Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-05
NEVADA CONGRATULATED.
An Cid Sagebrusher Who Believes
in Silver and Irrigation.
San Francisco, Sept. 4, 1892.

your State upon the nomination {
the Hon. Francis Newlands for Con
gress, through the columns of t.
ablest defender Of Nevada's inter
ests that is published III the down
trodden State today. | desire 1
commend the selection Of your mex
Congressman by people who are il
need of staunch defender Of thei
wonderful resources Of silver and al
advocate and student Of irrigation
who knows more of what waite
means to Nevada than all of you
other Congressional representative,
put together.
The silver question and necess y
Of strong supporters needs no further
discussion before your people. That
issue will sweep Nevada from the
smallest county seat to the electoral
college Neither is there need to
echo the uncompromising stand tor
silver that MIR Newlands has taken
and will maintain. | wish to say u
word regarding irrigation, which Is
of vital Importance to your people,
and which, although you may lose
SIGHT Of temporarily, is Of paramount
Importance ia the future Development
Of Nevada.
Ah., water will aceo nplish in
your fertile valleys Is TOO wei know
an. acknowledged to require compli-
cation here. The question seems 70
he, where is the water to come from!
The answer IS that you have it now.
Absolutely, - peculiar as that sounds
ii IS SO, and Mr.. Newlands knows it.
10 begin with, there are the Carson,
Truckee, Humboldt and Walker riv>
ers running actually 70 waste through
plains of uabounde richness. Trae,
IN the Summer months they decrease
TO an alarming extent, and therri'. IS
your cue. ltls no less than shame>
fui to every loyal cit.zen Of Nevada
that those splendid rivers are pernit-
ted to waste in Summer. 1t is a
shame that for about SCI months
in the year those rivers are allowed
to flow, booming full, past the thirsty
acres and t. sink worthlessly IA the |
sand in the form Of worthless lakes,
which would be better # dried up.
It is shame, because these millions
Of gallons flow through a country !
Astounding in natural sites for won
derful system Of storage reservoirs.
Those billions Of cubic feet of water
and sink in valueless mud
holes, sliding by unnoticed in the
long Winter months, leaving a scanty
and much litigated little stream for
euC tCuIllHCi, COulu dll NC StN eU. IL J
they were 50 stored the agricultural |
possibilities of Nevada would attract
The attention of the world, and
strange as it may sound, silver would
become. a secondary thought 1t is
population that you need, and it will
,ome if The proper legislation is had
or water and It's storage
In many portions of the world,
asst areas are irrigated by the SIM
lest sort of windmills; here in San
francisco every vegetable gardner in {
is sandy lot depends on a shallow :
yell and a home made mill They t
rrigate hundreds of acres that way. /
iood wells in Nevada can frequently $
e found in less that ten feet of Dig
ing. Encourage and aid people to '
evelope the windmill system. It J
ever fails. Then with your endless
NUNS = AlOullt dlAiSs liz CtlbllCpS loG ! !,
rtesian water are the very best.
Right today there is not hole in }
Teyada that deserves the name Of
respect for artesian water, and still
lie shallow wells give fair results. =
God arteslan wells should be per ;
APPS thousand feet deep or more. :
ncoorase your people by liberal
gislation and Congressional aid to :
y a few deep taps on Natures res
'voirs beneath the surface. Do
to get start at watering Y
lose valleys that can support col> =,
lies as easily as they do a few cows k
Id jack rabbits. h,
Frank Newlands knows all about lc
e truth of these statements and =
lows how badly Nevada, needs con K,
rted action in the way of irrigation. h
have lived in Nevada many years til
yself and have her interests still at
art, therefore l rep at, | congratu-
,e the people of Nevada upon the