The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-09
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Communication From One who
Fav0rs Roth.
GREGGsy1LLE, ApriF7, 1880.

GKEGGSViLLE, AprlF Z, 1881.
EDITOR SILVER STATE: In your
issue Of the 23rd of last month you
allnde to the people of Golconda remon-
strating against road tax. regret that
l am obliged to make that station my
shipping point, and the people of Col
conda know that have made most OF
the. road from here to there and kept
the same in repair for the last ten years..
mostly at my individual expense.
In the years 1874 and 1875 consider
able ores were hauled from here to that
station-r-the road required rspairing--
/ asked one of the property owners Of
Golconda, who had teams hauling ores
from here there, to assist in making re-
pairs. His mystic answer was You
make the road and I'll travel it.
About year later, with a heavy drag
and four horse team, / made the new
road from Golconda to Rock Creek, a
distance Of nearly FIVE miles, at my in
dividual expense. To keep the roads
in repair, and to get some assistance
from the, district, applied for and re-
eeived the Road Supervisorship of Gold
Run Road District. There being no
money in the fund the road was left
without repairs for three years. The
powders and stones accumulated the
creek aad ravine crossings were washed
out 50 that it was terrible for team or
teamster to travel between here and
Golconda. The settlers complained bit
terly of their condition. Although j
knew there was no money to do the
WORK with, / started to make repairs in
the latter part OF June, last year. I
toiled undera hot sun all through the
month OF July, at the end of which /
had twenty-five miles repaired and in
good condition. When l presented my
bill to the Board OF Commissioners the
people of Golconda, through misrepre-
sentation, tried every means in their
power to stop the Commissioners from
allowing me any commission for my
labor. Egotistic, selfish individuals,
who have the railroad at their door, do
not want roads. Large and small cat
tie men do not want roads, as any more
settling up of the country would cut
out their pasturage and range. The
trader, who, through his sophistry gath
ers the dollars from the creslulous and
nnsuspecting, does not want honest OPP.
position, therefore be does not want
roalls but are We, the settlers who are
developing the resources of the country,
to be kept in barbarism by ach indi-
viduals say emphatically, no
When Baron Won Humboldt
most scientific man of the are of which
he lived-told General Fremont that
the valleys of Humboldt would bloom
like the rose, he did not predict that
| such men as live at GolcuBda would be
the cause He could see Che cause in
our mountains, their wealth being APP
parent in the debris of our streams.
| and scattered over the hills. He in
| ferred that it would take millions of
people to extract their minerals tun-
nels would have to be run; shafts
would have to be sunk, from which an
| abundance of water would be obtained
to irrigate the valleys into high state
of cultivation, even TO rose-bloom the
esthetic the beautiful. 1t only re-
quires harmony between capital and
labor for the great work to commence.
Let US assist those that are now trying.
Good roads will mitigate, in part, their
difficulties Every man that wishes
the welfare of Humboldt County will
vote for the road tax. The nomadic
bovine herder has never beena benefit
to settlers. The future of our county
is not a pasture field. w. e.. G.
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