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

recommend a modification of the
present law to conform to
the statutes of other states, namely,
limiting the number of rounds in
such contests to twenty, and reduc-
ing the license.
A State Board of Charities.
The chief executive calls attention
to the fact that the state university
has been removed from politics, and
that for self-eyident reasons the state
prison, the orphans home, and the
hospital for mentally diseased should
be entirely removed from any direct
or indirect influence from the vieis-
STUDIES of political parties" A on
partisan board of charities and cor
reetions controlling the appointment
of heads of the institutions named, is
suggested.
Roads and Highways.
A movement which has taken
more or less concrete form through
out the country proposes the con-
struetion af a transeontinental auto
mobile highway from the Atlantic
coast to the Pacific. The shortest
and most feasible survey will bring
this road through Nevada. but states
both north and south are bidding for
IL and the final location will be de-
termined largely by what support
the states through which it passes
may offer. 1t is likely that the gov
eminent may assist in part in such
construction, while private contribu-
lions from automobile companies, tire
manufacturers and Automobiles
may be relied on for large contribu-
tons. 1t is obvious that the coun-
ties through which such a road may
be built will be the chief benefici-
aries of its construction. and for
which reason l recommend the pass
age of a general act enabling any
county 10 bond itself for its pro rata
of cost and otherwise meet the terms
and conditions likely to be imposed
by the government and contributing
associations. Such act should also
cover cooperation with the govern
ment in post-road construction,
which is conditioned on the state or
counties bearing two-thirds. and the
government one-third of the expense.
Convict Road Work.
In my inaugural message two
years ago. | discussed at length
the economy. expediency and
humanity of employing conyicts,
under the system now in force in this
state, on the public roads. This re-
commentator was predicated on
correspondence dating back to No
yember, 1910, shortly after my cleo
ton and before | had taken Office,
with Colorado, and also with the
Territorial Good Roads Commission
of New Mexico, where the system was
first introduced and from which II
spread with satisfactory results to an
increasing number of other states.
The bill which became a law was
drawn by my secretary, submitted to
my approval before its introduction,
and was amended by the Legislature
only in the one particular-that con-
yicts delegated to road work were
To remain under the control and SUI
peryision of the warden, instead of
the state police, as the original bill
provided. | refer to this history
(which is easily substantiated by
reference to my inaugural message
and to certain letters and documents
on file in my ofiiee) merely to correct
some inaccuracies of statement
which have been made in respect to
the origin of convict road work in
Nevada, and not for the purpose of
assuming any special credit for the
same.
There is no question but that
the passage of this law has had a
wholesome effect on our prison sys-
TEN, and been the means of giving
a new start in life to a large proper
ton of the discharged and paroled
men. About 40 per cen of the total
number of our convicts have been
performing good service under the
honor system on the prison farm and
at the road camp. This system was
inaugurated by former Warden Max
well, in 1910, as will appear from
his Biennial Report for 1909-151O,
page 5, wherein, discussing the en-
ployment of prisoners on the prison
farm. he says:
They (the convicts detailed to