Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-14
Ghe Carson lailn appeal

the highest problem with which this
State itself has hal to deal. By rare
good fortune it seems that it has. at
last, fallen under the immediate su
pervision Of an officer whose bust
ness habits and clear notions of sys
tenn. resources and availabilities of
hitherto wasted labor power. make
him especially tit for tue position
and responsibilities Of the Warden
ship. for he has demonstrated, so
far ~ it is possible, with his cramped
means to do, that an unhiniered OPP
portunity is all tina. is needed TO
make the Penitentiary self sustain
ing and, with a wise outlay of ex-
penditures, source of revenue to
the State. To be candid in the
treatment OF this matter, however,
IL becomes us to admit that it seems
very doubtful If the prison could be
so readily made self sustaining where
1t Is AS ii its site were where gouu,
broad arabic hit Of garden land
c>uld be brought under cultivation
and where al adequate water power
NIGH. be made available. As say
ing clause precedent to entirely al
mitting away all Carson's claims to
retaining the Prison, however, it
seems to rs that steam engine
which would COS: not more than two
or three Thousand dollars might be
made profitable investment and
that the difference between the cost
Of such machinery and the price of
removal, new buildings and so on
might by that means be saved to the
State. But there are eighty convicts
in the State Prison. These are
strong. hearty men in the
prime of life. They ought to be SO
with relation to facili-
ties for working as that they could
pay for their board. lodging and
Crime .hould he made to
pay its way-after the Courts have
done with 1t. If by removing the
prison to the Truckee, or up the
Carson or into Kings Canyon or
away from its present To-
.ation this desired end can lie at
ainel. let it be removed. There
hould be lands adjacent to the i
Prison sufficient to admit of the ]
aising by prison labor, of all the
vegetables used from year to year in
he Penitentiary the convicts should
atten their own hogs, raise their
'wn wool and weave their own cloth ,
as the California convicts do.
hey shOnld make furniture and
'oots and shoes for sale. Why not?
I convict labor can TINS be utilized
mr. taxes will he reduced and honest I
len be relieved Of the present bur- =
ems of lawlessness. Under the
resent law there is no reason whv n
his could not all he done and still
lie quarry be worked by a detail Of
the State owns it. If n
and the prison buildings are v
armer Tre..dway's property, let him s s
8 possessed of them. The present
rison wonld make an abundantly .,
Insane Asylum-and it W
a crazy thing for the State to be II
ithout such an institution. We tb
Ither the most of these ideas from ct
talk with Mr.. Hyman. Every day & s,
at be is kept from employing lis ali
ost excellent administrative abil- De
Is in utilizing he prison labor &C.
ID making the very hest that can be pl
.sde of it, q great loss accrnes to 40
e States Golfers ; and as mnch as aa
, are bound to stand by Carson IN
d its interests. we owe . duty to =
Q State which is so far paramount
mere local preferences as to force N,
to admit that If by removing the
ison from where it il at present sa11
d setting it mp beside . water lth
wer and upon aplace where bricks oil
turnips can be raised, il hal bet. 90