Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-01
AmupDLE IN THE COURTHOUSE.


Fall, recommended to the County Com
missioners the purchase Of a Court House,
so as to save the Taxpayers the enormous
rents which the County was mourning for
the various County offices. There being
some nineteen thousand dollars in the
public building Fund, the Commissioners
adopted measures to carry out the sug-
g~estions Of the Grand Jury. A number of
buildings were offered them as suitable for
a Court House. but none seemed 30 well
suited for the purposes intended as the
building now occupied by the Courts and
County clerk. About q week ago, Messrs.
Sharon, Flagg, and Paxton. were appoint
ed appraisers Of this property, with power
to arrange the terms, etc., with the pro-
prietor. The sum agreed upon was the
$4,000 in cash. which has been lying in
the vaults of Hastings Bank since last
Fall, and $4,000 in county Bonds, pay
able IN one year. These terms were ar
ranged by the appraisers, whose abilities
in that regard no one would question ;
and yesterday, the County Commissioners
were about communicating the trade, when,
presto change, an injunction or restraining
order was issued out Of the court Of Judge
Mesick, at the instance Of George F. Jones,
a large holder Of old and new county
warrants, aud also at the Instance Of A. X.
Grim, u Of the County Commissioners.
The injunction sets forth that about eight
thousand Of the nineteen thousand in the
building fund should be transferred to
redeem the cheaply-bought script Of the
county! (No law is referred to showing
any such requirement.) The hearing Of
the case comes off on Saturday, Feb. 10Th.
OF course this put a stop to the Commits
sioners buying the Court House, yesterday
but when all the facts come before the
public, we predict tina, the public interests
will triumph instead Of a lot Of Scrip
brokers.
Let US see what would be saved to the
county by the purchase Of this Court
House, allowing that the sale were effected
to-day, and all the different county Offices
moved into it and their rents stopped
taking eleven months Of the present year /:
The county now pays 5000 a month rent
for the Court House. which in eleven
months amounts to $4,000. Rent Of the
T~reasurer's, Collectors, Recorders, and
Assessors Offices, for eight months, ST.
900. The county Tailor gets $3.50 per
month--which being in the Court House,
this office could be dispensed with, ten
months wages saved this year, ST.
500. As the county pays the rent Of the
Court House in advance. and allowing one
and M half per cent. per month on the
rent saved, would furnish $3.50 more, in
six months. Therefore. the rents, %jailor's
salary, and interest on money paid for
rem, in advance, amount to the handsome
sum of $751; $50, which would be saved to
Storey county by the LIST Of next January,
if the Court House were purchased i'm
mediately. By that time, too, the Court
House would not stand the county more
than Sl7.S5o-and in another year it
would almost have paid for itself entirely
BY the savings Of rent and other expenses.
The transfer OF the funds as prayed for in
the restraining order would only save to
the county some $3.50, as against Sl3,-
$50, saved in the purchase of the Court
House.
Now. who is to blame for this unwar-
ran,able interference in reforming and re-
trenehing the expenses Of u tax-ridden
communities: To us, it looks as if Mr..
A. X. Grim. although one Of the County
Commissioners, has poked his ofRcious
spoon a little too far into this Court
House purchase business. That he was a
party to the suing out Of the injunction,
we have very good evidence. We will
tell the public where the shoe pinches:
All the county funds are deposited in
Grim's bank-and as he has had a county
cash capital Of about fifty thousand dol.
lars on hand ever since last October. he
does not want to see the $4,000 in the
Building Fund taken out Of his hands !
These facts are notorious among the
knowing people of the county-and while
we are willing to accord to Mr.. Grim some
excellent administrative qualities as a
Commissioner. his completely in this last
dodge Of Courthouse purchase certainly
places him in an unenviable position be-
fore the people. We have stated nothing
but the truth.