The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-09-16
NEvADA's FUTURE.
Bob Fulton Take an Encouraging
View.

The San Francisco Examiner of a
recent date printed the following in
terview with R. L. Fulton of Reno:
"Within the next two or three
year," he said last evening, ''you will
see Nevada having the most prosperous
times she has ever known. We have not
had failure during all this hard Sum :
mer. We owe next to nothing as a
State, as counties, or as individuals,
in comparison with other communities.
We raise $4,000 head of the finest
beef. We have $50, 900 mutton sheep
for market. We grow 100000 tons
of alfalfa, several thousand tons of
wheat, and many thousand tons of
potatoes, and apples, honey and wool,
in addition to gold, silver, lead, copper,
salt, borax, soda and iron, etc., are
shipped. All these are cash products,
and there are not so many people to
divide the proceeds among as in other
places. SO those who do business in
Nevada always do well.
Given if no more people come in
we will knew prosperity. The people
of other States need what we have to
sell and they will soon begin to buy
again. The Mid-winter Fair is going
to absorb everything eatable and drink
able that Nevada can send-the best
potatoes, the choicest apples, the whit
est honey, to say nothing of the beef,
mutton and pork we have fattenlng
now.
"Within a short time the silver
question will be settled so we can
either mine at profit or devote our
energies to business that we know will
pay.
"This panic has released more
money and men from old lines OF en-
terprise than ever was known before
and they will be seeking new fields
Hard times in old countries is good for
new ones. The West has benefited
by every crash the country has ever
had. Even now half dozen railroads
stand on the eastern edge of the great
basin casting longing eyes towards the
Pacific. Those which live through
storm, especially railroads like the
Burlington, which has just declared
dividend, can borrow oceans OF money,
and some of them will race across Ne
yada for San Francisco. Such move
ment cannot fail to help every interest
even the old roads.
"The impression has been formed
that Nevada would be dead but for
silver mining, and that the only hope
of the State was in restoration of free
coinage. Anything that would add to
the price of silver would undoubtedly
add to Nevada's prosperity, but be-
cause we cannot mine our silver at a
profit is no reason why we should not
develop other resources. We are open
ing gold mines in several places, notably
in Humboldt county. We have hills
that assay 63 per cent iron and II or
12 aluminium. We have tin, copper,
nickel, lead and anthony that bring
a profit. We ship hundreds of tons of
gypsum, which is made into plaster of
paris on the bay shore. We send out
big shipments of soda and borax, but
greatest of all we send you hay, wheat
and potatoes that we expect to carry
off medals at the Columbian exhibit
with as well as at the Midwinter Fair
as we did at New Orleans.
Throwing out all the mountain
lands and these out of reach of water,
we have sufficient to make a good State
as good as Indiana or Maine or South
Carolina. We have any quantity of
fine land well watered, but unculti-
waited, used for pasture only, that
would support family on each sub
division. Whole valleys of many thou
sands acres abundantly supplied with
water have only family or two and
sometimes only a cattleman's head
quarters. With climate and soil that
will raise anything that will grow in
New York State, there will be de-
mand for Nevada land, and when it
comes values will be doubled rapidly.
"Every country has had to go
through Just such a time as Nevada
is having now. 1t is consistent stop
in State growth. California, Montana,
Colorado and every part of the coun-