The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-01-10
For the Daily State Register.
BOILER INSPECTOR.
CARSON. Jan. 9. 1871.

lAltsoN, JAZZ. y, 1874.
In your column of legislative pro-
ceedings of Friday, is a notice of a bill
"a for an Act for the better protection OF
life and property about work, using
steam as a motive power." | respect
fully suggest the following as a more
appropriate title for such bill: IAN
act to tax the business interests Of Ne
vada for the protection OF boiler-mall-
ers, and their agents" | suppose
this % be akin to that INTRODUCED in 1867
and again in 1859; both of which re-
ceivcd as they should. condemnation
and death AZ the hands of discriminat-
ing legislators. Protection OF life
and property" sounds well, bat what
does il mean? Nothing more or les,
than creating an Office 20 be filed by
some party in the interest Of the boiler
making fraternity, tina. they nay fat
ten, MOI. only Oh the fees which will
nece >sarily attach to the Office, hu.
also bv the profit on repairing, which
the inspectors will lind il necessary to
order.
Will any ~ inform Us from whence
comes the call for this Boiler Inspe..
or? Have the people of Nevada pc
titioned the Legislature for the
amendment of such laws? Have
our public journals recommended
It's adoption? What are the
c.rcums auccs making the demands
During the existence OF our common
wealth as a Territory and State, nearly
eleven years, Two boiler explosions
have occurred, one of which was
harmless, eNcep. TO its " connected
property, anu the other resulted i'm the
iea.h OF one person! And We. some
WI hundred or more boilers are in
/ constan. Use in the STATE, and have.
been Tor the last ten years, Thirty
thousand people have lived where
,team i the principal motive power
for len years, and only one killed by
! explosions in that tiuIei What n haI
ara 10 lite, surely. The boiler which
exploded ~ Silver City was nearly
new, aud pronounced by competeut
judges, called 10 testify in a suit which
grew out oil the demolition OF the Hud
son mill, the best boiler ever brought
into the Stale.
The other. a. the Gold Hill Foundry.
was directly under the supervision OF
machini>gs and boiler makers who
were perfectly competen. to determine
the efficiency OF boilers, and | ask
what good could have resulted e.
Q .tHNar N4a "a 1U.FHrr sRlN.r.rs rs4. -
explosion might or might not have
been the result OF accident; the sec
ond, M accident which no boiler in
spc..or could have aver.eI, unless ne
aad stood on top OF the boiler an
raised the valve. which was supposed
To have been confined by the settling
Of the roof OF the building. In view OF
these facts, there j. no. "A pin or which
10 hang an argument, in favor of the
passage OF Suci: bin. while its opera
ions directly and indirectly would
cost the mili-owncrs OF our state iron
$4,000 10 : 1000 per year. just think
81 the proprlcty OF stopping a mill oi
hosting works where two or tire,
hundred men are employed, aud al
lowing the boiler 10 cool. 20 tina; somt
toad-head, who did not know "A boile.
from a beer barrel. such generally AZ,
they appointing for like POSITIONS
might look in and pass his i'll iudg
ment upon the strength and etlicieuc'
OF the boiler, or DO that which Woul,
more likely I've the result. take "a feu
/, for good reports. Arguments againS
the passage OF such law are iueNhat.>t
ibic, while there is nothing but thiu
skinned pluu>ibility in It's favor.
q. have more faith in the good iudE
mcut al u legislators, than to heiiev
that they will give a Proposition :
detrimental tn the milling interests @
our state, and 80 entirely uncallei fol
, a serious consideration. Ii ought {
receive such a quietus a. Will bury
beyond resurrection. II i Just such
10 humbug, only Il hundred times NOR
1 obvious, a the Weights and Mea>ur
bill, which the State was cuSSei VIII
one year, but which Mas repealed in
u mediately on the assembling OF I'll
Legislature of 1867.
2. Il. this die in its embryo.
RoUGH OLD CITIZEN.