The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-09-03
APPLICATION FOR FRANCHISE

Ito the Honorable, the Board of
County Commissioners Of Humboldt
County, State of Nevada:
The Bell Telephone Company Of
Nevada, a corporation organized and
existing under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of Nevada, hereby
respectfully makes application for the
franchise, right and privilege to con-
%struct, install, operate and maintain
telephone and telegraph lines, and all
necessary and proper appliances used
in connection Herewith or appurtenant
thereto, in the streets, alleys, avenu
and other places in the unincorporat-
ed towns in Humboldt county, herein
after set forth, aud along the public
roads and highways of said county,
and in support of this application
shows:
First: The name of this applicant
is Bell Telephone Company Of Neva-
da. It is a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State
of Nevada and authorized, by its
Articles of Incorporation, to do a gen.
eral telephone and telegraph business
therein.
The time for which the franchise,
right and privilege herein applied for
is desired is twenty-five years.
Second: The places where such
franchise, right and privilege is to
be exercised are the public roads and
highways of said county, shown on the
map or plat hereto attached, and in
the unincorporated towns of Winnie
mucca, Lovelock, Oreana, INLAY and
Red House, and through, over, under
and along the streets, avenues, alleys
and other places thereof, shown on
the plats hereto attached.
Third: There is hereto attached
and herewith filed a map or plat
marked exhibit A." showing and
delineating, so far as practicable, the
proposed route or right Of way Of such
telephone and telegraph lines through
said county.
Fourth: There is hereto attached
and herewith fled a plat marked
/" Exhibit B." showing the streets,
avenues, alleys and other places of the
town of Winnemucca through, over,
under or along which such telephone
and telegraph lines are to be con-
structed and maintained.
IIltns luCtC 10 nCiOtO
and herewith fled a plat marked
Exhibit c." showing the streets,
avenues, alleys and other places Of
under or along which such telephone
and telegraph lines are to be con-
structed and maintained
Sixth: There is hereto attached
and herewith filed a plat marked
exhibit D,' showing the streets,
avenues, alleys and other places of the
town of Oreana through, over, under
or along which such telephone and
telegraph lines are to be constructed
and maintained.
Seventh: There is hereto attached
and herewith filed a plat marked
"Exhibit E,' showing the streets,
avenues, alleys and other places of
the town of Inlay, through, over I'M
der or along which such telephone and
telegraph lines are to be constructed
and maintained.
Eighth: There is hereto attached
and herewith filed a plat marked
"Exhibit F." showing the streets,
avenues, alleys and other places of
the town of Red House through, over,
under or along which such telephone
and telegraph lines are to be con-
structed and maintained.
Ninth: Applicant files herewith and
as a part hereof petitions in writing,
signed respectively by a majority of
the resident taxpayers of each of the
towns above named, the signers in
each case being residents and owners
Of real estate situated in said coun-
ty and paying taxes upon said real
estate, asking that this application be
granted.
Respectfully submitted,
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF
NEVADA.
Bv G.. r. MCFARLAND,