The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-08-15
COMMISSIONERS MEET AS
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
Also Transact Regular Monthly Bus
mess In Series of Meetings the
Last Fortnight

| physician, sheriff and telephone
manager were received and filed.
The terms of the lease of the old
courthouse at Saltwater to Mrs. NJ
e. Sanford were changed to read
three months from August / instead
of July 18th as previously ordered.
A leave of absence for ninety days
was granted to Arthur Pyle, con-
stable at Hazen, with the under
standing that he appoint Fred T.
Abbay as his deputy.
The regular claims were allowed
and the board adjourned until the
following day when no business ap-
pearing, the Board resolved itself
into a Board of Equalization.
L. c. Weaver asked for and re-
eeived a reduction on valuation in
the sum of $3.50.
A representative of the Central
Pacific appeared and asked for a re-
duction on the company's land valu-
alton from SS46,9S1.S6 to not to
exceed s400,579. The matter was
taken under adyisement.
E. B. Cornell stated that he had
been assessed and paid taxes on his
stock in Tulare county, Cal, before
said stock arrived here and was re-
duced in the sum of $469.
The Board declined to make a re-
duction in the following cases: E. p.
Mclean on Lot 3, Block 81, Williams
Addition; Trustees of Artemesia
Club property; Louis Steere.
The following increases and ad-
ditions were ordered: G. Budd Will
liams on 16 stock cattle from s420
to $3.50; C. E. Kent on 70 cows from
s2250 to S2450; A. r. Wainscott,
auto s51S; Mary Eason, auto s51s;
J. Walter Johnson, auto $500; Fors-
berg Bros, auto truck s431; Otto F.
Heizer and Albert Seekt, land.
The following widows were grant
ed the $1,000 exemption. Mrs. ]. H.
Thompson, Mrs. Mary Eason. Mrs. V.
A. Owens, Mrs. Kathryn West, Mrs.
Josephine Baker, Mrs. NJ. B. Wasser,
Mrs. Rachel Theelen, Mrs. Emma
Gagne, Mrs. Cora B. Ferguson, Mrs.
Bessie Able, Mrs. Mary E. Newcomb,
Mrs. Nancy Sanford, Mrs. Anna Will
liams, Mrs. Louis Verplank, Mrs.
Callie B. Ferguson, Mrs. Ella Rhea,
Mrs. H. X. Doty, Mrs. M. E. Wight
man, Mrs. M. V. Calvin, Mrs. Wini-
fred L. odell, Mrs. L. Stephens, Mrs
Ida Willis, Mrs. Oda Hoover, Mrs
Laura Shirley, Mrs. Mary Budden,
Mrs Elizabeth Cushman.
Veterans exemptions in the sum
of $1,000 were granted to E. r. New
hall, ]. E. Hicks, j. w. Lamborn and
r. s. Brock.
The Board declined to reduce the
assessed valuation on lands lying
about Big Soda lake requested by E.
Griswold & Co.
Board then adjourned to meet as
Board of Equalization Monday, Aug
ust 18th.
At the commissioners session held
August Sth, an engineers license
was granted to Fred F. Sheckler
A new school district to be known
as Dixie school district was formed
and its boundaries fixed.
The commissioners agreed to join
in the petition of the Churchill
County Board of Education to the
City Council praying for the vacating
of certain streets and alleys in the
tract recently purchased as a site for
the new high school building.
1t appearing to the satisfaction of
the Board that it is necessary to
borrow money for the purpose of
meeting the general expenses of the
county; construction and upkeep of
roads and bridges; construction of
new telephone lines and reconstruc-
tion of telephone toll line, it is
ordered that the clerk of this Board
cause notice to be published setting
out the intention of this Board to
borrow the sum of sixteen thousand
dollars, as an emergency loan, and
giving notice that this Board will
take action ON said matter on We'd
nesday, September 5th, 1917.
Upon motion Chas. H. Cress was
recommended as deputy fish and
game warden for Churchill county.
At an adjourned meeting of the
board held last Monday the widows
exemption was allowed to Mrs. c. J.
Brookins.
In the matter of the petition for
a decrease In the valuation of the
lands of the Central Pacific company,
no change was made and the assess
ment will stand
A veterans exemption was grant
ed to Harry F. Kendall.
The Board adjourned as a Board
of Equalization sine die.
Convening as a Board of Commits
sioners, 1t was ordered that the tele-
phone rates heretofore published will
go into effect on September first, no
objections having been filed with the
State railroad commission. The Man.