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

1000. Before being plac-
ed on the farm the conditions impos-
ed are explained to them and they
are then informed that they are to
be placed on their honor, the duty OF
the foreman and assistant being only
to supervise their work and see that
all conditions are observed"
During the past two years there
have been eight escapes from the
road work and six from the prison
farm, a total of IA; s OF these have
been reeaptured, leaving 6 still at
large, but almost certain of appre-
hension through the operations of
the Bertillon system of identified
cation. The detail of prisoners in
such beneficial work has relieved
the congestion in the prison and OBJ
Waited the necessity of constructing
a new penitentiary, a saving to the
state of several hundred thousand
dollars. The splendid highway now
in course of construction between
Reno and Carson City is a testimonial
of the good and faithful work of
these prisoners. The Prison Board
requires the county in which road
work is done to pay one dollar per
diem per convict employed, and I'M
der which Washoe county has con
tributed s17,902.5O. While even
with this contribution the cost of
maintenance of road camp prisoners
is about 1212 cents per diem greater
than when confined, the value of such
permanent improvements to the
state must be taken into considera-
ton and, as we'll, the fact that IN
wholesomeness and degenerating ef-
feets of prison confinement on those
who are not of criminal nature is
obviated.
Your attention is specifically called
TO the recommendation of the war
den that the provision of the act
with respect to time off and compen-
sation, now applying to the road
work exclusively, be also made APP
plicable to those employed on the
prison farm, which will tend to i'm
prove the service on the latter; also
to further suggestions in his report
with respect to improvements, the
stocking of the farm, and that re-
ceipts from the sale of its product
and live stock may be invested in
new stock and improvements instead
of reyerting to the general fund.
The State Police.
The cost of maintenance of the
state police the past two years shows
a marked increase over preceding
years, due to special reasons, as fol-
lows: Detail in enforcing the Gam
bling act, which went into effect Oc-
tober /. 1910. and which has neces-
STATED more or less constant repres-
sions BY this department; the ex-
termination of "Shoshone Mixes
band of m%urderous renegade Indi-
ans, in the winter of 1911; participa-
tion in the pursuit of escaped con-
yicts from the road work and prison
farm; Investigating stock rustlers
and making arrests; relief work in
connection with the flood at Seven
froughs and Mazuma, and enforcing
martial law during the labor strike
in White Pine county. The force.
when not responding to e%xtraordi-
nary duty, has been reduced to a
minimum of five men, consisting of
tho superintendent. the inspector.
and three sergeants. which is the
present number. When not in field
service those on duty keep up the
Bertillon system of criminal identifi-
cation, which is of general value in
the detection of crime and the de-
termination Of the history of those
charged with crime.
/ believe that this department, by
the record of its achievements, must
establish its inestimaDle value in the
minds of all who carefully consider
the probable situation this state
would be in today without it. 1t is
the factor which makes for indus
trial peace and tranquility and the
enforcement of law in cases beyond
the ability of the counties to cope
with. Its conduct and use as a po-
lice organization has been such as to
commend the impartiality of its
actions. We know what its
maintenance costs in dollars and
cents, but what this organization has
saved the state in the past, in ways
which may easily be conjectured as
obtaining We're there no state
police, is beyond estimation. If the
future brings forth no extraordinary