Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-07-31
wARUSKA LETTER.
WABUsKA, Tuly 18th. 1886.

Ed. TINES Il think YOU at DAYTON were
favored in the recent cloud burst, if you do
need to bail out your cellars, mop your floor
and drain your streets; for it gave you
change. Something new to talk about,
a chance to be sorry for your neghbors and
a stream Of water running through a saloon
must have been a novel and refreshing
s;oh,
On, this w.v the weather has merely
grown from ho, 70 hotter. and The 3ies and
mo,cn;,o.. from th;ck N ,b;cker-,bouoh. IL
we had weather MILF most to s;ob, bS we
should nrobablv see that The Iat,e, mar, Of
the niobt getting slowly and carefully cooler
which viii cont;nue I'M we are treated 10 a
sharn frost and then good hive 70 ali hopes
of apv,bino GOOD for the ,ahle for we are
No, he favored peonle and "mannan does
not fall for our murmurinp.
rrx.Senator Stwear, even with the aid
NJ STATE and National conor.ss thinks he
ran make his "leadinp Agricultural
STATE wish him luck. but fear. the ex
pertinent would prove to be ..payinp too
much for the vbistl-n and MISSING the
whsle At last Would II moi he better
simnlv IN do those thing, which can he well
dom and nor at,.mnt others on large sc.le3
This State can never. without change of
Gilman. he famous for fruit excent in the
absence of il. bur il coxld have much better
sock II the whole country was made into
one vast alfalfa field and pastured for some
wears. perhaps The alkali would be thus alb
sorb.d so that good crops of other things
could be raised
Speakinq of stock. | would like to ask
WIN the one obi.ct when raising horses
shouh h. high rate Of speed when there
ar. many o,b-r Qualities inst as good In
IooL;ng over m. TIMEs | notic.d an adver.
t;s.m.S, Of what was called the "Siate 40.
riculturaI Fair" while the FIRST item. and
mined in csnitals. was .Twentv Races
x,o 600 - Most Of the other items were
mai, Of sneed in eitber beast or human.
would Ekr IN ash VIA, ,br,. is "Aoricul.
tur,l" about ,aat. and If il is not more a
public gambling operation. for which the
n.onl- are resnons;blr. for officers of anv
,nst,,n,ion are more or less erac, represen,a.
lives Of those who elect them and generally
give about what the majority calls for /
COMPLAIN of those in high places. bu, who
seated Them there2 Let each individual
Keen him or herself in the Iipht way and
there will be no trouble in hnding good off.
GERS: but could we look into the brain Of the
nation, we should see many schemes as much
| to their diScTedit as the ''Credit-Mobllier,"
and routes as plainly downward as the "Star
Route though one would suppose that
ought 10 lead upward So. all other things
being favorable. to make this an aericultu
raj State il must have in il agricultural peo
pie, not gambling, horse racing, whisky.
drinking men. When they get together at
Fair time, if, instead of betting on the race,
they would talk about what the State can or
cannot produce and what can be done 10
bring it up even with other States, which il
! is not now, it would seem more in keeping
with the object of such gathering. There
| is everywhere too much yielding to the float
ing element, TOO much pandering to its
tastes, too much bufoonery creeping into
things that should be serious.
One crop should like to see tried here
and that is cranberries; they are easily
raised, keep better than other berries, bear
! transportation better and always bring
good price; they need a clay subsoil to hold
moisture, with q rich, sandy surface, situat.
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