The San Francisco call., 1898-03-31

have been deemed out of the question
 a year or two ago.
 This is a wholesale town." said the
 president of the Board of Regents or
 the State University. Its locaElon
 couldn't be improved It is better than
 that of Denver. All the produce or
 Nevada is bound to pass through Renos gates. And everything that We
 have in Nevada-from the president or our university to the onions that grow down at Glendale-is of the best You
 needn't take Nevada's word, as to the
 produce. Just go to the ones who aIo
 most competent to judge, and who are
 hardest to suit-the buyers. San Fran cisco's wholesale butchers keep agents in Reno six months of the year buying our beef. They tell you it's the best
 to be had. The California cattle men want the quarantine line lowered Mil Ter & Lux alone want to bring into this State 10000 head of cattle. Why? Be
 cause the Nevada ranges are covered
 with grass that's unequaled- Keno mas just shipped a carload of apples to New York. Why? Because they're the best Because Nevada's snows and moun- tainS have given that sweet. sharp juiciness that make Honey Lake ap-
 pies the finest in the world. Our ber-
 ries are the best. There's no butter
 so sweet as Nevada's. The best ho-
 tels in San Francisco appreciate this. We supply them. Our potatoes are | the best, and we get the best prices | for them. As to onions, there are hun- dreds of tons of them ripening now | down on the river bottoms just at the right time, for us; just when all other
 onions are out of season. The conse- quenceS are that we get $40 ton for 1 them.
 Reno is the natural depot for meat,
 for everything that Nevada produces. She has grown steadily, continually. New buildings are going up right along. With such advantages as ours we should be city of 30, 900 people. And
 we will be. Nothing could have kept | us back, except railroad rates. And the end of that is coming. Other roads i build up the country through which l they pass. The Central Pacific will pass into other hands, or we'll get competing line and then there will be ten times the amount of shipping done | over the road to compensate for the 1 lowering of rates. The past two years have been splendid ones for Nevada Reno's time is coming. It can't be stopped"
 The Nevada Hospital for Mental Dis eases is a fine building, eXceliently planned, we'll adapted for the care of Nevada's insane. It is beautifully sit uated about two miles from town on | the banks of the Truckee. The grounds are very pretty and all through the spring and summer and late in the win | ter a great IDe luH1dlcS dIc 1 to be seen seated upon the lawns or walking along the roads. accompanied l by attendants. The hospital can ac- commodate 225 patients. At present there are 193 cared for. There are 200 acres of land belonging to the hospital now under cultivation, and nearly one 1 half of the patients are employed in one capacity or another, as tailors, | about the grounds or in domestic oc- equations The hospital building it. l f16 and lad vr-ifF all possible comforts for the unfortu- nate people who are kept here. There are sunny, carpeted reading rooms. where the more rational gather. Twice month religious services are held and every week there are dances in the hall. A number of patients, male and female, have even visited the State Fair, which takes place yearly in Reno.
 
 It is said that ninety-nine one-hun- dredths of the water power of the Truckee goes to waste. The Reduction Works, for whose use 5000 horsepower is drawn from the Truckee and re- turned without encroaching upon any ones rights, are idle at present, owing to the depreciation of silver. The man who owns them is also the proprietor of Reno's flour mill, which he has re- built three times in the past twelve years, and which supplies the people of the vicinity with 1S,000 barrels of flour a year. me IlIIle WILL come when the Iruckee will be required to do all the work of which it's turbulent energy is capable; when mills will be as numer- ous on either side of the lovely river as are now the creameries, with which the valley is dotted.
 | One-third of the people of Reno are | interested in the Union Building and | Loan Association. holding from one to not more than fifty shares of it's S100.- 900 worth of stock. The Reno Real Es- tate and Investment Company has put up a number of fine buildings in town. The Inyo Marble Works have their out let a few miles above Reno.
 The social life of Reno has always been most pleasant. The city pos sesses a club almost unique in the priv ileges allowed to lady members. The club house erected in the prettiest part of PGwning's Addition-one of the many enterprises due to the energy of the man who, while in health, was Reno's most public-spirited citiZen-is used by both sexes; and the pleasantest as well as the most select social gath i erings have been held here. Renos bi- cycle club numbers more than hun dred memoirs
 A new industry has sprung up of late | in Reno, which is a source of amuse- ment as well as of profit to Renoites. Just now this city is engaged in marry ing California couples who nvade the California laws as to marrying within year after divorce. Reno has become known as Cupids town; and that the Riverside Hotel has had to build an ad- dition of twenty rooms lately is testi- mony that the marriage business like other Reno enterprises, is booming.