Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-01-24

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various articles aud communications
an the subject Of a town government
for Tonopah. that have recently ap'
appeared in your columns, nave
ndduced 80 much material eva.
dence IN favor of the early incorpora-
tion Of the town that the case may .
be taken as proven, and, no dissen- +
ticnts having appeared, it may safely .
he assumed that the articles in ques-
,ion voice the unanimous sentiment
of the inhabitants This being So the
time for action has arrived, and "a
definite date should be fixed on which
to hold a public meeting of the
citizens.
A correspondent, whose letter APP
pears in tfe last issue of the Miner,
suggests that we should not rest sat
isfed with the mere incorporation OF
the town. but that the prospective
meeting should take into consldera-
ton the transfer of the Nye county
seat from Belmont to Tonopah. The
evidence he cites and the arguments
he uses are sufficiently convincing to
any residents of this district whose
business has necessitated an eXamin'
alton of records, or other official mat
ters, at the present remote county
seat.
The question then is resolved into
the incorporation of Tonopah, upon
the advisability of which all are APP
parently agreed, and the removal Of
the county seat from Belmont to To
nopah. Objections to the removal
would probably be based on the geo
graphical position of our city. 1t
might be objected that we are just
on the border line; that to have the
county seat of Nye at Tonopah would
inhict great hardship on the inhabi-
tants of the county outside of our
own immediate district and that, in
any case, it would offer but a partial
remedy to the announcement conditions
at present existing because, as
many of the mining interests within
our district lie in Esmeralda county
official business relating to then
would still necesstate journey t.
Hawthorne. with all the attendan
expense and loss of time. But an at
tempt to form a new county woul'
very likely excite considerable oppo
sition from both Esmeralda and Nye
, because the new county would neces
sarily be formed from slice OF terri
I tory taken from either of them, an
= what is of still greater importance t
q the counties in question would resuI
a in a considerable inroad into thei
revenues
i There are strong reasons why
: meeting should be held and actio
/ taken without further delay. TIL
u state legislature is now holding il
+ biennial sitting, with sufficient bus
+ ness already on the paper to fully ot
9 cupy its time during the greater par
o of the session and there is every ind
u cation that new business will t
), brought up for consideration durin
"a the session. So that, even if NEE
'e ING of the citizens be held immed
I ately and the necessary steps take
lie to appoint a committee, frame pr
u tition. obtain the signatures to SAN
Il and collect a sufficient sum where
e with to defray the expenses Of tn
d committee in journeying to Carson
o present the petition to the legisl;
D ture, it is probable that the sessic
L will be nearing its close before tt
necessary act, giving effect to IL
wishes of onr citizens, can be gottc
through the chambers, Indeed, it
~ open to question whether we hay
not already delayed too long 1t al
, pears to the writer that it wouI
have been well to have taken all
the preliminary steps above mel
toned before the meeting of the les
, stature, so that the petition migl
have heen brought before the hou,
sufficiently early in the session
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