Show petition filed for county seat removal rati petition tion was aled with the coull ty commissioners at their on saturday last by members ol of the cedar city junior chamber of 0 commerce to have the county seat of iron county moved from to cedar city ask ng mg that the mintter bo be submitted to the voters VID ter S ot of the county at the elect on in ill november A count of the signers on the petition indicates that there are 2172 the law lav reputes uTes that sig signers nETs equal 50 ot of the number who voted in the last 9 general eral electA election cill must be oata obtained ped in order to have the matte r submitted to the voters with that provision would have required only abo about ut 1640 so that thop there are more than signers in excess of the required number it Is thought ht that there may possibly be a tew few duplications and names ot of some inelia ble persons on the petition but not enough 10 in any way affect the validity of the petit petition lon vergene simkins mel thorley aid reed money brought tile the petition up tip here ter for filing and they d d some checking of the records ta ill the clerks office to determine the elig bilty of 0 some of the signers they are members of the committee which was named to eng ene new neer the matter and have be hean r n among the mot act ve workers in the interest of county seat rento removal vaa briore the committee arrived with the petit petition loyl T on saturday the matter ot or amov moving n the county 8 sea eat was be tig mg discar discussed d by a group hear the court house and one of tho the county officials from cedar city was heard to say h he e bl believed llevad t that it would 3 some om e d day a y be move moved d but that he be this is a the time to move it the coun county y he said have been for years to reduce the countes coun tys indebtedness to a where taxes would be less e oth other tax taxes in creasong ln ng through bond issues and higher levies and ath w th no urgent need to for ang the county seal at this ume it seem logic log ic al to further farther obligate the taxpayers Hs statement Is in bar harmony mony W with th many others which have been made slice s nee the matter master has bell been agitated frill ealing that senU for removal may not bee be as stron as the pet tion would nd catz cat though the latter contains contain 5 ill the e vars of 0 some peoris trot from n ahli end ot of the county co unity it seems unice ly that very many from tilts this enl benl will vote for almo removal l s nee they havo have to ga afan from I 1 ill it a il tar taxpayers payers particularly axe are I 1 ICOY to fee feel pretty much as the cosily officer above quoted himself |