The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-06
QUERY

~ stated in your Yesterdays issue. 10 make
Empire City, Instead Of Carson City-th.
inipess terminus of the Virginia ant
Truckee Railroad Company. when the com
rany has already number Of workmen EN-
p!oyed in converting the old Mexican Mill, q
very extensive building, into machine shop
or round-house, whereas the company hal
made no preparations, as yet, towards the
erection of a single building at Carson City
!. looks suspicious any how, to say the least
That the company intend to make Carson
he terminus simply, there can be no doubt.
hut whether thev intend to make il the
business terminus, is a question your querisi
- anxious to have answered.
# our amiable Querist had called 10
mind the original statemeuts made in
the APPEAL, with regard 10 the propo-
sition which involves the issue of
Ormsby county bonds in aid of this
-aiIroad, be would have remembered
shat it was more than once stated by US
(nany weeks before the Bill authorizing
tie Issue of the said bonds was passed, J
that thu company intended converting
the Mexican Mill into a machine shop
aud foundry. This statement was,
Of the proposition; it being set forth, in
connection herewith, that the con,em
plated Improvements ION that mill
property would cause an increase in
taxable values within the county. We
never suspected, for a moment, that the
Railroad Company would ignore the
superior water power of the Carson
River to make Carson City the location
oftheir machine shops and round house;
nad if anybody favored the proposition
thinking that such would be the case,
re failed to read sad understand the
statements made by US. Oar argument
10 favor of the Bill alluded to $50 far az
.he interests of Carson are eoncerned)
was then, as now, upon the. hypothesis
that with railway terminus here, the
bulk Of the trade with Virginia City
the wood, the, lumber, the hay, and the
provision trade-would center here for
here will be the most natural and
accessible poin, for the wood and lum,
Der dealers: and the neighboring ranch
men, to find a shipping point to the
Comstock. Until We can divert the
waters of the Carson RiveF 10 Carson
City, We cannot expect the mills and the
machine shops with which the. railway
10 to connect, to be located here and
until the pine Sierras and the
hay and grain producing valleys con-
tiguous to Carson City can be removed
nearer to. Empire, the citizens of that
place cannot expect to become the
=. business center OF Ormsby county
.nd while neither place can expect to
monopoiize the business and benefits
growing out OF the railroad, both are in
\ fair way TO TO greatly prospered
snereby.
Il seems to us needless and rrof;less
70 borrow trouble with regard to this
matter. We shall certainly 60 to decay,
past all redemption, if the railroad does
not help US cat of our very hard times
Aud, as We stated in the outset, the |
conpany's operations Il: Empire are
simply in accordance with very |
>laInly declared statement made at the
line that it was first proposed to in
-oducs the Bill which has passed, and
lnder which we shall be liable to an
xtra tax 10 meet the principal aad in +
srest of the county's bonds. If We ere
:. bad ix which We do not Delieve)
: is our own FAULT $50 far rs The Empire
is coucerDed) for there was
. uistak:ag the declared intention OF
10 company to make the Mexican Mill
seir machine shop anc foundry. lsis
~. understanding, however, land We :
/, stated =, in. December last, upon the
1thority of Mr.. Sharon) that the prin.
pal business ogice of the company will
. Eere in Carson. 1t seems 10 us that ,
hat has been done in furtherance of !
is railway project, has. SO. far, been II
in good faith. II, at any time, u
ere appear any evidences Of an inten- !. II
IN to repudiate any Of their pledges to =, e.
E people Of this city ana county upon I,
Z part of the COMPANY, We shall b.