Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-08 | Page 14 | May Close Saloons on Nevada Line

MAY CLOSE SALOONS " ON NEVADA LINE Utah Representative Tells Elko County Board Places Exist Only to Sell Liquor to "Dry" State. The question whether saloons slonR-the slonR-the Nevada-Utah border at the western limit of Tooele county shall be denied renewal of their licenses because liquor purchased from them is brought into dry I territory in this state, has been left for decision on March 16. O. C. Dalby, assistant state attomev general, who went to confer with the ; Elko county commissioners and other officials of-ficials on this matter, after repeated i complaints that In the vicinity of Won-I Won-I dover and the Deep Creek region much ! liquor was purchased for consumption in ! Utah, a prohibition state, returned yes-: yes-: terday afternoon, expressing pleasure at j the outcome of his visit. The liquor board of Elko county, Nev., ; to which the decision In the license renewal re-newal case is left, consists of County ; Commissioners Fred C. Voigt, H. J. Jones j and J. G. Gregory and the sheriff and t district attorney. I Consideration of Utah's interests was asked by Mr. Dalby at the meeting, ! which was also attended by several pf-i pf-i ficials of the Western Pacific railway, i Mr. Dalby asked that renewal of li-: li-: censes be denied to several saloons which, he said, were being operated primarily pri-marily to defeat the prohibition law of Utah, because there were no residence districts within ten miles of most of them. In this request he was joined by a representative of the railroad company com-pany and one for a potash plant being operated near AVendover. The licenses ; Involved expire April 1.