The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-02-20

the STATE Prison to Reno and the Capt.
toI also ii there was too much back
talk
1t has cost Ormsby II great deal OF
money lighting this unjust and piratical
raid on its belongings. Now the scenes
have shifted u l%irtie, and the bully OF
OF NeVada's counties is now realizing
that the justice due other counties, SO
long delay Ell, Is nov III hand.
HrsToRY Or WAsHoE.
The following data Was compiled tor
n. A. Hummel's History oil " ashoe
County" by Surveyor-General G. w.
Irish who assured the author of its alb
solute correctness: Washoe is one OF
the nine original counties into which the
Territory Oh Nevada was divided by the
nrst Territorial Legislature. Previously
this had been a portion OF Carson Coun-
ty, Utah Territory. The boundaries as
defined by the Act OF November 10Th,
1851, are AS follows i'll Chapter AXlY,
Section 4: There shall be a county, to
be known as Washoe County, to include
all thai part of the Territory within the
boundaries described as follows: Be-
ginning at the northwest corner OF Orms-
by County, and running easterly along
the nothern boundary OF said county to
the summit of the mountains east of
Washoe Lake i thence in a northerly
course along the summit OF said NOUN
tains to the lower end vi the Big Mead
ows on the Truckee River thence down
said river to its lower crossing: thence
east along the Immigrant Road to the
summit of the mountains lying east OF
said river thence north on the main
summit of said mountains to a point
from which, running direct west, would
intersect the Truckee River in its mouth
at Pyramid Lake; thence due west to
the California line thence south to the
place Of beginning.
By an Act Of the Territorial Legisla-
tnre, passed in December, 1862, the
name of Lake County was changed to
Roop County; and by an Act OF the
State Legislature, February, Is, 1854,
Roop County was made a part OF Was-
hoe County. The western boundary
has been shifted from the centre of the
summit Of the Sierras eastward to the
line of the 120th meridian, west from
Greenwich, England. SO far as can be
discovered, there has been no Legisla-
tive enactment definitely fixing the
eastern boundary of Washoe County
from its point at the northeast on the
summit OF the range east of Pyramid
Lake; but, by agreement OF the County
Commissioners of Washoe and Hum
boldt Counties in 1885, a survey was made
locating the, eastern boundary from q
point just south of the south end of Mud
Tor Winnemucca) Lake, northward
through the lake and along the range
hill between ranges % and "a east of
the Mt. DiabIo, meridian, northward
from the northern extremity of the lake
to the Oregon boundary. The remain
der of the eastern boundary, from a
point two miles eastward from the east
end of the Central Pacific railway
bridge across the Truckee River at
Wadsworth, northerly to where it int. :
sects the range hill before spoken of is
indefinitely located. 1t is probably
pretty ear the same as the Pyramid
Lake Indian Reservation boundary, as
run and marked by Mr.. Perry Powers
in July, 1887, for the United States.
From all that is known of the bound
aries of Washoe County, it lies between
the meridians Of l19 degrees and 20 sec
onds and 120 degrees west from the
meridian of Greenwich. so that its cen
trail meridian time isl hours and SO
minutes slower than Greenwich time,
and 2 hours and 80 1-2 minutes west
from meridian of Washington. The py-
ramid on the eastern side of Pyramid
Lake marks the meridian of 119 degrees
80 seconds west from Greenwich. The
county lies between the parallels of 80
degrees 20 seconds and AZ degrees north
latitude. Its central parallel is 40 de-
grees 40 seconds north, and passes about
centrally eastward through the Smoke
Creek Desert.
ROOF.
When the Territory OF Nevada was
organized, owing to the uncertainty of
the eastern boundry line of California,