The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-12

record kept of all purchases made for
future reference.
BE it further resolved, that we
recommend that no more private pa
TENTS of either the county physician
or any other physician be hereafter
admitted except in an emergency.
I'VE further recommend that the
county commissioners require the ma
tron of the hospital to keep a book
for the purpose of keeping a strict
record of all patients admitted, CIV
ing date of admission, their aon
and nativity, the comp state Libra'
the number of days in ..ospItal,
and the disposition made of said pa
TENT
OFFICES CRITICISED.
We, your grand jury, finds that in
several departments of the county
government there exists chaos, mis-
management and INCOMPETENCE The
affairs of the office of the assessor
are particularly in bad shape. When
the assessment roll was turned over
to the board of equalization it was
discovered that much property had
been left off the roll, no system of as
sessing property was in evidence, but
the assessments were made in care
less and incompetent manner.
The board of county commissioners
sitting as board of equalization, en-
ployed d. w. Ellis. as an expert to
assist in placing property left off the
assessment roll on the list of taxable
property. Through Mr.. Ellis efforts,
property amounting to 900 was
added to the roll Property of the
value of 100000 or more might
have still been added to the roll had
not the time limit expired.
The report of the various commit
tees appointed are herewith submit
ted and made part hereof:
Hon. H. A. Comins, Foreman:
your committee appointed to eX-
anime the tax roll beg leave to report
the following:
I'VE find that the assessment roll
as it now appears at the office of the
tax collector, totals as follows:
Value of real estate 81, ,S10,344. 90
Personal property 49,. 661,165 90
Total ...... 2,471,559 90
Amount of tax for state
purposes ....... 1900. 81
Amount of tax for
county purposes =. 44,4SS. 06
Poll taxes charged to
realty owners :. -. 591 90
Kimberly school spe-
cial tax ........ S73. 90
Ely school special tax. S,377.91
Hamilton debt special
tax .......... 800
Total ............ -. 71,639. 40
I'VE found the entries on the as
sessment roll in many instances in
complete. For instance: "A piece of
land in Preston "A town lot in Ely,
and many other similar entries MAX
ing it impossible to get correct un-
derstanding of the assessment roll.
"There are on the roll 926 realty
owners. Out of that number we find
1877 poll taxes charged. OF the poll
tax receipts issued there are Sc
marked 'receipted,' 1877 marked not
receipted' and 4 marked one poll
tax Your committee was unable to
understand what the notations meant.
OF the total amount on the tax roll
about $214 900 was put on by the
assistance of D. w. Ellis after the
roll had been turned over to the
board of equalization. And further
more the jury finds that since the
closing of the books there has been
paid in as poll tax the sum of 3d.
1922.
Recorder Mcknight submits the
following list of property not yet on
the assessment roll, to his know
ledge:
To the Honorable Members of the
Grand Jury of White Pine County,
Nevada, now in session.:
Gentlemen:-Com with your
request, | cite below the names of
several of the mining companies OPP
Grating within this county, whose
names do not appear on the assess
ment roll for this year, as the same
have come to my attention. | also
give the names of the owners of GER
tain other property, situate within
this county, not appearing on the
said assessment roll, to my know
ledge.
You will understand, gentlemen,
that l do not aim to give complete
llSl, Dul Slulpis iiob VI thooS 'ht'e
have good reason to believe are not
on this years assessment roll. To
get an accurate list is impossible, on
account of limited time and on ac-
count, also, of the fact that many OF
the pieces of property appearing on
the assessment roll for this year are
not described by lot, block or section,
but simply by Lot on such and such
street." "Home Ranch,' and so on,
throughout the assessment.
After the name of each of the fol-
lowing mining companies, | have not
enumerated the property owned or
purported to be owned, by each, for
the reason that nothing appears OF
record in this Office tending to show
that some of the said companies own
any taxable property. 1t is my opin-
ion, however, that all of the follow
ing named mining companies are
equipped to mine, by having tools
machinery, hosting works, bunk
houses, etc, or some part thereof
and are not exempt from taxation.
Ely Montreal Copper company
Boston Ely Development company
Ely Copper company.
Rickard Ely CODper COMPANY.