The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-30
ASKS NEW Banning LAW BE
MADE WHICH PENALTIES RE-
eEPTION OF FUNDS BN IN
SOLVENT BANKS.

The report of Attorney General
Stoddard is now in print. II reviews
The work thai the office has done dur
ing The past year.
The report contains full index OF
all the cases heard before the SUI
preme court during the past year in
which the state was a party and a
full account of the whole transaction
of the appointment of the railroad
commission and the eases that have
arisen in the various courts to which
they have found themselves engaged
i'm carrying out the work of their Of
flee
II treats at length upon the many
phases of mineral questions brought
to his attention rs eX-otiicio mineral
land commissioner. He shows that
i'm compliance with the act creating
the Office he has kept complete rec
ord OF mineral patents applied for
and so far has instituted inquiries
in - cases us follows:
Homestead ......... 90
Desert lands ....... Il
Lieu land sections ....,t.... 1
-
Total ............ .....#..'. -
In speaking of the suits that have
been instituted against the railroad
companies To annul patents TO lands
granted them. he says:
ITO assist in the construction of a
railroad, by an act
of congress. approved in July, 1852.
the government granted To the Gem
trial Pacific Railroad Co, certain odd
numbered sections of land extending
across the state of Nevada, within
% miles of either side of the railroad
right OF way. BY its express terms
said act reserves 10 the United States
all minerals except coal and iron.
From time 10 time the Central Pa
cifie has applied for and obtained
final patent 10 many sections of the
land so granted. being required 10
show to the government before said
patent issues that the land applied
for is more valuable for agricultural
purposes than for the mineral con-
tanned therein. Many valuable min
eral deposits have been discovered
upon land thus patented, and in some
cases il is claimed that mining claims
were being actually worked on rail
road lands "a the time of and prior
to the granting of patent thereon.
He further states: 1T is not gen
orally known that. under the rulings
of the department of the interior,
even though a mining claim is To-
Gated on railroad land the railroad
has applied for a patent thereon, the
owner of the mining claim may file
his application for patent. and If a
showing is made that the land Is
valuable as a mineral claim. and the
usual regulations are complied with,
Notwithstanding the objections of the
railroad a patent will issue in due
course to the holder of the mining
claim.
Among the recommendation he
makes for the welfare of the state
are:
That the statutes be recompiled
and indexed
That the interdeterminate sentence
in felony cases and other measures
toward improving the present prison
system he adopted.
That besides an entire new bank
ing law a more explicit statute penal
izing the reception of deposits by in
solvent banks be passed.
That a new vault he installed in
the state treasury. and apparatus fol
weighing and counting coin be pur-
chased.
That whenever prisoner is parol
ed by the board of pardons, he be al
lowed the regulation $25 as in cases
where prisoners are fully discharged
That no prisoner be permitted Il
assign said s25 without the consen
of the board of pardons.
VICIOUS TORTURE.