| Show THE COUNTY SEAT QUESTION the associate or special editor ot the civille wiville times this week is out with a I 1 aim 0 reasoning reao ning that would indicate t e had been turned cooee in green inalta field and aca suffering the con i aquel ces in one breath lie that would be uncut to U e masses ot the 1 eople to renae the count seat pre that in so doing more bin half of the citizens would be incao JP emen ced in tha next gulp of oxygen inhaled he MI a that even if tl e atlon of park city alone exceeded that all the rest of the county it would be 0 o good reason why the county teat it loiA tion ow tl at is brilliant argument la it not first it boull be wrong to brorn the masses and next it woula be wrong to move it to the masses lie does not attempt to deny the correct of the fiennes published recently in show ing that park city alone paid more than halt of all the taxes vied in the county he does not deny that by the removal of the county feat to paricity Park City abat it would be nearer to a majority of the people of tl e county than in its location he dare not deny that three fourths of all the bust ne s transacted at the coun beat comes from park cit but simply harps that Oo alville is more centrally located and for that leaion should retain it by what method of reasoning does 1 e make out that the masses of the people would ue inconvenienced if the place of trans acting their county business were amov ed closer totlee by what sj stem of mathematics does 1 e figure out that it mould be more in the ex pence account of tl e county to pay mile lal age to ten men from park city and tt e j northern end of the county to coalville Co alville than it wo ild be to pay mileage on one or two or three men from the other end of tie county park city T and lithe tunes is so carried away w ith tl e ment 0 cei aral ical location not move the county seat back to alip wl ere itono was ane hip is nearer the center of the county than coalville Co alville and just aa good a location or the counti onse as the present site la north of the center and the courthouse along dav north it be an improvement even if the courthouse coar was moved from it pres nt site on the prairie down proper the times puts forth tl e lea that once upon a time the people in number of large commercial cities whose ff wealth and population was from twenty to one hundred times greater than that f capitols wanted to have the capitola removed to those great wealthy cities but from the fact that the state capitols were centrally located and the wealthy aad populous cities were on the extreme borders of the state the people toted down the proposition of removal great commercial centera but we will allow it is true and would then ask what ice abat cuts in this affair and if there was any argument in euch prattle we might ask the times sub editor why be doean doesn t agitate the removal of to omaha that would be more central you know abe conaty has a building already that tally meets the wants of the people baye the times that paper 1 this la not true it enow that the commissioners haie stated that the is inadequate that the county jail ig a farce and that a considerable ecim will hare to be ex to pu it in shape to meet alie present damandi THE hai shown that end paa iloie than three fourths of the taxes that park city pa s mora than half of all the county tax that lass than 21 per cent comes from the farmers of the county and that park city is nearer a majority of the people than Coaly ille aad that three fourths of all county buti reel comes froin here in eup porto titia last statement w would refer our readers to the cases ej la the ngot the last court calen lar published elsewhere in which it will be been that nine tenths of cages come from park city for these will all come from thil camp and these witness must all be paid mileage from an economical point of view can the times explain how it will be cheaper to pay these witnesses for twenty four miles each than it be to pay them for one and alili ie only one instance how long it take for this in ex pense lone to build the throes cannot alvance a single in juaire to uphold their con of retention alio central location has BO force when tt e facts are cnown the the county scare crow is all rot 2 the griat cry tl ev pit up f a burden of taxation to build a courthouse is foundation tie park 13 une or the removal on the grounds of justice to all tie people it proposes to lay nothing but the facts be fore tle voters and on those grounds it peor the county to male their ancient history ho no place in tilie content end junices 1 e emergency editor ol 01 the u can bring up better it 1 aj better get a rew man N the utah Socia lieta laucci ed at j sail lake saturday laet with beu join U eon the editor a i not liven U ie clean and air 4 that its tola purpose n to 1 1 I make socialist tl at money ie one of P for some years to come balt 1 to be congratulated on ee carine the bervice of james I 1 aur j doch formerly of city on its new I 1 board of public works ll i a practical man from the ground up and wl en lie give hi conser t to act a public servant it ie certain that he will faithfully end ably discharge tin record in I 1 ark city ie chent of that lie is a man cillino fa vontee when the public nel fare ie concerned |
