Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-14
"a RESOURCES.
They are Reviewed by Her Live
Commissioners.

Commissioner Havenor, who returned q
few days ago from New the Orleans Exposi.
ton gave the Appeal an account of the
impression made there by the Nevada
exhibit:
"Of course" ne said, I" in the matter OF
manufacture Nevada made no p%retense, but
our natural products made everybody
stare. Take for instance, potatoes; while
they were on exhibition q New York man
asked me what I would charge him for
five potatoes, as he wanted them to take
home. "A dollar a piece was the reply,
aud he laid down the money at once. 'lll
take those five apples at the same rates.
he said laying down a V. They we're sold
at once. The Nevada potatoes and apples
were the largest at the Exposition, and
the hardest and irnest; showing that they
would bear shipping. The st. Charles
Hotel gave me an order to furnish them
potatoes, and they didn't haggle about the
price, either. On the bill Of fare they
take pains to put Nevada potatoes
They will have no other.
"Our wheat astonished tho experts; its
frmness and wright were particularly
commente ted on"
II had some tobacco there, raised In
Washee county. A Kentucky expert told
me that he had handled tobacco for rs
yeara, and he was forced to admit that
Kentucky never raised better tobacco than
we had there. He was really enthusiastic
over it.
There was an olive grower from Spain
who has several thousand acres under
cultivation. He inquired about our eli
mate and altitude and said that 1t was
peculiarly adapted to olive culture. l
asked him about the SHOWS and he said
three feet Of snow laid on his ground three
months in the year.
"Then comes hay. You know already
that Haggin 4 Tevis ship the bay for their
crack horses from this State, and when it
reaches New York it costs them $500 q
ton.
sit comes high. but they say it is worth
the difference. l sold bales of Nevada hay
at the Exposition for S25. One man who
looked at our alfalfa said he could take it
East and make soup Of it. We took more
premiums than any other State for agri-
cultural products. Think Of wrestling
the wheat prizes from those old wheat
growing States. Everybody was inquiring
after our mines and agricultural lands.
"T'he other new States had pamphlets
by the millions advertising their resources,
and these they scattered broadcast, but
we bad nothing Of the kind. II was moth
ing but individual chin music and what
we bad to show. 1t ia high time the State
did something for itself in the way Of ad-
vsrtising its resources.
"Look at Texas filing mp with a big
population and the taxable property pilipg
up higher and higher every year.
81 wouldn't live in the State if you
would give me a county free. They
pump water mp for the cattle with steam
engines, and in some places 1t hasn't
rained for six years. The cattle look like
ghosts, and thousands die every yca< by
star vation and billiards.. The soil is poor
and the u low, but is we'll adver-
tised and draws the people from the
East. We have the finest proposition OF
all in climate, soil and resources, and no
one knows anything Of it. 1t is a burning
shame hat our leading men have no more
sense than enterprise.
by sinking Of artesian wells as in
California, this whole country can be made
to blossom like the rose, but if you asked
the Legislature to make an appropriation
for such work the bill would be killed just
as the irrigation bill was at the last ses-
sion. They need some Colorado and Texas
enterprise infused into this State to make
it one of the kingdoms Of the earth"