Cathleen Allison/Nevada Appeal Adam Graf, with Jim's Plumbing in Mound House, works on the water lines of a new home in Dayton Valley on Wednesday. Lyon County officials are considering a construction tax that would help fund area schools. BELOW: Johnathon Partida, 11, listens in Barbara Peck's fifth-grade class at Dayton Elementary School on Wednesday.

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The cost of growth

• By ncs-import
• May 9, 2005