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

court fees through reduced mile.
age, the net outgo for each pro-
posed county to sustain its coun.
ty government would be no more
burdensome upon the Taxpayer
in either new county than condi-
tons in the present Lincoln
county.
| No greater curse can befall
a county than undergrad, infi-
cient county officers. Where a
considerable portion of county
revenue as here comes from fees
and fines, if you tie the hands of
those whose duty it is to collect
fees and fines, by refusing them
compensation necessary to ena-
bic them to do their duty prop
erly, you have cut off your nose
to spite your face, with no i'm
provement to your appearance,
no benefit to your pocket and no
credit to your intelligence.
Nevada has come to life and is
going to grow. 1t needs bright,
competent, up-to-date officials,
and to get them it must pay de-
cent salaries. Some of the sala-
ries now provided by law in this
county, particularly those paid
the district attorney and county
clerk, are much too low. Those
who, in their short-sighted ca
gerness to get a county-seat at
Las Vegas, are advocating made
quate salaries for the new coun-
ties, are planning the most effec-
tual way to construct and retard
the growth of their desired pro-
tege, Clark county, and to BELT
tie its influence.
A necessary part of the price
of county division must be some
increase in the cost of county
government. 1t would be a
greater price if by supreme folly
either county was prohibited
from employing suitable officials.
| Let not the lesson of the past in
Lincoln county be forgotten
The memory of conditions here
years ago is very pertinent tt
this proposition.
Far more important as per
tanning to the price to be paic
will be the cost of installing tn,
new county. Records must b,
Transcribed and new count,
buildings erected and equipped
Seventy-five thousand dollar
will be required to meet all thes
demands, and the taxpayers o
the new county must foot tn
bill. Are they ready ? We ar
just emerging from awfully har,
times. 1t will be lots easier t
pay for many things two year
hence than now. Also, in tw
years there will be more taxabl
, property to contribute.
, The second consideration is
, Where should the new county
; seat of the proposed Clark coun
, ty be located ? Las Vegas eX
poets to appropriate it if division
is effected now.
, Two years are liable to brin
! great changes. Lead City, wher
the Homestake Mine is, was n
q bigger once than Searchlight i
: now. Today Lead City has te
thousand people. Hunt tn
county over and you will find n
choicer location for a mimi,
town than Searchlight. 1t is i
the same or a better class thai
: Grass Valley, California. 1t ha
some splendid mines now an,
| others in the making. Eldorad
Canyon, with it's infinite posi-
bilities, lies at her door. |
would make far and away tn,
most beautiful county-seat in tn,
state. In two years there nigh
be glorious difference il
Searchlight.
How does Overton feel {? Doe
she realize that right there abou
; the metropolis of the Muddy Val
ley is going to be the garden
spot of this magnificent state
Overton is going to grow, just a.
the trees and the vegetables ant
the flowers grow under the slim
illus of that wonderful soil anC
climate. A lusty youth now
Overton will be a robust adult il
two years. Should this question
be settled immediately and the