Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-31
Communicated
SHALL CARSON APE THE CITY.
When the Corporation Act was adopted

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by our ciiizens-like many a new mar
ried couple starting in life that had nc
means on which to splurse-the poor old
fathers gave them good advice, coupled
with such little means as could be reach
ed without mortsaging the homestead;
la. this has not paid the hired servants,
much less added anything to the general
! prosperity of the family. Some two
/ thousand dollars have been raised. Ivy
way Of licenses. and still the household
! IS in debt. On the Gth OF April, being
| Monday next, if this family arrangement
is to be continued. a tax must be levied
| to r.lse FUNDS TO run the machine. Let
US, therefore, consider the probable cx
! pense OF 6 city government and the ad
vantages to be derived tleFefrom: To
f, pat in force the ordinances now extant
will require three additional police, or
deputies, costing in all forty-ei.Lt hun
dred dollars per year; expense OF con-
victing and boarding offenders, under
the ordinances, about one thousand dol
lars; maintaining L pound, killing dogs,
etc, net less than one Thousand dollars:
payment of County Auditor and Clerk,
Sheriff S collection fees, etc, eight hun
drcd dollars; County Commissioner
fees, three hundred dollars; printing,
stationery, &C. two hundred and iftv
dollsrs: Incidental expenses, Eve hun
bred dollaIs;-anourtins in all to the
snug little sUm Of Eight 7T,~Sr.l,! .~i.c
HwdTrd d..1 Fifty DoiiGrS: What are
TIE advantages to he derived from this
expenditure? All The old DRINKS viii be
housed Tor = time, times. or half tiMs-a
lot Of poor ours will be killed-Logs will
lie sold at 4 discount, and the bark and
lirpls Of few cottonwou.ls viii he
saved. But. it Is asked. what of our
streets and severe? This. il must lie re-
meInbered, IS Il matter entirely OUTSIDE
Of the above estimates, and must be &c
complshed ty assessing property hold
ers. Take, for instance. the item of
sidewalks (Which should be graded. and
D.. y Il
block is surrounded by streets. il would
require only about 200 feet of sidewalk
to the block which ought to be built for
80 cents per foot. or three hundred and |
fifty dollars 10 the block. The necessary /
sewers could Ice built for like sum.
which would make the whole expendi- /
lure only about 500 to the block In |
connection with these must be main |
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brick, having a diameter OF at least four |
feet. The whole length required for this |
would not exceed one and a-half miles. |
twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars
the expense OF maintaining this sewer
could be paid by assessing each block 4
certain sum for drainage. With these
sis.aH expenditures Carson can don the
first piumes of a city dress. VIII she do
il? BY enacting and enforcing a COW
ordinance. not few poor widows, rs
well as others not widows, would know
just where to find their missing COWS,
and could get them home at an expense
of three or forIr dollars a turn, which, of
course, would be an Improvement Oh
looking for them in the sage brush; and
then the protection of the cottonwoods
This leads me to say that If the growth
Of these cottonwoods can be 30 acceler-
atsd as TO produce valuable crop OF
cotton, it will add much to the produc-
tive industry of cur embryo city, which,
added to that Of the thirty-si1 whisky
saloons, of which Carson boasts. would
all the expenditures we have
named. As the necessary tax tor carry
ing on this mortal corporation must be
ierisd next Monday, if at all, l hope the
citizens will in some way manifest their
wishes in this matter, either by public
or petition. Let us have a mass
at the theatre next Saturday
evening. Who says aye: ii.