Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-06-16
LYON AND EsMERALDA.

Herald OF tue Stn iust. VIC sio iuioi IL
ed that from the present outlook "old
Esmerslda county" is not likely to
be trent assunder" as contemplated
in the Act of the Legislature detach-
ing a portion of Esmeralda and an.
nexing the same to Lyon county, and
giving as it's reasons for the failure
of the Act to accomplish its intended
purpose, that the corner between
Douglas and Esmeralda counties on
the State line had never been estab-
lished, and consequently could not
be found by the County Surveyors
xho had been sent out for the pur-
pose of running the boundary line
between Esmeralds and Lyon count
les; also stating that the County Sur.
yeyor of Esmeralda had been ordered
BY the Board of County Commission.
ers to withdraw from the survey. In
referring to the Herald's editorial for
the purpose of criticising its conclu-
sions, one must almOst feel it an IN
charitable act to expose the tallacy
of its reasoning, and thus deprive the
people of Aurora, and perhaps some
other portions OF Emerald county.
) of the consolation which 80 slight q
glimmer of hope affords them at this
time. But, lest the indulgence of
such illusions should operate to the
detriment of the two counties inter
ested, it might be excusable, and even
advisable, to brush aside the tissue of
technicalities with which the editor
of the Herald is 50 eager to cover up
the plain common sense principles
of the law. The Act passed by the
last Legislature reads as follows:
GAIL that portion of Esmeralda
county lying west of line COM
mencing at a point on the boundary
line between California and Nevada
where the counties of Esmeralda and
Douglass corner, and running thence
in a nor.heasterly direction to point
on the north boundary line of Esmer-
aida county where the Csrson and
Colorado railroad crosses said line"
The Herald says as no corner had
ever been established between Doug.
las and Esmeralda counties, the sur
yeyors were unable to find a starting
point. This is evidently an illustra
ton of the old addage, "None so
blind as those who will not see."
Lyon County's Surveyor had no diff
ficulty in determining the exact point
described 10 the law as the point on
the boundary line between California
and Nevada where the counties of
Esmeralda and Douglas corner, but
the Surveyor of Esmeralda county
commended, that as there never bad
been a post or monument set up on
the spot, there could be no corner be-
tween the counties of Esmeralda and
Douglas. The Legislature of 1861,
when it organized the State into
counties, defined Esmeraldss bound
aries as follows;
beginning at point where the
thirty seventh degree of North latti
tude intersects the one hundred and
sixteenth meridian, and running west
along said thirty seventh degree to the
California line, thence along said line
in a north. westerly direction to the
summit of the divide between the
east and west forks of Walker river"
(From this point the boundary line
turns in northerly direction and is
not pertinent in the case under discus
sion as it merely describes the west
boundary line of Esmeraldv county,.
In the same Act the county of Douglas
was created and its boundaries dsfin-
ed, after indicating its nor:herly and
westerly boundary, until it comes TO
the State line the law says: "thence
south and southeasterly along said
line, to the western boundary of Es-
meralds county"
The Legislature plainly traces the
southern boundary of Esmeralda
county to the summit of the divide
betu cen the east and west forks of the
Walker river on the California line,
aad than furns north II mainly