The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-12-02
Nevada and the Widwinter Fair.

tors from the East there is no doubt.
That those visitors will expect to see
every Pacific Coast State and Terri
tory represented at the Fair may also
be assumed. That the exhibits which
each State and Territory have at the
Fair will be taken by visitors as good
average of the agricultural, mineral
and manufactured products of the
State or Territory is indisputable. 1t
therefore stands Nevada in hand to
make the best display that circum-
stances will permit. The impression
prevails in the East, even among per-
sons whose general knowledge of the
country ought to lead them to think
otherwise, that the mines of Nevada
are worked out, that the State is not
adopted to agriculture, that it has no
undeveloped resousces, that it is re-
p3llant rather than attractive in short;
that it is better State to move out of
than it is to move into. Every real
estate agent, colonizer, and in fact,
resident of other new States avail them
selves of every opportunity to impress
this idea on Eastern people and as
Nevada has never sent colonizing
agents East or attempted to advertise
the advantages of the State or contra
dict those false reports they are &C
cepted as facts by homeseekers and
investors.
The Midwinter Fair will afford OPP
portunites to show Nevada in it's true
light to Eastern visitors. It produces
cereals, fruit and vegetables that can
not be excelled in quality, and it has
large tracts of land, uncultivated, OH
which grains and vegetables can be
produced. These lands are cheaper
than similarly situated lands in other
States, yet they are not sought for by
homeseekers because of the erroneous
idea prevalent regarding them. There
are yet in Nevada nndeveloped gold,
silver, copper, nickel, antimony, lead
and other mines, as we'll as vasts de-
posits of various minerals such as sui
phur, salt and borax. The State was
awarded premiums at the Worlds
Fair for flour, butter honey and nu-
merous other products. This has led
many to make numerous inquiries re-
garding it, and if further evidence of
its productiveness is furnished at the
Midwinter Fair those who are inquiring
about our resources may come here
and see for themselves.
Nevada should spend at least $40
900 for a building and exhibits at
San Francisco, and those whom it's
mines made millionaires should be
public-spirited enough to furnish
greater part of the money, and those
who bought large tracts of land at bed
rock prices should supply the balance.
AS they will not do it then the only
way of obtaining friends is for the bona
fide residents of the State to advance
the money with the explicit under
standing that the Legislature will ap-
propriate a sufficient amount from the
public treasury to reimbursethem. In
this way the nonresident million
aires will be compelled to paySby tax
alton on the property which they own
in Nevada portion of the expense of
advertising the resources of the State.
At any rate we should endeavor to
make agood exhibit. Let it be known
abroad that Nevada has great uudevel-
oped resources. Then when the re-
monetization of silver ends the fnan-
cial stringency and the products of the
soil command fair prices the tide of
migration will turn in this direction,
sagebrush will be surplanted by wheat
and alfalfa, the mountains will be
pierced by shafts and tunnels, and the