Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-03-08
fSMFRALDA COUNTY OBJECTS TO
ASSEMBLY MEASURE GIVING NYE
SMALL PORTION OF TERRITORY

Assemblyman Forman of Tonopah
has introduced bill in the lower
house of the legislature calling for
the detachment of a small portion OF
Esmeralda county to be added to Nye
county, The portion embraced in the
bill barely covers a section of ground
and from the reports from Goldfield
the people of the southern city, are
adverse to the changing of the map,
although Nye county was willing
to concede a good stretch of terri
tory in return.
The bill introduced by Forman
reads as follows:
Section l. The following describ-
ed territory, now part of Esmeral-
da county, Nevada, is hereby detach-
ed from said county and is hereby
attached to and made a part of Nye
county, Nevada, to-wit Beginning at
the intersection of that meridian of
longitude 40 degrees Z minutes w.
from Washington with the township
line between townships l and N. M.
d. B. & M; thence westerly around
said township line to its intersec-
tion with the range line between
ranges Al and AZ E. M. d, B. & M:
thence northerly along said range
line to it's intersection with the Nye-
Esmeralda county boundary line, as
heretofore established by law"
In compliance with an invitation
from Goldfield, District Attorney
Sanders. County Commissioners r. B.
Davis, W. A. Marsh and A. Ferguson
and Deputy Assessor Charles Slavin,
visited the southern city yesterday
afternoon and attended a meeting
held In the court house. In the even
ing a session of the Goldfield Bar
association was also attended and at
both gatherings the Tonopah repre-
sentatives explained the object in
view and denied the insinuation of
the Goldfielders that 1t was "land
steal"
The section that Is desired added
to Nye county is contained in the
Tonopah mining district. Under pres
ent conditions that part of Tonopah
which is in Esmeralda county, pays
nothing for the local police or fire
protection, The few taxes are col
lected by Esmeralda and in return
every protection imaginable is af
torded by the taxpayers of Tonopah
The high school building is in Es
meralda county and the few resi-
dences In that location are also EN-
braced In the confines of the adjacent
county.
Property owners, who have proper
lty in the Tonopah mining district
which happens to be in Esmeralda
are forced to undergo the expense
of journeying to the southern city to
transact legal business. The same
situation is experienced by the Es
meralda county officials who have
legal papers to serve. They are com
PEELED to come to Tonopah at an ad.
ditional expense.
1t was proposed by the county
commissioners to exchange that por
tion of Nye county, wherein the
town of Dlamondfield is contained
for the parcel desired. Esmeralds
would obtain larger area, although
the valuation is somewhat decreased
At the meeting yesterday it was de
clared that portion desired by Tono
pah contained great productive
ground, AS matter of fact there
Ia not, and has not been singl,
pound OF ore produced from the re
gion In dispute. 1t is true that NY,
would obtain about six miles of tn,
Tonopah and Goldfield trackage, bu
even a greater percentage of track
age would go to Goldfield if tn
Diamondfield territory was allotted t
the adjacent county.
The philanthropic Goldfield cit
zens declared they were willing t
(give Tonopah the territory desire
If this county would in turn, gran
Esmeralda the entire southern par
of Nye. dividing this county at tn
3Sth parallel.
Under present conditions lega
tangles are arising daily. A recen
instance wherein a legal technicalit
would have thrown case out O
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