The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-10-30


sprays his fruit trees with a solution of
tobacco juice TO kill insects, but he
does not state how he applies the juice.
am reliably informed by Sam Davis
that our Acknowledgement sprays
his trees Just like Chinaman sprays n
shirt for ironing purposes.
Those papers who ask the public to
suspend Judgment, and give the new
revenue laws chance, claim that 1t
does not take effect until 1904 If 1t IL
true that the law does not take effect
until 1904, why did the State Board of
Revenue employ an examiner to see
that IL Is not violated in 1908? News
papers simply wink at and oonnive Mt
wrong doing when they allow such
things To pass by in silence. 1t is
claimed that the eternal vigilance of
The newspapers tends to keep men in
the straight path, and the papers grab
all t.to credit. But the truth is, that
the law went into effect in 190S-as
Storey county well realizes. II is pro-
vided that the rate for 1908 shall not
he greater than it was for 1902. That
provision took effect in 1903. The re-
ducton clauses do not take effect until
1904 However, the only duties pre-
scribed by the statute for the examiner
is to report to the Board of Revenue
any violations of the Actin other
words, if in 1908 any county made n
rate above the rate of 1902, the ex-
aminer must report it to the Board.
The examiner is to report to the Board
that which the Board already knows
through the published reports of the
several rates of assessment in the sew
eral counties in the State. No other
duties whatever are imposed upon him,
and no other powers are delegated.
The big road has one argument which
il necessarily ding-dongs into Neva-
dams, and particularly during the
sessions of the Legislature 1t is
about as follows: eve are constantly
in receipt of letters from farmers in
the great west and middle west and
also from the east, inquiring about
the soil in Nevada, and the climate,
water, etc, and asking for literature
ON the subject, and we have taken
great pains to inform such people as
best we could. Then they ask about
your rate of taxation, That ends the
whole thing; we don't hear from them
amy more; YOU must reduce your rate
OF assessment; ii is outrageous; YOU
will never get any Immigration, and
never get any population, and your
lands will lie idle forever if you don't
reduce your rate of assessment to at
least so cents on the hundred dollars.
We are trying TO help You, because we
have a selfish interest in this matter;
We want to increase our freight and
passenger traffic; but try however we
may, we are always confronted with
this outrageous rate of assessment.
which stands before us like an insur-
mountable Chinese wall" Charley
Wallace used te spin such arguments
by the yard, and Mr.. George $. Nixon
has taken up the same old thread. Ii
is political brooke. In scotland
mists are very thick, and when per-
sons outlines are first seen through the
mist they assume tremendous proper
tons, and il is called brooke The
argument seems formidable at first
blush, only, Proper inquiry and ex-
PLANTATION will show that we have a
high rate and low valuation. Ii is
claimed that this fact is detrimental.
but il cannot be true The big road is
valued for purposes of taxation at less
than one-seventh Of its value-at
$4,000 per mile-and il had no diff
Guilty in borrowing Sll0, oo0 ON each mile
of its road. The rate is the same on
the road as on all other property, The
Nevada farmer gets along as we'll as
any other farmer, and at as little ex-
pense of energy. Nevada lands are
cheaply cleared; the soil responds
bounteously If farmers from other
States don't want to share in our pros
perity and natural advantages, they
don't need to come; we can enjoy this
watermelon ourselves However, if
the big road really and truely wants to
help Nevada in order to help itself.
would suggest that its managers stop
their periuries, and return to theAssess-
ors the value of the road at the price
its bonds sell at in the open market.
We can reduce the rate to at least 50
cents on the hundred dollars valuation,
and will gladly it. The insurmount-
able obstacle win then crumble like
sand. Again, the road can help Nevada
great deal by reducing its rates of
fares and freights from eastern to
Nevada points to at least the same
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