The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-12-18
TREASURER WILLIAMSON SUR.
RENDERS HIS TAX ROLL.
The Smallest Delinquent List for
Years.

In another column we publish a list
of the taxes which have become delin-
quent in this county this year. A COM
parison OF this list with that of last
year reveals the fact that the delin-
quencv this year has been reduced S410
from that of last year, the total being
S735. So, as compared with $1146.51 in
1896; and whereas there were % delin-
quents last year, there are only eleven
this year. Nothing shows more clear
ly how a little activity in our mining
camps is reflected in the increased pros
perity of all classes in the county
Work is afforded the laboring men,
they in turn p%atronize sthe merchants.
and a local market is afforded our
ranchers for all the butter, eggs, beef,
fruits and vegetables that they can
raise. The ranchers have also received
this year the highest prices for their
stock cattle and wool that have been
paid in this county for a long time. AS
a result, we fail to find but one delin-
Quent among the cattle raisers of the
county, the Ibapah Land and Live
Stock Company, who, we understand,
allowed their taxes to go delinquent
upon legal grounds and not because
they are unable to pay. Most of the
property in the delinquent list consists
of houses and lots in our partially de-
serted mining camps and improvements
On mining property of more or less
questionable value.
During the past year OF two, the
country has been going behind on its
expenses until this year the salaries of
all of the country officials were in ar
besides a large part of the current
expenses for the year. There is now in
the treasury sufficient funds to pay all
salaries and claims for current expenses
up to date, but the balance left will
be very small. In the Redemption
Fund there is now Sl778.O 90 for the re-
demption of script and in the Sinking
Fund, $l549. 90 for the redemption OF
bonds. This will reduce the bonded
Indebtedness of the County to about
S56350.0O making a total reduction Oh
S1365O.0 90 in seven years.
County Treasurer Williamson has also
made an unusually good record in the
collection of poll taxes this year. He
has collected in all 339, while the total
number of voters in the county at thu
last election was 352 of whom there are
about 60 over sixty years OF age and
not eligible to poll taxes. This make,
~ more poll taxes collected than tier,
We're voters at the last election. a dis.
crepancy which is made up by China
men, men who We're in the county but
dill not vote, OF whom there may have
been 40 or 80. and by new arrivals in
t:iv county this year, a number which
IL is impossible TO estimate, as many o
them brought poll tax receipts from
other counties. All'did not pay who
should have paid, but our record il
better than that of any of the other
counties from which we have seer
returns. In Ormsby county about 30C
voters are shut out; in Humboldt coun.
ty only 631 poll takes were paid by voty
ers, which leaves a wide deficiency
there and in Story county, only So
taxes were paid while ut the last cleo.
ton there We're over 400 votes cast.
Voters cannot complain that they were
rot duly warned by the papers of tho
state and If they find that they have
been disfranchised next year, they
have only themselves to blame.