Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-10-03
Nye County Grand Jury Filed a Lengthy
Report Tuesday Afternoon Dealing with
County AffdirS---TredSury Looks Good

various 1re places and stoves of priv
ate residences and places of business
within the town Of Tonopah and
where such tlues or stove pipes or
chimneys are maintained so as to be
a menac to adjoining property and
the town in general; we recommend
that the fire chief Immediately notify
such parties so maintaining such
chimneys to repair or remove such
nues or stove pipes and that on the
failure Of the parties to do 50, 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-
t,r 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 ianitor now employed at
tho court house be required to per-
form his duty in this respect.
COUNTY RECORDERS OFFICE.
We find this office to be in a 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.
4 We find on investigation that the
: recommendations of the last grand
jury relative to a women's ward II
s the county jail has been complied
G with and the same is now complete
We recommend that some provi
Q sion be made for water inside tn
court house or branch to be equippe,
so that It can be used in case of fire
We also recommend that twenty
two electric lights be added to tn
county jail.
COUNTY HOSPITAL.
We find the county hospital bein
conducted in a very satisfactory MAI
ner under the existing circumstances
= we find that a number of matters pc.
~ tanning to this institution should !
- attended to at once, the most impor
- ant being the water problem. "
2 recommend in this respect that Il
Z county commissioners take immedia
ie steps to have the county hospit
~ connected with the water mains al
)" that the Institution be furnished Wi
a' proper equipment for the comfort
It's inmates.
~ Our inspection of the county he
~ pital developed the fact that the ty
front rooms of the hospital in viii,
), most of the inmates are kept a
poorly ventilated and recommei
that additional windows be placed
them for this purpose. W. find tn
the bedding used on the cots is in
very filthy condition and we recoi
mend that the county commissions
take immediate steps to procure NJ
bedding and carry out the changes
the building here recommended,
COUNTY ROADS.
no From the best information We ha
heen able to secure the county roa
of the county are in fairly good &C
tbo dition with some exceptions; We Z
ors informed that the bridge acrt
&C. Granville wash, Just south OF the
tersection of the Berlin and one Y
ley road is in a dangerous conditl
q and should be attended to at once
no it is unsafe for team with an or
,ss- nary load.
ned Information received by our be
on from various sources leads us TO
the lieve that the law with reference
sign boards at crossroads and ju
ak ton points is not being eompl
,or- with. Sign boards formerly placed
cen functions have either been destro'
t in or so obliterated as to be of no Sc
,ere Ice and in this respect We beg le
and to cali the immediate attention
rue the board Of county commission
rom and recommend that sign boards "
of iron pipe posts bearing proper IN.
nation as to the direction OF re
the and location Of all distances and
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