Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-05-18
NEVADA PRESS COMMENT.

Austin Reveills.
No more free speech. The Grand
Jury Of Douglas county has centured
Attorney General Woodburn for shoot
ing of his mouth.
white Pine News.
Another opportunity is offered for
Eugene Howell and the members OF
the Nevada Supreme Court to dis
tinguish themselves. The law passed
at the last session Of the. Legislature
regarding the printing of the assess
ment roll In the different counties in
the State, which offers to the printer
the privilege Of doing two dollars
worth Of work for twenty cents, is OBJ
noxious to the newspaper fraternity,
and it should be declared invalid with
out further delay.
Elko Independent.
A number of the State papers pro
nounce the new revenue law unfair to
Elko, Humboldt, and Washoe counties,
because it will increase the amount Of
State taxes paid by these counties. 1t
would be better for those papers to
wait until the final returns are in be-
fore holding post mortem on the law.
Heretofore the argument has been that
if property in these counties was as
sessed at its cash value they would
pay an unjust proportion Of the State
taxes with the rate at 81 per hundred.
There was some reason in this argu-
ment then, but now that the rate has
been reduced twenty per cent and may
be reduced still more, the old argu-
ment cannot hold good. The Inde-
pendent believes the new law will
prove to be all right If it is properly
enforced.
Carson News.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. in complying with the law
calling for yearly statement. to be
published. gives as its receipts in
Nevada last year 81, ,643. SO and claims
to have paid out $24, $1,000. operating
at loss of about $4,000. All of
which is another eloquent tribute to
our climate. The statement shows
that the Western Union is doing busi-
ness in Nevada for its health. Still it
does seem strange that the officials or
the company would have cared to
make efforts to defeat the law calling
for such statement when it enables
them to get up one that will melt the
Assessors heart as this one undoubt-
edly will do. Perhaps this pace will
be followed by all other corporations
also. They will all show our Assessors
that they are losing money and remain
in the State merely for accommodation.
Alf Chartz in Genoa Courier.
Just stop to figure: Over 100000.
900 in gold and silver have been taken
out Of the Comstock mines; $l25, ,OO0,-
900 from Austin; 100000 from Eu-
reka $75 900, ,0O0from Pioche $40, ,0OO,-
600 from Candelaria; $50, 200, 900 from
Tuscarora and other lots would add a
grand total of over 81, 200. .000.0 900 ex-
tracted from Nevada, and dumped into
the lap Of the world, out of a popula-
lation which has never exceeded 65. 900
souls, Including "Indians not taxed"
Where is the mouey and where is
the men who handled it? There is
not dollar OF it left in Nevada. and
there is not man who handled any
part OF it left who pays taxes in the
State. Great freight carloads of ad-
ditioual money earned in Nevada in
stock raising, farming and mercantile
business we're dumped in the stream
OF golden wealth which steadily flowed
out OF the State through stock specu
lation, never to return. Worse, Ne
vada farms were mortgaged to pay
stock gambling debts when hay was
worth SIG per ton, and the debts paid
when hay was worth but s4 per ton,
thus paying four times the contract
value of the original debt. Worse,
again, the debts were contracted when
silver was worth $1.29 per ounce. and
paid with silver worth only 60 cents
an ounce. What other section Of our
common country could stand under il
Chicken Pay Their Fare.
"Armour & Co., says the Ell Dorado,