Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-02-13
THE STATE CAPITOL BILL.

An esteemed friend at Carson has
written US a letter, calling our attention
to an item in the News on Thursday,
which stated that the appropriation for
the building of a State Capitol would
require $50, 900 additional taxes for three
years. He states that he thinks we are
mistaken-that the tax contemplated by
the bill will be the same amount here
tofore annually collected to pay the old
Territorial Indebtedness, which is now
about liquida.cd. Perhaps u cores
pondent is right and we are wrong
and we have no objections to being cor
rected. We like Carson City as the
Capital Of our State, and we doubt
whether in all our territory a better To-
cality can be found to permanently To-
cate it. II is q healthy locality +; it is
near plenty of wood, lumber, timber,
and water privileges; it is where the
Federal Government has located its U.
S. Branch Mint the Penitentiary is
there and il the Sutro Tunnel enter
prise is carried out, Carson will be the
place for the Mining School, contem-
plated by that project. Another reason
why Carsonsshould be made the perma-
ncnt Capital, is, Storey, ormsby, Lyon,
Washoc and Douglas Counties have in
terests in ~railroading, mining, and other
enterprises springiag up, which are cre-
ating n closer business interest among
them than any heretofore existing. We
take a local view of this subject, it is
true, and may bo considered rather sell
fish by the people in the "Great East"
who have nothing to urge against it
except that Carson is in the western
part Of the State. We do not wish to
disparagc the great prospects of the
eastern or middle portion Of our State,
but the place has not yet been named,
nor can it DO named, in all that region,
which will bear any comparison to Car
son in natural advantages for n State
Capital. Four-ffths of the wealth of
the State is in the counties we have
named, and proportionate taxes arc paid
by them. White Pine may become a
big county, We hope it may but it will
take q long while until the permanent
wealth and enterprise is developed,
which to-day exists in the five counties
we have named. We extract the fol-
lowing brief report Of the debate in the
Assembly on Wednesday on the State
Capitol appropriation bill, just prior to
its passage by that body:
Mr.. Hillyer admitted that when the quc,-
ton was first proposed to him, it was one not
free from doubt, but after due consideration
he had concluded that the arguments in favor
Of the proposition had exceeded those against
il. The State needed 4 capitol building for
convenience sake. He thought that the build
ing that was at present used by the Legisla-
turc was announcement, and 4 State rs pros
porous Us ours was, needed 4 more digniticd
superstructurc. He argued in favor OF Car
son being benefited by the proposed building,
for the reason that its population was more
permanent in its character, and alluded to
the proposition to fix the capitol in the desert
waste OF undetermined merit, which was but
sparsely settled at the present time, and con-
Guided that the capitol should be located a.
such a place as now appeared to be the most
permanent and convenient, and that was Car
son. IL was 4 strong point in favor OF the To-
cation Of the capitol at Carson that the Mint
had been fixed there, and the Capital Of the
State should be to as great an extent as pos