The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA.
Political and Social Ideas which oh.
tain on the slope.

n. Y, Herald Interview~vith Hon. X. NJ. D,ggett
awe, OF California and Nevada, are
bound together by the ties of cOnsan.
guinity, but bitter feeling has been
engendered by the grasping managers
of the Pacific railroad, who have inn
posed on the business of Nevada almost
restrictive determinations. We can
| ship goods from New York to San
Francisco and back to Virginia CITY
direct. The Pacific abroad is charg-
ing us as much fOrtreighting as it cost
us when things were transported by
mules. I'VE have no rivers, and
our only outlet is by rail. Our
only hope is in railroads, and, |
should add, in irregation. We have
two railroads giving us commune
cations with the mines, and one
that will connect us with both Pacific
railroads, but we require facilities by
rail that will enable us to deal with
the East direct, and these we shall get.
Nevada is an immense bed Of silver
spread out in mountains as high as
the Sierra Nevada, and in vast val
eys into which our small streams flow
and disappear. These vaIleys-the
SlNtb p'olll bVS III w IL
rigation. That can be had, and will
be, through artesian wells. Already
we raise the best potatoes in the
world; but with the great basin
watered by artesian wells, Nevada
can become an agricultural and vine
growing State, as California is, and is
destined more conspiciously to be.
"The march of immigration either
passes Nevada or does not reach that
State. Few young men are settling in
the State, and too many of those who
come to us are lured to ruin by the
potent agencies Of the cup and gam
ing table. But in time we shall be
able to give Il better account of our
selves. Irrigation will give our society
the solid base of agriculture upon
which to erect superstructure of
railroads and the enterprise that fol-
lows them. Our mining machinery is
the grandest in the world, and our
mines yield grander results than are
yielded by any others on the planet.
But we look for time when agricul-
ture shall do more for us than min
ing.n
Mr.. Daggett, when asked for an in
side history Of the fight in Nevada,
said that the contest was really be-
tween the Bank of California and the
Bonanza firm - S2O,000,O0O against
SlOO,O 100000. Mr.. Mackey was pressed
to take the nomination for the Sen
as he was a member of the
National Committee, but he dee ined
IN favor of his partner, Mr.. Fair. The
that was brought to bear
against Senator Sharon was the fact
that, although he had been for six
years Il senator, he had not been for
six days IN the Senate Chamber. The |
fleet of SharOn's running was to
hrow Nevada into the hands of the
Democratic party.
Reporter-What is the wealth of the
Bonanza firm?
"No one knows. Mr.. Mackey owns
wo-iifths, Flood one-fifth, Fair one
fifth and the estate of O'Brien one |
fifth. They took out of one mine !
llonc Sill ,0O0,0O0. Mr.. Mackcy's for
une is estimated at from $50, 100000 to
80, 100000. He is Il benevolent gen
leman, as you will admit when | say
hat when the Sisters of Charity be-
ran to establish asylums in Nevada he
ent for the mother of the order and
old her he would be responsible for all
,ills."