Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-11-19
THE CALIFORNIA
ROBBER BARONS.
Palace Hotel Clique and Mine
Assessment Methods.

For many a year past Nevada has
seemed to casual observers to be de-
cadent State. Eastern people acquired
a habit of referring to it as a thinning
camp" Sometimes they called it "a
political rotten borough" AS a rule
they believed it to be a land whose
mineral resources are exhausted and
which has nothing else to rely upon
for the requirement Of wealth and
the support Of ar increasing population.
Those who have shared that opinion
will now have to change it. The
strong and energetic men who have
STAYED with Nevada have discovered
new sources of mineral wealth, and
these promise to yield ven more a.
bundantly than those whose exploration
we're the wonder Of the world in days
gone by. Diligent prospectors have
brought to light several districts where
the yield of gold is promising in the
highest degree, and. as a consequence,
new mining enterprises are being un-
dertaken with capital sufficient to car
ry them to success.
Nor is 1t in mining only that the en-
ergies Of the people Of Nevada are de-
veloping new fields for profitable in
dustry. BY reason Of the extension
of irrigation, many districts of the
State that formerly produced nothing
but ~sagebrush are now marked by
fields Of alfalfa. farms and orchards.
The live stock industry thrives. 1t is
not SO extensive as it was in times
past, but it is now adapting itself to
new conditions, and in the end. with
the extension Of irrigation and the in.
creased production Of ~grasses-of one
kind or another, it will eventually be
larger than ever.
In fact, whether considered with res
pect to her mines. her cattle, her farms,
her cities, her business or her educa-
tional institutions. Nevada is capable
of making a good showing for herself.
In times past the wealth Of Nevada
was taken away to build up other States,
but the new wealth seems to be in the
hands Of men who love the State. who
intend to live there and who will use it
to build up Nevada herself. Such be-
ing the case, it is not easy to sat Inn
its to the changes which may be
wrought in the conditions of Nevada
life within the next ten years. Many
an Eastern mar who has been taught
to look upon the State as no better
than an exhausted mining camp may
yet seek 1t as a place for the invest
ment Of his money. and find there so
many attractions that he will settle
there permanently and become as big
a Nevada boomer as any of those who
have lived there for forty years, or are
native to the Soils. F. Call.
The foregoing was reproduced. not
because It was correct. in every detail,
but because II was written with kindly
intent.
The Call. however. speaks knowing
ly, when it tells US that 1.-The Eastern
man who has been taught to regard
Nevada as an exhausted mining camp
will soon come to his lenses and invest
here" The fastener is freer from
Misrepresentation than our very near
est neighbor and benificiary-Caiitc.7
mia. As a matter OF fact in every sin
gle county in the State Of Nevada,
Eastern men, Colorado and Utah men,
are investing. Every large legitimate
undertaking in the State Of Nevada
is backed up by people residing east Of
Nevada. Not n California corpora
lion. association or individual is ex-
tensively investing ! N Nevada in any