| Show what are the facts county seat removal in the interest of economy that real reason for attempt there has been a lot ot loisb talk and generalities general ties in recent recant weeks about the huge savings which would accrue to the through removal ot of tho the count seat scot to clar city nut but to this late so ski far as we have been aba to ascertain there has not been one ae definite finite figure produced to show what the saeng would bo be tilts this ng as the promise ot of tho the county seat removal committo to ascertain the facts and give them to tile the public snoe we been given de definite int te facts and figures lets do a bt ot of analyze ng on MI our own account the than things s which have been mentioned mention etl as expensive expansive to the tha county are the county officers otti cera co coming mang to parowan carowan for coromis eio meetings jurors z and witnesses coming heire to for r cc court taj haeng to make trips to the county depository at tile tho rank bank qt of southern utah and rent tor jor county otties now located in cedar city commissioners COmmissiOn erst expense discussing them lit in the order rimmed named the removal committee admitted last week we glean from the iron iiron county record that the north korth end of the county would suil have a alter affef re modail Is effected means there would be b the mileage for a car here heire to take him to the m meetings mee tings tinga it if ahk thiea Y were held in cecar city one sair cair can likewise bring the ilie crunity office irs who need to come to the here or va th the same mileage occasionally it may be desirable or necess airy to bring two cars so that part ot of those who attend can return n before the are are ready and occasionally the county agent has haa to make a special trip to attend the meetings but burt oama rily he combines that trip win will other business in tisha aud oud ot of the county so his hils expense extra for the sake eake ot of falT ta Arness ness let us assume that it takes two cap cars to bring the ot of frs ars up here he re once a month or possibly 13 t b nies mes a year and that it would only take ope cao it if the county seat were in cedar city the net savings on that sore score then would be ge a mi majle tor for 40 miles mi iles 13 times a year or a year k s witnesses As to jurors and witness costs it was fluted accurately the records in the bhe clerks ottee and published last week that tile the actual saving on this account from january 1 1935 to uie tile present time nearly tour four years would have been exactly 19 lt if all vae the court tor for the period had been held in cedar city instead ot of carowan parowan Pa rowan cr an am average ot of less than a year over that per jad you c can n verity verify those figures it if you wish treasurers Treasur ers expense tho the records ilkew se reveal that the lie treasurers treasur tire ers fal trips to the bank ot of southern utah average not more than two a month on the basis ot of ac a mile which ch the county allows and fl alg aing 25 tt arps ps a year tor coir good measure that would be exactly 60 6 0 rt a year sheriffs trips the records also show that the ashett makes not more than 25 tr po pa a year to the county seat seal w yi business other othar than to attend commiss commissioners doners meetings mee the expense for which Is acco united tor for in the first tero tem discussed that is another 60 a year office rent beni the other item wh ch figures lit in this huge expense to the county la is rent tor for assessor at attorney shariff and just ce of the peace n cedar for or a total ot of 1200 a month actual figures or a year in addition to thise these the county pays 16 ot of the rent on oil the welfare olce office the actual amount ot of which known but exceed what would have to be paid tor for an tor for a welfare e worker in carowan parowan it the county seat mat were elsewhere actual savings so the th e actual savi ng to the county from all these sources would be according to tile the foregoing fig figures ivea exactly a 1 year does that seem like a big item bond bona interest lets see how much bond it would pay cedar cites re mut bond issue calls tor for 3 interest Is an unusually low rate the city thinks would pay In interest tererA at that rate on a bond issue of do you think we can build the ki kind nd of a court house well want for that amount or for five times that amount well venture it will cost more than ten fines emes that much which would make the annual interest payment as against the cost to the taxpayers tinder lender present conditions to the suggestion that the utilities would pay per cent ot the bonds and interest the answel is that they also pay C sty per cent oi of the to say that cedar I 1 city would pay half of the remaining fifty per centa statement h ch no living person can make with authority at thi s ume time wr relieve the situation so 6 fa fair as cedar bayr ex araa rs concerned no P W A money arid and if you suggest a p W A loan and grin grant the correct ans weir beras as of this date is that P W V A funds are not available the tha dead line lima date tor for W P A apall milons was september 30 since urne time no funds are a callable val lable from that source and a gaan no living person can say with BUiU ioa ty or certain ity that they will be next year or the next or or any time in the futures future i no economic justification no zihere s no economic justl tica for far moving the county coulty i seat at this time it fouad COGE the coduy more more i to conduct its bus ness in cedar ced ir I 1 0 oaty ty from baile day of removal than han t j it does in eawy think thinking ng I 1 jefson knows that real reason As a maetter of tact fact removal being beang urged tor for economic reasons as bevelry informed of the 1 county I 1 all lh ih i h s talk about savings to me county to tax mayors 3 central cen itral lo locton caon cf the pres ellit court house etc Is merely carn oLage tor lor the reu redi which is that some some of the cedar city people want the county ts to jon jo n them th em in build kig a oty city ana i county one which wal we can be proud ot of to use the bhe lan ian guage of the removal comin alee i a monument to the pi present resent city adm and t a i e junor junior T of commerce I 1 Is that what the taxpayers want P their anwer answer mum be givon given next j tuesday I 1 i from an economic standpoint I 1 a matter of actual cost and ex pense we think that even cedar i city can g get t by cheaper with ts its I 1 present setup set up ip than it would in i the and ot of new bulldis bull building din it will want it if the county jons it cor the county can got get by many times cheaper with its besent p besent I 1 facilities until such time as a new MM I 1 court house is actually a nece wity it if we want and can atford with i all our to put on a rs is iv in the form of a magnificent I 1 structure a monument I 1 somo something thing else 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