White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-29
ISOLATED SETTLEMENT ROADS,

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Nobody asks thai side roads 10 iso-
lated settlements be made into grad
ed highways or ~boulevards, but The
state and county should have the con
sideration to give the jewellers OF
those places their rights. TheiI
roads should be repaired as to wash
outs and dangerously rough places
with the same amount of thought
that is exercised as to the well tray-
eled thoroughfares.
To say that a small settlement can
not have a road unless built by its
people themselves is the same as for
the federal government to a that
Nevada shall not have roads because
ii is a remote and sparsely settled
state, the smallest in the Union In
population. This is logic and as such
ii is unanswerable.
The practice of roadbuilding bod
les too often is the opposite. IL is
a direct contradiction of how they
would like TO have their state treated
by the higher and financially strong
or power. The injustices that are
done to them they can see, but in
their eyes the injustices they in turn
are doing to others are invisible or
from their viewpoints just and
righteous.
There is net a state from the
Rocky mountains west that could
have attained a semblance of its pres
emit station in wealth or prosperity
without the aid given it by its nu-
merous isolated settlements. They
are the ones that cost the least yet
furnish the greatest wealth per capita
Of any class of organized eommnni-
ties. They are the one that pros
pect for and discover the mines, be-
ing the ultimate producers of gold.
wealth of the west. They are the
n lei that raise the sheep, cattle and
horses, shipping the wool, mutton
and beef which has a considerable
share in the yearly yield Of White
Pine and every county in Nevada
They are the ones. and those only,
where new wealth is found and new
opportunities offer. where prospective
settlers are sent In their guest for
lands, where there are homes to be
had for the making, and If the county
Is TO increase in wealth and product.
iveness in them alone the hope lies.
And finally they are the ones that
are forgotten when the tax
collector is sent out to round up
every dollar possible to squeeze from
a struggling people TO pay on account
OF the salaries of the men and women
who hold down comfortable and lu-
crative positions under the shelter
of the courthouse roof.
Instead of such a broad policy be-
ing that of governing bodies, that in
actual practice Is To build highways
TO catch the tourist travel and to ed
ucato the people to gathering then
livelihoods from a system of levying
tribute upon those passing through.
II by any accident one wants to larry
him to do so are not given half the
thought that are given to ways and
means to wrest from him what few
dollars he may have during a few
days that he may remain on the camp
ground, and when he Is belieye ed tc
have been shaken down to bid him
move or to some more westerly place
where mayhap his being mulcted of
his cash does not constitute an eco
nomic handicap to his remaining. Al
any rate. there is no further partic-
ular need for him here and in place
of the winning smile of welcome he
Is stunned with the icy glimpse OF
his desired adieu.
Meanwhile the dweller of the iso-
lated settlement may not be told in
words that he must build and repair
his W roads or traverse the I'M
marked sagebrush mesas TO come and
go for the purpose OF leaving his dol
lars in town. but there Is a means
OF his diyining the intent, which he
does every year, and by the physical
fact of the decrepit condition of his
primitive highway he observes that
there Is just n way to have . road.
which Is &c build IT and keep il In
repair himself. So the neighbors talk
II over and get together, with their
W teams. plows and scrapers they
do that which they understood they
had paid their county and state for
doing when they responded 10 the
call of the tax collector with coin
of the realm. And so 1t Is in Nevada
Utah, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho and all
mountainous states more or less alike
the isolated settler pays his money
and the speed merchant gets the BEN
eft. 1t is a world of inequalities and
inequities, of which fact there is no
more glaring instance.
The isolated settler Is at a disad-
vantage and he admits 1t. He has
not the votes and he has learned to
not complain too loudly. else his
taxes may be further hoisted.
RETURN TO PARTY AUTHORITY.
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