The hydraulic press., 1859-03-05
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COUNTY pEBT.-From the Auditors statement which
is published at length in the erada National eearn
that the total Indebtedness of Nevada county is the
rather discouraging of S59779 79 distributed as
follows:
uenerai und.............. $l3I ,422 IL
Public Building Fund IL 600 90
INDECENT Sick Fund....--............. 1867 IS
ROAD fund......-,-.. 700 90
The amount of cash hand belonging to the several
funds is s16a59 OIL leaving the county debt over all
assets at $1432 49, By order of the Supervisors the
cash on hand in the special fund.- s12,167 90, will be
paid over into the general fund.- which will decrease
the Indebtedness of the latter to about S125,OO0.
ROAD REPoRrs.-From an abstract of Road Overseers
Reports, it appears that the total Road Tax collected in
1858 s12l4O 90. The total number of voters in the
county is stated to be $40
NEyADA.-The annexed items are from the Democrat
of Wednesday:
We learn that all the city scrip issued on the gener
al fund has been redeemed and with the execution of
scrip issued by the present Board of Trustees on
the road fund.- city is out of debt When the Trus
tees entered the duties of their Office Nav last
the debt of the city amounted to 81 02 and with the
small revenue at their disposahey must have managed
the affairs of the town with great prudence to pay up
this debt and at the same time keep up the gov
ernment The charter authorizes the Trustees to col
ect road of four dollars from each citizen of the
town. and the debt the road fund contracted in
consequence of estimate having been made of
the amount that would be realized from this tax
We learn that the Nevada Water Company are ma
King arrangements to lay iron pipes through the prn-
cpal streets, Tor the purpose of supplying the town
with water. The pipes to be of galvanized iron
and will be OF sufficient capacity supply all the
that may be needed for household streetsprinkling
and other purposes. The water will be taken from the
company reservoir on Lost Hill which is of sufficient
altitude to raise it the highest houses in
Places will be fixed in the pipes distances
1or inserting hrepugS that the water can be used
for extnguishng fires provided the necessary arrange
ments can be made with the town authorities for that
purpose
The Nevada Theater was opened by Yankee Adams
and troupe Saturday evening" and has been occupied
by them every evening since.
LAND SLIDE The Democrat describes land slide at
the Buena Vista ranch in the vicinity of Grass Valley
and loosely mentions the report that subterranean
river, filled with fish, had broken out and was flooding
the entire country About acres of the hill side
ranch.
The Grass Valley National thus describes another
slide going show how thoroughly the earthis soaked
with moisture:
Since the recent heavy rains about four of Old
BLOCK KS Nose has taken notion to slide several feet
down hill. The miners in the vicinity were somewhat
surprised at witnessing the juvenile pranks of an ins-
tuition which they supposed TO be two old and digned
to enter into any such slippery tricks
0MEGA--We learn through gentleman direct from
this place, that the there lies from five to ten feet
deep. Mining operations, and the prosecution of the
ditch enterprise, necessarily suspended 1t is
possible to haul flnming lumber. The snow above
Omega is from ten to twenty feet deep. All communi-
cation between the towns in that section of country and
Nevada has been stopped for two weeks past.