Show MARK TWAIN IN NEVADA His Power for or Good in the Early Six Sixties Sixties Sixties ties Was Very Large At first I roamed about the country countr seeking silver writes Mark Twain In L 11 the North American Review but at the end of o 62 6 or the beginning of 63 when I II I came un up front from Aurora to begin a a journalistic life on oil the Virginia City Enterprise I was presently sent nt down downto I Ito to Carson City to report the legislative i session Orion Mr Clemens brother secretary of oC Nevada Neada territory was soon soot I Ivery very Ver popular with the lie members of o the i legislature because they the found that thai L whereas they Ue usually trust trusi each fach other nor nobody else they could couta trust him He lIe easily held the belt for honesty in that country but it do him hilTI any good in a pecuniary way because he nad fiad io no talent for or either Ither per persuading persuading persuading or scaring legislator But I was differently situated I was there every day da In the thc legislature to distribute compliment and censure with t balanced justice and spread the same ame iam over half halt a page of the Enterprise very cr morning consequently I was an influence 1 I got the legislature to pass passa a wise and very necessary law requiring requirIng ing every corporation doing business In the territory to record its charter in full without skipping a word in a roe rec record re ord to be kept by hy tile tHe secretary of or the territory my brother All the char charters charters charters were framed In exactly the samen same sante n words For this re ord he ht was au authorized authorized to charge 40 cents a folio of words for or making the record also 5 S for or furnishing a certificate of each rec roe record record ord and so on Everybody had a toll road franchise but no toll road But Butth the th franchise had to be recorded and paid for Everybody was a mining cor corporation corporation corporation and had to have hae himself re recorded recorded recorded corded and pay for or it Very Yel well vell we wc prospered The paid an average of 1000 a month in gold |