The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-01-09
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS
A Reduction In the Tax Levy for 1885,
Two New Road Districts Formed
jury List for the Current Year.

Two New Road Districts Formed
Jury List for the Current Year.
Business Of considerable importance was
transacted at Mondays meeting Of the
Board Of County Commissioners, the first
meeting Of the new year, and a night session
was necessary to complete it. All members
Of the Board we're present. 10 view OF the
amount Of personnel property in the county
which is sometimes handled in tine early
months OF the year in a way calculated to
avoid taxation, it was concluded to make
the tax levy for this year now. rather than
to wsit till the February meeting.
Assessor II. Z. Prudential appeared be-
fore the Board and represented that the as
sessed valuation Of property for the current
year would most surely be larger than that
Of 1895, and that in his opinion a decrease
Of twenty-five cents ON the hundred dollars
could safely be made in fixing this years
rate. This increase in property valuation is
expected to occur chiefly in DeLamar and
vicinity. While the revenues now derived
are hardly sufficient to maintain our county
government, the growing size of the de.
linquent list every year indicates very
clearly how hard it is to :. che taxes
After some discussion the ia rste was fixed
as follows: For State and County general,
50. 80, with 20 cents added for Phoebe fire
fund, and 10 cents added for the DeLamar
town fund. This makes the full rate to
county residents 49, 30; to DeLamar town
SO. 40, and to the town OF Phoebe 50 so per
500 valuation.
On petition properly signed, Virgin Road
District No. 3 was created to embrace the
Muddy Valley from the Indian Reservation
to st. Thomas with an average width of
about five miles, George Whitney Of st.
Thomas was appointed road supervisor, with
bonds placed at $500, and was given thirty
days in which to qualify.
On petition also, as required by law,
Panaca Road District. No. 4, was created to
embrace the town of Panaca and extend to
the mouth of Condor Canyon on the north;
to the foot hills on the east; to the north
line of Atchison's ranch on the south; to
Bennett Springs ON the west and to join the
Phoebe Road District on the southwest. Il.
r. Phillips was appointed road supervisor
with bond fixed at $500, as in other cases,
and was given the same length of time,
thirty days, in which to qualify.
A generously signed petition was pre-.
sented from Panaca asking the Board to
cause the streets there to be properly
opened. and to have all Instructions 10 the
form of wood piles wagons, etc ETC., re
moved. This petition was laid aside ard
the clerk was instructed to inform the De.
titioners that their proper method Of OBJ
tanning the relief asked was TO organize I'M
der the town government act and pass town
ordinances similar to those enacted for the
benefit of Phoebe and of DeLamar
Ii was shown to the satisfaction Of the
Board that the bridge across the creek be-
tween the towns Of Bullionvlle and Panaca
is in an unsafe condition for travel, and that
the expense of repairing it is more than can
be borne by the Panaoa Road District. |
The Board therefore voted 500 to be ex.
pended in permanently improving the same,
while the residents OF Panaca have subscribed
some $500, in money and labor, to be ex-
pended on the bridge and the road east and
west of it for short distance
The ordinary routine work of allowing
officers reports and the monthly claims
against the county, list of which appears
in another column, was then completed,
and from the Auditors statement the fol.
lowing transfer of county funds were
ordered; From the Contingent to the Cur.
rent Expense Fund, $3.50; from the Indi-
gent to the Current Expense Fund, 500;
and from the General Fund to the Officers
Salary Fund, as soon as the amount shall
come into the General Fund, the sum of
$3.50.
This being the meeting at which a jury
list for the present year should be selected
100 names were drawn to constitute the
jury panel This is larger number of
names than usually taken, but was deemed
necessary from the number of cases now
awaiting trial and others which may occur.