The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-02-12
TnE RAILROAD QUESTION AGAIN.

bill. and in this form II IS receiving
many adherents in all parts of the
county:
the Honorable Members ofthe Senate and
Assembly Of White Pine County. Nevada;
We, your constituents. alter .aIl consaaela.
t;on al Senate bill No. q, known as the
Perley Railroad bill. recommend its passage.
uDon the following conditions:
F;rsf-That the bill be amended reducing
the interest on the bends to seven per cent
Sseond-That all county taxes derived from
the taxation Of said roNd BY White Pine
County be placed in q Railroad Sinking Fund
for the purpose of diseharging the interest
principal Of said bonds; and that no other
taxes be levied OF collected Tor lhsi palp1se
rived from said railroad. except the state
be annually Appropriated for the pnr-
nose of discharxing said principal and inter
1T mil said bends shall be fully PAID
Third-That all sections in ssfd Dill presld.
for q different mode tor the payment OF
The interest or principal OF said bonds be
emitted s.a stricken out.
Fonrth-The intention hereof being that
the interest and principal Of said bonds shan
only be paid by the tsxss derived IRON ,ns
from said railroad be appropriated annually
for that purpose. until said interest and prln-
cipa. shall be fully paid.
Fifth-That one hundred thousand dollars
be subscribed by the County upon the COM
pletion OF seventy-fve miles Of railroad IN
said county, and one hundred thousand DEB
lars additional when the road shal be com.
pleted to the southern boundary Of said
county.
Pursuant to a call, a railroad meet
ing was held at Weber Hall last even
ing. The meeting was organized by
calling Mr.. L. NJ. Foulke to the chair.
On taking the same the Chairman
made a brief but pointed speech in
favor OF railroads in general, and the
Eureka and Colorado River Railroad
in particular. He then introduced to
the audience Mr.. George W. Baker
and Judge Rives, who exPounded the
terms of the proposed railroad scheme
in q lucid and forcible manner, win
ming many converts to their side Of
the question. They invited free dis
c~ussion, but no one came forward 10
contest the gnound they had taken.
While many signers were secured
10 have the bill passed a amended.
many others refused to sign. The
most potent argument We heard adj
vanced by those opposed to the meas
ure was that the experience Of all
counties or communities in this State
and California who had aided railroads
proved that they had been system
atically robbed by these corporations,
and it did MOI stand TO reason that we
would fare any better. II III people
Were satisfied-which they are not
that the strict terms of the bill would
be adhered to, they would approve
the unanimously.
Both Nj. Baker and Judge Rives
made some telling arguments in favor
Of the bill, and the feeling which had
been almost unanimously against the
scheme is now pretty evenly divided.
MANY of u people imagine that
they see in ths proposed railroad
scheme q huge colored gentleman on
the fence, and that the sole purpose
OF the Eureka capitalists is TO strike
the fine timber region in the neigh
borhood of Thirty-mile Springs, aud
thus supply the Eureka furnaces with
abundance Of cheap coal.
JUDGE RIvEs, in his speech last
evening, showed by facts and figures
that in less than ten years after the
issuance of the county bonds to the
Eureka and Colorado River Railroad
the entire principal and in
of the bonds would be paid
from the taxes on the property Of the
1T would have been more in
accordance with the fitness Of things
if the promoters of the Eureka and
Colorado River Railroad scheme had
brought this subject before the peo-
pie at the late election, and invited a
popular verdict for or against the
measure.
IT should be borne in mind sha
amer the Perley bin passes the Legis~
lafure and receives the Governors zig
nature it becomes law, and the pean
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