would build a Court house The rhe I building of a Court house is but a temp temporary consideration its location a permanent one Everybody will if they lay aside local preferences and consider the interest of the people of the whole County at at- large readily see that Ephraim is the proper place for said JOr sat said speakers 1 k c t fi five ve G ic c- c ds s1 these gymnast t tue for exhibitions The cor I 1 tl la t Ephraim Ephrain r could not raise bo bonus bonu m o of the north end of the county Besides Besides Besides Be Be- t long since learned sides Manti is more centrally I located for the rest of the County than is Mt M Pleasant I z arid and so far as the cost would i if the court be lie to Ephraim was built by taxation at Manti we do not believe there is a person in Ephraim 4 that is b base se enough to leti let influence idea paltry paltry such a i- i in favor to cast his vote yote 11 m to 1 of Mt I Pleasant house was witS If the Court i- i T built by taxation Ephraim's i would be o. o proportion A re reo a person person- personA 1 only 1 t J i. i J t. t v. v perhaps not perhaps she does eLOes not I want it that bad probably she could p tt r grace gace aff afford rd to o. o p pay lier proportion tb o ha ha it bu Manti ti Mt Pleasant could afford to Perhaps Per Per- contribute a nest egg gg of the north northend northend northend haps if the p people ople end of the county would vote with Ephraim to move the County seat seven seven miles nearer near near- er en t to them and at at the thesa sa same t time me treat the people of tl the southern part of of- the County with some degree of con id i could ana and an tion she night might would raise a as large a boi bonus s. s as Mt Pleasant but when it wind m conies comes to raising selfish cat cant compete with our ur sister The chairman of orthe the meeting meeting meet meet- ing lug recalled the the time nea nearly such a 3 three years ago when hard bard fight against heavy odds s were w re made to have hav the G County seat t removed to Mt It Pleasant s 1 1 4 I Had th the city stood oy Dy me tue xam l. l L. L of the convention as as agreed Mt Pleasant nt i have lave been the County seat Perhaps it might t be ont out of the way to at eg n- n that if the de delegates eg tes to that convention 1 had d stood by their instructions instructions- Ephraim would have been d deJ dC on instead of Mt Pleasant Pleas ant and nd it might ight as well b be I said now as as any ay time that n no convention can cart ever get gt the people of Ephraim to vote to change the County seat to Mt Pleasant |