The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-05
ALI. Doten, the Veteran Journalist Writes
About Nevada'S Prosperity
Excellent Discourse in the New
Year Salt Lake
Tribune

Third in size among her sister
states of this glorious American
Union, Nevada, the BATTLEFRONT home
of silver and sa~gebrush, again comes
snnually to the front, wishing every
body a happy New Year. Her 71,0OO,-
0uO acres Of territory is sparcely set
tied with less than 10000 population,
but it i an indomitably wide-awake
population, alive to their opportun-
tiles and inviting outsiders to come
ia and win. Her agricultural interests
have fiourished we'll during the past
year, raising plenty OF grain and hay
FOR home consumption and for ship
s1ents outside. Beef cattle have
brought good prices, with large sales,
but no selling short. Nevada's cattle
range over more than a thousand hills,
and the supply is always equal to the
demand. But mining, the great para
mount interest of the State, which
has languished somewhat, has come
more strongly + the front than eve
during the past year or two. Good
mining developments are made all
over the State. Tonopah being the
bright particular speciality, and even
the old Comstock, Oldest of them all,
again rising above the million mark
annually in gold and silver produc-
ton, with a good promise of exceed
ing two millions during the coming
rear.
Elko, it will be noticed, still main
tains the lead in prosperity, ably fol-
lowed by Washoe and Humboldt.
Washoe will take the lead during the
coming year, unless overshadowed by
Nye county, with her phenomenally
rich Tonopah and other new and high
ly promising mines of silver and gold.
The State tax, 80 cents on the 500,
is surely reasonable enough TO encour-
sge outside capital and enterprise to
invest in Nevada's inviting field of
mining, agricultural and other remun-
otative resources.
Last season was a good average one,
owing TO the bountiful SHOWS in the
mountains, supplying a goodly amount
Of water for irrigation, so that the
crops and the great cattle ranges did
aot suffer, especially in Humboldt,
Elko, White Pine. Lincoln and Nye
counties. The wheat crop also -four
ished well, especially in Humboldt
and Douglass counties, which are the
Chief grain producers. The various
creameries also all met with special
success, not only in the production of
choice butter, but in the matter of
good prices. Wherever creameries
have been established they have met
With popular favor and financial sue
cess, and prove to be a highly advant-
aseous and growing ranch industry,
and o are projected. The potato
crop was also splendid, the product
anding a ready market, especially in
san Francisco, where Nevada potatoes
and eager sales at a cent a pound more
than California spuds.
AGRICULTURAL PROPOSITIONS.
The total valuation of taxable prop
srty in this State, according to the re-
ports OF the assessors of the various
counties, for 1902 amounts to $29, 362,-
s26, an increase OF nearly a million
and q half over the previous year.
Everything points to a much larger
increase during the coming year. Fol
lowing is a tabulated statement giving
the valuation of taxable property in
each county during the past year:
churchill .................$ &c., 26
Douglass .................. $685. O4