Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-05-19
PIXLEY ON NEVADA.

and uniting Arizona and New Mexico
into one State, winds up an editorial
as follows: =.
"Nevada, if strengthened by pop
ulation Of a quarter Of a million,
would stand some chance Of coping
with the Central Pacific railroad COM
pany. Her failure to advance, her de-
cadence, are due largely 10 that CON-
pany. From the first laying of the
rails through Nevada's territory, the
Union has been treated to the sight
OF sovereign State being forbidden
by a corporation to grow. BY the
system OF adding to the full through
transcontinentsl freight rate. heavy
local back charges from Sacramento
20 on every pound of eastern freight
landed within her limits, the curious
phenomenon is presented OF rates in
cressing in inverse ratio to a towns
nearness to the point of shipment
That is, goods from New York are de-
livered at Reno for much less than at
Elko, which is several hundred miles
closer to New York. Thus the State
is placed commercially about as far
west of San Francisco as China is.
Local rates within the State are ex-
tortfonate, and whenever it has been
sought to utilize the &ater-power of
the rivers for manufacturing purposes
discriminating charges have killed the
enterprise. To-day, a sack Of -four is
transpo rted from Sacramento to Wiz
nemuoca at lower charge than sack
of Reno-milled flour to the same place
In order to make 1T appear that Me-
vada is to the railroad but a non- pro =
ductive bridge, to the end that one
excuse for not paying the corpora
tion's debt to the governm ent may be
furnished, the company has done its
best to control the States resources,
to prevent the incoming OF men and
money, and in every way has acted
more like an invading public enem y
than a railroad company seeking
patronage, Nevada is an immensely
rich State. Millions OF acres of her
sagebrush lands need but irrigation
to render them highly productive.
Her climate is one Of tho best in the
world, and whatever 10 grown is Of
superior quality. In the southern
portion, tea, coffee, and tobacco have
been cultivated with success expert
mentally, and in the pre- historic
graves Of Lincoln county cotton has
been found. Hemp fourishes, and
every kind of fruit can be grown.
Her wheat brings the very highest
prices. AS for mineral wealth, Neva-
da ia impregnated with it; and were
railroad charges reasonable, hundreds
Of mines that cannot now be worked
at profit would be producing,
It will be time enough to talk seri-
ously Of handing Nevada over to the
Mormons when she has been given u
chance TO utilize the Rifis bestowed
upon her by nature. She has never
had that chance, and never will until
the Central Pacific shall be compelled
to take it's left hRud f'om her tbroas
aad its right from her pocket. It is q
disgrace to the Republic that it should
have stood by for more than twenty
years and permitted railroad corpo
ration 60 10 maltreat ono OF the sis
terhood OF States-one which under
fair conditions would now be pop
ulous and thriving. This is az aspec
OF the "Nevada problem" 10 which ou
eolicitous eastern contemporaries
could, with some advantage to tn,
throttled and despoiled common
wealth, turn their intelligent atten
tion. The men OF Nevada SOC no neec
OF inviting the MormoDs to come IL
and govern them. Tney are no,
without pride in their State
which by the way, is on
of debt, and has managed, despite tn,