The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-08-01

have included taxpayer) were quail
fled or eligible to aid in formulating
a plan for just taxation. This imper-
: tinence and arrogance by the re-
trenchment committee to the bona
fide taxpayers and citizens, was in
full force and against this spirit of
unfairness and injustice, the Elko
convention filed its protest. justly so
and with due respect to the best in
terests of Nevada. And, while there
was no protest against the Tax Com
mission or its personnel. the fact is
that irrespective of the commission,
there was already adequate public
machinery to make proper assess
ments and levy taxes, without the
necessity of tax commission, and
thereby increase the tax eating and
consuming power through needless
officials and expenses.
For further edification of Mr..
Boyle and his contemporaries, let
this statement go on record, that the
Taylor-Pitt combination control no
newspaper, nor did either Mr.. Pitt
or Mr.. Taylor attempt to avoid their
just responsibility to society or fail
to meet their just obligations, either
to man or government. They, as all
other citizens who have a care for
orderly. decent and just rule, pro-
test against the arbitrary power of
one-man rule as vested in the State
Engineer. The power vested in the
State Engineer to-day is that of
gathering of evidence. prosecutor,
Judge and exercising the police
power of the State. Such authority
is that of car The wrong in this
is patent, and against such individual
power there is proper protest and
request for relief. Neither Pitt nor
Taylor or the land dwellers where
they are identified have ever at
tempted to avoid the just response
bility of courts, nor was there ever
a grievance that they were not will
ing to submit to court of compet-
ent jurisdiction, or the decision of
an arbitration commission appointed
Independently by court. AS it is
at present, the Engineers dictum is
final, with no relief. except through
long, unending, tortuous service
and hearing of multitude of users.
The judicial power should only be
vested in the courts, and not in the
arbitrary say-so of the present and
preceding State Engineer.
As to your reference of forestry
efforts. it is well to suggest that the
forestry situation in Nevada is differ
ent from any other section in the
West. In Nevada the stockmen in
vested heavily in range and ranch
lands upon which they have been
taxed. and thus feel that they should
be exempt from any further bur-
dens. such as forestry assessments.
The stock business was carrying all
the traffic" would bear, but since
the changes have been made and
conditions improved, the forestry
regulations are the law of the live
stock interests and fully complied
with. Personally, Taylor never had
any friction with the Forestry Ser
vice, and thus the structures made
on him are only the mouthings of
men who are hurt because, as citi-
zen, he believes better system of
economy should be devised than
what prevails in State affairs to-day.
A reference, Mr.. Boyle, to your
Taylor and his clique" is not amiss
here. If it had not been for the Tay-
lor-Pitt enterprise. or if they had
been like the present tax eaters, the
waters of the Humboldt would not be
conserved as they are, nor would
there be as many acres of the Love-
lock valley as productive as there are.
blooming and blossoming with the
fruits of the soil and comfortably
and prosperously supporting a COM
munity of people that are credit to-
any section of the world. Hum
boldt river, with its water distribu-
tion through the Taylor-Pitt enter
prise of damming the waste waters
for added use. is distinct evidence
of beneficial enterprise and time and
again Mr.. Boyle, when he was, and
| the present State Engineer were in