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HASf %EGAS I AGE VOLUME VIII. LAS VEGAS. CLARK CX>tr_?T_*_ NEVADA, SATTJBDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1012 NUMBER 41 OLARK COUNTY COUNTY BUSINESS PREPARING TO S BORN IN IK YOUR TAXES ^PFWAHCES I IS THANSAGTED fl§l INSTALL MILL 11 _yPl NOW FIX The Facts and FIgares Concern Tai Rate Fixed at $2.00 per Senator Massey Celebrates His Board of Equalization Com ing Tonr Taxes and die South Nevada Gold lining Company Building on Monday in pletes Work Last jp. Connty Treasnry. |jf Thirtfp-p for Employees. *5 There lias been recently considerable The County Commissioners met in Senator* Massey received numerous The county board of. equalization discussion regarding the condition of regular session Monday last, with telegrams Monday last reminding him completed its work Monday, the 7th. the county treasury and the county Chairman C. C. Ronnow presiding and Approiitnatelj 60 Hen Will Soon be Employed Blocking Ont Ore that, having been born in '66 he is There were practically no complaints business generally. In the search for John M. Bunker present. The min therefore 56 years "young." The day made before the board, there being a a grievance, a certain disgruntled ele utes of last meeting were read and ap was spent by the senator among his few corrections in descriptions and a ment has finally discovered a wrong to proved and the reports of the various After a steady businesslike preparation during,- the hot weather, friends of the famous Moapa Valley, few transfers of property. be righted—a condition of cruel indig county officers,were read and filed. the South Nevada Qold Mining Company, owning valuable property where, in the evening, he spoke at The rates as established In March nity put upon the suffering taxpayers, On petition of J. A. Delameter $200 six miles east of Vegas, has entered upon the first stages of its cam Overton. were changed and the following ones which calls for a courageous chsmpion was allowed for expenditure on the El paign of development. Last week a large amount of lumber was sent Few men have undergone the hard take effect for the year 1912 taxes: of the people for righting. dorado Canyon road. ships and trying experiences in there- to the property and P. J. Sullivan given the contract to erect about County and state, $2.00. The people have been wronged' By The protest of J. M. Pickett against mote districts of Nevada at all seasons County, state and Las Vegaa school,. an excessive tax rate? No. By graft the appointment of James Logan as thirty cottages for the use of the force of men which the company will of the year, facing every danger known $2.30. on the county treasury? No. By the overseer of the Moapa road district put to work in the near future. to the desert and mountains, undergo County, state, Las Vegas school and reckless squandering of money through was laid over until next meeting. These cottages will be comfortable and complete, each being de ing all the hardships of the miner and Las Vegas city, $3.00. unnecessary expenditures? No, not so. On petition of the people of Moapa, signed for the use of two men only, making the camp life pleasanter stockman, to still retain at his age such County, state and Moapa school, Through extravagance in the county the liquor license of W. J. Powers at remarkable vigor of both mind and for the employees than when all are compelled to sleep in one large offices? No. Through hiring: unneces Moapa was revoked and the sheriff body. County, state and Goodsprings school, sary deputies while the county officers ordered notified to that effect; bunk house. ||||j WM£ Thousands of Nevadan8 join in wish $2.15. take things easy? No, not that. Then County Surveyor C. E. McCarthy In addition to these cottages, a large comfortable bouse is being ing for the junior senator many more County, state and Overton school, by the embezzlement of the county was directed to survey tbe roads lead constructed for tbe use of the superintendent. years of active and useful life and es $2.25. funds? No, not so. The county offi ing east and south from Las Vegaa, as As soon as the necessary quarters are provided for them, about 60 pecially that he may round ont the Connty, state and St. Thomas school, cials have deliberately, wantonly, per a previous order of the board. measure of a life rich in achievement, $2.25. P||| shamelessly and cruelly piled up a sur men will be placed On tbe property blocking out the ore. Ore has An election precinct was established by serving his state in his declining Some interesting information comes plus in the county treasury! been developed on three levels and a very few weeks will block out a at Indian Springs and Ira MacFarland years in the Senate of the United from the comparison of the rates and Now, the people's champions want to appointed registry agent for said pre- sufficient amount so tbat work on the mill may be safely begun. States, where already, with the ser assessments of the last three years. dnctj|||: remedy that awful condition by elect It has been tbe policy of the South Nevada Gold Mining Co., under vice of but a few weeks to his credit, In 1910 the assessment roll was $2,- ing themselves or their tools to office. The board thereupon adjourned to the management of Mr. P. Watelet, during the pant seven years, to go he stands a notable character before 380,336. In 1912 it is $3,549,927, an in meet as the board of equalization. the nation. The remedy will, we may be sure, ef forward in a quiet, steady, businesslike way in the development of crease of $1,169,591, or in other words, fective should the ones who are loudest just about an even third of the total in their coat——nation of the present this valuable property. Considerable over $100,000 has been spent in tt tt * * _, roll at the present time is increase over county government be given a chance Mrs. Harmon Marries. bringing the mine to its present success and ore is now in sight in such the 1910 roll. As compared with this to get their hands on the surplus. quantities that the owners of tbe property announce with certainty is in it. the rate for county purposes in 1910 The AGE baa taken pains to find out The news of the marriage of Mrs. that a large stamp mill will be built. This'will mean the employment J. E. Babcock, of Eldorado Canyon, Was $2.40 on each $100 of valuation, Isabel! Harmon to W. A. Studnicka at the exact condition of the county trea- in that section of several hundred men and the awakening of the min placed himself strictly in tbe ring in his while at this time it is $1,40. Tbe rate cury, the past expenditures and prob San Diego, Cal., Monday last has been fight for the office of assemblyman, by has therefore gone down in about the ing spirit here in a very marked degree. Although some work has able expenditures for next year, as received in this city and congratula placing his card announcing his can- same proportion as the roll has gone well as the tax rate and the amount of tions have been going forward to the been done on the many good prospects about Las Vegas, the lack of dancy in the Age this week. This up. aaaeasod property. We will lay the popular couple all week, from a host of capital has been a serious drawback in the development of properties. sho ws that he has at least one of the One of tbe most interesting things facts down as clearly as possible so warm friends of both parties in this In all probability tbe active working and mMling of ore by the South desirable qualities for the position he about this comparison is tbat the most that people may judge for themselves city. Nevada will have a much more significant meaning for Clark County is up and doing. ");& $&*& of this increase comes from the rail- as to conditions instead of taking the Mrs. Harmon is one of the very best than merely the employment of the three or four hundred men which Mr. Babcock is a man of good edu roads ' and corporations. In 1910 the words of those who either through ig known women of this city having been cation being a graduate of the law de railroad assessment was $783,556. Now norance or malice are misstating the a resident here for several years, i al that company will require. It will bring this section as a producer partment of the law department of it is $1,707,198, an increase of $923,642. facts, •Ife. • though for several months past being of gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc to the attention of the men who the George Washington University The increase on the Western Union is In the first place, if there were a at her Los Angeles home. She has al are able to make a business of tbe development of prospects and may at Washington, D. C. This, com $19,804. The increase in the Las Ve large surplus unexpended in the county ways been prominent in the life of Ve thereby make Las Vegas a mining center of no mean proportions. bined with his natural ability, makes gas Land & Water Co.