Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1907-11-09
COUNTY LINE DISPUTE OF
LYON AND DOUGLAS

The disputed boundary line between
Douglas and Lyon counties has been
established by the surveyors and COM
missioners Of both counties who par
ticipated in the work last week The
line which has been established, is known
as the Mack line and was made by the
county surveyor of Lyon county several
years ago, and after the surveyor had
and establish the correct line. The
engineer sent by the Surveyor-General
established what is known as the Clal-
mer's line, which in instances, is nine
miles east of the Mack line. Not being
satisfied with this boundary, the officials
of Lyon county asked that joint sur
vey be made and Douglas submitted,
and the joint survey was made which re-
suited in almost the exact line of the
Surveyor General. This fact did not
please the Lyon county commissioners
so they ordered Mack to make an i'm
dependent survey, which he did, much
to the satisfaction of the officials of the
last named county.
BY the adoption of the Mack line as
was done this week because of specific
Legislative enactment of 1899, Douglas
loses the biggest part of the thriving
town of Buckskin and instead of the ell
tire town being situated III this county,
only three saloons are on this side OF
the Mack line, thus shifting the biggest
part of the town as well as practically
all the rich mining district Into Lyon
county.
Before delving into the dispute, the
present board of commissioners of this
county, by the aid OF an attorney, dis
covered that bill was passed in the Ne
vada legislature during the session OF
1899, definitely establishing the bound
airy line between the two counties. AT
that session J. II. Martin was serving as
our State Senator while Robert Wilker-
son was our assemblyman. Following
is the bill as passed by the legislature:
| Chap. xxx. An Act to definitely fix
and establish the boundaries of Lyon
county. (Approved March 6, 1899
The people of the State of Nevada,
represented in the Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Sec. l. The territory over which Lyon
county has exercised jurisdiction for the
period of five years last past, i'll the
assessment and collection of taxes, in
the selection of grand and petit jurors,
in the establishing OF voting precincts
and the holding of elections therein, is
hereby declared to be within the bound
airy of that county.
Inasmucli as the territory in dispute
was practically valueless until Buckskin
was discovered and that Douglas did not
care to pose as plaintiff in law suit for
apparent worthless possessions, Lyon
county was allowed to collect taxes from
strip of grazing land which thus en-
abled that county to have the Mack line
enactment. That our representatives in
that session of the legislature were moi
conservant with the contents of said bill
nor the difference between the two
boundary lines, is quite evident. II
either line has possibility of being
4 right, it is certainly the one established
by the Surveyor General and not the
one chosen by surveyor employed by
county being concerned in the dispute.
The Record Courier is of the opinion
that Lyon county perpetrated rank
steal when it caused to have the bound
airy bill passed, and just what our rep
resentatives were doing is hard to imag
inc, but as this sh;p of land was stolen
from Douglas county by cunning legis-
lative enactment, so will it be returned,
and already it has been suggested by
members of both political parties OF this
county that their candidates for seats in
the next Legislature be pledged TO work
faithfully for equal tv and justice in this
matter which can only be effected by re-
pealing the boundary law of 1899 and
reestablish the line as was designated by
the Surveyor General and not as estab-
lished by an engineer employed by an
interested county. Gardnerville Record
Courier