Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-05-06
The COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
First Meeting Held in TOnOpah
is an Important One and
Considerable Business
is Transacted.

The Board Of County Commission
ers of Nye county, met in special
session in the office Of District At
torney w. B. Pittman, in Tonopah,
Monday May |, 1905.
Present-Locke, Cuddy and Rog.
ers and District Attorney W. b.
Pittman.
The bid of the Nye and Ormsby
County Bank, through A. G. Ray
craft, cashier, of $50, 900 for the
courthouse and Jail fund was ac
cepted and the bank was made the
temporary depository Of the said
$35, 900 and the county treasurer
was directed to use said bank,
The deed to the courthouse site was
received and accepted and signed in
duplicate by the commissioners and
by Messrs. Oddie and Keith repre-.
senting the Jim Butler mining com
pany. A vote of thanks waS unani-
mously extended to the donors.
A resolution was adopted appoint
ing Henry Hancock of Belmont,
supervising architect Of the new
courthouse building at a salary OF So
a day.
Upon petition, W. r. McFadden
was appointed justice Of the peace
for GOldreed.
A communication vas received
from the Los Angeles chamber OF
commerce., requesting the CO opera
tion of the board in securing the
placing of guide posts on the desert
for the benefit Of proSpectors and
travellers. The clerk was instructed
to write the chamber Of commerce
that the board would willingly do all
in its power to assist in the matter,
The application OF a mining com
pany at Berlin, for the exclusive
right to the water in springs in that
vicinity was laid over, on account OF
protests having been filed.
In the matter of a petition for the
appointment Of an assistant Health
Officer for Tonopah, the board
granted DR.. Garner authority to ap.
point an assistant at u salary OF "a a
day,
The offer Of H. Fl. Clark, repre-.
senting the Bullfrog Townsite, Water
4 Ice Company, OF a lot in theit
town, as u site for a Jail, was nc
cepted by the board.
Upon motion u reward of $3.50 was
offered for the arrest of one Frank
Crouch, charged with the crime o
murder.
The petition of f. S. Lack for
fifty year franchise for a seweragl
system for Tonopah, was granted.
j. b. Quigley was granted a fran
chise by the board for electric ant
gas lighting for the town of Tone
pah, for a period of twenty hv
years.
The board then adjourned to NEE.
Tuesday morning, May End.
The board mel Tuesday morning
May End, all the members beinI
present.
Upon motion the board decided t.
contract for three rooms in the ne'
Bass building for the use Of tn
county clerk and county recorde
at a rental Of 1920 a mont
and the clerk and recorder wer
directed to bring such books an
records, as are required, to Tonopa
by May 10, 1905, and to occupy Tn
rooms in the Bass building mt
further notice.
1t was decided that such records
books and papers as are not actual
needed, shall remain in the vaults a
Belmont and the key to the sam
turned over to the deputy sheriff q
that place,
The board decided to contraC
with the Tonopah Water Co. for I'll
installation Of eighteen FIRE, plugs
tile town of Tonopah and water Il
the same for the month Of May at a
agreed price Of S475 for the ~installt
ton and rental of the fire-plugs f
the month Of May. 1t was also d
cided that bids shall be called 70
for furnishing water for fire pu
poses after the first of June.
The clerk was Instructed to ha,
the necessary blanks printed for ca
rying out the law regarding Il
licensing Of stationary engineers al
to have them ready by the ne
meeting.
The petition of the Bullfrog Tow
site, Water and Ice Company for
franchise to operate a pipe line
the southern part Of Nye county I
u period of twenty five years, W
granted. The company notified t
Board that it would furnish free
charge all water required for the ]
or other county buildings in the BIT
frog district.
The petition of the BulIfrog, Go
field aud Las Vegas Telephone a
Telegraph Company, for a iranch.
to operate a telephone and telegra
line in the southern part of n
county for a period of twenty.f
years. was granted.