Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-05-08
FOOLS.

ion OF some OF the methods persued
by residents ef this State, and the
APPEAL prints his interview, in the
hope that some Of these lunatics
will read aad reform.
He SAID:
81 have spent several months in
this State and / am astonlshed
first, at the amazing natural re-
sources of the country and next,
to the surprising number of d-n
fools to the acre.
"From the reports, 1 had not
expected to see an agricultural
State, but came here to look for
mining investments. l have pur-
chased no mines, because a man
with prospect hole wants so much
for it that no man OF any business
caution wants to buy. They treat
an Eastern man as q fool tender
foot, but as l have lived on the
coast a good deal / do not feel as il
/ could be classed that way. Well,
/ have invested in no mines, nor
do l propose to, but l shall invest
in land here If | invest in ANYTHING.
/ never saw such good chances for
farming and cattle raising as in
Nevada and never dreamed that
men could adopt such primative
methods of managing their business.
In the Eastern part of the State l
saw man with several hundred
cattle and dozens dying daily in
grass nearly up to their knees.
They were dying because the creeks
and springs were running dry.
The owner did not know what to
do, but l saw a we'll in his place
with water four feet from the sur
face. The idea had never occurred
to him to erect a wind mill and let
the prevailing wind pump water
for his stock. mentioned the
matter to him and he did not think
it amounted to much. He thought
he would drive his stock to Idaho
next year where there was water.
He wanted to so several hundred
miles for water when he had lakes
of it few feet under ground. A
man like that would be run out of
any Eastern State by a vigilance
committee, yet l found scores of
men in just his fix and net enough
sense to sink an arteslan well or
erect a wind mill. They lose enough
stock every year to pay for a dozen
mills and sink a dozen flowing
wells, but they are too old fogy,
too lazy or too stlngy to invest.
These men make me sick, and are
a drawback to any State. Another
man told me that there used to be
miles of tall iattening rye grass on
the tributaries OF the Humboldt
river, but ia 1t was all gone now.
/ asked him if no effort had been
made to save the seed OF the grass
to replant, and he said no. 1t takes
two years for the grass to seed and
and OF course constantly feeding
and never replenishing soon means
determination. l hear of but one
firm in the State, Parkinson & Co.
who are storing water. He has
damned creak and by saving the
Winters water can bring 10000
dCICS Vi IdDQ dnuCt CulllNdllOL.
1 don't know the mans politics,
but the people ought to make him
Governor of the State.
Enough water runs to waste
here every Winter to irrigate every
acre of tillable land in the State,
but no one seems disposed to save
it.
81 saw a man in Mason Valley
who told me what time he had
one Winter keeping his land from
being flooded. He built levees and
turned the water down on the next |
mans land, and the next man dis
posed Of it the same way. In the |
Summer the land is dry as powder |
horn. Why didn't the lunatics i'm
pound that water when they had |
the chance, and use it in the Sum
mer. Such fools, yeu say? OF