The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-09-07
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all uis life and was never east Of Ogden
he saw new people, new scenes and much
of interest. He travelled over the Union
Pacific from Ogden to Omaha and was
pleased with the splendid service that
company gives its patrons. In Wyom-
ing tie U. p. runs throus h hundreds of
miles of 6ne grazing lands and the towns
along the line are mostly typical rail-
road settlements. sin Cheyenne" one
finds a beautiful western city that is
growing rapidly and fast becoming an
important business center. In Nebraska,
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana the vast fields
of waving corn and rolling prairie lands
bespeak prosperity and splendid crops.
Money seemed to he plenty everywhere
back in those states but he did not see a
gold coin except the little he had him
self IN the entire trip. All change I'M
der five dollars was given in silver and
all over i've dollars was in paper money.
The twenty dollar piece is viewed by the
general merchant with considerable sus-
picion and he will not accept it without
asking if you haven't some other kind of
money. This in Indianapolis where
they declared for gold only with much
gusto in that convention now SO cele-
brated in political history. Wyoming,
Colorado and Nebraska are experiencing
a wonderful growth and the area of cul-
tivated lands is increasing rapidly. The
mining interests OF Colorado as far as
gold properties are concerned were never
in the past 80 promising as they are at
present. Stratton in one of his Cripple
Creek mines is blocking out ore in such
a way as to be able to take out one mil
lion dollars in a single day when the
State celebrates an anniversary two
FEARS hence. Wyoming land laws are
now 8 favorable to the settler that the
State is reaping an immense benefit in
rapid development agriculturally. The
railroads all through the country are
doing a larger business in both passenger
and freight traffic than ever before and sill
the equipment OF all the roads is now in
use. They make business however and
rates are low. AS an example the Big Four
advertised a Sunday excurson from In
dianalolis to Cincinnati, round trip OF
ZIG miles, fare one dollar. Fifty-four
carloads, 5000 people, went on that ex-
cursion. The fare was less than one
hall cent per mile. The pay OF railroad
employees however is low. A station
agent and operator in a town OF 5000 in
habitants gets the muniticent sum OF
$50 per month, the section hand l21a
cents per hour, 80 hours per week and
pays Sl6 to SIS per month ior board and
lodging, and other employees proportion
ate pay. The Nevada maj can buy
clothes just as cheap as can the man in
Illinois. Nebraska or Ohio. Whiskey is
universally from 121a to Is cents per
glass, cigars are cheaper than here, and
while beer is cents per glass there you
get two-thirds foam, and we have no
hesitancy in saying beer is twice rs
cheap in Nevada as it is in either of the
States named because of the measure
given. There is no difference in the
price of sugar in Chicago and in Wads-
worth. General groceries are about a
cheaper there than here. An Indiana
farmer with a farm 20 miles from India
napolis valued at $50, 900 said he kept
a grown family OF six, gave them all the
comforts of life, lived in an elegant home
and put from $500 to $1,000 in the bank
every year. He wanted to know if o
westerner could do that well out here on
such an investment.
With the thermometer at from 80 10
SO in Chicago, indianapolis and Cincin-
natl, men fell on the sidewalks pros
trated by the heat, and the same con-
ditions prevailed at the Omaha EXPOSE
ton grounds. The negro was the slave
of the white man for many years and mp
to the emancipation but the conditions
are now reversed and the white man is
the slave OF the negro. The negro is
everywhere back there and makes his
presence felt by touching the white
man for an entire pocket book. In a
hotel where the rates are from $3.50 per
day up tie walters can absolutely starve
the patron who objects to being cinched
and in the end the white man goes down
to defeat in the strugs lie no matter what
efforts he makes to hold his own. The
saloons front doors are closed on Sun
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