Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-05

DiiSh On Drlck II arose under the
busy toll of the workman's hands
into a completed whole. These
men are witnesses to us of the
older generation, bright examples
of the pioneers who bravely dared
to face the dangers of the unknown
wilderness, there to make for
themselves homes and livelihood.
and to founnd new communities
and commonwealth. Judging the
early inhabitants of Elko by those
who yet survive among us. we
know them to have been hardy.
courageous meE. industrious and
thrifty, who brought hither a love
of the domestic and social virtues,
q high regard for law and justice
and that inborn genius for self
government which is characteristic
of American pioneers everywhere.
HonOred Citizens, whom Provi-
dence has spared to teach us by
visible example what the men of
those earlier days ncre, we of later
time salute you for the worthy
part you have played in the civic
and industrial development of our
town and county during the two
score years which have gone since
that first Court House was con-
structed
Even before the plans for that
building were made, the needs of
the young county called for
place in which sessions of its Dis
trict Court might be held. AL
though the shrine of Justice is
worthy of the most magnificent
temple the means of the people can
provide, still courts can administer
the law amidst the humblest sur
roundings and the jewel of equity
shine resplendent in the meanest
setting. So in those early days
the County Commissioners rented
for the uses of the District Court,
a room in an adobe building on
Railroad street, near what we now
call the Bakery Corner. There in
that humble, inconvenient place,
civil and criminal cases were tried,
and the ordinary business of a
court attended to, with all the
wonted forms of legal procedure,
and controlled by a regard for
those sound principles of law,
which have ever since been the
guiding lights of our District
Court
But it must have been a day of
rejoicing fer the judge and the
other officials of the court, when
they found themselves amid the
more suitable quarters and the far
more convenient and commodou
Court Room of the Court House,
then the new one, though now to
us, only a recollection. Here the
District Court convened; here the
county business was transacted un-
til that day in May of this year.
when the officers, taking with them
the precious public records, reluct-
antly departed, and the work of
demolition of the old buildings to
make way for the new began. In
1879, the increasing business of
the county rs well DO the larger
criminal element with which its
officers had to deal, made rcces-
sary the removal of the Jail from
the lower portion of the old Court
House to yonder building. That,
too, will soon go, to make room for
the new, and after few years
along with The old Court House,
will be forgotten.
The old Court House, though
never a thing of beauty, was for
many years, with occasional altera-
tions and repairs and with the add
ed office room given by the removal
of the Jail. found adequate for the
purpose for which il was erected.
There the affairs Of the county
we're administered by faithful
] officials; there the muniments Of
titles were recorded and pre-
S served: there taxes were levied