Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-09-24
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REGARDING NEVADA.

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notice an editorial in a recent is
sue of The Telegram in which Nevada
is mentioned as almost wholly a howl
ing desert"
There is abundant mislnformatlon
regarding Nevada in the East, but |
am surprised to find a paper published
west OF the Rockies giving space to
such a statement.
Possibly you passed through the
State on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road. This road in sele citing a route
across Nevada, selected the most d.
rect and the easiest grade. II
resulted in a road built across the
most arid portions of the State and the
least inviting to the eye of the traveller.
Nevada, having produced about
$7oo,oo0,o 900 in gold and silver, has
come to be regarded as a mining
State. This vast output of the precious
metals has given commercial activity
to every Pacific Coast State, Oregon
as we'll as California, and but for these
discoveries your own State would not
be where 1t is today.
That this output is falling off is true,
but during the past year there has been
over ST. 900. 900 invested In Nevada
mines. We are somewhat like an
cient Egypt--we have lean periods
and our fat ones, and we have passed
through the lean ones. The output Of
the Tonopah mines, in Esmeralda
county and the discoveries near Reno.
bid fair to give US two more Comstocks
and you need not be surprised to see a
revival Of mining here that will again
send the blood of commercial activity
into localities as far away as Oregon.
But mining is by no means our only
ource of wealth. We have several
million acres of prime agricultural land,
and 1t is producing the best beef, best
fruit and the best wool and mutton
that can be found anywhere. | judge
this from the fact that our beef. wool
and mutton are at premium wherever
offered to the consumer. Our butter
is in demand in Illinois at a premium,
and taken by the carload as fast as it
comes from the creamery. Our honey
ard wheat and apples and flour and po-
tatoes took the first premium at
Chicago at the Exposition. The first
peaches exhibited there came from
Esmeralda county. Nevada.
Government experts pronounce u
mountain water sufficiently pure for the
use Of the chemical laboratory.
How can you ship $40. 600, 900 worth
Of fat beef annually from a State where
there there is nothing but "howling
wilderness1"
We are 50 far above the sea level
that 1t gives us a climate which is the
envy of every other State in the Union,
Ii is dry and bracing, and the records
of The meteorological observatory show
over $50 cloudless days in the year.
You say that no people in Oregon
want to go-to Nevada to live. Again
YOU are mistaken, | know a good many
Webbfooters living here and after they
have become acclimated they make
excellent citizens. Many Of our peo-
Die have gone to your State, but the
moment there is q mining excitement
here they come trooping back. Not
that there is anything the matter with
YOUR excellent State, but somehow they
like the sagebrush better.
Yesterday | drove up from Reno, |
went through SO miles Of country and
all but five miles of the way was lined
with orchards and hay and grain fields.
4 crossed a hundred purling streams on
the road. encountering droves Of sheep
and cattle until they retarded my pro-
press, and saw nothing but thrift and