Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-16
FALSE ECONOMY.
The Boosted Saving in County Ex.
Penditures Fully Ventilated.


pears to have been accepted as true,
that its legislation will effect a mate
rial lessening Of the burdens OF our
County GovernmeEt. A careful cead-
ing OF the several enactfnents OF the
Legislature for the year 1891 will,
however, speedily dispel this illusion.
Notwithstanding the Elko County
about which 80 much has
been written and said, the word of
promise has been broken, and what
ever good, if any, was accomplished
by the passage of that Act was after
wards bartered away; not in any
roundabout manneS, as by the Rail
road and State Board of Assessors
Acts, but directly through the new
Revenue law
Under the revenue act of 1865 and
the various acts amendatory Of and
supplemental thereto, approximately
one-half of the money annually ex-
pended on account of the Assessors,
Auditors and Treasurer's salaries has
been drawn from the taxes levied for
State purposes. In this manner, on an
average, about $500 have each year
been contributed by the State for the
purpose OF paying its proportion of
the above named salaries and the ex-
penses attendant upon the assessment
and collection of taxes. The amount
thus contributed by the State for
the year 1890 was, emitting express
charges, just SO, 1924. This provision
Of the old law has been eliminated
from tho new and hereafter all ex-
penses Of levying and collecting taxes
State as well as county-must be
paid out Of county funds alone. BY
some means, probably similar to the
legislation of Congress in 1873 by
which silver was demonetized, Section
81 OF the Act of 1865 providing for
such payment by the State has been
completely dropped from the Revised
Revenue Act and hence the law in
this particular has been entirely
changed.
Not content with the transfer of
$500 from the treasury Of Elko coun-
ty to the Golfers OF the State, our
county has been nade' to score an
other loss Of about $3.50 per annum
under said act by changes in the
license fees-most of which saloon
keepers and faro-men will gain
making a net loss to the ordinary tax
payer of about 1880 for the current
year.
During the year 1892 the loss from
these sources will not be far from
S3,55O-aggregating for the two years
loss of about 81, 500 aud thereafter
an annual loss of from 49, 800 to 600.
Calculated by tho change in the
State rate of taxation an apparent de-
crease in the aggregate loss appears,
but when the State Board of Assess
ors has concluded it's labors for the
fiscal year 1891, it is not probable that
the figures can be revised in favor of
Elko county.
To offset this loss Of $500 we will
have during the same period of time
a credit Of $500 on account Of a re-
duction in salaries, made up as fol-
lows: In the Sheriffs SALARY $500, in
the Treasurer's salary S1,400, in the
Auditor and Recorders salary $1,000,
In the Clerks salary $500, and in the
District Attorneys salary S800-leav-
ing net loss to the county Of about
three thousand dollars for the years
1891 and 1892.
No allowance is made in this calcu.
lation for q supposed and oft-tIme
asserted saving of either Deputy
Assessors or Jailer's salary, because,
Notwithstanding all that has been
said to the contrary, the recent Elko
Couptv Salary ct doaa MT ci,t off