The Nevada journal., 1853-03-18
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A. A. SARGENT EDITOR.
FRIDAY NOR MING. MARCH Is.
lmouN Of Receipts into the State Treasury
San Francisco aud Nevada,

San FRANCISCO and Nevada.
The Alta Of the 18th uses the above
caption to an article in which it incul- =
culcates to the Representatives of Ne
vada" that they be more deferential to
the wishes of San Francisco because
that city pays taxes on good deal OF
property, and Nevada on little. The
Alta quotes the Comptroller's Report,
showing the amount Of state taxes paid
by San Francisco county (Which of course
includes the city, though the Alta fig
ures as if it thought otherwise) to- be
s68,o53 DO, from July l, 1852, to Feb.
20, 1853, and that paid by Nevada to be
sS,405 80. The Aita then says:
San Francisco has paid into the
State treasury during the past eight
months over eighty thousand dollars,
$3.50, 1l5 SOD ~ her populat o. does not
exceed thirty-six thousand souls, ac d.
ing 20 the census, and she has SIT, D.
OOo OF assessed properly. The county
OF Nevads with popr 'ation of twenty
one thousand souls, (muoh greater pro,
ably,) is set down in the above state
ment as having paid in during the peri
cd given SS405 90. This county has, il
is officially represented, about six mill
lion of capitai invested Let us treble
this apouAt and then see what pro.
portion Of the treasury receipts would
have accrued from eighteen millions of
t-,xable property in her hands-a little
over twenty-five thousand dollars at the
rate she is now payino not one third
the amount that San Francisco "turns
over" in the same time. Our citizens
pay at the rate of two dollars and twen-
ty-two cents per man, while the pror Dr.
ton borne individually in making up the
Nevada payment into the trc sury would
be thirty-eight cents, and less than one
mill to each J This suffering up only
indicates the proportion in which our
ci zens ''pay as they go'' for the support
OF state government" &c.
By the Comptrollers Report we 6nd
the value Of property of all kind in San
Francisco is slS,4lS,737. By the same
authority that in Nevada is s956, ,925.-
By the census report San Francisco had
s2O,oOO,OOO taxable property, OF which
I7,79471l was assessed. The census
report of Nevada, as we demonstrated
when it first appeared, is gross compil-
alton and complication of falsehoeds and
in the item Of quartz investments mista-
king in many cases ftitious capital for
actual investment, and undertaking the
real investments Of the county. This
report, which announced the capital of
one quartz mill at one million dollars, by
such figuring brought up the property Of
this county to over $5,000,o00. Setting
aside mining claims, in which there is
no real property, and other land, in which
thre is no vested title, and the taxable
properly Of this county is about $4,000,
600. The state tax of 3Oc on slOO
would demand from Nevada $4,000. 1t
seems however that in twe-thirds Of the
fiscal year Nevada has paid S3,405 90.
The Alta is chiefly at fault in estimating
the amount Of taxable property SO high,
and then reasoning as if our citizens are
defrasding the state Of its just revenue.
Take the Comptroller's estimates, the
alias text, and we pay two and third
times as much per man as is paid in that
county. But those estimates are as much
at fault as the census. Our citizens pay
as mach in proportion us they of San
Francisco, and not more. No assess
ment has ever been made upon mining
claims, and probably will not be till
some laws are passed giving protection
to that species of property. The same
with building lots. We presume our
most violent aceusers will hardly main
tain we should pay taxes on properly
that is unrecognized, unprotected in
which those assessed have no vested
right, and may BY any freak of national
legislation be disposed. If they insist
on that principle, perhaps they may be
willing to admit that our people are not
delinquent in not paying a tax that has
never been asssssed-that they are not
expected to bear this tax as tribute to
the Comptroller, and humbly beg its ac-
ceptanee. All our improvements of ev-
cry name, houses, mills, bitches, &c.,
are assessed, and pay taxes. As this
county, therefore. does pay its share of
taxes 30 far as it is protected by law, we
ask where is the justice of the .alta's
conclusion,
"Let him and his colleagues 1.-THE Ne~
vada Assemblymen] turn their attention
to the discreditable deficiency exhibited |
by comparison in the Trer surer's returns