Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-06
STOREY COUNTY SHOULD HELP
"a RAILROAD. Z.
Section DO, Of ARTICLE VIII, Of our Statl

Section 10, of Article VIII. of our State
Constitution reads: a
"No county, city, town, or other mu-
nicipal corporation, shall become a stock
holder in any joint stock company, cor
poration or association whatever, or loan
its credit in aid of any such company,
corporation or association, except railroad
corporations, companies or associations"
BY preceding section, in the same arti-
Gle, the State is forbidden to loan money
or credit or subscribe stock to any other
than educational ard charitable ~associa-
tons. So the State may not, while coun-
ties, towns and cities may directly aid in
railroad construction. $40"
Now, we say that it would be well for
the counties of Storey, Washoe, ormsby
(perhaps Douglas would help, to indicate
that they would subscribe something, Of
a reasonable amount, for a railroad from
Virginia City to the Washoe Divide, and
then, by branches, to Washoe and Carson
perhaps to Genoa. Three millions Of
dollars, it is already estimated, would con-
struct and stock such a line. We make
the suggestion, without indulging in the
superluous attempt to impress upon the
minds of the people the immense value to
accrue from the work when completed.
The work of grading hence to Washoe
and Carson can be completed in eighteen
months, at fartherest, from date of com.
mencement. The amount of the counties
subscription is not in itself to be expected
of much account; the effect of the sub
scriptions in giving credit to the project is
what would be, under the circumstances,
most looked to and considered. II Storey
county subscribe Sl0O, 900, will not the
untaxed mines reply to the " outside pres
sure thus brought to bear upon them, by
their due million advance or assumption
Are not the counties the proper corpor-
atoms to effectively start the work The
three counties we first named might make
up a stock subscription Of, say, $260,O0
no, much of q burden in the quick pros
pect Of the enhancement Of property in the
respective localities, by the "creation "
that attends and follows the construction
of a railroad between such trade-points
as the wooded mountains and the mills
of the Nevada metropolis. Amend the
Virginia and Truckee Bill, If you please,
so as to conform with more special
reference to the plan here suggested and
let the co-oporators therein named begin
the grading with the aid supposed: II
we will only help ourselves a little, in in.
auguration and persecution of this work,
it can be commenced, and then will be
finished in the brief time specified. 1t is a
short distance the use and importance OF
a railroad upon it almost seems to figure
up for US in inverse geometrical ratio to
its number Of miles as against the length
Of the trans-continental railroad. We
can not calculate that with one railroad
| across the Sierras we are so much benefit
ed as we can estimate a definite, certain,
vast prosperity return from a domestic
| railroad, on the route described.
Should not Storey county, this Winter,
through her Legislators procure and offer
a bounty of a hundred thousand for this
railroad, If Ormsby and Washoe will
make up $4,000 more, should o the
power to subscribe be submitted to the
people of each countyi