The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-19

nte $685. Bunkerv Ssl Good Springs 81 20 balance Of the
county 81; unless Of the districts issue school bonds
which would raise the rate
We have been over these figure repeatedly both alone and
with experts the subject and been unable discover the
falacy in them appalling hey in order that may
verify them for himself that the assessment roll for 1907
showed assessed valuation Of s. $50 71754 All the other
elements contained the bove excepting that the for
the various districts 1908 be aserned by deducng 9l
from the increased rates have given them.
This article is written excite alarm, but place be-
fore the taxpayers OF this county of the elements OF this prob
lem OF county division knowledge is power and forewarnec
forearmed" Let be osthes for gain nothing
by sticking the sand The situation terrible
template but must know it order that may decide
whether wish to further compicae it by dividing Lincoln
county.
Facing these figures ana all that they imply are we still
ready to the price? 1t would be chds folly deceive
eve by saying that the county maintenance would be
increased II we make two out Of the territory and
payers of one:
The writer has had large experience with this question of
carving counties to feed the appetes of aspiring localities and
politicians and We do not hesitate to affirm forcbly words
do it. that such process of addition division silence
worked otherwise than division subtraction and
Oars subtraction being pockets of the and
roars from his diaphragm.
Let be serious and not silly Division would benefit the
proposed Clark county The principal benefit would
be to Las Vegas should division be effected Lgans
that county would benefit by having the costs of litigation light
ened Other benefits would be slight be negligible the
argument
Personally believe that the increase of tax rate would
be not less than dollar the Lincoln county and dol
lars IN Clark county These figures not made lightly but a
looking back memory through the many counties with which
have had experience Cut the figures two you like They
cannot fall below that Two of officers courts with
litigation increasing faster than its tgans dmnishes
sets of county buildings be built and be maintained the
anscrbng of the records the Clark county until build
ing erected etc Court costs include the salaries judges
and all court officers Both civil and criminal business would
double in Clark county made available The costs of
anscrbng the records is fixed by law would not figure up
less than thousand dollars and might exceed that The
o+onpa aInI
hundred dollars based upon total ignorance of the facts The
may be said of the claim that only small part of the records
pertaining Clark county property need be transcribed while the
rest could be LETT here The Legislature going give Clark
county of bobaed Offices As for the rent being furnished
gratis for three years by the citizens of Las Vegas can only be
said that aspiring town make valid with egs-
ature In Las Vegas elsewhere and 60 This
business hourshes today Tomorrow 1t down flower
and wihereth Another is of few days and full Of trouble
To rely the stability and permanence of private enterprise to
keep country grauousy motion for three years would be
ike depending upon the wind which boweth steh to
proceed continuously from the quarter sx consecu
tive months 1t would the mutabty human affairs
directly pertinent this proposition has already been SUI
fcently demonstrated in Las Vegas.
Be deceived Those who danced have always paid the
piper and always will.
The assertion has been freely made here since election thai
law would be passed this winter dividing Lincoln county anc
starting created from upon their deols ca
reer July 1s 1909 In othar words that officers legally
elected by all the people Of the county their servants for m
year. the legislature would prescribe which OF th=r constituents
they should and which they should desert AS pertinent
the logic of such proposition suggest providing
follows:
1T hereby enacted that Charles Cuverwe the duly elect
ed and acting county recorder of Lincoln county, SHALL on anC
after July 1903 when person tenders document RECORD
carefully examine the hair Of said person. should said hair prove
be black the document be accepted and fled should be
other color the said be given the marble heart
further enacted that July ensuing John F. Roeder
the duly elected and acting of Lincoln county, shall take
his work for 1909 already performed and bury same with ap
prope ceremonies his back yard and that thereafter said Roe
der shall work his roll only upon blondes male anC
female.
In committee previous to the passage of the act we can i'm
agne member addressing his fellow committeeman as fol-
lows:
In memorable controversy with Savior there was cited
the of certain who tackled family of seven broth
Starting with the Oldest when he died married the next
and down the line until they all dead And of
the died Also The question In the resurrection
whose wife shall she be of the for they have all had her
Now 0rrn Smith, the duly elected and acting sheriff of Lin
coin county, lives in theproposed Clark county the division
whose sheriff shall he be of the two for both have had hm?
Humbug All such is provided for the state con-