Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-12-24
THE SAGE.BRUSH STATE.
What Ex-Governor Biasdel Has to
Say About 1t,

One Of the guests at the Golden
Eagle Hotel last night was II q,
Blasdel, one Of the most prominent
mining men on the Pacific Coast.
His home is in the State of Nevada
No man is better posted on the
silver mines in the State of Nevada
than Mr.. Blaslel When Nevada
was admitted as a State INTO the
onion il 1864, Mr.. Blasdel was
elected its first Governor.
The Ex-Governor says: Nevada
is not prcspering but Gu the other
hand, is retrograding. The mines
that have been wo' kel for thirty odd
years are nearly exhausted, the big
bonanzas have been worked ont, and
the low price IF silver has caused
the abandonment of many mines
heretofore worked at a profit on low
grade ore.
THE shutting down of the Cons
solidated Virginia and California viii
soon be followed by the closing Of
many other mines on the Comstock.
People are getting tired OF putting
up assessments at regular stated per-
iods, when there is little or no pros
pect of their ever becoming paying
properties.
"Real estate in Virginia City and
Gold Hill has deprecated 50 that it
Is impossible to dispose of any Of it,
except at great sacrifice, and many
business houses, and residences, that
years gone by brought large monthly
rentals, are now tenantless,
agriculture and manufactures
are what will make any country pros
porous. The mineral has been taken
out and shipped to the markets of
the world, and there is nothing left
to show for it. 1t has erected pal
aces on Mob Hill in San Francisco,
palatial residence in Oakland, furn-
ished princely mansions in Paris and
London, made miliionairas of many
who have become globe trotters, and
left to Nevada abandoned shafts
crumbling mills, hundreds Of impe
cunious miners, and population
scarcely equal to that Of Sacramento
County.
st was mistake admitting Ne
vada to the sisterhood Of States |
fought the proposition, although ]
was elected her first Governor. I
maintained then as | dc now, that
there is no permanence nor stability
in any mining section, where it is
not backed up by agricultural land,
and has natural facilities for the es-
Enlistment of manufactures.
carson, the capital, is a pretty
town of some 1000 inhabitants. 1t
is not dependent VIII lily on mining,
and will always be a prominent
place. Here you find the State Cap
itol, the Mint and the State Prison.
The town is wei, laid out, the bust
ness portion is well built, AMI it con-
tains many beautiful homes. Reno
is constantly growing in size and i'm
portanee.
at IS true that Nevada has large
area of grazing land, and her most
prosperous citizens today are those
who are engaged in the rearing of
live stock One thing about the
.'Sagebrush State" is that, as soon as
the people accumulate sufficient
wealth, they remove their families to
the mo,e congenial climate of Cali
fornia. Many Of them have pleasant
homes in Sacramento, San Francisco,
Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. The
climate Of Nevada, in lie Winter
months, is very rigorous, and those
who have means sufficient to Winter
their families on this side of the
Sierras do so.
"The only hope for future in
Nevada is the organization Of irriga-
ton districts similar t. those in the
neighborhood Of Fresno and Bakers
field, Turn the water Of the Hum
bollt and Carson Rivers INTO the
sa9ebrush plains and it will make the
desert blossom like the rose. No
country can produce more alfalfa to
the acre, finer apples or more delic-
ious potatoes, while all kinds of gar
den truck can be produced in abun-
dance.