Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-02-07

tnb ClllkeNS OF lbHupdu W ttllHiuSi
the Ques ton of removing the county
seat from Belmont to this city re-
suited in an overlooking meeting at
the Stock Exchange ON Wednesday
evening last.
Upon reading the published call,
the meeting was organized for the
transaction Of business by the cleo
tion of W. W Booth to the chair and
T, e. Edwards to the secretary's
desk.
After a few remarks by the chair
man, the gathering of citizens was
addressed by Geo. Cole, who was fol
lowed by Key Pittman in an address
repIete with the most convincing
facts and figures in support of the
movement and pending acti m There
was no voice of dissent, all and every
one present, including citizens repre-
senting every class Of property aud
business interests evincing the most
enthusiastic support.
A committee on resolutions con
sisting Of 7 D. Van Devort, J. p.
BrisselI, Zeb Kendall. l.. O. Ray and
Key Pittman was named and author
lzod to prepare and submit resolu-
tons expressing the sense of the
meeting These we're made in the
form Of a memorial to be Submitted
to the state legislature, Mpssrs. Pitt
man and Cole being designated and
authorized to carry them to Carson |
and present the same to the proper
officers of the senate and assembly. /
The memorial submitted and en-
Enthusiastically adopted is as follows;
We, the electors, taxi payers and
residents of Nye county, state of Ne
vada, in public mass meeting assem-
bled on this 18th day of February 1903.
in the town of Tonopah in said coun /
ty and state, in pursuance of notice
of the holding OF said meeting duly
published in the ToNoPAH BONANZA. /
a newspaper Of general circulation in
said county, on the 31st day of Jan
uary, 1903, do hereby declare and
show
First-That the county seat of said
Nye county is now situated at Bel
mont, IN the county of Nye,
Second-That said situation and
location Of said county seat is expeu-
sive, inconvenient aud unsatisfactory
to the residents, electors ard tax
payers OF said Nye county for the fol-
loving reasons, to wit
Sail town of Belmont is situated
about 10 miles north east of Tonopah
about 100 miles south of Austin and
about 81 miles from Sodaville. in the
county of EsmeraIda. That Belmont
has neither Geographic or telephone
communications with any other point.
That the only means of communica-
ton with said Belmont is by stage.
That it requires two days for the
nail to reach Belmont from the town
u Austin, tilree days from the town
'f Tonopah and -four days from the
station of SodaviIle on the Carson and
Colorado railroad
That the population OF Belmont is
not to exceed 100 persons, and there
ire not adequate accommodations
here for the maintenance aud com.
ort of jurors, witnesses and Iitigants
Turing the terms of court held at the
county seat.
That the only means by which iu-
ors, Witnesses and those having bus.
ness at the county seat NAV reach
here is by private conveyance.
which entails an enormous expense
md the cause of great delay and loss
i valuable time.
That nearly the whole business of
he recorders office is caused by and
erived from the recordation of con
eyances of mining claims a d real -
property at Tonopah, in said county
nd in the immediate vicinity thereof v,
hat by reason of the numerous con. q,
eyances consummated at TonOpah ri
nd vicinity, abstracts of title are 4,
required That in such 90