Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-04-27
TAx.sHIRKINe COUNTIES.
Newspaper Figures and the Omcial
Ones Differ Materially.

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The Carson Appeal Of April 10 goes
after the Winnemucca Silver State in a
vigorous manner for the way the latter
newspaper is dealing with the new
Revenue Law. The Appeal says the
Silve. State is not attacking the new
law openly but in covert way. The
following extracts from the Carson
paper will give the reader fair idea
Of the shape the discussion has as
sumed:
"In its issue Of April 16 the Silver
State says:
1.-THE report Of the County Audi
tor Of Elko county shows that there is
$42 ,623.19 on hand in the county
treasury. 1t is good thing for Elko
county that this report was not made
public before the late meeting Of the
State Board OF Assessors. The rev.
enue reform patriots from Storey,
Ormsby, Douglas, Esmeralda and the
other tax-sh;rking counties would have
fixed matters so that Elko's surplus
would be devoted to the payment Of
their proportion Of the money needed
for the support Of the State govern
ment.'
NOW let us turn 10 the back files OF
the Silver State and see how Ormsby
compares with Humboldt as tax
shirking' county. On Sept. 10, 1899,
the Silver State said editorially:
"Taxation in Nevada is no critic
rion to its industrial wealth. 1t is a
farce. Compare Elko, Washoe and
Humboldt and thu margin will be
largely in favor of Humboldt. Hum
boldt to-day is the richest county in
the State. II has more cattle and
more sheep, larger stock interests and
more area of cultivated land than any
county in the State. Paradise Valley,
in Humboldt, is richer than any two
valleys in Elko. Lovelock Valley is
richer than the entire Truckee Mea-
dows. Ten men can be picked out of
Humboldt county whose combined
wealth will exceed the entire taxable
property of Washoe or Elko. Hum
boldt's wealth exceeds in the aggre-
gate the entire taxable property in the
State, which is little over $23, ,000,.
0O0.'
"If the editor OF the Silver State
knows OF these ten wealthy men who
are worth more than all of Washoe or
Elko. it is his duty to furnish the As
SCISSOR with their postoffice addresses
that he may be able TO place them on
the tax roll.
"Let US see what the tax rolls show
regarding these counties.
"Elko paid the State $53, 3,6s9 last
year.
"Washoe paid the State S52,751.
Humboldt paid the State S37, ,250.
"Out Of these three counties, which
one is the most pronounced tax
shirker?' The Surveyor. Generals re-
port shows that Elko paid taxes on
81. 900 head Of cattle and l52 900 head
of sheep; Humboldt on 1000 head
Of cattle and 119. 900 head OF sheep !;
Washoe county on 10000 head OF
sheep. Yet the Silver State asserts
that Humboldt county has more cat
tie and more sheep than any county in
the State. 1t is clear that those who
do not show up in the reports must
dodge the Assessor in some way. The
only live stock interest in which Hum
boldt outnumbers its sister counties OF
Washoe and Elko, is hogs. 1t leads
the procession with 1000.
Humboldt also brags of its landed
interests. She had 15.450 square
miles. Ormsby has but $50. Hum
boldt has eighty times as much area
as Ormsby, and yet Ormsby pays $l2,-
900 year into the State Treasury, and
Humboldt but little over three times
as much. Summing it all up from the
official figures, it looks as ii Humboldt
was about the champion 'tax-shirk-
ing county in the State"