Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-02-03
H BOARD
OF TRADE
Special Meeting Of the Ex-
ecutiVe Committee.
Many Matters Of Importance are Be.
ing Considered by this Wide
Awake Body.

nopah board of trade held a special
meeting last Tuesday evening in the
Brokers' Exchange building. There
was considerable business to attend to,
including the doing away of the houses
of prostitution on lower Main street,
the building of sidewalks and the short
ening of the Manhattan wagon road.
L. L. Mushett, who will soon be post
master of Tonopah, addressed a letter
to the board asking for the cooperation
of the members in senuring relief for
the local postal department.
Following is a copy of the letter.
ToNoPAH, New, Jan. 10, 1906.
To the Honorable Board of Trade, To-
nopah, Nevada.
GENTLEMEN. - Having received no.
tice of my appointment as postmaster
of Tonopah, l desire to ask your CO.
operation in securing some relief from
the conditions existing in the postal de-
partment at Tonopah as well as at Gold
field, III sister city.
You are probably aware of the in
t%entions of the postal authorities at
Washington to introduce measures in
Congress asking for a special appropria-
ton of $751; 900 per year for the relief
of such Offices as ours, and it is with
an idea of urging the adoption Of this
measure that this letter is addressed to
you. In this connection | would sug-
gest that you adopt a set of resolutions
calling the attention Of Congress to the
conditions existing here, bringing
special weight to bear on the fact that
the minimum wage in Tonopah is 81
per day, which is made necessary ow-
ing to the high cost of living.
For your information l will state that
the present allowance for clerk hire
in the Tonopah postofice is but $1,000
a year for each clerk allowed and it has
been the experience of our past post
masters that it is impossible to hold
competent help on this allowance. You
can readily understand the Importance
of keeping the clerks in the service as
long as possible, as they naturally i'm
prove in proficiency as long as they are
retained.
1t is my intention to make every en-
deavor to bring Tonopah's postal SER
vice up to a high standard of pro-
ficiency and depend upon the board of
trade, as Tonopah's representative
body of business men, to use your in
fiuence to urgently request our govern
ment to do its share in meeting con-
ditions as they exist.
Senator Nixon is using his energies
to help Is in this matter and | trust
that you will get your recommendations
to him as early as possible, in order to
aid him in rushing the passage of the
aforesaid measure at this opportune
time. Yours respectfully,
L. l.. MUsHETT.
On motion of Nathan Croker, the
committee on public streets and i'm
provements was instructed to appear
before the board of county commits
sioners with Mr.. Reynolds at their
next meeting in an effort to secure the
passage Of an ordinance establishing a
sidewalk on main street from the inter-
section of Everett avenue on the south
to the grounds of the Tonopah and
Goldfeld railroad on the north.
r. B. Davis and other members of
the committee spoke at length in re-
gard to allowing houses Of ~il-repute to
operate On the main street of the camp.
It is a known fact that a great part of
the red light district of Tonopah is To-
Gated in the business part Of the town,
and passengers arriving in camp are
compelled to pass these places in order
to reach their hotels and stopping
places. The houses, situated in such a
part of the town, they stated, have
long proved a menace to passers-by and
strenuous steps will now be taken to
have them removed.
Charley Cole announced that owing
to his interests in Manhattan requiring
his time and attention, he would have
to resign as a member of the executive
committee. 1t was accepted with re-
grets, and Thomas Arden of the Mer-
chants hotel was elected to succeed him.
In making his report on behalf of the
Manhattan road committee, Mr.. Croker
stated that that body had been success
full to the extent that over $1,000 had
been secured toward the lettering of
the travelling conditions of the road be-
tween Tonopah and Manhattan. The
money has been deposited in a local
bank. 1t was further stated that Mr..
Mclean Of the firm of Mclean & Nc
Sweeney had been engaged to do the
work.