The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-09
ISN'T CARSON OLD ENOUGH TO
he WEANED.
Hadn.t We Better Begin 10 Think
About incorporating:


the question of incorporation under more
compact and perfect local governments.
Now we believe in the naturalness OF that
creeping which anticipates the toddle,
which precedes the more self-reliant stag
ger. which eventuates in full blown pc
destrainism; and we need no ghost from
the grave of defurct towns to tell us that
the hamlet had better grow to be a village
and the village mature into a smart
sprinkle of town before the consequence
and dignity and high functions of incor-
poration are talked of:-But why is not
Carson big enough and old enough and
embracing important interests enough to
have town government? Or, put more
pertinently, would it no. be the part
sound wisdom to place our little city IN
der government Of its own-provided OF
course, that by so doing the public ex-
penditures would no. be enough increas-
ed to add materially to the present bur
den of tax? We think that there is
ingenuity enough among our own people
to devise scheme whereby these de-
sirable ends might be brought around
We need several things to make Carson
completely worthy to be the Capital OF
the State; and amongst them is:
faithfully enforced sidewalk ordinance
We mean by this, an ordinance which
should not merely provide that within
certain defined limits there should be
sidewalks constructed, but that such
walks should be kept clear of obstruc-
tions in the shape of boxes, barrels and
piles of goods, FIRE wood. farming uten-
sis, dry goods boxes, garden sass, &c, &c.
Then our citizens who build decent
fences and try to make them neat
adornment by judicious employment OF
white lead and other pigments, should
be exempted from the ezasperating cussed
nuisance Of their side and ham scratch
ing against the same by siime-pollutcd,
mud-wallowinS swine. Give US a strict
Law which shall keep four footed hogs
from invading private gardens and from
of the State House.
1t is an almost unbearable annoyance.
after one has spent money and time in
setting out shade trees along ones side
walk to have the same girdled by vaga-
bond goats, snapped off by vandal mules
or sacrificed to the over-urgent lacteal
necessities of the times by having them
borne down and converted into surrepti-
tious cuds by the bushwhacking cows of
the neighborhood. Give unto us, there
fore. an estray ard pound law which
shall keep cows and goats and sheep and
mules and hogs within proper limitations.
As soon as a place as big as Carson |
gets to be as much of a railway station as
this is. all sorts of strange people flock
into it; and amongst them are, occasion
ally. q thief, q vagrSnt, q hummer,
journeyman burglar and Q sarroter OF two.
These need the tender guardianship of
policemen and like public servants.
We know well enough that the towns
people and everybody who owns anything
in Ormsby county is very grievous!y
taxed; but the twin facts that there is not
one mortgage recorded nowadays where
there were twenty few years ago, and
that. big rs the tax is, there are no de
inquents Of any consequenee-thsse
things show that there are life and viscr
and growth end money here; and with
these and their Accommodations there
should be some little metropolitan and
expansion-somet nde-
quate to the respectable proportions Of
the place. The moiety of tax-incraase
would hardly be felt; and the returns for
the additional outlay that would come in
in the shape of Improvements in cleanii-
hess and godlinsss would be more than
the worth of the money expended.
Some judicious. well-considered action !;
On the part of our citizens regarding the
matters and things herein proposed would Z.
place the subject matter SO cleveny With ;,
IN the hands of our representatives IN the ,
Legislature as that the benefits limited at =
might be had and nobody be the loser. :,
a wink is as good as nod" etc. :,