Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-07
THE COUNTY BUILDING PUR.
CHASE,

1t will DO remembered that the Board of
County Commissioners were urged by us,
for some time last Fall, to open the County
Building bids which lay unsealed before
them. The bids being unsealed, the public
was notified Of the offer Of five or six
buildings; oil set down at an exhorbi,ant
figure. We were satisfied, all along, tina.
Geo. +. Jones was after this Building
Fund ; and in the event he could not sell
his brick battle-ground to the county, was
very anxious TO have the Fund remain
otherwise u~ndisposed Of. He expected to
get a bill through the Legislature trans
ferring the Fund, for the benefit Of q Re-
demption Fund on behalf of his 20 and
80 cent scrip. The bids remained opened,
but not acted upon, for a long time. After
the Legislature had assembled the majority
of the County Commissioners agreed to an
offer of the Odd Fellows building for
S3l, 1000. A suit Of injunction was then
instituted, restraining payment out OF
money in the Building Fund. A bill was
then prepared and introduced into the
Legislature, r~atifying this purchase.
Senator Winton introduced the bill, we
believe. The Senatorial delegation were
agreed on this point-that a law should
be passed protecting the money in the
Building Fund. as against the assaults OF
the scrip sharks. But. while Winton and
Tritle favored confirming the S3l, 900 pur-
chase, Kellogg and Sumner opposed such
action. The delegation being divided on
this point, and it being ap%prehended that
Jones might, by some bubble of law. get
hold of the Building Fund if immediate
action was not had in the premises, a bill
legalizing the levy and collection Of the
County Building Fund assessment was
passed Immediately. The delegations, in
both houses, then agreed-with three dis
senting voices (Jones' special friends)-
tina. they would favor a bill offering Sl9,-
900 for the building which has since been
purchased. The only argument used
against this offer, was based upon figures
taken from Jones memoranda, and pub
lished In the Enterprise, showing how much
Of his scrip this $4,000 would buy. But
! the Legislature, under the advice and
argument of all but Jones' friends in the
Assembly, were fully determined to make
this offer: when authoritative word
went down that Kirman would take
$40, 900 for the building. A bill was
drawn up and agreed upon, having these
figures for a price named. Subsequently
John Piper went down, with kirman's
written agreement and the bill passed, as
before prepared, while he was in Carson.
Jones' champions in the Legislature, insis-
ted that the building was not worth $780,
900, was "shaky," unsafe" etc; and,
until they found it of no use, they opposed
the bill which simply held inviolate, for
its original purpose, the money accumula-
ted in the Building Fund. The consume
ton of this purchase is q bitter dose to
Jones, who lusted for the money in the
Building Fund. As Senator Tritle re-
marked, in the course Of debate On the
subject of the bill first passed, it would
have been a heinous outrage upon the tax
PAYERS to have taken this extra Fund and
given i, TO tho scrip sharps. The money
Of the people has, in this instance, been
we'll expended, in the direction for which
it was intended. We congratulate the
people, and we condole with the firm OF
Quirk s Snap!