Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-06
THE PROSPERITY OF NEVADA.

The prosperity Of our State depends, OF
course, to a great extent upon the pros
perity of the whole country, and particu-
larly of that part of our great country
situate west of the Rocky Mountains.
The national prosperity to-day, at the
close Of the four years war, surprises
every nation, and order and justice reign
in all Northern States and almost all over
that part of the Union which was so re-
Gently the scene of turmoil and carnage,
as supreme as it did before rebellion had
desecrated the land. The new life which
peace will bring to the nation, the strength
and vigor it will add to every branch OF
industry and enterprise, national or indi-
vidual. will extend throughout the length
and breadth Of the national domain and
be felt with the same force in the silver
State Of Nevada as it is in the devastated
fields and desolated cities Of the South.
When the Government, which has for the
past four years been the great borrower OF
the people of the East, shall have ceased
TO ask loans of them, millions Of accumu-
lated capital will come hither for invest
ment. When the Government shall cease
to require the aid Of the thousands upon
thousands Of earnest men who now rally
under the starry banner, and shall have
cause no moro to call to its service the
laborer, the farmer and the mechanic, how
many of them will turn their steps west
ward to this mountain land, rich in its
deposites of silver and gold, and how long
will il be ere myriads Of brawny arms,
that have struck so nobly for liberty and
the Union, will be welding implements OF
peaceful industry with all the earnestness
characteristic Of Americans among the
mountains of this silver land! The tide
of emigration is fast filling up these great
mineral regions Of the West, and hun
dreds, yea, thousands Of the valleys and
mountain gorges which, five years
ago, had no owners but the miserable
savages. are now teeming with a most in
telligens population, busy with the pur-
suits Of civilized life. With the people
come manufactures, and already on this
coast we have become comparatively indie
pendent. FIGURING mills, and woollen
mills, and foundries, and machiue-shops,
and breweries without number. give US
meat, drink and apparel, and all the me-
chanical aid which the nature of u chief
business requires. The increase OF popu-
lation, and the establishment Of permanent
improvements, are good evidences OF the
general prosperity of the Pacific Coast ;
and if any croaker would complain OF Ne
vada not sharing the general prosperity
let him compare her present busy marss
of trade, her thoroughfares Of travel, rat
Ting mills, magnificent hoistinS-works'
extensive foundries, with their thousands
of hardy, enterprising and invincible men,
with the desolate desert which lay at the
foot Of the Sierras six years ago. The
comparison will show that the prosperity
of the Silver Star State has been and Is
unriyaled by any young State in the
Union. Appearances indicate that her
prosperity in the future is to surpass any
thing in the past. Men and money will
surely come here, now that the wal is
over in the East the railway, which, OF
itself. would give to this country a pros
perity ~unequaled, will soon wind itself
among our mountains; and our prospec-
tors are constantly bringing to light the
hidden boards of silver which nature has
30 long concealed beneath the feet of for
bidding mountains, to reward the cham
pions of liberty and pay the debt Of free
dom,