White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-09


ture by the White Pine delegation,
for providing a high school building
for White Pine county, has passed.
and now the question of locating the
building is occupying the attention
of the school and county officials.
The bonds issue of $4,000 must
cover the cost of site, building and
equipment. the board of education,
consisting of Messrs. Lindsay Dun
can, DR.. r. II. Richardson and II. A
Comins. has been considering several
sites for the location of the building.
The board took an option some time
ago on a site between Eleventh and
High street, and the Freehill proper
ty on the same street was also sug
gested as a possible location. The
objections 10 these sites are the cost
and the outlook from each be-
ing unfavorable A site on the north
side of Aultman street. just west of
ah' i%if oaiobt btth
but is Objectionable because of the
high price at which necessary ground
is held and the low situation of the
ground. The park in front of the
court house also has the objection of
being on low ground where 1t will
be expensive to provide the necessary
faund "A for the hnfI1fpU nd ha
further objection that the school
building Will obscure the view of the
court house from Aultman This
site Is also too narrow to admit of
heating plant being constructed out
side of the main building. II. c. f.
Brown and Ed. White have offered to
donate a site near the south end of
Murry street which is being consider
ed by the board. but which is thought
TO be too far from the main part of
Ely to be acceptable. However. the
board appreciates the public spirit of
the gentlemen who made this offer
II was suggested that the building
be built on site of county land be-
tween the hospital and the court
house. there being an available
space of about three hundred feet,
that would prove ample room. 1t Is
argued that as the high school
building would set back notieeably
from the front line of the court
bnuu, hagDttuI ha ap .
in the building scheme would be of
an artistic and pleasant effect. that
would bring out the architectural
beauties of the school house.
The board fayors a site on the
west side of the court house which
has all of the above advantages and
which also is outside the provisions
of the law against maintaining a hos
pital within 800 feet of school
house. A twelye-inch water main
crosses the ground between the
court house and the county hospital
and would have to be moved If the
building were erected on that site.
The board of education has held
meetings this week. one of which
was in conjunction with the board of
county commissioners to consider the
selection of a site for the high
school building. The commissioners
were asked for a site on the court
house grounds but as yet have given
no reply.
Advocates of this site claim that
a saving TO the county would be eff
feeted, inasmueh as il would do away
with the necessity of purchasing a
site, and further that saving in
fuel would result. as the school, the
court house and the hospital could
be heated from a common point.
However the question of location
Is under advisemeat and no site has
been fully decided on.
SO far as the legal objection to
placing the building between the
court house and the hospital is con-
eerned. Ii may be stated that the
board OF education has sought legal
advice In the matter and ascertained
that the law provides that no private
hospital may be maintained within
900 feet of school house. but does
not provide that a school house may
not be built within 800 feet of hos
pital nor that two county institu-
tions may not be erected and main
tanned within close proximity of zach
other.
Plans for the building have been
drawn by Fetzer and Cam, architects
of Salt Iaka ritv and Iobn Eat,ar