The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-09
NEVADA'S FUTURE.

vi bne NeNaua is from Ine pen Oh JOnn
w. Freeman of Churchill county and
published in the Woodland Democrat:
"While Nevada has retrograded for
series of years, everything now points
to prosperity.
The miners who have been discourag-
ed at their net returns on silver bullion
have of late been paying closer atten-
tion to the discovery and development
of gold mines, and many good results
have followed. The DeLamar mine sit
uated in Lincoln county near the Colo
RADIO river, and employs 400 men and
the monthly output is said to he 5000,
900. There are many promising mines
in the DeLamar district.
In Osceola, White Pine county, placer
mining is carried on quite extensively
during the summer months, the only
season OF the year that water is avail
able.
About seventy-fve miles north of
Elko, Elko county, is body OF quartz
and placer gold mines. Many of these
claims have been worked for twenty five
wears by the old-style method of rocker
and slulce-box, and have yielded nearly
million OF money, and when you know
that water can only be obtained for a
run OF sixty or ninety days, these mines
might be classed among the big things
Capitalists have recently taken hold
of the water question and have now en-
ployed 100 teams and 250 men cutting a
ditch eight miles long to connect with
a large reservoir, which will furnish
$500 miners inches of water every "a
hours, for 200 days in the year.
The placer mines are 5000 acres in
area, and it is said by experts that the
geolcg gical mineralogical conditions re-
senble those of Cripple Creek.
There are many other mining districts
being successfully worked for gold, SO
the former silver State may change her
helmet to that of gold.
No State has grown SO rapidly in the
increase of livestock as Nevada in the
last six years. Over half million of
sheep roam upon the plains at this sea-
son OF the year, and upon thousand
hills in the summer season. While in
all other sheep and wool producing
States Mary's little lambs have decreas-
ed from % to 80 per cent in numbers,
we in Nevada have kept on in the even
tenor OF our way. Sheep are now read
lily sought for at 50 per head for stock,
and So for mutton.
While the views of some are that by
shutting out other countries produce
we may shut ours in, yet the wool grow
er is anxious to some protection in order
that we may have something to stand
off cheap labor in the Argentine Repub-
lie and Australia, and when it is done
the Aocks will increase two-fold.
Cattle have increased in numbers very
satisfactorily to the holders thereof.
The fatty part of the OK, produced by
the white sage in the winter and the
bunch grass in the summer, is as white
as the driven snow, and the succulent
steaks cut from the Nevada steers have
been sought for for years. Formerly
California received Neyada's output of
beef, but OF late years two thirds OF the
crop is shipped 20 eastern markets.
These eastern shipments are caused by
n lucments offered to eastern buyers to
ship over the Union Pacific and Oregon
Short Line Railroads.
The luxuriant growth OF alfalfa along
the Carson and Humboldt rivers shows
what could be done were reservoirs con-
structed and the waters used instead Of
going to waste.
1t is the hope and desire of the stock
men OF Nevada that the coming legisla-
ture will enact laws authorizing tie
killing wild horses, which eat up
and destroy the feed that should 60 to
our sheep and cattle. No bounty is re-
quired-only authority, and those inter
ested will turn loose the dogs of war.
Perhaps you think me too partial OF
your sister State, whicn has continually
decreased in population since 1888, but
there is Il good future before her. No
country Offers better inducements for
stock raising, and as gold and silver
State she is peeping up again. Today