The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-08-22

5 NEVADA. {
State Controller S. P. Davis Pounds
Truth Into CalifOrnians Through
the Medium of the Sac
ramentO Bee.

ment East, and the third quality feed tc
the hogs. What the hogs decline is seni
to Nevada.
I am disposed to think that at times
this is correct summary OF the situa
ton. We get this sort of fruit when car,
loads OF good fruit are being dumped in.
to the bay at San Francisco to keep W
prices.
Some of the jams and jellies coming to
us with California brand do not con.
tain 2 per cent, of the fruit named on
the multi-colored label.
1t is merely glucose and coloring mat
ter with dash of the fruit it purports
to represent. The labels, however, are
really works Of art, beautiful to look at
| have often seen them adorning the
walls OF miners cabin in the mountains
where they take the place OF Prang'f
chromos.
A more outrageous thing than that
however. is the unblnshing way that
California dealers have of advertising
Nevada potatoes. They sell the watery
California product and advertise them
as coming from Nevada. Nevada has
earned a reputation for its potatoes by
taking first premium at New Orleans
Philadelphia and Chicago, and no potato
on earth equals those raised in Nevada
Our beef also commands a cent a
pound above all other in the market. II
is hard to get any good beef here, how
ever, as it is all shipped to California.
While California ships only its second.
class products to US, we retaliate by send
ing her only the best we have Of every
thing.
The beef is superior in quality because
of the highly nutritious grasses which
grow at an elevation of 5000 feet above
the sea level. And also, l have no doubt
from the fact that the cattle can repose
in Nevada at night, while in the humid
atmosphere of California they are. by
reason of the hot nights, deprived Of a
good deal of needed rest. Fretting cat
t e do not make good beef.
While we have turned out several
hundred millions in gold and silver and
thrown it into circulation. our million
aires, who have accumulated their for
tunes hero, invariably go to California to
invest. This has been fearful drain
on Nevada.
he steadiest drain Of all comes from
our unfortunate geographical position.
We are just where the freight rates bit
us the hardest. A carload of mer:han-
disc landed in this State from the East
pays the railroad company the rate from,
say Chicago to San Francisco and the
local rate back.
Thus car of freight that costs $500
laid down in Sacramento costs $500 laid
down in Nevada. The difference of $500
on car comes out of the pockets of the
ANONdud CcLbutucIs.
We have ceased to complain of this,
and merely regard it as part of the Bur-
dens OF fate arising from being SO far
from terminal point. The San Fran
cisco merchant demands that his Nevada
be thus treated or he will re-
taliat, with the railroad company by
shipping his freight by the northern
route.
In the famous winter of 1890, the So
yerest snow st rms of forty years visited
this State The result was wiping ou
fully 95 per cent Of the cattle owned
here IL pauperized the cattlemen and
y in ten years they have recovered
from the blow and last year shipped at
least S10,000,000 worth of beef.
Many of our mining camps have been
overtaken with disaster, but we system
atically find new ones. Now mines in
county, Humboldt, Washoe
and Ormsby are coming to the fore as
bullion producers, and during the last
sixty DAYS sales OF mines for cash in Ne
vada have amounted to nearly 81 ,000, 900.
We think we have another Comstock
in Tonapah, We are shipping the best
wool in the world. We are raising the
best wheat and selling the best butter
and beef, and any San Francisco house
i
account is something rare.
How are we able to thrive under ad-
verse conditions may be asked?
We have the most invigorating climate
and the purest water in the world
People who thrive and who are hardy
and able to fight the battles Of life mu st
be able to sleep nights, which you can
always do here, and they must have