The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-11-19

some COgent Reasons Why II should
be Removed.

ring year the idea is forcing itself on
the peoil lie of Cherry Greek and East.
ern White Pine that our seat OF justice
should be removed from Its present
isolated position and brought 10 the
center of the business activity and
population of the county. Why, sir,
should three-fourths OF the taxpayers
OF White Pine be compelled, twice a
year, at the most Indictment seasons,
TO make long and expensive journeys
to Hamilton to attend 10 county busl-
ness7 We have patiently borne this
onerous duty for years, but now think
it time to take tue necessary steps 10
remedy tue evil. What good reason
can be brought forward against such
removal ? | AIN aware that some will
say we have a Courthouse over
there. Very true. But does it pay
the great majority of the taxpayers OF
the county TO 20 one hundred miles
away to transact their business
simply because they have a Court
house there ? What would be thought
of the individuals who have left Ham
ilton IN the past year and settled in
our midst, II thsy continued to make
the former place their HOME, because
they may have comfortable houses
there WoulI they not be consider
ed tit subjects for. an insane asylum +?
And vet this in the very thing the
taxpayers Of White Pine county are
doing. Besides the annoyance ami
and trouble OF these semi-annual trips
TO our distant seat of local govern
ment, the direct expense incurred Is
no small sum-. Let US see. II is safe
To estimate that at each term OF Court
at least fifty OF the citizens residing in
this section OF the county are Obliged
TO go TO Hamilton on Court business.
One hundred dollars is about the
average expense TO each one. This
makes s., 900 per term, or $1,000 a
year the e .idents OF Eastern White
Pine pay for the privilege of spend
ing "A week or two, twice a year. about
that two-story brick edifice, erected
in the flush days at tile base Of Treas
ure Hill.
But this is not all. Besides these
heavy semi-annual assessments our
people are frequently called thither
OH private business, at heavy cost aud
great Inconvenience. The cost Of car
nag for prisoners and carrying them
10 Haml ON is also no Inconsiderable
sum. The care OF the INDECENT sick
also Is a heavy burden upon Us, for,
although we have county hospital
ut Hamilton, ii Is impossible 10 send
the poor u~nfortunates who fall VIC
Tins TO disease or accident over there
during six months OF the ye;Ir, and as
"A consequence private charity has to
car. for them Then, again, We are
creating a caste OF county OH Gals,
living Isolated from the Illness CEN
ter OF the county, who imagine hem-
selves lords OF the old feudal days,
and never venture from their ..Casue
on the Hill. ;" ave 10 levy tribute OH
the industry OF the toilrrs, whose peti.
tons for any publ improvement,
these petty autocrats spurn with the
disdain OF scions born to rule
Now, MIR. + litor, are we not the
biggest fools III the world n we SUD
nit to this burden much longer? We
have the remedy in u " hand.
In two years, the people of East rn
White Pine-l m-an all east OF tue
Eg N range-if the county sea wert
loca ed at Cherry Creek. would save
enough in travelling and incidental
expenses TO put up far better coon y
buildings than tho.e nov at Hhmil-
ton. | have no i'll will again t the pep
pie over there, but believing IN 9TH
greatest good TO the greatest number,
think our county eat shoald be To-
Gated as near AZ possible to the center
Of business aud population. The de
mand is not unr asonable, Hnd | sub
mil it to II people that immediate
steps be taken to this desirable end.
An EASTERN WHfTE pINER.