Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-08-03

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thrifty, who brought :hither love
of the domestic and social virtues,
a high regard for law and justice
and that Unborn 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 were, 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 it's 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 build ing 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
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 for the judge and the
other officials of the court, when
they found themselves amid the
more suitable quarters and the far
more convenient and commodiou
Court Room of the Court House,
then the new one, though now to
us, only 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 as we'll as the larger
criminal element with which it's
officers had to deal, made neces-
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 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 it was erected.
There the affairs of the county
were administered by faithful
officials; there the muniments of
titles were recorded and pre-
served; there taxes were levied,
collected and disbursed; there,
provision made for the public
schools and the various public
wants of growing, new county
were provided for, fairly well, &C.
cording to the means at hand.
And above all, and more important
than all other departments of the
local government, sat the District
Court. 1t is not without reason
that throughout the length and
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