Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-02-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT
JUST ONE REASON

The prospect of early Incorporation is indeed a pleasurabIe thought
and already many are contemplating the joys soon to be experienced
The bill being planned is such that with its passage the town, ipso
facto, becomes Incorporated. Sixty days subsequent the question IS to
who viii be the officials of the e city will be submitted to the peo-
pie for their votes. The idea was held in some quarters and apparently
through a misunderstanding that the question of incorporation Itself
would be subject to a referendum vote, this we understand to be a mis-
take and desire to correct the false impression. or course this point
Is immaterial as the majority of the people must surely be in favor of
the measure The vital question, wo shall be u officials, must be
settled by the people themselves In leaving this matter to the citizens
Tonopah to make a wise selection. This confidence is entirely just and
with the elimination of party politics, as planned, the administration
see to it that the best lei ire elected. What more graphic Hlustra-
ton is necessary that incorporation is essential than the present con-
dtion of GU main thoroughfares. In n case a sea of mud and in the
other a mud fiat with a wild torrent running down the center. Surely
it is a disgrace and yet no relief possible from the present County
Commissioner. We do not blame the Commissioners; they are tied
hand and foot and cannot do anything although W e know that they
greatly desire to do so.
What al one be thinking of to oppose a measure that means e.
lief from this one single blot on our community. To oppose this inn
provement is a backward step 1t is like insisting that all modern in
ventions be discarded and the means and measures of the primitive
savage be brought again into vogue. Aside from the discomforts of
muddy streets the question Of health comes in for surely these lakes
into homes. From a economical standpoint the destruction of per-
sonal effects through daily contact with this dripping mre would, if care
lions. The shop keeper must surely suffer from the sticky mud. for
who but the most nervy would venture forth to purchase anything but
the barest necessities, when confronted with such deplorable conditions
Telephones as a medium of shopping is not particularly popular with
women. These and many others are the effect of i'll kept and muddy
streets and this is but one of the many mflstones that encirde the neck
of Tonopah and which the County Commissioners are helpless to remove.
Is 1t to be wondered that Incorporation is being hailed as a salvation.
There have been three deaths from diphthena within the past few
days and while the malady is not prevalent, it would be a wise precau-
tn if the County Physician would, in all cases where the disease is
discovered, establish a strict quarantine, thereby reducing the posi-
blfty of its spreading. 1t might also be advisable to place on all
houses where the illness might exist, a placard warning all of the pres
iberia, in fact any contagious disease. should notify the County Physi
clan at once, SO that the necessary quarantine may at once be established.