Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-10-23
ToNoPAH Is IN NYE COUNTY
according to the Coast and Geo.
detic Department.

s"NSG suS ptoplc
Nye and Esmeralda counties. Il
answer to ageneral demand our Com
misslohers more than q year ago en-
gagged John G. Booker to make sur
Veys to determine the question Mr.
Booker, after being in the field sew
eral weeks, reported that the towr
and nearly all of the producing mine.
were In Nye. Notwithstanding this
report there were many well-informed
conservative residents of this,county
who still insisted that the camp was
IN this county. Then our Commits
sioners laid the matter before the
Coast and Geodetic Survey Depart
ment at Washington, and that. De-
partment sent out government EN-
gineer, MIR. Sinclair. He was in the
field three months with a corps of
assistants, aud his maps aud reports
showed that the county line was
T2,0l5 feet due west of Tonopah.
Recently IA map was discovered in
the United States Land Office in Car
son which fixed the county line over
400 east of the Golden building,
which is in the heart of the town of
Tonopah. This map places all of the
town and several good mines in this
county. The Carson Land Office
officials could not say where this map
came from, so the Commissioners
again communicated with the De
partment at Washington, and in re-
ply thereto County Clerk Miller re
ceived the following letter:
DEPT. OF COMMERCE AND LARoR)
COAST AND GEoDETIG SURVEY
WASHINGTON, October 3, 1908.
Mr.. J. H. Miller, County Clerk,
Hawthorne, Nevada-Sir: Your
letter of September oath is at hand.
The old Land Office map of Neva-
da showed the present location OF the
town of Tonopah as being in Esme-
ralda county, Since Mr.. Sinclair
made his survey new Land Office
map has been issued from the Office
at Washington, which shows Tono-
pah to be in Nye county, in accord
ance with Mr. Sinclair's survey. The
statement quoted in your letter that
there is map in the U. S. Land
Office in Carson that was prepared in
Washington, showing that the town
of Tonopah sis in Esmeralda county,
is probably true They probably
have ia the Carson Land Office copies
of the old map. They are, however,
superseded now, as indicated above
There is no reason for a change in
Mr.. Sinclair streport.'
The function of the Coast and Geo
detic Survey, as represented by Mr..
Sinclair, was simply to secure and
make known to you the facts in re-
gard to the county boundary. Mr..
Sinclairs work establishes with
high degree of precision the position
of certain points on the boundary,
and especially of the point of inter
section OF the 30Gh parallel of lati-
tude and of the meridian DO deg.
min. west OF Washington, and of
the point on the boundary due west
of his transit pier in Tonopah, in ac-
cordance with the law as stated to
him.
The survey has no legal functions,
The legal status of the question must
be either settled 10 the courts or by
an agreement between the proper
officials of the two counties. In a
contest in the courts, or in the con-
sideration OF a proposed agreement
between the two counties, the facts
as developed by Mr.. Sinolair's sur
vey would necessarily have great
weight Il
I = BY Il later mail ! will send you a
copy of the latest Land Office map OF
Nevada, referred to above; as show
ling Tonopah in Nye county. Re-
spectfullyy +. W, PERKINS,
-" Acting Superintendent
: County, Clerk Miller has received
the map, which is open to the inspec-
tion Of all.
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