The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-09-08
APPLICATION FOR FRANCHISE

TO the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of the County of
Humboldt, State of Nevada.
Gentlemen:
The Nevada Valleys Power Com
pany, a corporation, duly organized
and existing under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Nevada and
having it's office and principal place
of business in the City of Reno, Coun-
ty of Washoe, State of Nevada, here
by applies to your Honorable Board
for a franchise and privilege for the
right to erect and maintain poles,
towers and other superstructures, and
to string wires, cables and other ap-
pliances thereon and to construct con-
duits and other suitable appliances
and structures. for the purpose of
conducting, transmitting and carrying
electricity and electric energy for
lighting, heating and power and for
all purposes of any nature whatsoever
for which electricity or electric energy
can or may be used, over under, along
and across the public roads, streets,
avenues, highways and alleys and all
other public ways Of any nature
whatsoever of and in the County of
Humboldt, State of Nevada, and the
public roads, streets, avenues, high
ways and alleys and all other public
ways of any nature whatsoever of and
in the. various un~incorporated towns
and villages of said County of Hum
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further franchise and privilege of
erecting, maintaining and keeping
safe, proper and adequate stations,
power houses and all other appliances,
necessary for the convenient conduct
ling of the business of selling, fur
nishing and supplying electricity and
electric energy for lighting, heating
and power purposes and for all pur-
poses of any nature whatsoever for
which electricity or electric energy can
or may be used, to each and every in
habitant, person, firm, co~partnership
or corporation of and in said County
of Humboldt, State of Nevada, and
said unincorporated towns and vii
lagos of said County of Humboldt,
State of Nevada.
And your applicant further desires
said franchise and privilege hereby
applied for to be granted upon the
following terms and conditions:
Subject to all the statutes of the
State of Nevada, and subject further
to all ordinances and regulations now
enacted by the Board of County Com
missioners of the County of Hum
boldt, State of Nevada, governing the
granting of such franchises ana priv
leges and subject further to the con
dition that within ten DAYS from the
granting of said franchise, your ap-
plicant. Nevada Valleys Power Com
pany, its successors or assigns, will
file with the County Recorder of said
Humboldt County, al agreement prop
erly executed by your said applicant
to pay annually on the first Monday
of July of each year to the County
Treasurer of said Humboldt County,
for the benefit of the school fund of
said Humboldt County, two per cent
of the net profits made by your appli-
cant, Nevada Valleys Power Com
pany, its successors and assigns, in
the operation of any of the rights or
privileges for which said franchise is
granted. And failing to make said
payment upon due notice by your
Honorable Board, said Nevada Val
Elcys Power Company, its successors or
assigns, shall remove all poles, wires,
stations, towers and other superstrue-
lures and appliances that shall have,
by it or them, been placel upon the
public roads, streets, avenues, high
ways and alleys and other public ways
in said County of Humboldt, and in
the various unincorporated towns and
villages of said County; and should
said Nevada Valleys Power Company,
its successors or assigns fail to do so,
then the Board of County Commits
l~sioners of said County of Humboldt
shall be empowered to remove said
poles, towers, wires, stations and 9th
er superstructures and appliances or
to cause the removal of the same at
the expense of said Nevada Valleys
Power Company, its successors or as
signs, and said franchise shall there
upon be forfeited.
Further, that the work Of con-
struction under said franchise shall
be commenced in good faith within
not more than sixty days after the
Igranting of said franchise.
Further, that said franchise and
privilege TO De granted, Sndl De
granted for the term of twenty-five
(25) years from and after the date of
the granting of said franchise.
And your applicant further requests
that your Honorable Board of County
Commissioners shall advertise the fact
of this application, together with q
statement that it is the purpose of
your Honorable Board to grant the
same, in a newspaper published in the
County of Humboldt, If one there be,
and that said advertisement shall
state that any one having any OBJ
lection to the granting of such fran
chise, right or privilege, applied for,
shall file the same with your Honor
abe Board up to a certain hour of a
certain day to be fixed by your Hon
orable Board, and in the event that