Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-16
Grand Old Nevada.

grain, vine ana vegetable exhibit IN the
Pavilion, or that has been made by any
county heretofore; there are and have been
those who have shown more grain, more
grapes, more timber, more stone, but none
in which the ensemble has been fuller, COM
pleter, better.
Now word as to Nevada aside from her
| inexhaustible mineral wealth, her deep
mines, her rich gold quartz, her iron and
her copper, of which all the world has been
fully informed for a quarter of a century.
Nevada is mountain county. She is
the jeweled crown of the Sierras, the richest
gem that sparkles on the bosom of noun
famous California. But she has great
vistas of fertile lands yet open to acutal set
tiers; she is the home of the pear above all
| others; she is prominently a fruit county
She has a short winter without any arctic
ligors and long summer without any
droughts. She is fabulously rich in fine
timber; her water power and canals and
| bitches, feeding the soil when needed, is
equaled only by the vast water system of
India. She stores water enough to irrigate
the whole Sacramento valley and still have
surplus enough for home use. She has
power from 200 to l 800 feet pressure and
more. She is penetrated by local rail-
way, and through her heartruns the first of
great overland railroads.
perature; her climate is saluorious, the
resinous laden atmosphere speaks of ozone
everywhere within her boundary;her soil is
deep, fertile, easily turned, and bears phe-
nomenally.
Nevada has one pecuiarity-her vegta-
bles and fruits ripen more rapidly than in
| any other county. Do any doubt this, let
them examine the enormous melon, squash
| and pumpkin growth on the east side of
the great space the county exhibit fills
These weighty witnesses were grown be-
tween July and September.
Nevada has cities and market towns in
| plenty, with stable, self.respecting and pro-
gressiye populations. She has admirable
schools, is blessed with churches and phil
| anthropic institutions, has four daily pa
pers, a reading, intelligent courageous
| people, Injured to hard work, yet attached
| to all refining influences.
Let US examine the exhibit of this Sierra
| Queen enthroned among the everlasting
hills for twenty miles along their crest, her
head in the rare, fine atmosphere of 5000
| feet elevation, her feet bathed in valley
| and grass lands not LOCO feet above the sea
level. We had intended and were prepared
| to name all the exhibitors from Nevada.
but the list is simply enormous. and we be-
lieve it better TO speak in the space we
can spare of things and proofs rather
| than of persons.
The exhibition is under the personal
| supervision of J. r. Nickerson. one of the
most experienced and level headed of men
who have stirred mother earth and made
her yield in abundance. 1t will be seen
| that the fruits and grapes which are shown
| in such great numbers are from all parts of
| the county-they are not mere selections,
| but representatives of capacity of soil and
| ri inn 70 40 yhnl Go
! the foothills to the Hottest TANKS of the
mountains. 1t will be seen that table and
| wine grapes are grown at attitudes up to
| 4 900 feet in Nevada with eminent success,
and of such growth Nevada is now ship
ping eastward daily.
Wheat, barley, oats, rye and corn all
thrive in Nevada, and the expert will find
| them in the exhibit in sack and in stalk.
| Red clover, timothy, alfalfa, mesquite, rye
and orchard grasses grow everywhere in the
county. Wine of fine quality and mer-
| charitable demand is made in Nevada. Of
woods she shows the oak, maple, cedar,
sugar and yellow pine, tamarack, spruce
| and all the members of the pine family.
We are not able at this moment to ascer-
tain the true average of her grain yield but
it surely is not below twenty bushels to
the acre.
In nut growth she produces walnuts
English and American, almonds in all va
riety, hickory, pecan, hazel nuts flberts
and peanuts. We have remarked upon
the rapidity with which Nevada ripens her
fruits and vegetables, but we find by exam
Piles shown on these dozen long tables that
while Nevada fruit and vegetable come TO
maturity so early, they do not deteriorate
in quality or keeping character, for here we
have apples that have been kept
for an entire year. We invite the
attention of the visitor as he
winds through the maze of exhibits
| to examine the sun-dried fruits, which tes-
tify to the non humidity of the atmos-
phere and the excellency of the green
| fruit that shrinks less than that of most.
Here we find also splendid examples
of corn from Missouri kernels 1t was
| raised at an elevation of 800 feet, aud
yielding more to the acre than any valley
| record gives. Better corn we are confident
is not found upon the coast, either in the
size Of the kernel, fullness of ears or su-
perior meal quality. Broom-corn is shown
also Of strong and elastic character.
Tobacco, in the green and cured leaf
from Nevada, is exhibited, and by con-
noisseurs is pronounced:of fine quality.
| Hops are grown in Nevada with entire
| success. One vine is on exhibition that ia
| forty six feet in length. This was grown
upon the place of Mr.. Phelan, at San Juan,
| 1t will interest valley men and will convey
| some idea OF the climatic character of the
! region, to know that hops are grown in
| Nevada at almost any altitude.
II would be of interest to our readers to
learn more of the fine quality of the woods
| grown in Nevada, but the exigencies of
space forbid other mention than this, that
| as stated, nearly all superior hard and soft
woods are found upon the Nevada slopes.
We have in this review been drawn from
one to another part OF the Nevada exposi.
ton unconsciously, and hence our notes
lack order-for instance, we find that in
| the proper order we have failed to record
| inspection of Russian oats shown, one
stand being eight feet in hight; of the fiu e
showing of potatoes, both upland and bot
tom; of beans grown in Nevada for con-.
| merce, as well indeed as upon the Sacra.
mento river bottoms of the melons in va.
| riety, that testify, ss the melon always
! does, to fertile soil (; of the young trees from
the Nevada nurseries, proving that in the
mountain region the tenderer youth of the
fruit tree is fostered. We have referred to
the rapidity with which fruits and
| vegetables mature in Nevada, and
here on the east wall tables
is the proof of it, eight squashes on a single
vine aggregating sos pounds in weight.
The keeping qualities of Nevada's fruits
have been referred to, but proof of the
| strong assertion made that they surpass
nearly all others in this respect are to be
seen in the exposition. The apples are
especially strong in this respect, keeping
| well for year or more; besides, thew are
found TO make cider that very nearly ap-
| proaches the famous Vermont brand,
These apples are grown on almost any
kind Of soil in Nevada, and not infreouently
upon 'slickens" land worked OUT plats.
in the low places and upon the hills alike,
| provided always that the soil selected is
not too wet.
| Among other growth and curiosity in
the exhibit is bamboo stalk twenty-three
feet high, grown at q point 3, 400 feet above
the sea level; grapes, Tokay and Zlnfandel
notably, than which none superior are pro-
| duced, yet they grew up among the rocks
as it were, at an altitude of 3 500 feet The
Bartlett pear in Nevada finds its home, and
all the State comedies that nowhere else
are the conditions so congenial for it. The
examples of enormous pear growth are to
be seen on nearly all the tables
Olives are grown, and with such success
in Nevada that the people are now prepar-
ing TO grow the olive for the market, and
that, too, very extensively. Figs black
and the white Adriatic, are exhibited,
grown in the county, even at 4 COO feet ele.
vation; plums and prunes of great beauty.