The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-07
BRYAN FORCESARE CONFIDENTPL A VERY fine BUILDING
Ely City to Build an
$4,000 School
House in the Near
Future.

After a session at which the forma-
ton of the East Ely school district
had been hotly contested, on motion
of Commissioner George F. Parker.
measure was passed. Chairman A.
l.. Parker sided with the other two
In believing the justice of the mat
ter to lie with the residents of Ely
City, who desired the change and the
vote was made unanimous. The only
opponents of the proposed split In
the school district were the members
of the present school board, who con-
tested 1t hotly for several hours.
| The proposal to split the Ely dis
! trict was made at the June meeting
of the commissioners, for the first
time, by residents of Ely City who
had circulated petition in Ely which
received a large majority of the sig
| natures of residents of the district.
| Because the school board at that
| time wished to have the matter laid
over for deliberation, action upon it
was postponed until the first meeting
of July, which was held yesterday.
Upon it being presented. Samuel l..
Belford stated the side of Ely City.
The school children had been cooped
up all winter in a place not half
| large enough to hold them, not kept
sufficiently warm and not strictly
sanitary. He declared that the school
board members had promised new
school house to Ely City some time
ago. but have never made any move
to build one. The residents of Ely
City, he declared, now wish to do
for themselves what the school board
will not do for them. The building
as planned will be constructed of
| brick and will cost $4,000.
Senator Comins, r. H. Hoffman
and Robert Neil. the members of the
school board, declared themselves
willing to exeend the $4,000 of un-
sold bonds for erection of schools in
Ely district on an Ely City school
house. Mr.. Holtzman stated that he
| was willing to call an election to vote
a special bond issue for Ely City
schools if the district was not di-
vided.
| C. F. McElroy made short talk
on the subject of bond issuance as
special counsel for the commission
ers. The school board renewed their
proposition of putting up the $4,000
| and any extra money needed to
build two room school building.
Commissioner Parker stated that
he had considered the legality of the
separation of the district for 80 days
and that any further talk of this
kind, which had all been heard be-
fore, was nothisg less than a waste
of 10 f1a
of the petition and the granting of
the district under the name of East
Ely school district Mr.. Mcknight
seconded the motion.
The motion thus being put before
the meeting, Chairman A. l.. Parker
called for expressions from the citi-
zens present. None but tre members
of the school board spoke against the
proposition. the plea that Ely City
might later On try to evade the pay
ment of taxes on Ely bonds being
brought up. 1t was shown that this
was impossible under the law. Chair
man Parker finally stopped the dis
cussion by saying that he agreed with
George F. Parker. While he was
willing to do all that was fair and
right by Ely, he wanted to hear the
VOICE OF the people, 1HlS SEEMED 20
have been amply given in the petit
tion with it's hundreds of signers
and practically no opposition to the
measure. He wished to do the right
thing by Ely City. too, and under the
circumstances thought that he could
do no more than concur in the vote,
making it unanimous in favor of sep
arating the district and giving Ely
City the right to build as large and
splendid a school building as they
wished.
The order was entered by Clerk
Dan M. Mcdonald. after which de-
scription of the ground covered was
ordered spread upon the minutes.
The new school district will at once
proceed to organize and do something
toward starting the building in or
der to suitably house the children at
the approaching term. 1t Is proba-
BILE that some temporary quarters will
be obtained for the children at the
commencement of the term until the
handsome brick structure contem-
plated Is completed