The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-09-05
NEVADA.

NE Mn.
Forty-one years ago come October 31st
Nevada took a place in the sisterhooo
of States. Nevada Territory, previous
to hat time, was little thought of, but
the United States government needed
strengthening and Abraham Lincoln,
then President of the United States,
called Nevada and Nevada promptly an
swered. Her being made a State
strengthened the Union and the silver
and gold mined from the grand old Com
stock, from the Base Range, from the
Reese River hills, from Esmeraida coun-
" and from several other points. found
a warm welcome in the treasury of the
United states and assisted materially in
replen.shing the nearly exhausted ex-
heouer, to enable Mr.. Lincoln TO carry
on the War of the Rebellion and make
of this the greatest country on the face
mission and 1873 Nevada cut an impor-
tant figure in the Union; in 1873 the pro-
duction of silver was very large and the
white metal was demonetized. Three or
four years after Nevada felt the effects
of hi act, and for years the people
were well-nigh discouraged and those
who had come here to profit by the
wealth then being taken from our hills
began to scatter like rats from a SINK
ing ship, until the population had dwli-
died to 5000. In 1880 the bottom of the
slump a been reached and Nevada, in
the eyes of many, was a State without
"a resource, so the press of the east
claimed; so it was claimed by many in
Congress and she was as cordially d.s-
liked by the east as it is possible for
hatred to be engendered by one section
against another. Even Nevada's sister
on the west. California, whose cities got
their first start from Nevada's wealth,
was inclined to kick her when down.
Nevada's voting population was less
than 1900 and her star was completely
hidden in the darkness and was only
seen by the handful of people living
here. Every fall she continued to sena
to the markets of the word the choicest
Of beef and mutton and in the spring
her wool output attracted some atten-
ton n wool centers. But during all
those years of depression we all lived
and lived well and were comparative
ly happy. As time e on Grove
Cleveland was called to the Presidential
chair and among his first acts was to
expunge from the nations books what
little silver legislation had been left ia
vorab,e to this State: he did more; he
banked all the furnace fires in the nit
ed States; he was the direct cause Of
starting an army of men, under Coxey,
10 Washington to demand bread and
butter at the hands of the government;
he had put every State in the American
rn'on in the nine hole. One of the
L~reatest money panics known nj history
fo.owed in 1898 and the whole of the
United States was at low ebb and Ne
yada was at the bottom of the heap.
despised by most of the other States
and kicked about like an orphaned child.
x seemed during those dark days tha
Nevada had nothing to look forward to
and that her life was hardly worth
the struggle. But her As, 900 inhabitants
never completely let go or lost heart.
Fol- a time they spent a good deal OF
valuable energy over milk that haad
been split when the white metal supply
exceeded the demand and made a gal
liant fight to nave silver occupy the
same place 1t once occupied-and lost.
After the battle was over they turned
their attention to pursuits that gave
greater promise than did the fighting of
the world on the silver question and in
= very short time Nevada's star could
again be seen outside the States con-