Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-07
MORE SOUND TALK
The Courier Correspondent
Tell Many Truths

sible letter in the last issue of that paper:
Investing in the other fellows game
and stock gambling have been the curse
Of Nevada But it is never too late to
mend. We have positive, determined re-
sources Of our own to develop, and about
the only obstacle to their development
that I can conceive, is that there is no
distance to lend enchantment.
But the development of our own mining
wealth, right at our own doors, would
devolope a market for all the produce
that can be raised on the land, keep the
money at home and increase land val |
ues, and bring in population and all the |
| comforts and pleasures incident to mod
ern civilization, such as libraries. chur- |
ches, theatres and improved schools and
universities.
Just stop and figure: Over S700,000,000
III gold and silver have been taken out
of the Comstock mines; Sl25,000,G00 from
Austin; s75Oo0,Oo0 from Eureka: So, BOO,
600 from Phoebe; S40,000,000 from Candel-
aria; S30000Oo0 from; Tnscarora and other
lots would ad up a grand total Of over
81 ,200.O00,Oo0 extracted from Nevada and
| dumped into the lap of the world, out of
population that never exceeded $1,000
souls, including Indians not taxed"
Where is this money and where are
the men that handled it? There is not a
dollar of it left in Nevada, and there
is not a man who handled any part of it
left who pays any taxes in the State.
Great freight car loads of additional
money earned in Nevada in stock raising
farming and mercantile business were
dumped into the stream Of golden wealth
which steadily flowed out Of the State
through Stock speculation, never to re
turn. Worse, Nevada farms We're mort
; gagged to pay stock gam bling debts when
: hay WAS worth SIC per ton, and the debt
paid when hay was worth but 81 per ton.
: Worse, again, the debts were contracted
) when silver was worth Sl.29 per ounce,
and paid with silver worth only 90 cents
an ounce. What other section Of our
common country could stand under it?
The money taken from the mines of
Colorado and Montana remained i'll the
| State vhere taken and was Invested in
2 building up the country. IT The money
taken from Nevada had remained here
ard invested, barring a few desert val
levs which are not worse than other des-
erts in other States. Nevada. as whole
q would oHtrank in population and wealth
: every other inter-mountain State i'll the
+ Union.
But why did the money take wings and
fly away? Why does chicken thief run
after getting hold of the chicken? AL
|
ses. a man will sit on pin and he will
! suddenly arise again. and so will every
other man who tries it. Every man tries
to get away from the scene Of his depre
dations, and the men who handled the
a millions that have been extracted from
the mountains of Nevada only followed
this common human impulse. So, stock
: gambling and stock jobbing, and lying
cheating and robbing, all incidental t,
4 stock manipulation, are the reasons why
the Nevada-made millionaires and thei
money are gone, and Nevada is lief
G stranded ami quivering from the on
= slaught.
But we have plenty left, and common
49, honesty and common Intelligence an,
- enterprise Will bring it out, aud it will b
invested in the development and upbuild
ing of the country. Our first duty is t
) stamp ont all would imitators of GU
a' ancient robbers, and proceed to wor
our mines ON legitimate business line
l.. 1t will require little confidence in ouI
n selves and in the mines. Gradual deve
)r opment work will inspire confidence.
Take, for example, young Major Gar,
I barr f>r
ef practically alone, and without funds an
y he had to scratch, borrow and run litt1
in in debt. He built a little mill, and dal
in the Carson river, and he has manage
to pull out of debt, and to prospect h
'o mine, and all accomplished on very 10
- grade ore. Nothing can better illustra
lie what can be done. He has very eXter
to sive body of ore in sight, and if it can
made to pay at all on the exceeding
limited scale upon which he has bee
forced to operate, with windlass, du
al picks. black powder, broken shovel
he patched wheelbarrows and bacon ar
or beans for muscle renovation, what ca
not be accomplished with electric pow
to drive drills, run cars and hoist o
from a mountain full? But mining
California. Nevada, Montana and Alasl
- started in the same way, and Mr. Gardn
M has every reason to be proud Of his wol
~ and of his hardshipS.
~ There is another ledge not far fro
Gardeners, and about eight miles east
/ Carson, which is as large and of abo
the same qualify, and which, with on
half of the money taken out of Carst
by the clock safe man, and the new chur
and the cyclone mill, and the oil spoutt
could be developed sufficient to attio
employment for one hundred men with
year. A monthly pay day for one hu
bred men in Carson would add Of
l thousand to our population and increa
the value of our property fifty per Gel
But there is no distance to lend enchar