The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-18
STATE DEVELOPMENT.
A Discourse By the Editor Of The Irriga.
ton AGE.

At Carson a fair audience assembled !
at the Court House to listen to Mr..
Smythe lecture on irrigation and imi-
grafton in the West.
Governor Jones was elected Chair
man of the meeting and Surveyor Gen
eral Pratt Secretary.
The Governor introduced the speaker
in a short address.
The speaker entered at once into his
subject, and his pleasant voice and de-
livery coupled with the entertaining
matter he spoke about, kept his audi
ence more than attentive.
He said he had come to Nevada to
discuss the problem of interesting the
surplus people of the East with the sur
plus lands of the West.
Poverty and want existed mainly
when the population were tenants in
stead of land owners. Utah wal the
best known example in the United
States of what land ownership did for
the people. The people who came into
Utah with Brigham Young were mostly
a poverty stricken class, and had very
little beyond their personal effects. yet
they turned their arid land into a gar
den. The secret of their success was
that they made the soil support them
and consumed nothing not raised In
Utah. As a result they were never
effected by hard times and the result of
which by a good system OF irrigation
cleared over five hundred million of
dollars for the people of Utah. The
Greedy Colony started in Colorado
twenty-five years ago. They went in
to combine land and water and made
money. They started with fruit as the
principal crop and failed, but in one
year cleared one million dollars off po-
tatoes alone.
He drew a striking picture OF the
poverty of the East. Men yer max
ing shoes in Massachusetts for $40 q
week wages which only meant IS a
week because they only worked half
time.
He also contrasted the two great fl
~nancial systems of Brigham Young and
George Pullman. In Utah the man who
worked got all he earned and the in
creased value of the land meant more
moneyin his pocket. :
Under the Pullman system a tenant
worked always for wages and if he i'm
proved his home it meant higher rental.
So when the Pullman laborers went on
a strike they were paupers when they
began and paupers when they finished.
Millions OF people in the East will
come out West and take cheap land,
till it and develop it, and as long as
water will run down hill there is nc
money in it. But these people don't
want high priced lands of California.
The price is prohibittory, and the eli
mate of California, where a man can
sleep under the blue sky the year round,
ennovates. Great civilizations thrive
in a diversified climate, and Nevada,
Montana, Colorado, Utah and Arizona
are the coming States of the West be-
cause of the soil and climate.
Nevada has been libeled all over the
East and only spoken of as a mining
state. 1t has produced nearly a billion
dollars and this vast sum has gone to
build palaces in San Francisco, New
York, Paris and London and to recuper-
ate the fortunes of the jaded princes of
Europe. lat this plain talk the audi
ence broke into a round of applause
that wal deafening,l
The speakers idea was to take about
10, 900 acres of Nevada land and COLOMBO
it with thrifty Eastern people. Form a
a construction company with the Gov
ernor at the head of it and issue bonds
on the water and land owned by the
company. He would sell the securities
in the East and get the colonists there.
Each family who came into the colony
would take 5000 worth of bonds, BY
these methods millions of dollars worth
of securities could be sold after the
thing was well under way, which would
pay seven per cent per annum. 1t was
a better investment than Government
bonds. He proposed to get a good class
Of people, respectable, energetic, indus
trious people, who would come here and
settle and bring money with them. The
first thing to do would he tO select the