The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-08-21

CHURCHILL COUNTY, Aug. 10.
The awiuly hot weather OF July and
August has been enough to docompose,
disorganize aud totally demoralize any
If the ideas of an embryo letter. writer
who, amid the feve1ed wiads that blow
their
HEATED BLASTS ACROSS THE M
MENsE ALKALI FLATS
OF Churchill interior, would Try, and
almost try in vain, to gather his scat
tered, beiligerent thoughts together,
and send few cheering words TO our
more c:Yilizingly favored neighhors of
tbs Humboldt. You speak of heated
terms in our sister valley, but think
We that we know not whereof YOU
speak Think OF LOG fathrenheit in
an ace house, and imagine, if you can.
what 1t must be on the " outside, aud
hen say, all truly the temperature of
he Carson Is to Churchilers as that Of
The humboldt IS to Huul boid,ers; but
low the cool nights have come again,
aud the seemingly dormant spirits Of
oar ciizeus are being reused into new
activity and new life
OUR POPULATION Is OF LATE Re-
chgING ACQUISITIONS.
From California, who are ranchers
| come to uiake homes among us-stiil
hey come aud sliil there is room for
more These great tracts OF sagebrush
iands along our tDIee rivers and border
| iAg en- tie Two lakes afford ample OPP
! u0finn'tes foI making good homes with
aacteung peeuDIary prospects. Come
aad iase iuoh at some OF the prettit 81
AMI bset ranches ia the State; made
such isom nothing bat thess desert
lands, AID With nothing except tbat
fountain o! ali Improvement man
aal i"cof. Alfalfa Is the principal hay
crop, OF which good crops are being cut
from TINS years sowing aud FROM last
years sowing three good harvests are
being taken. Surely Churchill must III
a few years be one OF
THE FIRST AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
on TIE COAST.
| A ready market for the immense crop
of hay and grain, is found III the heavy
freight teams plying between Wads-
worth aud Churchill, Columbus, lone,
Belmont, aud other towns south and
east; also IN feeding beeves for winter
market, in Virginia city and San Fran
cisco.
Another and somewhat new industry
for Nevada, in the alfalfa line, is the
raising of hogs. 1t has been found by
experience here. that from ID 10 20
swine will do we'll on an acre, with a
ready market always at hand. This
promises to become a lucrative busi-
ness. Civilization is truly widening its
thread of munifcence among all people
and in all lands. Until the present
summer we had been deprived OF the
manifold advantage of
PUBLIC WORSHIP.
Occasional services have been held dur
ing the summer, and at present there
are good prospects of getting circnit
established, comprizing Churchill
county. Big Bend and Walker river. by
the Methodist Conference. If we sue.
eeed, it will be a good stride toward re-
country and bringing it into the Gospel
ranks. Great interest is taken in the
movement here for the benefit of the
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE,
And its pupils, the first and experiment
tai term of which closed Jnne 30th. 1t
opens again September 4th, under the
supervision of Comfy Superintendent
Pike, and Mrs j. r. Brown. as matron.
To the surprise of some, and the
pleasure of all, the school is success in
every form, AN experiment which should
be profited by in all sparsely settled
communities.
POLITICS.