The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-02
TAX ON
LOCAL MERCHANTS
COUNCIL HAS A BIG PROBLEM TO
SOLVE IN THE LICENSE
ORDINANCE.
THE BUSINESSES THAT MAY Be TAXED
Amounts of Licenses Not Fixed
Would Raise Considerable Reve-
nue. for the City.
THE BUSINESSES THAT MAY Be TAXED

One of the most important matters
to be dealt with by the council is the
adoption of ordinances. 1t is re-
ported that certain proposed ordi-
nances will cause considerable pro-
test if adopted. The revenue end of
the matter will prove, no doubt, one
of the most difficult problems to set
tie. At the meeting of the council
last Tuesday night nothing was ac-
cOmplished so far as adopting any
of the ordinances was concerned, but
the city fathers spent several hours
looking over the various ordinances
and discussing their merits and the
like.
1t appears that the majority of
business establishments of the city
will be subjected to tax. At least
the license or ordinance, as it now
appears, covers numerous matters.
One section of the ordinance relates
to billiard tables and four sections
deal with the regulations and the
amount of the tax for operating bill
lard halls. The amount of the tax,
however, has not as yet been speci-
fed. Along with the billiard hall
proposition is the matter of licensing
y,
are not to be exempt from taxation
under this chapter, as section of
chapter IL. reads:
mo billiard or pool table or
bowling alley shall be kept or con-
Quoted In any saloon or other public
place for use without license first
had and obtained according to the
provisions of this ordinance" The
punishment for violating the ordi-
nance is fine, the stipulated amount
not having been fixed
Under the title of Licensing and
regulating businesses, occupations,
trades and callings within the limits
of the City of Ely" are the follow
ing:
Assayer, attorney at law, auction
eer, barber shop leach chair, bath
leach tub, bank or banker, brew
ing agent or solicitor not actually
dealing in and handling brewery pro-
ducts, blacksmith or horse-shoeing
leach forge), bakery, butcher shop,
butcher shop (moveable or fresh
meat peddlar), boot or bootblack
stand, clothes cleaning or dyeing es-
Establishment, cigar store, coal dealer,
confectionery store, concrete block
manufacturer or dealer, dentist, drug
store, electric light or power COM
pany, express, baggage, transfer
wagon, job wagon or drayman, for
tune teller, astrologer, clairvoyant
medium, PIANIST or phrenologist, no.
tel, harness shop or store, hack, car
riage or bus (each). ice manufactur-
er or dealer, insurance agent or soil
itrp. ff,.. ffrn LOT oil
cident policy, ice cream or soda wa
ter stand or parlor, jewelry store,
lodging house, laundry (steam) !,
laundry (hand), livery or feed sta
BILE, corral or yard, lumber merchant
or lumber dealer, lunch wagon or
lunch stand in street or not in per-
manent building, merry go-round,
milliner, merchant dealing in the fol-
lowing: drygoods, notions, groceries,
food products, vegetables, farm pro-
ducts, hardware, boots and shoes,
machinery, fire arms, clothing, fur
niture, glass, crockery, tinware or
house furnishings, newspaper stand
newspaper daily. newspaper
(weekly), printing Office or job print
er, physician, doctor or surgeon,
paint, oil or glass store, photograph
er, pawnshop or pawnbroker, ped
der or hawker, restaurant or restau-
rant keeper, real estate agent or So
licitOr stock broker, stone or brick
dealer or manufacturer, shooting gal
lery, skating rink, sewing machine
agent, stationery store, soda water
or soft dring manufacturer, second
hand dealer or store, tailor or tailor
shop, tin, galvanized iron or metallic
cornice shop, undertaken, wood or
fuel dealer, water company.
The ordinance goes on to define
the meaning of each establishment
or shop mentioned. OF course. the
council may make many changes and
in the proposed ordi
nance. The matter of fixing the Ii |
cense is a very difficult one and, it |
is said, that other cities that have
adopted the merchants tax law have |
found the greatest trouble in fixing |
the various rates. One fact is evil |
dent, however, and that is if such a |
law is adopted and all it's provisions
carried out, the city is not liable to
want for funds. Whether the licen-
SEES will be protested is not known,
but 1t is understood that the attor-
neys and a few others will object to
being taxed