Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-05
eureka daily 5eutinel.
TUESDAY. JANUARY 5, 1885


The Silver State is still under q cloud.
But it will change after a while. Even
within the past year a great mine has
been opened on the east and another on
the west border of the State. In one OF
the old districts a mine has been devei'
oped, which is held up in the hundreds
of thousands. Some new discoveries
have been made in Eureka District, and
in a dozen districts all that is needed is
better and cheaper transportation to
make the old State as prosperous as ever.
On the Comstock the work goes steadily
on down among the gnomes, and the san
guine ones still believe that there are yet
bonanzas to be unearthed there Then,
too, the choicest Christmas beef tor the
San Francisco market goes from Nevada,
and the other day Nevada wheat took the
first premium in California. 1t is a brave
little State, and though in borasca now.
its people are as bright and true and as
broad.minded as any men in the nation,
and the record of the State is that OF a
people who conquered the desert; reduced
silver mining to perfection; who, without
previous training, in a decade caught the
art of reducing ores cheaper and better
than the savanesS of Europe had done
through centuries OF -experiment, and who
made OF quartz mining one of the chief
industries of the West. She is under a
cloud now. but the fault is not hers. but
in the place. she occupies and the draw
hacks which surround her. When the
Miners Union reduces its rates. and when
some cheap railroads penetrate her
Southern districts, she will boom again,
for many a region which is making a
noise as a mining country now does not
compare with Nevada.
The foregoing kindly notice is from the
Salt Lake Tribune. The Tribune con.
%tinues, though, to labor under the delu.
sion that the depression existing in Ne
vada is due, in part, to the wages asked
by miners. It may be the case in the
western part of the State, but not in
Eastern Nevada. After bearing the
blame for the stagnation in mining for
several years, the miners unions Of this
section of the State decided some ten
months ago to allow every man accept
whatever wages he could get. To-day,
in mines of Eureka District, as low as
81 so and So per day is being paid.
There is no objection to miners working
for these wages on the part of the unions
that We know of. The same figures, we
understand, are being paid in nearly
every camp of Eastern Nevada. It Ger.
tainly would be unreasonable to ask prac-
teal men to work in these parts for less.
The reduction has not aided this immedi.
ate section particularly that we can see,
and therefore we do not regard this ques.
tion of wages as one of the leading uses
of the depression.
Our object In mentioning the matter is,
first, not to allow the impression go
abroad that labor cannot be procured
cheaply here, and, second, that newspa-
pers, in speaking of the condition of af.
fairs in Nevada, in case they do so at all,
may assign whatever blame there is to
the proper sources. By SO doing the gen.
eral public will not be misled. The State
has certainly great wealth and many
drawbacks, and among the latter, as the
Tribune says, is high transportation.
However, there is a combination of dis
advantages that must be overcome before
u bealthful prosperity dawns on us. and
the bad impressions on the part of east.
ern capitalists, created by rogues and
swindlers. of the great mining probable
tiles OF the State. are lby no means
among the least.