The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-04-17
NEVADA, THE VALLEY OF
HlNN0M."

The April issue of the Overland
Monthly very kindly suggests that New
ada be made garbage dumping ground
for the Cubans, Turks, Armenians,
Cretes, Inus, Cecil Rhodes, the German
Emperor and other Anglo-maniacs. and
let them fight it out in land where
prize fighting is legitimate.
That some of them might undergo
vast change for the better by a pilgrim
age hither, we need not and cannot
doubt, providing the framework OF their
old associations could be broken and
they could be induced to leave their tur-
bulent, oodthirsty dispositions in
their own turbulent land.
Legitimatized prize lighting is inn
measureably more elevating, ennobling,
reputable, and less demoralizing in its
effects, than the legalized assassinations
being carried on by the Christian
crushing countries beyond the Atlantic.
sojourn in the Silver State might
make different impression on their
minds than that made by the Overland,
whose Wild West productions about the
Pacific Coast serves to give foreigners the
impression that Nevada,-because it
brought to a focus the gladiatorial en-
thusiasm of the time-is inhabited by u
lawless element of Turkish Ishmaeites
whose every act is y production of un-
mitigrated evil.
The traditional last straw broke the
canlel's back, and we naturally resent
the expression of such an erroneous
view, coming as it does from San Fran
ciscan-the millionaires of whose city
have been made millionaires and multi
millionaires through the mineral resour-
tes OF this same lawless State.
Not only have its silver mines been
among the richest in the world, but its
leading cereal took the first premium at
the Worlds Fair in Chicago in '93.
The Big Meadows Valley OF which
Lovelock is the center, situated in Hum
boldt County, is one OF the finest agri-
cultural regions in the West. The entire
valley, in its geological formation. is
similar to the Santa Clara Valley in Cal
ifornia, which WAS at one time vast
mustard field given to coyotes and the
wind; All energetic people found a vast
artesian belt, and to day it i, one of the
garden spots of the West.
So will it eventually he with many
valleys in Nevada, for, hidden in ma
lures fastnesses, far from the miner
pick or the vaquero's lonely riues, are
places that when developed will add
materially to the wealth of the State.
In deep gorges, on mountain tops, on
foothills, in other valleys to the north
for hundreds OF miles nature is deposit
ing and storing water in the form of
snow for the sturdy tiler OF the soil
on whom all other industries depend,
and though not flake of the crystalized
moisture bedecks tire grand stretch OF
meadow, wheat and potato land, the
ranrher complacently follows his work,
knowing that when needed, ripping
streams from mountain springs, or can
yon snow banks emptying into the
Humboldt river will satiste the alluvial
soil in this valley and bring forth
bountiful crops.
Our social element is similar to that of
California, composed of all classes,
trades, professions aud nationalities,-
high and low, good and bad, rich and
poor. Morally perhaps no better, and,
though we may have worslipped at the
pugilistic shrine, we claim to be-not
worse than San Francisco.
OLIVE MILLER.