Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-01
OCTOBER 1. 1879
A SOLID TRUTH.

Says the Territorial Enterprise in speaking
of the completion of the Northern Pacific
road: "Oregou and Washington Territory
will take their right position in the Union.
Their magnificent vallies will be filled with
happy homes, where children will grow uE
with such reverence and pride for their native
land as never can be awakened in any purely
mining country.
This, as any one knows, who has lived in a
mining country is strictly true. In the
mining districts of Nevada, there are very
few homes The prospector goes there with
one hope; to make stake in a few years, and
if he is young man, get married and settle
down in some other place. or if he is mar
red man, he builds temporary home, with
the hope that he will in a few years at most,
be able to move his family to where his chill
dren can be educated and where he can spend
his days in the peace and rest of a quiet
home. There is no such thing as assured per
manency about a mining camp. and no one
looks for it. While the mine is being played
out, and it's resources exhausted, the ranch i'll
the fertile valley Is every year increasing in
value. The log house has given place to the
comfortable mansion; the young plants have
grown 10 splenGid trees; the bare space has
been neatly enclosed and instead of weeds
and wild grass, beautiful flower beds delight
the senses. The cleared teiis have crops Of
heavy grain; the cattle multiply in the pas
lures, and a happy family surrounds the
hearth. Field is added to field and house to
house. Here the family takes root, inter
marries with others of the same kind; new
colonies are formed and new ties made 1t
Is this after all, that constitutes the real
stamina of a nation and not the mining par
ticles which fit from place to place like
thistle down, and take root nowhere. As a
people, we have not yet reached that home
feeling which IN older countries clin.s to the
spots which the same family has called "home'
for centuries. Our country is too new and
too many fields of adventure and promises
of wealth open up daily, to allow US to take
root anywhere. We settle down to business
or "a farm new and promising field opens
up somewhere else, and presto; up come our
stakes, and we are on the road for the new
bonanza, which is to end orr wanderings.
Another year or two and we are again on the
march, and go down at last with all we sought
for in view, just as Israel left their bones in
the wilderness with only the Jordan be
tween them and the promised land. These
great vallies of the North which teen with
wealth, and are glorious in climate, offer such
resting places to the seeker for wealth as per
haps no other region offers, and it only re-
quires the completion OF a line of roads to
fill them with thrifty population, and plant
the school house and the church, the com
Portable house and the refinements of an
advanced civilization. There are mbOunded
tracts of our rich territories fitted for the
sustentation of thick population and the
formation of the class of character needed to
counteract the malign influences of nomadlc
camp life where there are no homes properly |
speaking, for all is transient, and where |
loose morals grow and spread their seed far
and vide, and the gentle influences of |
early life gradually b!otted out, and like |
the worn out placers, nothing is left 1ut |
barren waste.