New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11
ELOQUENT PLEA FOR NEVADA'
ASsAILED ONLY BY IGNORANCE AND
MALICE.
NOT LESS PURE POLITICALLY THAN olhhH
srArEs-woNDERFUL AGRICULTURAL RE-
souRCEs-HEALTHFUL VARIETY OF
cL1MATE-MNERAL RICHES
NOT EXHAUSTED.

CIINATE-MNERAb fAOhho
NOT EXHAUSTED.
To tho Editor of The IT'D %
s,r. Nevada has q small but growing class OF
natiye voters, young men born WITHIN her borders
who find IL difficult to understand the ulIrlehuiS
attacks which at frequently recurring Intervals arc
boinr sbowered upon their STATE They nave Deeh
dr,tod at Harvard and Berkeley, or less expensiVey
hnt nerhaps equally sensby in our own hgh Schools
and see no reason why their citizenship shouu DO r
bororcd or honorable than that OF their ielo"s'
Sotbing in the individual gives ground for the ar
"a spnerorlty assumed by the Massachusetts, or llcl
cop bov and the only claim that he can SET up 10
tht his state has more people and greater aggregate
wealth than theirs. -
ba State has been the subject Of severe aspersohs'
and contemptuous epthets have been showereo upVi
II nv many whose political virtues consist en'rety
NJ preaching not practising The truth Is NoNau@ .
NOT worse than its nelghbors in morals or poh'''"i
methods and when the organ OF the Tamhahy eon,
,,ngant stCmatizes it as the rotten Dorouen ~
shows what beam 1t has In It's own eye
methods by which the element below fouiUoo"V'i'V.
f. worked when the Democracy UNDERTAKES W co"Vro
n Presidential election or other great CohVc9" "
send men to the penentiary and perhaps the gaio"s
| 70 undertaken in Nevada Human nature mas ho'
reached perfection here any more than ELSEWHERE
and we have a purchasable element such as Is louhu
ubereever men congregate. We hear FAINT ruhors
from Ohio California and every state Ill 'he OOn,
and must conclude that the fault IS III the raoo anu
not the community locality. But the assertion Vie
a larger percentage Of the citizens oil NeVada expect
or consent TO make money out OF politics tah 90 ose
30 other states is false The only just accusation that
can he made against her politically is that as state
her population is limited; and even TINS docs hoo cuV
! figure anywhere except as IL appnes 10 ue OhiVoN
States Senate. In the electoral college, anu Ill 'no
| lower house of Congress her representation Is ho'
| neatly ont OF proportlcn. In the Senate she Is on
| ciaf tor
it is not a fault OF hers. but OF the system when
| rute wyoming Rhode Island, New York and Nevada
| upon a level. Taking the broad view hen ny INC
| founders OF the government, that the duty OF
senator was 70 the Nation and not to his STATE we
need not apologize for the part Nevada has played
during the quarter OF century in when she mas Deen
a member Of the Union. She has sent senators con
ncuons for ability industry and general effectiveness
| and If local affairs made less demand upon ulel
energies the country at large has been the gamer anu
| not the state.
| INIT the argument is not upon the wisdom OF our
being here but upon the proper course 10 pursue ucr
| all the circumstances. No thoughtful citizen OF the
| Republlc can look with uncOncern upon the decay
and nossble dissolution Of Of the family, although
| the latter is a fate need hardly fear. Ihere Is
M way provided in system for the doing away WIN
or the partition OF State even with the consent Vi
rs ueople which in this case could not DE OOtaihca
those who are here are doing well and have no fault
1 find with their CONultlOH' lhAV' "'N NV
some crops are and markets ready so thaV IL Is
| doubtfuI If labor anywhere receives better reward
ELEMENTS OF PERMANENT PROSPERITY
However. II is not to politics that community must
look for Advancement, but to material ueVelopheHV
Politics is the red tape, while commerce ana prOuuc
o arc tbe roast beef Of state life. The adverse ad-
vertislug which Nevada has received i'll such hOerdi
Quantities has been largely the result of gross Ignorance
and r,isapprehension. Much Of it has been carried
an nv halrbraned writers who attached even less I'M
| uortauce 10 their yapOnngs than Their readers ulo'
Under our system Of Journalism any person. no hd'Voi
how, worthless or thoughtlcss, who can gather up
| bushel of type and ream Of paper can aV'acA "io
largest subjects and II he desires can assa the cfr
aoer of a state individual and so iar as nol'o
COOS he will stand on equal footing with tile aoIee5
thinkers of his day but here, as everywhere else In
human affairs truth and merit are the IOuhuaIOh VI
permapency and the only thing that We need 10 con-
slider is how far we liable TO the Indictment oi our
| traducers.
| Ncvada's sudden prosperity was owing entirely 10
tho discovery Of great bodies Of rich ore In different
parts of the state. and it cannot be denied that WIN
| the rapid methods Of modern machinery her wealth.
Ia, boeu greatly depleted in the last twenty five years
Her mines are fewer and her dividends less but IN all
that gees to the permanent support OF American CIVIL
| zation she never doing more. II comparisons
were drawn between her and her neglb0rS on lhe
| Nevada WV
who comes as far West this IS sure 70 VslI Oall-
frnia and In the contrast between the wonderful stores
of wealth displayed there by nature in the most at
ractiye shapes lost sight OF or are
obscured BIZ the blazing splendOr of her neighOOr Nc
vada's riches lie in unaccustomed shapes ana very
many Of her citizens undcrrlte her posslDlteS'
For the first time in its history the Ango-SaXon race
has presented to it the problem Of retaining an arid
region our sturdy ancestors took possession of the
hest watered portions OF Europe driving their weaker
neghbors south the dry plains Of Lombardy and the
r2lnlcss valleys OF SPAIN All of our laws, customs
and principles Of farming the outgrowth OF drain
age instead Of irrigation of too much water instead OF
too te and the country west Of the Tooth meridian
presents an entirely problem. In Nevada, lands,
even when they are provided with water for irrigation,
are not cultivated they should be- They lie Ike
unused tools rustng for lack Of hands and brains to
Use them with careful cultivation they are capable
Of supporting ten times tile population they now do;
but they are used for pasture and hay crops to feed
cattle and sheep, while all tho food, clothing and
other necessareS for the support OF the people them
| selves are imported from other states. When the
pressure Of population causes all the land to be put
To its highest uses many sources OI wealth. no" ul-
| thought Of will be discovered.
The country is VI the most heavily mlner5llZed
regions of the earth, and in plant food it furnishes
| variety richness and abundance unsurpassed Water
running over rocks Of mineral nature always takes up
something and in that way furnishes constant supply
Of fertlllAng materials II over sate' aulh Is taken
up over limestone, carbonate Of line and granite,
| poiash and 80 on. Where crops irrigated with
such water It furnishes constant source Of food for
plaut life, and where manurcs Ae used the
soil seems retain It's strength and bears abundanty
year after year. In ordinary parlance every deposit
II foreign substance is alkal," but when analysed
much material OF the richest kind for vegetable growth
| is found.
| GREAT VARIETY OF PRODUCTIONS
In a country as broken as this estimate can be
formed Of the qualities the soil possesses. In the
| mississippi Valley the deposits have been uniform in
character and from Itasca the Gulf the is the
| same man who owns quarter section in Illinois
knows that it is just like in Louisiana, allowing
| for climatic conditions. In Nevada a man will have
half a dozen different kinds of soil in his own field
one viii produce the choicest Strawberries another fine
grapes still another particular variety of vege
| til,es and 50 on. The finest wine in Europe is the