The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-31
FROM NEVADA.
Her Area and Possibilities--LoftS Noun
tains, Beautiful Valleys, Etc, Etc.

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Her Area and Possibilities--Lofty Noun
tains, Beautiful Valleys, Etc, Etc.
DEAR SIR: Nevada is a State Of
large dimensions and of great pros
poets. She has more than 100000 square
miles, of which the half may be cult
waited. All she wants is water; with
that her deserts will blossom as the
rose, and water is in sight. Artesian
wells by the score are going down, and
from all that are completed, the living
streams of the precious fluid flow to
make glad the tiller of the soil. Then
the great SHOWS which fall on tile noun
tains in winter are being utilized by
the industry of our people. Large res
ervoirs or artificial lakes are being
built. These hold a large supply OF
water, which is used in irrigation. Gen.
| Charles w. Irish, a United States OIL
Ger and an engineer, residing in Reno,
informs me that within the next fifty
years there will probably be more land
cultivated in Nevada than in Ohio. The
California land boom has not reached
us, nor do we desire it. But our gov
eminent lands by the thousands OF acres
are being taken up by a thrifty class of
settlers. Our climate is absolutely per
feet except for idlers. This is no place
for a law man. He will Oon die in
Nevada unless the bracing air and the
rusUling of the inhabitants changes his
mode Of life. $500.
Words cannot describe the beauty
which characterizes the scenery of this
region. A few days ago drove a team
from Reno over the t~Wenty-three miles
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place to Virginia City. In ascending
the low mountains a splendid piano.
rama spread out behind. The whole
Trucker Valley of more than two hun
bred square miles, covered with farms
and dotted with houses,lay like a garden
in the sunshine. Across the valley were
the lofty Sierras rearing their SUBMITS
in the eternal SHOWS nearly twelve
thousand feet above the level of the sea.
The white hoods of the lOftiest peaks
shine under the suns rays like alabas-
ter. They seemed like purity itself.
The mountain road which | traversed
was bOrdered on the one side by over
hanging cliffs, in some places hun
dreds of feet in height; on the other
side were abysmal depths which made
one shudder to look into. The engi-
neer of the road had only TIL
umphed by making many wind
ings in the road, and at every
turn a new face of the panorama pre-
scented itself. In a few hours | arrived
at my destination,-the most interest
ing town, or city-for it has more than
ten thousand inhabitants, in this part
of the world. The next morning | went
down thirteen hundred feet to see the
Gould and Curry mine. There | found
the air so hot that the miners were
obliged to work unclad. Brave, hardy
fellows are they and there is no place
so attractive to them as the COmStock,
United by the bonds of danger and a
common Interest they keep their wages
steady at four dollars per day of eight
hours. A man who undertakes to
cannot live. The Miners Union takes
his life. Once in a while foul air, rot
ten timbers, a crazy elevator or cage
as the miners term it, a caving stop,
or overflow of water takes the lives of
miners, but the widows of the dead are
well cared for. In a fire that broke out
in the Gould and Curry, a year ago, a
dozen lives were lost. No widow
received less than $4,000. With all the
wealth of this Nevada Golconda, only a
few persons have grown rich in Vir-
ginia. Flood, Fair, Mackay and Jones
have made fortunes there, but the men
who have done the work have eaten
and drank their wages and are as poor
today as when they first begged en-
ployment of poor Sandy Bowers, who
made his million and died a beggar,
His wife is now a fo~rtune-teller in San
Francisco. After all is it not, better to
earn a dollar a day and save a small
pnrt of it. From the Gould q Curry /
went into the Consolidated California
and Virginia mine, down, down, down
to the LOO foot level, where [ took a
car drawn by a mule and rode
four miles under these granite ribs that
are found on the Comstock. AdOlph
Sutro, a shreWd German engineer, made
himself famous and rich by this great
bore" He is still living on this coast,
and has shown more public spirit than
any other bonanza king. Some of your
readers have seen the Sutro Park, which
is HARDLY the Seal Cliffs at the Golden
Gate. The other day | read that MIR.
Sutro and his wife had a voluntary
separation. Gold and silver do not
serve a good purpose in uniting man
and wife anywhere. This old observa-
ton is especially true of the Comstock.
Mackay's wife lives in Paris. He is
still here. Fair was divorced long ago.
So it is that in this life there is the sure
law of compensation and the rich man
in his palace can well envy the poor
man in his cabin. The latter has the
real riches after all.
LEROY D. BROWN.