Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-01
co,,Sry SEAT QUESTION.
Our Neighbors at Hamilton Can
vass the Matter.

The following communication is pub
lished as received
HAMILTON, Jan. 20, 1882.
To the people of White Pine County
We, the people of Hamilton and vicinity,
have heard so much of late in regard to
the removal of the County Seat that we
have come to think that, in bounden JUS
tice to ourselves, a few truthful facts
should be ~vouchsafed in reply. If I'M
blushing cheek and concentrated impu-
dence we're good motive powers, we should
certainly have arisen some fine morning
ere this to find the lonesome brick at
the foot of Treasure Hill transferred dur
ing the wee sma' hours, before the rising
sun, away to that doubtfully promised
land in the classic precincts lying be-
yond the Egan Range. But its architec-
tural beauty remains yet for a while to en-
liven US with its adorning presence.
Every mushroom town Of this County,
even while a mere iedgling, has had this
same hurrah to make, and ready to fill
your ears with language 80 superlative OF
and about the mighty metropolis rapidly
~springing into existence from the fungus
within their limits.
We have had Robinson, Hunter, Shell
burn, Ward and others, mostly to glimmer
for a brief period and go down with their
setting sun in %obscurity. But there was
still another Cherry Greek, that raised a
clamor years ago, only equaled by its pres
emf attitude, yet from being the most pop
ulous own of the county it receded till in
1876 it cast only SO votes, while Ward came
rushing onward with sos, and the Lone
some Brick in its grandeur looked down
upon IA or fifty per cent more than Cherry.
So much for floating populations and
would-be " Mushroom Capitalists"
Why not little, unpretentious Taylor
District come forward with her "boom p
The following significant item, taken from
the County Assessors and Recorders
books, speaks in a tongue that does not lie.
Quarterly bullion tax (last quarter re-
ceived from Taylor District over $3.50.
Same tax from all of Cherry Greek under
S28, or six and n half times as much from
Taylor as from Cherry.
Why cannot an ambitious populace, even
ever so small, gather around q little mill
that turns out a handsome SIG, 900 in four
days, and after getting possession OF a pair
of the mighty magnifyipg glasses used by
the magnates of the town wherein the
monthly production is but little over the
above, take look through them, and see
in their ~imaginations a future finland en-
pire" town, and ask of our County Dads
that they, too, may be allowed to clasp in
their arms that solitary, much-talked-of
Temple Of Justice?"
All Of the criminal business of this
county, which came before the November
tdrp1 NJ Gnrrf AZ q from tha nna towp of
Cherry, with the exception of one case
from Osceola. Which would be the more
just, that the law abiding people who are
now living within the shadow Of the
dome Of impartiality" should have to
travel over this fearful snow-bound region,
where they would have us believe a Ma
poleon would weaken, or that those resid-
ing where the crime is rampant should
come to those who are anxious to help
them out in their defense against the evil
performances of all wrong-doers?
Let the harvest of iniquity be less bounti-
full in that town beyond the ''glaciers;"
let its good citizens spare one-half OF the
time which they are now devoting in an
attempt to farther cucumber an almost
bankrupt county, to the very meritorious
labor Of cleaning out the weeds and tares
which infest itself and vicinity; then one
term OF court per mum will be all that
will be required Of good and true men"
from there or elsewhere, as jurors or wit
nesses, to come to the County Seat TO try
their fellow-man. Nearly ell fairly posted
men in this county are pretty we'll in
formed as to its finances, and that all these
attempts, however smoothly polished over
or advocated, can only be conducive Of
making a bad matter almost irremediable.
Cherry Greek and its vicinity are almost
entirely kept up by n piece Of machinery,
and the manipulators thereof have a grand
assessment clock" which they wind up
one every two months. 1t is a good clock,
and promptly runs down, as many here
abouts and elsewhere, who sdance to pay
the fiddler" can well certify to.
As far as geographical position lies, moth
ing need be said but this, that the same
objections apply to both its present posi-
ton and to its aspirant thereof, and that,
If in the future a necessity should arise
for its removal, new aspirants with good
intentions may arise, and 1t should now
be beholden for them to see, one and all,
that any removal now would for all near
time procrastinate their chances indef-
nitely.
We have in our midst the second great
est tunnel in the State, which expends
monthly about one-third of the sum dis
tribpted by that beautiful "Star" of
Destiny, which sits like turtle in the
mud. The stock of this tunnel holds its
own, levies no immediate assessments, and
has a co-laborer in the town of Ward,
which bids fair to do well in the near fu-
ture, and who can gainsay that the polls
Of next Fall shall not accredit to her
more votes than to that town which is no
nearer or more accessible than the present
County Seat We ask this question !:
Shall a few, who live away from many of
you, coax, coerce, or persuade you into a
position which only too soon you will most
seriously regret? People of White Pine
decide.