The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-03-04
About Nevada.

The COURIER has received pamphlet
containing advance sheets of the Worlds
Fair edition of "Nevada's Natural and In
dustrial Resources, which will be thor
oughly illustrated and compiled under
the direction ofthe State Board of Worlds
Fair Commissioners.
The appended extracts are from pa
per written by r. L. Fulton, entitled,
Nevada: Past, Present and Future" We
regret that we haven't room in the CoUR-
TER for the entire article, as it is one OF
the best ever written concerning our
home State:
Continued from last week.
There are seventy-one millions of
acres within the boarder lines of Neva-
da, and if only one acre in ten can be
made productive there will be as many
farms, and they will produce as much,
as there are in one-half the States in
the Union. The other sixty-four mill
ion acres would be no mean wealth.
producers, with their mountain past
ure fer the cattle and sheep, their
mines of every kind and their for
ests of timber. That these claims
are not fanciful can be well believed
by any who have looked over the
chronological discoveries of the recent
years, which show that there was here
the seat of a vast prehistoric civiliza-
tiou which peopled all the country and
made homes high up among the cliffs.
Remains of important irrigation works
have been identified, prehistoric graves
have been found with samples of the
productions of those early days, in
Guiding cotton, corn and other cereals,
near to ruins of buildings which were
put up by far more skillful hands than
any now at work among the aborigines.
Among the interesting relics OF this
great people are the pictured rocks
which extend in broken lines from
Arizona far into Oregon. They run to
the SUBMITS of the Sierra, as well as
far down among the valleys, and must
have had some design lost in the mist
of ages. None of our present Indians
have even a tradition of their origin
or purpose, but all agree that they
were just as they are now from the
earliest times known in Washoe or
Piute history. But there is nothing in
the whole range of prehistoric study
that compares in interest with the foot
prints found under twenty feet of
solid rock in the quarries worked by
the prisoners at the State Penitentiary
at Carson City. If it is ever proven
that they are the tracks of human
beings, which they seem to be, they
upset all scientific theories as to the
age of man upon the earth, for
they were made so long ago that
this whole basin has since that time
sunk down and been again the oceans
bed, for no one knows how long, to
emerge again in time to make homes
for those now fretting the little stage
of life allowed them. The marks of
deer hoofs, dogs feet, birds long since
extinct, bones and ivory tusks of an
elephant which here lay down to die,
are all jumbled in together, carrying
us back to ages when there was a very
different picture from any now
seen here. The contrast is great be-
tween this misty past, when the ele-
plant, the cave bear and the saber-
toothed tiger were roaming through
the wilds, and this day, when peace
prevails and man is fast subduing the
forces of nature in even this rugged
land, but it is no greater, nor is it more
interesting, than the prophetic vision
which shows the Nevada of fifty years
hence.
Nothing necessary to the upbuild-
ing of great State was omitted when
Nevada was created. The raw materi-
ais were abundantly bestowed, and
only the lack of human endeavor has
prevented this rich and extensive
region from taking high place among
her sisters.
There is no country on the continent
which offers greater inducements to
the small farmer, the gardener or the
fruit grower. He would never miss a
crop through drought nor through
flood. He would control his water
supply absolutely with no reference
whatever to the tickle clouds or the
irresponsible weather prophet. He
would have soil unbleached by
showers which have dissolved the
phosphates in other land and swept
them to the sea; he would have a eli
mate that would coax to perfection
whatever seeds he put into the ground
and he would see his fruits ripenet
with no fear of drenching rains or rust
ing fogs. When ready to sell his sur
/ plus he would find huvaro at tho doc