Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-03-06
AN OUTRAGE.
A Rotten Law and People With Little
:; Sense.


!. Sense.
Carson at the present time is suffer
ing under law that should be wiped
clean off tue earth and with lot of
people who nave about as much sense
as jackrabbit The law regulating
spraying and it's kindred devises is |
the plague that has attacked this city. |
The law to start with is useless, full |
of folly and has caused more damage |
to this city in one month than can be |
repaid in twenty years.
People have gone mad in regard to |
destroying trees. Property values have
been knocked down over twenty PEI
cent in a number of places and the
plague has only commenced to take
hold Whole lines and avenues of
trees that went to make Carson
pluace of beauty have gone down b.
fore the destructive AK of people who
seem to care only for a few cords Of
wood that come from the cutting. Of
hers because they listen to some alb
surd story of destruction by scale
have cut right and left and the work
is going on to such an extent that
the damage to the city can be figured
by the thousands of dollars. Eve:y
tree in this city is worth a twenty
dollar piece to the owner Of the pro-
perty, and without the shade, Carson
would be just as ordinarya bit Of
sleepy hollow as could be found on the
earth.
All in the world this city has to
boast of is her green foliage in the
summer months. Without it she
would be about as attractive as Can
delaria or any other desert town, yet
the property owners have deliberately
allowed themselves to be robbed by
the law and are growing timid over
their own rights.
One of the grave outrages is going
on out near the Indian school. Every
one knows of the bunch of cotton wood
tIetS tudI dlO SlIudlSu UCI"CCu tlljo
city and the school. Well, they are
being cut down, in fact are cleaned
out root and branch. 1t is a crying
shame. The trees were the only green
mark between the desert and this
city. They have taken half Gen.
fury to grow, they afforded shade for
hundred travellers every year, and
marked the wonderful hardness Of
the cottonwood, the best trees that
grow in this valley, yet the order has
gone forth and the trees are a thing
of the past. How do you like it?
There are a hundred instances
where trees that were absolutely
clean were chopped out; trees that
were not only ornamental but that
formed the avenues of the streets.
They have been cut out, none planted
in their place and none likely to be.
AS for the law it is just about as
bad as the people who have gone into
the business It is a shere piece If
nonesence as will be shown. Take
the creek-ways from this city to the
very headwaters, and every willow, al
der and in fact some of the sagebrush
is carrying some class of scale. Can
this city spray and trim them? Well
hardly.
There is not cash enough in the
State Treasury to carry out the law,
and renders it simply ridiculous. All
that has to be done is to leave nat
ure alone. She adjusts all these
things and thousand pests have
come and gone and the trees tina,
have been left alone are here yet.
The law is absolutely the worst af
fair that ever hit this city and as
soon as the people get down and rea
son little and wipe the Internal doc
ument out the better this city will
be in consequence. The trees are con
siderably Of more value than th&
law and both cannot survive.