Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-01-04


Only lovingly do men who know Ne
vada well turn in thought to her. She
was born in the supreme crisis OF the
nations life. with her treasures she up
held the faith Of the nations in our ma
ton, and though q cloud is upon her
now it is only because Of conditions that
are unnatural and which in q little time
must be changed. She suffers for want
of cheap transportation through her
great mineral regions and through the
discount that a foul conspiracy has
placed upon silver. When these obsta'
Giles to her progress shall be removed 1t
will be realized once more that Nevada
is the richest mining State in the Union.
Even now she is yielding fairly well and
her product during the coming year will
be greatly swelled by the yield OF at
least three great new mines. BY and
by some men or company will have the
nerve to drive q railroad from this city
into Eastern Nevada, and when it shall
be done and the results shall be shown,
il will be an astonishment that the
opportunity waited so long for some one
to seize it, for it will create a business
that ct present only a few people have
the slightest conception Of. Ii wall
make a great State Of Nevada; it will
transfgure this city. The extension OF
the Utah Central to o connection with
the Southern Pacific at or near Mohave,
which will probably be completed dur
ing the present year will give new life to
Southeastern Nevada and have the effect
TO open mp a large area OF mineral
country that from the very nature OF
things has thus far remained practically
~unexplored. In the western part OF the
State the people are making arrange
ments to put gates upon the water sup
ply of the mountains, by which means
they hope to add to the cultivable area
of the State rich land enough to
give fair homes to q thousand fmilies,
and when by and by land becomes more
of an object the State will, where water
can be pumped, supply several millions
Of acres to settlers. In the southeast
ern part of the State is some OF the best
fruit country in the world. The best
apples that are being eaten in this city
to-day came from Nevada and the lucerne
lands in Western Nevada are paying
more per acre than the rich fruit lands
oil California. But it will always be as a
mineral State that Nevada will be
chiefly noted and as a great mineral re-
gion she will be noted as long as the
Hartz mountains already here. There is
the great Comstock, there is where the
practical men Of the West added their
practical and inventive knowledge to the
science of Europe, and in fifteen years
revolutionized the methods of mining
and the reducing OF silver ores to
make both &c tho conditions which the
desert imposed. They made infinitely
more progress in those fifteen years
than the men Of Spain and their de-
sccndants in South America and Mexico
made in three hundred years. Nevada.
as we look at her, has reached the period
of her greatest depression and the dawn
OF a grand advance for her is already
warm in the East, and she deserves it.
No race of men ever on this earth made
as good a showing according to their
numbers, no such numbers ever before
performed such service for a great ma
ton, as did the men who carved out Of
that Territory a State. and it is but fair
that the weights which hold the State
down at present shall be removed. Ne
yada is going TO be a most i'm
portant factor in this nation for genera
tions after every one of her defamers
shall be righteously forgotten. Salt
Lake Tribune.