Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-12-31
NEVADA ron the YEAR.
Something Of the Resources
Of the Silver state.

The bullion yield was about 50,
= 600 900, shrinkags Of 81 200, 00
for the product of previous years.
3 This was due, not 20 any sxhaus
ton Of ere resources, but tho terri
} BILE drought of last Summer, which
resulted in a stoppAgs of the staml
mills on the Carson river.
The drought alss had it, baG
effects on the cattle industry anG
many cattle wsre driven eat Of the
State to keep them alive.
The assessed value of property
in Nevada for 1889 fsots up $780,.
900, 900.
| In mentioning the States re-
sources tho San Francisco Chronicle
says:
The project Of constructing water
storage reservoirs near the sources
of the principal rivers and streams
in the State to hold in reserve the
water now running to waste during
the winter and spring floods for ir-
rigatiny and mill power, was con-
sldsrsd ut the last session OF the
Legislature, aud y bill passed APP
propristiAg 100000 for the pur-
pese. So far, nothing has yet been
accomplished toward their construc-
ton by the Water Commissioner
on account of conflict between tho
stamp mills and ranch owners, be-
tween whom litil alton is now pend
ing.
A Government survey of sites for
water storage reservoirs made at
the sources of the principal streams
and their affluents last year demon
stratsd that sufficient amount of
water can be held in reserve by the
construction of cams at tho source
of the Carson river, at . cost OF
about $500, 900, to irrigate IN area
OF now arid land along its course,
ample, if cultivated, to support
population Of so 900 people. Since
the survey all the eligible land in
the vicinity OF the reservoir sites
has been purchased by F. g. New
lands and other capitalists.
Applications for State land az
grsgating nearly 800, 900 acres were
fled in the Nevada Land Office in
1889. A majority of the applica-
tons were for land located in Lyon,
Lincoln, Nye. White Pine and Flko
counties, and the principal locators
were capitalists or their agents
who filed on the land for specula-
tive purposes, and the vast area in
cludsd in the applications has there
fore added but slightly to the popu-
lation Of the State, now estimated
at "a 500, an increase of only $500
during the past decade.
The proposed construction of the
Salt Lake and Los Angeles Rail-
road has renewed interest in the
mining districts Of Lincoln, Nys,
White Pine and Eureka counties,
through the richest mineral regions
IF which the line will pass. And
the population of these districts has
been materially increased by the
return of many former residents
who years ago abandoned valuable
mining locations for the reason that
hey could not Be probably devel-
'psd with the high freight charged
or the delivery of supplies and the
hauling OF ore by team to the near.
'st point for shipment by rail.
The recent discovery Of . large
rein of geld bearing ore in the
Joanna mine, in Robinson district,
White Pine county and the subss.
Iuent development there Of geld
earring gravel beds has attracted
large immigration to that locality !,
t prospectors and miners.
In Phoebe district, Lincoln county
he principal nining locations are
cling developed, and furnaces for
hs tie reduction Of the base sles
ave recently been erected.
The mining outlook for the future 1
! Esmeralds County is not very n
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