The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-08-18
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, corporation, duly organized
and existing under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Nevada and
having its 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 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 unincorporated towns
and villages of said County of Hum
boldt, State of Nevada. And for the
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
ing 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, copartnership
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 privi-
leges and subject further to the con
dition that within ten DAYS from the
granting of said frnaehise, your ap-
plicant, Nevada Valleys Power Com
pany, its successors or assigns, viii
file with the County Recorder of said
Humboldt County, an agreement prop
erly executed by your said applicant
to pay annually on the first Monday
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 OF
privileges for which said franchise il
granted. And failing to make sale
payment upon due notice by your
Honorable Board, said Nevada Val
leys Power Company, its successors OF
assigns, shall remove all poles, wires
stations, towers and other superstruc
lures and appliances that shall have
by it or them, been placel upon tho
public roads, streets, avenues, high
ways and alleys and other public way
in said County of Humboldt, and il
the various unincorporated towns an,
villages of said County; and shoul,
said Nevada Valleys Power Company
its successors or assigns fail to do SO
then the Board of County Commits
sioners of said County of Humboldt
shall be empowered to remove sale
poles, towers, wires, stations and 9th
er superstructures and appliances o
to cause the removal of the same a
the expense of said Nevada Valley.
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
granting of said franchise.
Further, that said franchise anC
privilege to be granted, shall be
granted for the term of twenty-five
(25) years from and after the date o.
the granting of said franchise.
And your applicant further request
that your Honorable Board of County
shall advertise the fact
of this application, together with ?
statement that it is the purpose o.
your Honorable Board to grant tn,
same, in a newspaper published in the
County of Humboldt, if one there be
and that said advertisement shal
state that any one having any oh
lection to the granting of such fran
ehise, right or privilege, applied for
shall file the same with your Honor
abe Board up to a certain hour of
certain day to be fixed by your Hon
orable Board, and in the event that
no such objections are filed, that you
Honorable Board will grant said az
plication for said franchise and wi
award said franchise to your apph