Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-09-30
NYe County Grand Jury Filed Lengthy
Report Tuesday Afternoon Dealing with
County AffdirS---TredSury Looks Good

various fire places and stoves of priv
ate residences and places of business
within the town of Tonopah and
where such fiues or stove pipes or
chimneys are maintained so as to be
menace to adjoining property and
the town in general; we recopmend
that the fire chief Immediately notify
such parties so maintaining such
chimneys to repair or remove such
fues or stove pipes and that on the
failure of the parties to do SO, that
he be prosecuted in accordance with
law.
We recommend that the chief of
police be instructed to enforce the
ordinance governing speed limit of
automobiles within the limits of the
town of Tonopah.
From our inspection of the inter-
iAr of the court house we find the
flush bowls, wash basins and closets
in general in an unclean and untidy
condition and we recommend that the
board of county commissioners take
steps to relieve this condition and
that the janitor now employed at
the court house be required to per-
form his duty in this respect
COUNTY RECORDERS OFFICE.
We find this office to be in very
satisfactory condition and we are in
formed by this office that they are
very badly in need of an official map
of the town of Tonopah.
We find that some physicians are
very lax in complying with the law
with reference to recording births
and deaths and recommend that this
matter be investigated thoroughly
and that physicians be required to
comply with the law or be prose-
cuted
We also find that the various
clergymen of the town of Tonopah
have been lax in the past in record
ing marriages as required by law
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
We find on investigation that the
recommendation of the last grand
| jury relative to a women's ward in
the county jail has been complied
with and the same is now complete.
We recommend that some provi-
sion be made for water inside the
court house or branch to be equipped
/ so that it can be used in case of fire.
We also recommend that twenty
4 two electric lights be added to the
/ county jail.
COUNTY HOSPITAL.
We find the county hospital being
conducted in very satisfactory man.
ner under the existing circumstances;
we find that number of matters per.
tanning to this institution should be
attended to at once, the most import
ant being the water problem. We
recommend in this respect that the
. county commissioners take immediate
steps to have the county hospital
connected with the water mains and
that the institution be furnished witt
proper equipment for the comfort OF
it's inmates.
Our inspection of the county hos
pital developed the fact that the two
front rooms of the hospital in which
most of the inmates are kept are
poorly ventilated and recommenc
that additional windows be placed il
them for this purpose. We find thai
the bedding used on the cots is in {
very filthy condition and we recon-
mend that the county commissioner
take immediate steps to procure new
bedding and carry out the changes il
, the building here recommended.
COUNTY ROADS.
From the best information we have
been able to secure the county road
. of the county are in fairly good con
dition with some exceptions; we ar
Informed that the bridge acros
Granville wash, Just south of the in
tersection of the Berlin and lone val
Icy road is in a dangerous condition
and should be attended to at once a
: it is unsafe for teams with an ordi
. nary load.
Information received by our bod
from various sources leads us to be
lieve that the law with reference I
sign boards at crossroads and juno