The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-07-20
NEVADA CAPTURES
ANOTHER RECORD
Department of Commerce Issues
Tax Comparison Figures and
Nevada Wins Highest Tax
Levy on Property

Levy On Properly
WASHINGTON, d. c., July y.15.-1
Weekly figures from the Department
of Commerce continue to show the
deplorable condition of Nevada's
business affairs. Not that the de-
partment is striving to set forth
the shortcomings of the Sagebrush
State, but that she stands first in
all statements of expense and
thereby attracts attention. Last
weeks statement disclosed that Ne
vada taxpayers are paying per capi-
ia sixteen and two-thirds times the
average rate collected in forty-five
other states. The debt and ex-
pense figuers have heretofore been
set forth in these letters.
This weeks damaging sheet from
the department again shows Me-
vada out in front alone, without a
good second, with a per capita tax
levy on general property of $18.47.
Only one other state (Washington)
is in the $40 class, although Arizona
may be when returns are all in.
Nine states have 81 per capita tax
levy. The average is in the neigh
borhood of So. California has no
general tax levy Figures 1920).
But worse than all this week is the
disclosure that one does not need
go into the per capita figures al
together for his enlightenment re-
garding state government. Ne
vada's total levy of general prop
erty tax on real and personal prop
erty, according to last returns, was
81, ,429, ,465, which is greater total
than the levy in at least two other
states of twenty times the popula-
tion, and practically equal with four
others.
Washington newspapers have been
looking comfy and homelike to men
from the mining states the past
week. John G. Bodine, who says
he has followed the mining game
from Alaska to Mexico, is doing
hydraulic gold mining in Bull Neck
run, Virginia, ten miles south of
the capital. A rush" was started
last Monday for the new field, but
it was composed of newspaper and
camera men. For a little time
Bodins'e picture was printed with
almost movie-queen frequency.
Ex-Representative Evans of Ne
vada was pictured in swimming
suit in last Wednesdays Washing
ton Star. Underneath the three
column cut appeared line which
Nevada people may take as they
like, probably: &c. R. Evans Of
Nevada, former member of Con-
gress, visits Washington and Tidal
Basin beach with his daughter Mar
tina. Mr.. Evans may be a candidate
for reelection"
A concise statement of the reason
for the present recess of the House
of Representatives is that the House
has passed 276 bills which are now
waiting on Senate action, while
that body is now tied up, according
to it's rules, with an all but hope
less filibuster by Democrats on the
tariff bill. Among the important
bills passed by the House are:
The tariff bill.
Adjusted compensation. The
bonus.
Redistribution of civil service
employees.
The antilynching bill.
Railroad refunding bill.
Independent naturalization for
married women.
River and habor authorization
bill.
Bill to prevent corrupt trade
practices.
Revision and codification of Fed
eral statutes.
The omnibus Panama Canal Zone
bill.
Prohibiting interstate trade in
filled milk.
Standard measure for fruits and
vegetables.
Bill to prevent the manufacture
of adulterated and misbranded foods
and drugs.
Bill for the promotion of trade
with China.