Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-03-01
A WHOLESOME ARTICLE.
Nevada Resources From the Pen OF
One Who Knows.


the pamphlet entitled "Nevada's Nat
ural and Industrial Resources" which
is really the advance sheets Of a pub
licatiCn to be distributed by thS
Worlds Fair Conn isioners 1t is Gle
verify written booklet and the follow
ing from the pen Of r. l.. Fulton con.
tains several bushels of good sound
sense. Only a portion of the article
is used, and in its entirety it is a de
cided stroke in the light direction:
The prospects are that the year 1904 I
will more than double Nevada's rail
/ road mileage as three very important
! lines are in progress. One will connect
! Salt Lake City, Utah, with Los Ange-
| les Another will give the great mines .
at TorOpah an outlet. /
3 New railroads ect as stimuli to ey- I
cry branch Of business and to every /
I line Of enterprise, so that Nevada may /
. confidently hope for the greatest benz I
. Ct from such an addition to her trans /
! por;ation facilities.
Nothing promises more, hOweve", (
. fer the immediate future of the State /.
: than the great irrigation enterprise /
which the general government has IN !
,.-I-- g. 4.-.7- ,..--.. 49, ...-,a |
/ +
N''1.'9 mas run 'o'S 70 "'.7'7 anu l''0
laIcile' Iaho mas reHiaihe5' ot99' l. linz
advent of the white man about fOrtv !.
years ego turned small streams ouo .
on the rich sagebrush benches and IN
this way two and h71 or three per .
cent Of the 1oo55 have been put to
use, the balance going by unused.
Wherever water touched the soil TIE
product was supoTicrin quality and the
yield SO abundant that it became ap-
parent that untold wealth lay in bring
ing the unused water to the unused
land hv means Of the unused money
aud the unused labor. Nevada sent
men TO Congress who made this 50
aDDarent that laws were PASSED to
create sufficient funds to begin the
work. and the initiation Of the great
schema for tho reclamation Of tho
grid region was frtingIv given tn the
State of Nevada.
There has never bean anv COMPLAINT
as to the Quality in the citizenship
Of the State, Her sons and daughtors
have gone into every part Of the
= world and moro than held their own
. in all lines Of human endeayor. The
= worst that c0u-I he said was thar
/ Nevada lac, Ell popa'ation. and it was
I harmed rra3 SO ?ovd1v ana 50 Ionr
j that many good naon1e really heaan
to regard it as a stigma upon her
Il good name and the Scrinture was
: naraDTrased to read. Can anv eool
t thing come out Of Nevada?" Surej;y
J if a scantv population is q crime. t
is not the people who live here who
are guilty. but those who fail TO coma.
The northern lines Of tho States
. Of Nevada and PENNSYLVANIA lie On
parallel Of latitude ~. while the SOIL
thern point Of Nevada touches the
# line Of 81. which crosses Arkansas
and divides Tennessee from Nfssiss-
| ipDi Alabama and GEORGIA. This
n would read to the Inhabitants Of thos,
States that we can raise the wheat
apples and potatoes Of the tenperate
zone. figs cotton tobacco. grapes,
peaches and peanuts of the South. but
if it gave them the idea that the SINH
Iarity Of latitude gave us this climate
they would be entirely misled. The
very fact that orr croae raor,fro =,
rication tells the story If iaol, of
rain and fog informing t,7a ohso,,-o,+
reader that W. have sunshine inteoa.7