The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-05-27
Nevada at the Fair.


vada at the Worlds Fair:
The youngest commissioner at the
fair is Mr.. J. A. Yerington, who is
chairman of the Nevada commission,
Mr.. Yerington, is not quiet thirty
years of age, and his smoothly shaven
face gives him an even more youthful
appearance, but he is as shrewd and
capable as any of the "graybeards"
among the commissioners, aud enthu-
siastic about his State exhibit. Just
thirty days from the time Mr.. Yer
ington was appointed commissioner
his exhibits were packed and shipped
to Chicago. Although Nevada has
no State building at the fair, she sends
capital exhibit
In the agricultural department are
sixty varieties of grain, all arranged
in redwood boxes, also large sheaves
of grain.
Mr.. Yerington says that on the Col
orado river in Lincoln county, grain
is now ready for harvest, and figs, al
monds and nectarines are half ripe
He hopes to make the earliest exhibit
of this years fair. The Nevada soil
is SO productive that-as Mr.. Yering-
ton expresses it-anything that you
water will grow. The potatoes grown
there are particularly fine, both in
flavor and size, and the Nevada people
claim that their beef and butter cam
not be surpassed.
In the mining department., Nevada
makes a fine show, gold and silver ore
in almost every state, and fine speci-
mems of virisite-as the mineralogists
have christened the phosphate of
aluminium. Mr.. Yerington brings
with him one specimen of verisate
about the size of mans head, and it
weighs nearly fifty pounds. It is a
lovely shade of blue, a little brighter
that Turquoise. Nevada also sends
over hundred pounds of ruby silver,
and lovely specimens of wire gold and
wire silver. In fact, almost every
kind of mineral found in the country
will be sent from Nevada.
But the most interesting of all the
exhibits, from scientific standpoint
are the prehistoric footprints that Mr..
Yerington has given over into Pro-
lessor Putman's charge. The pro-
lessor is intensely interested in them,
more especially in the human relics,
supposed to be those of Indians, and
discovered under eighteen feet of solid
rock. The footprints found at depth
of thirty-two feet are likely to be the
subject of much discussion, as some
scientists are inclined to think that
they are human.
Fighting IA Rail road with "a Stage.
A war of passenger transportation
from Virginia City to Reno is in pro-
gress between the Virginia and True
kee Railroad and 7. R. McGurn,
proprietor of fast freight and stage
line. McGurn is prominent local
merchant and the only one who has
had the nerve to bring all of his mer-
chandise from Reno to Virginia over
the Geiger grade wagon road during
the past seven years. Two years ago
he began carrying passengers to and
from Virginia for 81 80, one-half of
the fare charged by rail, and succeeded
i'll securing nearly all the through
travel between those points. An at
tempt by the railroad management to
shut him out by inducing the County
Commissioners to lease the county
roads and charge high rate of toll
failed through protest against the
measure signed by more than two
thirds of the voters.
The last effort this season to "freeze
out" McGurn is cut in rates, the
railroad company offering through
tickets from Virginia to San Franz cisco
for S11, but the former rate of SIS is
charged passengers from Reno to Vir-
ginia To checkmate this move Nc
Gurn sells through tickets to San
Francisco for SO, and round trip tick
cts to Reno for 81 80, getting all the
through travel, while the railroad
frequently arrives and departs with
only way passengers. A source of
further annoyance to the railroad
is that the STAGE nronria-