Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-08-08
COUNTY PRINTING.

Nounty COmulSSlOperS laSC monday,
the Free Press made an offer, in
writing, to do all the county printing,
Except the publication of bills al
lowed, which under the law has to be
done in daily paper if one be pub
lished in the county, otherwise in a
weekly, for six months, for the sum Of
$50 per month. The cost of publishing
the bills will average 81 80 per month.
IL the offer of the Free Press had
been accepted the county would save
$3.50 for the six months, or at the rate
OF $500 for the year. The county is
now paying 500 per month for the
same work this paper offered to do
for 500, (outside of the exception
above noted. u Free Press.
The editor of the Free Press has
evidently been afflicted with one OF
his periodic attacks of economy and
reform. 1t is not true taat the county
is paying 500 per month for printing
that the Free Press now offers to do
for $50 per month because his bid,
as submitted to the Board, does not
include the printing of assessment
lists which are required by law and
which are included in the present
contract. The people of the county
have not forgotten, if the editor of
Free Press has, that when the Board
of County Commissioners advertised
for bids this Spring II do the county
printing for year that this same in.
dlyidual who is now willing to do
part of the work for $50 per month
thinking that he controlled a mo-
nopoly Of the printing business at the
county seat put in a bid to do the
work for Sl20 per month, excluding
the printing of the assessment lists,
which are now included in the con-
tract at 500 per month and for which
the county paid last year the sum of
Sl35.3O and which at the legal rate
would have amounted to S18O.4O. His
bid also excluded other printing re-
CURED OF the different county officers,
by the statu YES, such as notices, etc,
all of which are now included in the
contract at SlnO per month.
Neither have the people forgotten
that when the County Comm ssioners
believing that the bid of Messrs
Sproule and Grover was exorbitant
and rejected it, that Mr.. Sproule re-
fused to put in another bid intend
lug thereby to force the County Com
mlssIoners to accept his proposition.
Nor have they forgotten that this
same editor refused, after the rejac
ton of his bid by the Commissioners
to do any work whatever for the coun-
ty even at the rates allowed by the
statutes of the State, thereby forcing
them to send out of the county for
the necessary blanks for the use of
the county officers. Neither do we
believe that the people of the county
have quite forgotten the abuse heaped
uyon the Commissioners by the econ
omist Of the Free Press because
they refused to accept his exorbitant
bid to do part of the county printing
for Sl2O per month.
The Board Of County Commission,
ers with full knowledge of the in,
tention of the Free Press entered in.
to an agreement, on the 9th day OF
April, 1891, with the present lessee OF
tho INDEPENDENT to- do all the neces.
sary printing for the county for s1OC
por month. Whereas if they had &C.
cepted the bid of this great economist
they would have paid $12O per month
and about 5000 extra for printing the
assessment lists making in all s1,64C
for work they now get for S1,2OO.