The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-03-22
CITY TAX RATE IS
SLIGHTLY HIGHER
City of Winnemucca Added To by
Boca Mill Addition No. 2 at
Meeting of City Council
Held Monday Evening
Continued from Page One)

T.. liuen, surveyor anu eHBlueeT
for the company. Such approval
was readily given, City Clerk Fanny
Harp certified to the map, and it
will be recorded as part of the
city of Winnemucca in the records
of the county recorder.
In the addition there are about
1876 city lots, divided by 30-foot
alleys and 80-foot streets. 1t is
understood that the property has
been made particularly desirable
and saleable because of the posi-
bility that the Victory highway
route may cut the district at Vic
tory street, running south across
the Southern Pacific tracks and
thence toward Golconda. Negotia-
tions have recently been carried on
for the purchase of at least one of
these lots, and this has brought out
the fact that the company will only
sell upon the expressed stipulation
that building must commence within
a reasonable length of time or the
property revert to the seller. The
Victory highway route has not
yet been definitely accepted through
the property and it may develop
that the government engineers will
order a new routing.
Indians Want Water
During the meeting of the council
Monday night a committee from the
Civic Club, composed of Mesdames
E. H. Gilman, E. S. Moore and H.
Erskine, appeared before the board
to urge action in regard to fur
nishing a water supply to Indians
resinding in "Indiantown," located
in the southwestern envirous of
the city. 1t appears that the In
dams have been compelled to de-
pend upon good-hearted white neigh
bors for their water supply, carry
ing the water to camp in buckets.
1t was proposed that the city coun-
cilmen seek a remedy for this con-
dition, so that sanitary conditions
may be kept more nearly desirable
in the Indian village. 1t was esti-
mated that about 800 feet of piping
would be necessary, to cost in the
neighborhood of $50. The Indians,
it was said, have agreed TO do the
necessary trenching for the pipe if
the city government or some other
agency will furnish the ma se .als.
1t developed that ther; are sew.
eral things to think about in ccn-
rection with providing water con.
rections for the indians. The In
dams cannot be taxed, and while
rhe city officials might be willing
to furnish pipe for water, the next
question is who will paw for the
water afterwards The InG't,s ar.
said to have agreed tina. they will
each put in a small amount monthly
but as the population is somewhat
floating, and being Indians they
cannot be compelled to pay, the
problem is one which will require
investigation to solve.
Superstition in the Way
Another stumbling block to the
proposal to furnish water to the
Indians is their inherent super
stition. 1t seems that when an
Indian or an Indians dog dies, the
remainder of the family moves the
house in which death occurs to a
new location, turning the house in
side out to release the spirits. II
is for this reason that the Indian
village has occasionally been moved
from one portion of the city to an
other, and the trend of the times
is westward. So if water connec-
tons were furnished to the Indians
such connections would at times
have to be extended until in time
Rose Creek might be furnished
with new water supply.
1t was finally agreed that Mayor
Brandon shall take the matter up
with officials of the United States
department of the interior, under
whose charge the welfare of the
Indians properly comes, and he will
urge immediate action. Failing in
this, the city officials will take such
other steps as the circumstances
seem to warrant.
Councilman E. P. Sites was un-
able to be present at the meeting
Monday night, it being said that his
son Lloyd, who has been seriously
Ill, had taken a turn for the worse
during the day. Mayor Brandon,
Councilmen Hoskins and Bush, City
Clerk Fanny Harp, City Superin-
tendent Akin and Truck Driver
Berk were all present, however.
Fenced In the Street
An interesting matter in con-
nection with city government came
up for discussion when talk was
turned to the action of Mrs. B.
Klucny, who has had fenced in,
80 to 40 feet of Pavilion street
between Fifth and Sixth. Mrs.
Klucny took the action in self de-
Tense, she holding a deed which
calls for the property. The fence
seriously impedes traffic upon the
'treet, necessitating a double right
angle turn to avoid the fence. Mrs.
klucny's action apparently was
taken to force a quieting of title to
property a deed which she holds
shows her to own. Opinion was ex-
at the council meeting that
a mistake has been made in the
deciding at one time or another, and
another version was that the fault
was with the original surveyor. Ger
tainly, from all indications, it weuld
surely seem that something had
gone wrong at one time or another.
Mrs. Klucny's deeds to the property
are to be traced back in an effort to
locate the error and if none can be
found the city will probably have