Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-02-05
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
WHY TIE DIFFEREFCEf

The report or the State Controller
for 1893 shows the gross collections Of
the State revenue in the several
counties for that year to have been
$284, 448s n. OF this, emitting frac
tons OF dollars, Churchill county paid
1854, at d cost of collection TO the
State Of s870; Douglas paid $8,575,
cost of collection e664; Elko paid s45,-
Oe5, cost s3,039; Esmerslda paid So
3o6, cost 81 1853, Eureka paid 81, 4O2.
cost s.794; Humboldt paid S32,524
cost sl,9l8; Lander paid sl3,938, cost
e1,2O8; Lincoln paid "a $50, cost SS42;
Lyon paid Sl3, l8l, cost st,6s9; Nye
paid S4,OSl, cost S6l6; Ormsby paid
&t6,406, cost s2,59l; Storey paid sl9,-
TIC, cost l,7es; Nashoe paid S5O,332,
cost $2,352; White Pine paid S6,OO3,
cost $3.50.
What the taxpayers are interested
in knowing is, why the cost to the
State Of collecting s19,406 in Ormsby
county is Sl69 more than thu cost Of
collecting s5O,332 in Washoe county2
Why 10 it that the State has to pay
S1,79s for collecting sl9,7l9 in Storey
when Washoe col ects S50,332 of
State money for $2352? There is an
injustice in this and somebody is
wronged
The report also shows that Storey
county which polled 2,lS3 votes paid
only 1856 poll tax, though Washoe,
which pollsd only 1928 votes paid 90
563 poll tax. Again Ormsby county,
which polled S59. votes paid only S949
poll tax, while Humboldt, which
polled only Sol votes, paid S1,2ls poll
tax, and EIko county which polled l..
164 votes, paid only 81 1877 poll tax, or
BOO more than Humboldt which
polled 1868 less votes.
1t is very evident from these fig.
ures, which are official. that
some counties are being favored ut
the expense vf others. Why should
it cost the State more to collect taxes
in Ormsby or Storey county than in
Washoe? Ia there any known reason
why there should be such discrepancy
between the number of voters and
the receipts from poll tax in Storey,
Elko and Ormsby, as compared with
Washoe and Humboldt? 1t is scarce
ly possible that there are larger
nunber Of persons in proportion to
population exempt from payment of
poll tax in Ormsby, Elko and Storey
than in Wasboe and Humboldt. All
male persons between 81 and 60 years
Of age, whether citizens or aliens, are
liable TO pay poll tax.-Beno journal.
The total vote OF Elko county in
1892 was 1924. The Auditors report
to the State Controller shows that
Assessor Eggers sold 891 poll tax re-
ceipts in this county in 1893. This
would seem TO leave a big discrepancy
between the number liable to pay
poll tax and the number from whom
the Assessor collected the tax. As
SCISSOR Eggers informed an INDEPEN-
DENT reporter to-day chat by reason
OF the mining depression which
caused a large number of miners TO
leave Tuscarora the loss in the num-
Der Of poll tax receipts sold there last
year was about $50 as compared with
1892. Also that On accou Mt of the
change in the railroad divisions,
whereby number Of train men were
compelled to move to Ogden, and b,
the employment Of Japanese on the
sections who had poll tax receipt.
from California, he lost about 81
more. These losses, added to tn,
number OF receipts sold, brings tn,
total nearly up to the vote cast il
the county at the last election ant
shows the absurdlty Of the Journal
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