Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-09

Location ef the Various County
Offices.

OkuctSs
The Commissioner have not as vet made
provision for the Offices Of the county
officials during the time necessary for
rebuilding the new Courthouse. 1t will
be recollected that Mr.. Bartlett offered to
move the present Courthouse on his
Opera House lot, and furnish them the
Necessary offices, free Of cost, provided they
would give him the building afterwards.
This would have saved the county several
thousand dollars in the way Of rents, and
as competent judges say the building is
not worth more than $500 or 5000, and that
it will hardly bring that amount, the adj
vantage OF his offer will be manifest. Tine
Commissioners declined, on the ground
that they were compelled by law to adver-
tise it for thirty days. No one, however.
would have questioned their action had
they promptly accepted the offer, aud the
building could have been sold Just as well
On Bartlett's lot as where it now stands.
and the latter could have purchased il for
a song, as IN its present state it is worth
but little, except for fire-wood.
The new Courthouse will nave a frontage
of so feet ON Main street, and will extend
back 80 feet. In the distribution
Of Offices, District Attorney Merrill
has Jared best. and will occupy two rooms
on the corner where the Clerks Office
now stands. One of these rooms will be
be 20 feet ga inches by Is feet 9 inches,
and the other IL feet by Is feet 9 inches.
In the rear Of his rooms. and fronting on
Bateman street, will be a room 10 feet l
inch by Is feet Q inches, which has not vet
been assigned, aud the Sheriff will occupy
the same spot he now holds, and his quar-
tiers will be % feet 8 inches by % feet. A
passage way II feet in width will run
from Main street down the center of
the building until it reaches the Sheriff's
Office. Across this passage way and directly
opposite the room Of the District Attorney,
will be the Office of the Recorder, which
will be 20 feet by 16 feet and Q inches. In
the rear Of the Recorders, and between
that and the Treasurer's Office, will be
built two vaults, one 10 feet 2 inches by z
feet 6 inches, for the use of the Recorder,
and one 7 feet 6 inches by 4 feet, for the
Treasurer, the latter office will be IS feet
8 inches by 10 feet 6 inches. Adjoining the
Treasures Office Will be a small passage
connecting with the main p~assageway, and
leading from the latter to the sink.
Next to this smaller passage, in the south
eastern corner Of the building and adjein-
ing the Sherif's Office is a room % feet 3s
inches by % feet, to which no one has been
assigned. This completes the Offices on the
first floor.
On the second floor will be the Judges
chamber, which will be a room 20 feet SIS
inches by Is feet 9 inches, and located on
the corner now occupied by the County
Clerk. On the opposite corner, and sep
arated from the Judges chamber by a pas
sage eleven feet wide, will be The County
Clerks Office, 90 by l6 feet 9 in ches, with a
vault in the rear. The balance Of the
floor will be taken up by the District Court
room, which win be 81 feet 5 inches by so
feet.
Some Of the present incumbents are not
altogether satisfied with the locations as
signed them, but it is probably as good a
division as could be made. No provision
has been made in the plans for the Public
Administrator and Coroner, School Su-
perintendent, or Surveyor, but they will
doubtless be given quarters in one Of the
two vacant rooms.
Doubts are expressed in some quarters
as to the ability OF any contractor, either
to erect such a building called for by the
plans and specifications for the sum named
III the bill authorizing its construction,
which is S53. 900, or to finish it in the time
specified, which must be by October list.
Some have asserted that the plans were
drawn in the interest of foreign builders
but on the other hand, several contractors
from a distance, who visited Eureka and
examined the matter thoroughly, said they
would not stand a ghost of a show in any
attempt to compete with our builders, and
left in the last stages Of disgust. There is
such a difference of opinion concerning it
that the public and the SENTINEL will
await the opening OF the bids with a great
deal Of curiosity. All bids must be in by
the 10th inst, but none have yet been
fled,