Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-11-23
NEVADA AND THE MIDWINTER
FAIR.

That the California Midwinter
Fair will attract tens of thousands
of visitors from the East there is no
doubt. That those visitors will ex-
pect to see every Pacific Coast State
and Territory 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 a good average
of the agricultural, mineral and mans
ufacturing products of the State or
Territory is Indisputable. 1t there
fore stands Nevada in hand to make
the best display that circumstances
will permit. The impression prevails
IN the East, even among persons
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 adapted to agriculture, that it
has no undeveloped resources, that
1t is rrpellant 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 themselves of every op-
portunlty to impress this idea on
Eastern people, and as Nevada has
never sent conolizing agents East
or attempted to advertise the advan-
tages of the State or contradict those
false reports they are accepted as
facts by homeseekers and iuves-
tors.
The Midwinter Fair will afford op>
portunites to show Nevada in Its
true light to Eastern visitors. 1t
produces cereals, fruits and vege-
tables that cannot be excelled in
quality, and it has large tracts of
land, yet uncultivated, on which
grains and vegetables can be pro
duced. These lands are cheaper than
similarly situated lands in other
States, yet they are not sought fer
homeseekers because of the errsne-
Gus idea prevalent regarding them.
There are yet in Nevada undevelop-
ed gold, silver, copper, nickle, anti
mony, lead and other mines, as well
as waists deposits of various miner
ais such as sulphur, salt and borax.
The State was awarded premiums at
the Worlds Fair for -four, butter,
honey and numerous other products.
This has led many to make numerous
inquiries regarding it, and if further
evidence of its productiveness is fur
nished at the Midwinter Fair those
who inquiring about our resources
may come here and see for them
selves.
Nevada should spend at least 500
600 for building and exhibits at
San Francisco, and those whom its
mines made millionaires should be
public spirited enough to furnish
greater part of the money, and those |
who bought large tracts of land at
bedrock prices should supply the
balance. AS they will not do it then
the only way of obtaining friends is
for the bona-ffde residents of the |
State to advance the money with the
explicit understanding that the
Legislature will appropriate sutfi-
cient amount FROM the public trea-
sury to reimburse them. In this
way the nonresident millionaires |
will be compelled to pay by taxation
on the property which they own in |
Nevada portion of the expense of |
advertising the resources of thD |
State. At any rate we should en-
deavor to make a good exhibit. Let |
1t be known abroad that Nevada has
great undeveloped resources. Then |
when the RECOMMENDATION of silver
ends the financial stringency ard the
products of the soil comnand fair
prices the tide of migration will turn
in this direction, sagebrush will be
surplanted by wheat and alfilfa, the
mountains will be pierced by shafts
and tunnels, and the State will be
dotted with the homes of prosper.
Gus people. journal.