The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-30
COURT HOUSE LOCATION.


some of those who have been most
clamorous for freight depot and
yards of the Nevada Northern. These
same folks are among those protest
ing against carrying out of the build
ing plans adopted by the county COM
missioners for the proposed new
court house. They want a finer
building, that is structure more
pleasing to the eye. "a thing of beau
ty" to which the taxpayers of the
county, and the people of Ely in par
ticular, can point with pride. and
they are raking the commissioners
over the Goals on the street corners
because they did not find and adopt
plans which would have met with
unanimous endorsement along the
aforementioned lines of beauty
The News fears that if the COM
missioners attempt to secure the
unanimous approval of these good
folks there will never be new court
house put up for the accommodation
of the business of White Pine county,
so long conducted in the entirely in
adequate quarters of the present
time The commissioners confront
hard proposition. They are going
to be damned if they do and damned
if they don't by their Ely constitu-
ents.
Let us presume that they do Sc
cure new plans along lines of beau
ty,' as the Ely people put it, and
erect the pleasure to the eye" they
desire on the court house site.~ Then
along comes decision by the railroad
commissioners, provided the wishes
of the Ely people in this respect are
met with, determining that rail
road freight depot and yards shall
go on the only site advanced at the
recent hearing as feasible or possible
of requirement in Ely. Then we will
have the structure of beauty and
pleasure to the eye nicely slowed
away in a labyrinth of tracks, box
cars, putting, smoke and dust swirlins
railroad paraphernalia. Fine, would
| it? The railroad depot and yard site
the Ely people are demanding that
! use be made of, according to the en-.
| gineer of these folks, extends onto
| the court house site in Ely and the
! operation of the trackage would ne.
cessitate the pulling of trains at al
hours of day and night INTO the court
house yard, proceeding that would
be of much aid to the clerical forces
| in the court house in assisting them
to accurate performance of their du-
ties and which would add enjoyment
to proceedings in the court room
where the sound of humping cars
| putting, whistling engines, etc, would
give variety to the ordinarily monot-
onous run of testimony delivery. The
| court and the lawyers would be re-
lieved of hearing what witnesses
might say and could form their con-
illusions free from consideration of
evidence.
BY all means "a thing of beauty
and a pleasure to the eye" should be
erected in the midst of railroad
freight yard With site of so much
advantage in this respect available
it would not do to consider for a
minute the removal that has been
suggested to the high ground broad
avenues and spacious lots of Ely
City, where holdings the county
might secure would advance stead
lily in value. Any gain the taxpayers
of the county might make through
the latter would be offset many times
over by the advantages accruing
from the location of the legal and
civil departments of the county where
the cheerful chug of locomotives and
the glad pounding and humping of
cars could be had to distract the at
tention of those upon business bent.