Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-12-31
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many parts Of Nevada Ia anything but
reassuring. IL is more than probable that
before the Winter will be over that no
small numbers Of people in the various
mining camps OF the State will have to
subsiss upon charity. They are, as a
rule, not people who deserve such a fate,
or who have brought 1t upon themselves
by lazy improvidence, but are hard.
working miners and other artisans, whose
whole stock Of worldly goods is situated
in such mining camps, and who have
been holding on. hoping that times
would become better, until now they
have expended everything, in many cases
are in debt, and there is left them but
the single alternative Of staying where
they are and Sighting hunger during the
long Winter, for they have not money
enough to get away. The condition at
Tusearora is but a single example OF that
iu many other Nevada mining camps.
The mines have closed down, owing to
the low price Of silver, and there is no
prospect that they will be reopened until
il is remonetized, a period whose dura-
tion no one can conjecture. In the mean
time there are many people in that town
who are in actual destitution, and before
Spring it is probable that aid from the
outside will be necessary to keep them
from starving. Csndelaris, Phoebe, Aus.
tin, Eureka and a dozen Of other camps
and small mining towns are in the sane
condition. Even in Virginia City, once
the greatest mining camp Of the world,
the outlook is gloomy. Mines are clos
ing every day, and but q fraction OF the
number OF miners are nos employed that
are won't to be. There are many families
now in that once opulent city that will
know what hunger is before warm
weather comes again. Reno and Love
lock are the only two towns in Nevada
at present that are not retrograding, and
whose people generally are at all pros.
porous. The question that is each day
gradually and o%minously forcing itself
upon the people of this State is what is
to become Of Nevada? Victim Of the
Judas Iscsriot John Sherman, who like g
thief in the night demonetized silver and
thereby killed the one industry to which
we are as yet compelled to look for pros.
perity. What are we doing and what
can we do to change the current OF our
misfortunes? In the division of Federal
appropriations for various purposes
among the States we are completely
ignored. Hundreds Of millions Of dol
lars are annually expended on rivers and
harbors to benefit the people Of the other
States, in building useless battle ships, in
q thousand and one ways of glitter and
show. Nevada has an empire Of arid
land that the expenditure of half the
amount lavishly squandered upon rivers
and harbors would reclaim and make
blossom like the rose.
When Nevada's needs are discussed in
Congress and elsewhere, some cultured
offspring Of Eastern codfeh aristocraoy,
by the grace of whose pedigree, a mem
Der Of intelligent society. calmy adjusts
monicle and grayely inquiries: "Ne-
Nevada Where and what is
Meanwhile many of Nevada's citizens,
of misrule sud mock legislation.
have reached the brink where to stay is
ruin, and to seek a new field, in their
situation, after having spent a lifetime in
to build a home for their old age
In the State of their adoption. is like the
of Christian in the dark waters Of
the Slough Of Despond.