The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-26
About Nevada.

containing advance sheets of the World
Fair edition OF "Nevada's Natural and In
dustrial Resources" which will be thor
oughly illustrated and compiled undel
the direction OF the State Board of World;
Fair Commissioners.
The appended extracts are from a 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 ii is one OF
the best ever written concerning our
home State:
The prospects are that the year
| 1904 will more than double Nevada's
railroad mileage, as three very import
ant lines are in progress. One will
connect Salt Lake City, Utah, with Los
Angles. Another will give the great
mines at Tonopah an outlet
New railroads act as stimuli to every
branch of business and to every line OF
enterprise, so that Nevada may con-
fidently hope for the greatest benefit
from such an addition to her transpor-
tation facilities.
Nothing promises more, however,
for the immediate future of the State
than the great irrigation enterprise
which the General Government has
undertaken. Since time began the
great bulk of water which fell from the
clouds has run idly to waste and the
parched land has remained desert.
The advent of the white man, about
forty years ago, turned small streams
out on the rich sagebrush benches and
in this way two and half or three per
cent of the floods have been put to use,
the balance going by unused. Wher-
ever water touched the soil the prod
uct was superior in quality and the
yield so abundant that it became APP
parent that untold wealth lay in bring
ing the unused water to the unused
land by means of the unused money
and the unused labor. Nevada sent
men to Congress who made this SO APP
parent that laws were passed to create
sufficient funds to begin the work, and
the initiation of the grand scheme for
the reclamation of the arid region was
fittingly given to the State of Nevada.
There has never been any complaint
as to the quality in the citizenship OF
the State. Her sons and daughters
i how, r.,,,,a int, oxyarx, mart IF tho world
and more than held their own in all
lines of human endeavor. The worst
that could be said was that Nevada
lacked population, and it was harpeo
upon so loudly and so long that many
good people really began to regard il
as a stigma upon her good name ant
the Scripture was paraphrased to read
"Can any good thing come out of Ne
vada?' Surely if a scanty population
is crime, it is not the people who live
here who are guilty, but those who
fail to come.
| The northern lines of the States o
Nevada and Pennsylvania both lie OF
parallel of latitude AZ, while the south
ern point of Nevada touches the lin,
of 80, which crosses Arkansas ant
divides Tennessee from Mississippi
Alabama and Georgia. This would
read to the inhabitants of those State
| that we can raise the wheat, apples
and potatoes of the temperate zone
figs, cotton, tobacco, grapes, peache
aud peanuts of the South, but i
| it gave them the idea that the sim
ilarity of latitude gave us this climate
they would be entirely misled. TIL,
very fact that our crops require irri
CATION tells the story of lack of rail
and fog, informing the observan
reader that we have sunshine instea'
of clouds and cheerful days instead O
gloomy landscapes. Our medium
elevation, too, has an immense effec
on climate, it being about midway be
tween that of Colorado and the Allan
tic States, thus giving us the light al
;, which conduces to comfort and Ion
gevity, without the extreme cold.
Few countries have SO comfortabl
a climate as this. No part of tn
Union has more sunny days in tn
year. Malaria, sunstroke, hydropho
bia and consumption are unknown
The dry, rare air is beneficial in almos
all forms of illness, and there is non
of that changeable and boisterou
weather found farther east. Parts o
the State are subject to extreme cold il
? winter, but the whole west side ant
southern portion are influenced by sol
winds of the Pacific, which give al
equable and mild temperature. Adde
to the luxury of an invigorating ant
healthful climate there is grand seer
cry and productive soil.
The practice of irrigation make
frost, instead of season, the limit c