White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-26

JANUARY 70,
created the Office of engineer. The
effect IF this law was to extend the
jurisdiction of the railroad commits.
cion to cover electric light, power
gas, sewer and water companies.
The Reno rate case has not been
finally settled, although a reduction
of 20 per cent in the rates from east
ern points on several hundred arti-
eles has been effected. If what are
known as the "Fourth-Section" or
ders are sustained by the supreme
court of the United States, where the
issue is pending, this will result in a
saving to the people of Nevada of
several hundred thousand dollars, an
nually, in class and commodity rates
On shipments from eastern territory.
The Commission has effected reduc-
lions on freight and passenger rates
on a number of interstate railroads
during the last two years which are
more particularly covered in its re-
port
Bureau of Agriculture.
The bureau of industry, agricul-
ture and irrigation is one Of vital
importance in the states affairs, as
tending to the development of the
agricultural and Industrial
"A big beginning has been made on
a gigantic task" and the work
should be prosecuted.
Quarantine Legislation.
Our law in relation to quarantine,
both interstate and interstate, needs
careful revision and should be per-
fected to cover contagious and in
fectious diseases of cattle, sheep,
horses and swine; to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of the alfalfa weevil into
Nevada; importations of ''foul-blood"
colonies of bees; provide for the con
troll and determination of the potato
eeiworm, and be efficiently flexible
to cover extraordinary situations re-
q~uiring quarantine.
Panama-Pacific Exposition.
l recommend that a special state
tax of 5 cents be levied for the years
1913 and 1914, the proceeds to go
into a fund for the proper represen-
tation of Nevada and its at
the Panama-Paciic International ex-
position, at San Francisco, in 1915.
This will bring in approximately
500, 600, in four semiannual in
stallments, beginning in December of
this year, and ending in June, 1915.
In 1911. | appointed, for the time
being, an honorary commission to as
sist me in acquiring a site for the
Nevada building on the Exposition
grounds, and by such immediate
action secured the second choice of
sites, without cost to the state.
am advised that to hold this site the
state may have to break ground
upon it this year. l think there can
be no difference of opinion that We
should so govern and conduct ouI
exhibit that the state will receive
benefits in excess of its cost. Our
resources must be presented. not in
haphazard manner, but with the same
degree of technical precision which
other states have adopted in their
exhibits at such expositions. ! be-
lieve that the act providing for the
exhibit should fix a limit upon the
cost of the building; segregate the
amounts available for different pur-
poses, rather than a lump %appropria-
ton; and very specifically define the
conduct and management of the
same.
State License and Bullion Tax Agent
The report of this department
shows the gross production of our
mines for 1912, in round numbers,
as $4,000 900, on which the gross
collection of bullion taxes on the net
proceeds was 100000, of which the
state received $4,000. There had
been a decrease in 1912 of bullion
taxes, county and state, of $4,000,
of which the states proportion of de-
crease was $4,000. The falling off
is due to the decrease in bullion pro-
duction of one important mine which
was not overcome by increased bull
lion output elsewhere.
State Banking Board and Bank
Examiner.
The report Of the state bank ex-
aminer shows that We have twenty
one banks, exclusive of national