Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-01-17
ARE WE A DOOnED RACEf
Nevada VIII soon be as Dead as
the Moon-rhs Other states VIII
slowly but surely FoIiow-Civiif-
zation on This Continent only q
Question of n Few Centuries.

slowly but surely Foliow-Cfvfff-
zation on This Continent only q
Question of u Few Centuries.
A writer in the Examiner discourses
thus learnedly upon the future condi-
ton OF Nevada and OF America. His
lunacy is OF a mild form and as
Artemus Ward was won't to say, is
"quite amusin':"
How much longer will Nevada be
included among the States Of the
Union?
This is the question that the recent
census report has caused to be greatly
discussed among the scientific men in
Washington. Up TO tho present time
II has not been an imagined possibility
that any one OF the United States
could be deprived OF its Statehood.
But what can prevent its happening
eventually?
A gentleman connected with the
Smithsonian Institute, with the greater
part OF the alphabet attached to his
name like the tail to kite, talked to
the Examiner correspondent on the
subject just the other day. He was
unwilling to have his name used, as
he observed:
81 may visit Nevada one OF these
days, and should prefer not to be the
central figure at a lynching party OF
indignant Nevadans."
In answer TO the question that be-
gins this article he replied;
I" cannot set any exact date for
such an occurrence, but it will be be-
fore long. According to the last CEN
sus Nevada only shows population OF
$1,000 souls all told, and this number
is fast diminishing.
" Nevada will, before many years
have passed, be, to all intents and pur-
poses, a dead State-defunct as is
the moon. So rapidly has it been
undergoing the process OF depopula-
ton that it has now fewer people in it
than ordinarily go to make up good
sized town.
" Now what is the reason Of this?
:" 1t is very simple. Nevada's re-
sources are OF a mineral nature and
they are being exhausted rapidly.
Soon they will be entirely gone and
the people will be unable to live.
NEVADA ONLY THE FIRST.
"The appalling thing to contemplate
in connection with this subject is that
this is only the first OF the States Of the
Union which are destined to die. So
tremendously prosperous does the
country at present appear that hardly
any one seems to have realized the
fact that things cannot last indefinitely
as they are. And yet it is believed by
many OF the deepest scientific thinkers
of to- day that within a few centuries
civilized man will have been wiped
off the face of this continent, for the
gimpla reason that -st---.Il mo iOnKer
support his being.
Through the progres.ive exhaus-
ton OF the resources OF the country,
one State after another will neces-
sarily become uninhabitable, be-
cause it will be incapable of support
ing a population. Thus will come
about the depopulation of one State after
another, OF course by slow process
through many years, and there will be
presented the remarkable phenomenon
Of the dropping from the Union OF one
State after another, because they have
come to be no longer entitled to re-
under the law by Sena-
tors and Representatives Nevada will |
simply be the first State to succumb to
the operation OF this inevitable law.
"The outlook is melancholy. That
is not to be denied. 1t is not pleasant |
to consider the frame OF mind OF the |
last civilized man on this continent,
very few centuries hence, standing on |
a sandhill, where once the maize lux
grew, and shedding a silent |
tear of reflection on the past Of con-
tinent which is given up to savagery |
ever more"