The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-06-26


The State Legislature of 1901 createda
Board of Assessors, without consulting
the Central Pacific Railroad people, and
the result was that at its first meeting
in January, 1902, a majority of the
Board voted to fix the valuation of the
company's road at $780, 900 a mile, and
the company stepped in with an in
junction, enjoining the Assessors from
assessing the road at any other valua-
ton than according to their own indi-
vidual opinion, and particularly en-
joining them and each of them from
assessing the same at $4,000 per mile.
The injunction was granted on the
ground that the Act was uneonstitu-
tional, being class legislation. At the
time of the passage of the Act | wrote
to the COURIER to the effect that the
company would get the best of it in
the end, and that it was better to ad
here to the old system. In 1908 the
company was strongly represented in
the convention of the dominant party,
and they elected big working ma
Jority in the Legislature. Their own
attorneys prepared amendments to the
Act creating the State Board of AS
SCISSORS, $50 as to bring it within the
provisions of the Constitution, y as they
said, and they passed as slick as if they
had been creased. The law as it now
stands is simply shameless and out
rageous. The County Boards of Equa-
Slization are forbidden the power to
equalize any property upon which
valuation has been placed by the said
Board of Assessors, however unjust,
unfair and inadequate may be such
valuation. 1t provides that 'the valu-
alton fixed at such annual meetings
(shall be the actual cash value of such
property as may be designated" and
the County Assessors shall assess it at
such figure, no matter how wrong it
may De; if the Board places valu-
ton of only one-tenth of the actual
cash value of property, the Assessor
must place it at that amount, and the
County Commissioners, sitting as a
Board of Equalization, is deprived of
tho power to change it, and if the As
SCISSOR places greater valuation than
THAT placed by the Board, he must be
prosecuted for the sum of $500, and his
bondsmen are held for its payment,
hnd must be further prosecuted and
removed from Office. Now, what do
tyou think of that for damnable law?
That Act was drawn up by the COM
tpany's attorneys, and passed by the
lcompany's contemplate hirelings -
TRAITORS to their fellow beings and
lperjurers of their oath of office and
'Slanderers of their mothers womb"
Hinder the Act of 1901, after the injunc-
ion was issued, Dick Randall, Sheriff
and Assessor of Lyon county, notwith-
Standing the injunction, did assess the
H'ailroad part which passes through
Lyon az S2c 900 per mile and collected
The company, with the assistance
Il the venal members of the Legisla-
Cure, has now so fixed the law to pre-
ltnt Mr.. Randall, or any other honest
| ficer from the exercise of his honest
Judgment; but l can assure my readers
hat Dixie Randall is chatting, and he
nay exc else his sound judgment yet.
But ihA company was not satisfied:
When tine Injunction was issued, Gov
bl'nor Sac lr, Controller Davis and At
orney-Ge eral WOODBURY. employed
three atu neys to fight the injunction
hnd defer the law. Time was short
tand each of the attorneys employed