Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-11-05
AN INTERESTING LETTER
George Plummer, SRI Tells Of
Wellington Meeting.
FnrroR YFRINCroN TIMES:

that there was to be a rousing political
meeting at Smiths Valley, and the
speakers were to be Mr.. Farris and Mr.
Moore of Mason.
The writer i'll company with +. K.
Lam. DR.. Leavitt, T. Hammond and
Mr. Gruber took the latter's auto and
went to Smith Valley to hear what the
gentlemen had to say.
Arriving at the Wellington school
house. we found 1t we'll filed with
ladies and gentlemen. The meeting
was called to order by the chairman, Mr..
Reading, who i'll very few appropriate
remarks introduced the first speaker of
the evening, Mr. Farris The speaker
at once proceeded with a flow of elo-
ouence that surprised the audience and
stated that the meeting was not poli~i-
cal but simply a business one, the OBJ
iect of which was to try and induce the
people of Smith Valley to vote for hive
candidates whose names would appear
ON the ballot at the coming election,
The candidates mentioned by the
speaker, knowing that they did not
have the prestige to be nominated at the
Primaries, succeeded i'll getting their
names on the ticket by petition. The
speaker stated that he had been to Wabus-
ka and organized club with member
ship of seventeen, and had also formed
a club at Mason with membership of
about twice as many, most all OF whom are
qualified voters, and who had pledged
themselves to vote for these five candi-
dates.
He said the people of Yerington were
agitating the removal of the county seat
from DAYTON to Yerington but if these
five candidates, whom he mentioned,
could be elected, the county seat could
be retained at DAYTON two years longer,
and BY that time there would be a
smelter running at Wabuska, great
many employed at the mines, two or
three million dollars more of taxable
property in this end of the county, and
then il would be the proper time, if the
people so desired to move the county
seat from Dayton to Wabuska, Mason
CITY, Magog or some other city not now
appearing on the map
Mr.. Farris stated that he had visited
DAYTON and thoroughly examined the
ruins of the courthouse and found the
walls in good condition except the back
wall, in which there was crack, pre-
sumably left there when the building
was constructed. But as to the other
walls there were no more cracks i'll them
than in the walls of the new hotel
at Mason. The floor was already in the
old building, the crossbeams up, the
rafters on, and all that was necessary
now to have a new courthouse was to
Single the roof. He also stated that
he had interviewed nearly all the tax
PAYERS in the north end of the county
and they had told him that they had
already signed petition to be annexed
to Ormsby or Storey County i'll case the
county seat WAS HlONcu liOih LAY tch W
Yerington He stated that Lyon Coun-
tvs rate of taxes was as low or lower
than any other county i'll the State and
her Indebtedness very small but the
rate of taxation in Storey and Ormsby
was about two and half times as large
as that of Lyon; and this being the case
A., ,,~;ts, s,trDocad tha tavDavere ,vere
anxious to be set off into Storey or
Ormsby County in order to help their
poor neighhors ont of financial Difficult
ties. He stated the candidates he had
on his ticket we're all non-partisan, but
for the best interests of the people and
if elected would see that the County
courthouse remained at Dayton, He
said that to build new courthouse at
Yerington would cost SIS, 600 or 500,
600 and the County would have to be
bonded for that amount, and it would
cause great calamity; that real estate
would depreciate i'll value and no out
slider would seek investment here, and
again advised the people of Smith Val
ley To vote for his candidates as he was
SURE they were the best men to fill the
offices. At the closing Of his remarks
there was great applause by dog bark
ing outside.
The next speaker introduced was Mr..
Moore, also from Mason. He said he
had been in the county three months
and had job already. and felt qualified
to tell the people Of Smith Valley how
they should vote at the coming election.
lie stated that as soon as he could earn
money enough to erect smelter at Wa
buska, at the cost of million of dol
lars, and put several thousand men to
work at the mines, he would soon have
taxable property enough in this end OF