Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-02-04
THE PRISON 6HOE-sHO2.
1t Doesn't Pay In Carson but it
Night in Reno.


plain as a mans hand, that move
ment is on foot to move the Stat
Prison from Carson to Reno. n
sooner is Bell elected than th
job begins to unfold. Here is tn
opening music:
why does the Eureka Leade
say that the appropriation of $50,
600, for the purchase Of materia
for the State Prison shoe shop, i.
squandered, when it is shown thai
$43 225 60 had. at the time the
| War lens report was made. beer
returned to the treasury, with sol
vent debts amounting to several
thousand dollars more. which are
to be added: over $1,000 Of which
was not then dre?'- Reno GA
Zette.
To which the Eureka Leader re-
spends
Because every dollar that has
ever been covered into the State
Treasury frem the manufacture of
shoes at the State Prison has cost
| the State one dollar and forty
cents. For definite information on
this subject. we would respectfully
refer the inc lirer to the State Con
trollers report for 1884, aud to the
report of special committee of the
present Legislature. appointed and
instructed to investigate the affairs
Of the State Prison. The $t3,-
225 90 cost the the State over $50
600 in coin and the labor Of s;ytv
men for two years, fed. clothed,
housed and guarded at the expense
Of the State. The labor one per-
formed hv the prisoners to produce
the $43.225 20 would amount to
nearly twice that amount at twenty !
cents per day. So as a matter of J
fact that $4,000 was covered into
the Treasury at an outlay of 3d.
100 cash and $4,000 worth of labor
The only good service the shoe
shop does is to enable State officers
and attaches of the State office to
wear excellent shoes and boots
without a compromising depletion
Of their purses. The friends of
Warden Bell seem to think that
any attack on the shoe business is
an indirect attack on that officer,
but nothing of the kind is intend
ed. He has done as we'll as any
one ever did, excepting Mr.. Gar
rard and probably as we'll as any
will. There is apparent
" only one way to rid the State Of
this barnicle, and that is to remove
the prison to Reno, and by the APP
plication of water power utilize
the labor of the prisoners in the
manufacture of some article, or ar
ticles, the raw material of which
cost next to nothing, the chief
value which will he added by the
In other words
make material worth ten cents,
worth one dollar when manufac-
;ured, and not use nine y cents
worth Of leather to make dollars
worth Of boots and shoes Let
he prison be moved into the Co.
sseum at Reno There is no hope
# any good results where it now
s..
We believe that much better
'esnlt conld be obtained by abol-
shing the shoe manufactory alto
,ether and allowing Nevada shoe
makers to earn a living at their
rade As it is, now, the State
$ losing money and the Nevada
,oot manufacturers are being
|riven from business If the
iaree made bv the Leader that
he State officers get their boots
nd shoes made at the prison is
rue. it shows very penurious set
f State officers If they had an,
lyle about them at all, they would
'atronize some Of the men whose
otes helped to elect them. We
1ould like to have the Prison Com
compel Warden Bell
o furnish list of State officers
Tho get their boots and shoes in
his way 1t would be interesting
nr the voters to know who these
arties are
We are informed upon good au-
hority that Mr. Bell is always
areful not to tell people that he