The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-03-12
TIE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
Ms Sat-. cspi,al

The Board Of State Capitol Commissioners
have been considering various plans and spec
iheations for capitol building TO be erected at
Carson. Final action was tn have been taken
yesterday, and arrangements made for bids
The Carson people we're night in procuring
An appropriation for the capitol buiking at
tina; place. There is nothing eensurable in a
little local selfshness; but il Vas very s1traor-
binary that the last Legislature, 9, the very
time when the current Of emigration vas SCI
ting strongly away from Carson and all the older
towns along the western border Of the State,
should have made an appropriation to drive
the capitol peg into the ground in that local.
ty. The Constitutional Convention provided
that no appropriation should be made for
three years for tia. purpose. II was evident
even in those days that Carson was badly Sit
uAted for the capital. and that the progress
and development Of the State would event
ually indicate q more convenient and appro-
pirate locality. The discovery Of White Pine
which vas ALREADY attracting one Of the great
est emigEa;ions ever known in Lining annals,
ought to have been 81 acknowledgements the
members Of the last Legislature TO Mt least have
delayed the appropriation until events indicated
the proper locality. To say the least, under
the circumstances, il displayed an unseemIy
haste The Inland Empire charges some
thing more than haste, and the Carson Ap-
peal virtually admits the charge that the bill
was forced through the Legislature through
corrupt bargain made by It's friends and the
friends of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.
Through this bargain and sale 800, 900 Was
appropriated for the buildings. The Empire
httingiy condemns the transaction in the fol.
lowing strong language:
The greediness and shamefacedness with
which this appropriation was got through has
no parallel IN the legislation of any State with
which we have any acquaintance. Situated
on the extreme western confines Of the State
on ht;le alkah nat: bounded-as Assembly
man Cleveland said when opposing the appfo-
priation-by the graveyard ON the north by
Kings canyon ON the west, the Genoa road
on the south and the pest house on the
east-it has no other night 20 be our perma-
nert location as capitol than An acknozl-
edged corrupt intrigue gives II. There are
four hundred and sixty-seyen miles Cen
trAl Pacific railroad tTayersing this State from
ball has been introduced into Congress to take
another degree of longitude from Utah and at
tach II TO Nevada, which, should il become A
Law, will give rs fifty miles more Of the same
railroad; petition from citizens Of OSyhee
county, Idaho, has been presented TO Congress.
praying fOT annexation 70 Nevada, and a bill
framed and introduced in accordance with
the petition. Granting the probability of
both those measures becoming laws how viii
Carson look for the State capitol-Carson.
which Is all Of thiry-ive miles a~ay from the
railroad by the most direct route, and FIVE
hundred and seventeen miles west Of the east
ern boundary Of the State, and perched upon
Its western border, under the mountains of
California.
The reflections Of the Empire are perfectly
just. The Commissioners, we presume, will
go ahead and eHdeayor 10 use the appropria-
ton with rush. One hundred thousand
dollars are not handled every day; but the in
justice and folly Of the movement is SO appar.
ent that it cannot be permanent The Com.
missioners mLy use the funds in their hands,
but the capital cannot remain at Carson
There Is no instance in any State in the
Union where the State capital has long re,
NAMED hung mp on boundary line. To use
the money 20 build capitol at Carson is sim
ply throwing it away. 1t might as well have
been in Rhodes safe. The capital is supposed
10 be located for the convenience of the PEG
pie; but this location seems especially mad,
for their inconvenience. The people of tn,
State are bound TO snake" it out OF tina
coyote hole in the Sierra Nevada and brint
It somewhere into the State. The less money
that is thrown away in trying to locate it, Ik,
crows nest on the rim Of the basin, tn,
more the StIte win hare to locate and con
strnct the per manent capitol Of Nevada. I'm
der the changed condition Of affairs, 1t woult
be an act Of wisoo for the Commissioners 4
delay action until the meeting Of the mex
Legislature. That Legislature will certainly
repeal the act making the appropriation.