Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-18
Times an1ua 9errnrhrr 8 1905

has a bar, and off from that the gam
1 ing tables, faro, roulette, craps, ETC.
Slowly public sentiment against this
is forming, and the people of Nevada
and the authorities of Nevada must
learn that If they expect to attract
settlers, a high class of settlers, there
must be some restraint of this bust
ness. No one believes the business
can be abolished in such a community,
but it can be taxed, and il can be clos
ed at midnight, and ON Sunday. The
town is orderly: there is little drunk
| enness, and the business men are APP
| parently just such men as we have
/ here at home.
| To show the besotted views of
those in authority. l will mention an
incident. Mr.. Taylor, the government
engineer in charge of the WORKS.
found the proximity of the saloon to
/ his camps an unmitigated curse, so
he and others, with the silent consent
of the interior department, set TO
work to get the Legislature to enact
law that prohibited saloon within
! five miles OF camp Of l00 men. ur-
| less in an incorporated town. me Dill
was passed by both houses, and Gov
ernor Sparks vetoed IT, and when good
! people protested, he was very much
surprised to learn that the bill was
considered an absolute necessity by
the department of the interior. so,
/ anyone can start saloon at any time,
| at any camp. The result is that 1t is
/ almost impossible to get and keep
! men at work With weeks wages
! the next thing is a drunk, with the
| saloon so handy, it absorbs about eV-
| ery dollar of the earnings OF the men
at work. And yet Governor Sparks is
a fairly decent sort of man. l rode
| ont two and one-half miles and saw
his beautiful farm, and his prize Here
ford cattle, and I felt sorry that a
| man who could appreciate nature and
/ fine horses and cattle ard hogs did
MT have sense enough to help people
to be decent. Governor Sparks has
| lived in Nevada too long, but public
sentiment is growing, and Nevada,
the "inining camp" will be born again.
| If you were to ask high school
| scholar how many Inhabitants in Ne
yada he would answer 10000. re-
cent census taken has discovered co.
| 600, and the Reno papers are making
| all manner of fun of hinn. The fact
is Nevada is growing, and the man
/ who wanders around there for a few
| DAYS and can't count 100000 people.
| can't see.
/ The Truckee Valley, where Reno
stands IS about ten miles wide. and
is very beautiful 1t has been irrigat-
ed for years, and land there is worth
from $75 to $3.50 an acre. The alti-
IL.
lev at Reno is almost circular, narrow
| ing as one goes east until at places
| 1t is not over a mile in width. They
can't grow corn. They say they can,
but the native born Nevadan doesn't
know what corn is I made the pro-
/ prietor of the hotel where l stopped,
at Hazen, and who was boasting
about a field Of corn that he had seen
Lin Nevada, admit that he had never
been outside of the state; he nad new
err seen a corn field. But while they
can't grow corn, there is hardly any
! thing else they can't grow in great
! abundance and Of the very finest
4 quality. Nevada wheat looks like
Yhulled barley after being soaked in
/ water. Oats are almost as white as
rice, potatoes immense tnbers, with
| fine grain, owing to the soil and dry
| ness You must know it never rains
here; we'll. hardly ever.
| There is no rainy season; never a
shower sufficient to lay the dust. One
night in October there was light
shower, it wet the roof that was all
The total annual rainfall Is only four
inches. 1t not only never rains, but
| it never storms. 1t may storm in the
mountains that stand snow-capped all
around, but down in the valley storms
are practically unknown. They have
zero weather in winter, but one does
MT feel it. Few people use an out
Side coat. 1t is so dry that the cold
is not felt. The ground freezes
slightly, but that again is so dry that
the work on the canals have never
been delayed by frost a day. But
what about the summers? Well, all
| 1 know is what people told me, what
t little 1 could see, and what could
| infer from all the facts and circum-
stances. 1t gets hot, they admit it
100 in the shade-but again. you don't
| feel the heat, owing to the lack of
humidity, and the altitude. Everyone
is acquainted with this fact. Here at
home we often suffer more with an
! IS temperature than when 1t is 50, ow-
ing entirely to the humidity
In all such countries, especially in
California, the intense heat Of the day
is always excused by the chill of the