Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-04-30

people elsewhere? If there is we
have a. future beyond all question.
| You know Of course that we ship out
cattle, sheep and wool, soda, lead,
gypsum, iron. etc, regularly, and that
even under our loose system OF farm
ing we sell train loads Of hay, apples,
! potatoes and wheat every year.
What will We do when We put all our
lands to their highest use. You must
remember that the more labor you
put on any article the less II costs to
ship in proportion. A watch or 4
diamond you can send all over the
world, but hay and potatoes cannot
90 far until the freight is worth more
than the first cost. So II railroads
can afford to carly out our coarse
products they will take our finer goods
twice as far when we get them ready.
We ought to be sending a train load
of strawberries into Sacramento and
San Francisco every day between
their first and second crops, for then
ours are prime. They do it for ST.
Louis and Chicago, from Southern
Illinois and Missouri. We raise
VI IlsNE-HA '~
to be had, and rich people are always
searching for the finest of everything
and are glad to pay for il. Mr.. Alt
will tell you that California merchants
have offered to take all the Cauliilower,
celery and asparagus he could raise.
and fill their orders for Denver. Utah
and Montana points from here, but he
never has any to spare. He cannot
raise such goods as he gets fast
enough. There is no end of Oppor.
tunity for SpcCialticS here. We do
not know ourselves what we arc best
adapted To but experience is teaching
us We talk about having alkali in
our soil but that white deposit is itself
simply Il superabundanCc of plant
food, and as il becomes aSSimilatcd
by the soil or the seeds we plant in
il we will get results unhcard of in
other countries. In the old states the
soil is all alike but here every man
has a diversity Of soils. and one
little spot will make the best possible
Strawberries. another the finest rhu-
barb, another nice CurrantS and So on,
Now the world is all the time on the
lookout for dcliCaCicS. They send
from every country 10 France for
mushrooms and Sardincs, To SMYRNA
for figs, to Baltimore for oysters. Ia
Florida for early peas. Ia California
for many such things and we can get
them To come here if we have what
they want. The finest wine i'll Europe
comes from a vineyard no larger than
4 door yard. II touches the lips Of
royalty alone Its value is fabulous
and il has made a Monastery rich sim
ply because that little spot of earth
combines certain qualities Of soil and
lies just right Ia sun and wind.
YER YEAH
some special adaptability is developed
in u place or another, and we Ger
tainly have many such when we know
how to look for them. When they
are found no one is so surprised rs the
old settlers who have been travelling
over them for hall a lifetime. When
farms we're first laid ont nj Fresno the
men who had been raising cattle and
sheep there sat on the new fences and
did everything to discourage the work
erS and il is Ia a lady who proved
that raisinS were the exact thing
suited To the soil. climate and condi.
ton that Fresno to-day owes its great.
ness. Now it is true that we know
little Of Nevada, and those who are
trying so hard to keep Nevada an ash
heap ma be honest. We will learn
fast when we begin to pu, good hon,
est work and thought to solve this
great problem and when we get down
to farming as an art we will find album,
dant growth. | don't call il farming
To go over a field with a shovel on
your shoulder, turning a little stream
OF water here and there to wet the
grass. That is not ,illing the soil.
But let us get intelligent. steady sons
and daughters Of Nevada, educated
here
AT THE UNIVERSITY
And in the schools to studying and
working on the ground and we wilI
soon see what Nevada can do in the
way Of fine produce. Isn't that 4
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