The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
SALARIES
THREE MONTHS
IN ARREARS

Fire Chief Inman has forwarded 10
the board of county commissioners. for
approval at the February meeting to be
held next Monday, bills for the NAM
tenancep of the fire department aggregat-
ing $4,000. For the past five months
since the department was organized
bills for salaries and maintenance nave
been laid over from month to month, UNI
till the members of the he fighting
company have commenced to despair
of ever being paid. The first month a
collection was taken up among the citi-
zens, and the second month the money
for payment of salaries was advanced
by the banking house of John S. Cook
& Co. For the past three months. how
ever. the fire ladies nave practically
served without compensation. The fol-
lowing mounts are due from the coun-
ty: Inman. chief, $3.50; Olson, $3.50;
Nugent, 1915; Power, 1915; and a feed
bill of 500.
Mr.. Inman has taken the matter up
with County Commissioner Lothrop
and he has pre- missed to use his best en-
deavors to get the bills through at the
Forthcoming meeting of the board.
There is now available to the credit of
the fire fund something like $4,000,
with outstanding bills amounting to APP
proximately $4,000. OF this sum $4,000
is for arrears in salaries and a feed
bill. Just what remedy will be pro-
posed for this condition is not clear at
this time, but it has been suggested
that inasmuch as the tax levy was not
sufficient to meet the demands of the
fire department, that a special fire IL
cense be imposed and collected by the
| sheriff in the same manner that other
licenses are gathered. The tax levy for
fire urposes amounted to one-half mill,
and covered an area of one mile from
the center of the district, netting very
little more :nan $4,000.
The school board bills will also pc
presented to the commissioners and in
asmuch as the apportionment of school
money has been made by the county SUI
perintendent. and there are ample funds
in the treasury to the credit of this
district, it is not anticipated that there
will be further dificuIry in securing the
allowance of bills for the expenses Of
the Goldfeld schools. The teachers are
two months in arrears with their sal
aries, and many small incidental bills
have accumulated that will in all prob
ability be ordered paid by the commits
sioners next week.
Claude Inman has proposed a plan by
which work on the Goldield school
house can be resumed and the building
completed within the next year. Dis
trict Attorney Davidson gives it as his
opinion that the bonds are entirely legal.
This being the case, if County Treasure:
Roach will affix his official signature to
the ISSUE, they can be sold without any
delay whatever, as the Goldfeld banks
nave several times signifed their will
ingness to buy the issue. This will give
the district an available building fun
of $4,000. The contract price for the
new school building was SIG, 400. When
the commissioners levied a special tax
to pay the interest on the bonds, the
tax was made so high that it brought in
the first year $6,4S9, or more than half
the amount of the bonds proper. Next
December this und will be increased to
$4,000. If the proceeding is legal. ii
has been proposed to set aside 81, 900 of
this money as a sinking FUND to pay the
first bond when it becomes due in 1906,
as we'll as the interest for the year
which will amount to 800, using the
balance of $500 to complete and equip
the new school building.
The district attorney has held that if
the bonds are not sold the special tax
money will revert back into the general
school fund of the Goldield district.
This would insure ample funds with
which to run the schools the full year,
but would leave the district as far
away from securing a new school house
as it has been in the past.