Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-07-08

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CuTneu lew Gays ago from IN
New Orleans Exposition. gave tn
: APPEAL an account of the impres
sion made there by the Nevada eS
hibit.
"Of course" he SAID, Sin the mat
ter of manufacture Nevada mad
no pretense, but our natural pro
ducts made everybody stare. TAX
for instance, potatoes; while the,
were on exhibition a New Yorl
man asked me what l would charg,
him for five potatoes, as he wanted
them to take home. A dollar ;
piece, was the reply, and he laic
down the money at once. I'll tax,
those five apples at the same rates,
he said, laying down a V. They
were sold at once The Nevada 20
tatnes and apples were the largest
at the Exposition, and the hardest
and tirmest; showing that they
would bear shipping. The St
Charles Hotel gave me an order t.
furnish them with potatoes, and
they dldn' haggle ABOUT the price
either. On the bill Of fare they
take pains to put Nevada potatoes.
| They will have no Other.
Our wheat astonishcd the ex
pert>; its frmneSs and weight were
particularly commended on
/ had some tobacco there, raised
in Washoe county. A Kentucky
expert told me he had handled to-
hacco for twenty-five years, and he
was forced to admit that Kentucky
never raised any better tobacco than
we had there. He was really en-
thusiastic over it.
There was an olive grower from
Spain who has several thousand
acres under cultivation. He in
CURED bout our elimateandallitu
and said 1t was particularly adapted
to olive culture. | asked him
about the SHOWS and he said that
three feet Of snow stood on his
ground three months in the year.
Then comes hay. You know al
ready that Hageih & Tevis ship
the hay for their crack horses from
this State and when it reaches
New York it costs them $500
ton.
1T comes hieh but they say it is |
worth the difference. | sold bales |
nf Nevada Hay at the Exposition |
for s25. One man who lack ed at
,nr alfalfa said tn he could take 1t
East and make soup Of it. We
.n"k more premiums than any
,ther State for AGRICULTURAL pro-
iucts Think of wrestling the
wheat prizes from those old wheat
States. Everybody was
after our mines and az
icurural lands.
The other new States bad pam
)hlets by the millions advertising
heir resources and these they scat
cred broadcast. but we had nothing
f the kind. 1t was nothing but
Individual chin music and what we
ad to show. Its high time that
he State did something for itself
n the way of advertising its re-
ources.
Look at Texas filling up with a ;
ig populflion ard the taxable
roperty piling up higher and high
r every year,
Il wouldn't live in the Stateif you
ould give me a county free.
hey pump water up for the
ittle with steam engines, and 10
,me places it hasn't rained for :
x years. The cattle look like
hosts and thousands die every
EAR by starvation and billiards. :
he soil is poor and the resources
W, but is well advertised and !,
Jaws the people from the East.
'e have the finest proposition of !,
! in climate. soil and resources,
nd no one knows anything of it.
is burning shame that our lead
2 men haye 40 more sense and :
lterprise.
BY the sinking of artesian wells
in California, this whole country
IN be made to blossom like the : =
se, but if you asked the Legis "a :,
ire to make an appropriation for
lch work the bill wonId be killed