Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-02-03
THE GRAND JURY REPORT

report was filed with the Distric
court and on Sunday morning the
AFPEAL publish a portion of il. hav.
Ing received it too late in the dav r.
publish it in its entirety. Yesterday
1t give the public the balance.
Inc report made is by business man
Oh tnls county belonging to all polit,-
cal parties, and they have made q
searching and impartial investioa.
lon' tne most so. in fact, of any
Grand Jury investigation ever m ,de
IN this county. The completeness of
Tie report reflects the greatest possible
credit upon the gentlemen who com
pose the body and is a matter of
as'onishment to the taxpayers, who
lor years past have been in the habit
OF seeing Grand Juries selected bv a
ring and only in session to glozs over
tue dolngs OF the men who have al
ways regarded the county as a ia,
goose to pluck.
rake the management Of the poor
larn. 1he people who are kept there
oy the county have no rent to paw and
most OF their vegetables, poultry etc.
are raised Oh the premises. vet if
costs the county s26 81 per capita per
mohth for their maintainance. When
Que considers that table board can he
procured at the most expensive hotel
III this city for 500, the figures arc
certainly sufficiently STARTLING to
cause the taxpayers to wonder who is
responsible for such wasteful exnend-
Hure OF county money.
In the same report the Grand INV
states mat a private citizen of Ormshy,
is willing to take the Door farm ana
give bonds to board the inmates at a
1oo' Vi Sl2 per capita. The Grand
'oiy mas that the 80 miles Of county
ROADS IN Ormsby have cost durine the
past year SLIT 26 and nearly all tho
work has been done on tho oo,,,u
road between Empire and Carson. r.
has cost an average Of $50 a mile for
the 80 miles Of county road end moot
OF IL expended IN one place. The iurr
also md that some Of sba hiIia
nO' sworn TO as the law
ui'ectea and that it wac Represented n ,
'ieih mat charges we're msde FOR
Teams that only took the contractor 70
and from his work.
Inc contractor who got his fins Or ,
most or the fat road contracts Of the {
county was a Mr.. Baxter, who works {
10 Mr.. "~oodbury's mill. and Mr.
woodbury. is the County Commits.
sloner who allows the bills IF I
Messrs' Woodbury. and BRAY scrutin- 1
izeo the road bills as they do the Ap- |
PEAL S printing bills and were AZ caro- r
lul IN the contracts they would sava D
DIT least $1,000 a year to the county. U
As the APPEAL stated last eIection II
most OF the road work doue on the L
road consisted in blowing lin 1
d g"oo road to help a contractor 70
good thing. The next STARTLING ax
hlolt is the building Of the hell tor,or -
liohl the Curry engine house. Tho
WI" VI 9oVo was expended for 4 hell
-o"er WElcn bad no bell to place in if
Is clear that the expense was a usa.
Tess one and no conceivable reason
De urged for its construction nm.
iess IL vas to give Messrs. Galusha
1ho wilcox a good contract. The
'ulh OF S26 81 was also added TO the
'rlslnai price to make up for the dis c.
cunt to these gentlemen on the O
script The idea of allowing certain
i''ZenS extra to make up for the
CRYPT discount is a novelty and the
ltlzens who have to take plain sorint
no STAND the discount, can londar a.,
he" method Of handling county
lhahces for a favored class. The D
leAC thlng OF note is the discovery
"hlle these reckless expenditures
puzzle money We're under way tha
ooaEd or Commissioners made no a. \
OFT to set aside $4,000 a year and re-
Ire the County Bonds as the law ey-
directed and the county is as IT.
nuch In debt as when the bonds were :,
'l7t lesued. Out Of nearly LOCO
'oters In the county oniv 437 have
ala their poll tax There is but little
lame 10 be attached to the officers for
MS as the 437 men who paid last yoar
re III excess OF any previous year
enator Summerfield has introd, cod
bill which prohibits the recognition
a voter who has not paid his poll =.
Ak, aud this bill should it become q y
will help materially to he
evenue Of the State.
The good work done by the Grand 81
ury was complimented by the Judge n,
tho rpfusa6 To 5;,ob u