White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-27
GRANO JURY LIBERAL
WITH THEIR CHARGES
.onr,N,tep FROM PAGE THREE.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE.
We recommend that these sections
of road be properly surfaced as soon
as weather conditions Will permit.
we also recommend that the tax
rayers of the outlying districts should
he given their due proportion OF road
construction and repairs when need
ed. Many guide boards have disap.
reared or have not been erected. The
board of county commissioners
should see 10 1t that these be placed
and maintained at all main ROAD in
4ersections 1t should be your aim
TO make the reads of White Pine
county a little the beet of any In the
state. and to this end We urge the CO.
operation of the public. that the
money expended. which is provided
fol that purpose, may be spent eco
nomically and with horse sense.
Expenditures.
Expenditures in connection with
the maintenance OF the courthouse
grounds, amounting, according to fig
ures furnished US by the county re-
oorder and ex-oficio auditor, to ST.
624.75 for the year 1920. or this
amount IS. 997.75 Is shown as having
been expended for gardeners and la
lorers' compensation. The balance
OF the expenditure IS made up as fol-
lows: Care of horse, $162.39; re-
pairs and equipment, ~sS93.30: care
of swans, ~$214.S2: water lights.
s2s4.15; miscellaneous and sundry
expenses. s72.2s.
The expenditure for labor seems
extremely excessive. According To
best information o%btainable. actual
work on the courthouse lawn and
grounds Is only required for APPROX
inately six and one-half months i'm
Inc year. II would appear from this
that the labor expense alone for the
six months or such a matter would
amount to more han 5000 per
Month In connection with the labor
expenditure We are Informed by the
county auditor. as we'll as by one of
tie members of tie boarc of county
commissioners. that an amount of
Sl25 per month Is being paid To 4
warehouse Waterman. This expense
ia now and las been for the latter
part of 1929 charged &c the main
tehanee Of courthouse grounds. The
distribution OF This expense for this
class Of work is We rec
ommcnd that the position Of watch
man above referred to be abolished.
as mourning an unnecessary expense
upon the county.
Game Warden.
Considering the fact thai the larger
Fart OF the expenses OF maintaining
the office Of deputy game warden Is
torne by the county. IL seems most
proper that such officer should report
TO The county commissioners as To
matters pertaining to his Office, and
We would recommend that the dep
uty game warden be requested by the
commissioners 10 file with the board
a copy OF the report ne Is required 10
file with the state fish and game war
den. We hear many complaints
about the fish and game laws not be-
ine enforced; that there has been
considerable shooting OF game out OF
season and more than allowed by law.
and that foreigners have been found
hunting without a license.
We hope the commissioners will
eall the deputy game warden before
them some time in the near future
ana explain TO him the duties which
he as game warden IL Ia
perform under the law.
At this point wa desire TO call Ia
the attention OF the taxpayers of this
county the Inconsistency OF paving a
deputy game warden. whose chizf
duty seems - he TO act rs nuras 10 n
lew trout np hurry canyon. "A salary
OF nearly 500 per month. while a
county commissioner who has the say
Is 10 how three or four hundred
thousand dollars should be spent an
n1ally receives a salary II $50 per
month
We believe the law should BE-
amended allowing a salary of not less
than $3.50 per month To a county
commissioner. then the taxpayers
might have Il better Opportunity of
clsiing their ballot for and honest
mon.
Law Regarding Advertising for Bids
Continually Violated.
We find that the law covering I'd
FeFtising for bids for contemplated
purchases by the county commission
srs mas not being carried out As a
specific instance WI wish TO call at
tehtion To the purchase by the county
commissioners OF q certain piece OF
machinery, the purchase price of
which greatly exceeded the sum OF
1900, and that for the urpos OF
evading the advertising of bids for
this particular piece of road machin-
cry. the same was acquired under the
tnise OF leasing at a rental of $500
per north II has been proven to the
satisfaction OF your grand jury that
The procedure INDUCED in I'm this
particular transaction was only a
subterfuge on the part of the county
commissioners. designed to evade the
law. and that all times 1t was within
the contemplation of the parties to
the transaction that the machinery
VAS 10 be purchased outright 10y the
county commissioners for White Pine
county, and that the purported $500
per month rental was as a matter of
fact !nstallnenta to be applied to the
purchase price, and were so applied
II is lamentable to think that
White Pine county had a board of
county commissioners who attempted
to fool the public In this manner
County Automobiles.
We inc that repair bills are great
y excessive, and that cars belonging
TO the county have reon sold before
ihcir usefulness to The county had
$40