Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-01-18
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He Tells the WashingtOnians q
Good Deal About Nevada.

Good Deal About Nevada.
Mr.. Christopher Columbus Powning,
the young Napolean Of Washoe, is abroad.
He is in Washington City to look after
the affairs Of the party in Nevada. He
has been interviewed. With his character
istic modesty and eloquence he tells the
people Of the Nations Capital, through
the columns of the Evening Critic, all
about the condition Of the battle born"
physically, morally and financially.
Tell me my journalistic FRIEND" said
the inquisitor Of the Critic, something
about your little State"
"Well. SIR" said the statesman and
journalist, Nevada is all right. You
Eastern people have q very i'm
preston of the mining, financial, polit-
ical business and social affairs OF our
State. The condition Of the State is by
no means as deplorable as has been repre-
sented. True, the Aladdin days Of the good
old bonanza times nave apparently passed
away, but the mining situation is full of
hope and promise. During the past three
years an immense amount Of dead work has
been done on tho Comstock, and the mines
are now in shape to be thoroughly pros-
pected at great depth. The present indi-
cations are favorable for 'bonanzas' in half
a dozen mines, and before 1882 expires
the opinion il general that the old lode
will be out Of 'borasco' and into 'bo-
nanza,' when there will be q renewal OF
the lively times of 1857. Prospecting
is being as vigorously prosecuted in vari-
GUS other sections Of the State, and the
output of bullion will certainly show q
steady increase in the future"
"Our yield for 81 was only S9,505,-
971 Al, Of which Eureka County produced
about one-third, and Storey only one
sixth. The State and counties received
$76,o0 IA as taxes on the net yield Of two
millions and a half"
"The great evil Of the outside camps
has been the lack of easy transportation
and reduction facilities. These will be
supplied by the new railroads which are
now being built and those contemplated,
so that in two or three years the most re-
mote portions Of the State will be easy Of
access"
"Tell me-" said the Critic, +" something
about politics in the rotten borough"
Nevada" said the distinguished Ne
vadan, I" is no more deserving of that OPP
probrious appellation, sir, than New York,
Pennsylvania or many older and larger
States. Unfortunately, all men are not
honest, and many persons not entitled to
vote in this country have a faint idea of
the true worth of the ballot. The cor
rupting influence Of money had its effect
upon some voters in Nevada, but / see no
material difference whether it is improp-
erly used by individuals, as has sometimes
been the case in nv State, or by oil and
railroad companies in the East. What is
done in Nevada is only on q very small
scale in comparison with the Eastern
method of corporation collaring, intimi-
dalton, tissue ballots and things OF that
kind"
The following is as good a picture of the
young statesman-journalist as a photo
graph by Bradley q Rulofson; for flatulent
rhetoric it takes the biscuit:
"How do your folks take to< the new
administration ?" put in the reporter.
Nevada Republicans are true blue"
observed the statesman-editor. ''They
recognize in President Arthur one of the
best Republicans this country ever pro-
duced. They nave confidence in his abili-
ty, integrity and honesty. They believe
that he has the interest Of the whole coun-
try at heart, and that he will grow with
the growth and strengthen with the
strength Of the grandest political organi-
cation this country has ever had, whose
page in its history will be penned with the
truest Of steel in the grasp Of an honest
hand, impelled by thoughts OF liberty, in
scribed upon parchment of justice, bor-
dered by the life-blood Of heroes, martyrs
and efenders.