Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-06-17
NEVADA IS A
GREAT STATE
Irwin Mahon Gives Some ln1er-
estine Facts in Wen write"
Article in the "Money
Maker"

One OF the MOSs
The same time, best written "i'i0is7
anort This ection Of the universe inc
satt1a5horn state of Nevada, that has
JET -appeared in an outside puoiic',
I'LL q tha following from the pen OF
irwin Mahon. in the Money MAKER
avcaI,ant crisp periodical Of ST
Louis. Mo-: .aa ana
mona niles from Boston ana
gose miles from New York there
rests IN i Of the most western
.tatos - me union. Carson City, the
capital Of Nevada.
The object Of this article, however
4. ~ "a can prolonged attention TO
carson city, but II possible 10 cea-
M III interest on Tonopah md Gold
ana the wonderful mining camps Oh
80 ana This. in the writer's
oninion. cannot we'll be done without
u~as1-tre same mention Of the state IN
myh,cb ~ are locaged, not forgetting
~ attractive little capital city, from
w,hich emanatss the laws, by whi'h
M ereat commonwealth Of Nevada
is governed.
nmeial records tell us, that Nevada
was formed from a portion of the ter
-itorv acquired BY the United states
ram Mexico by the treaty Of Quad
aim Hidaigo. Ii is 10000 square
niles in extent, representing 70,StS
acres, and according to the census OF
1900. had a population Of 1885.
II is bounded ON the south and west
by California, on the north by Ore
ron and Idaho, and the east by Utah
and Arizona.
AZ the time silver was discovered
Il 1859 what is the state @
nevada was a part Of Utah. On Marcel
q. 1861, it became a territory ant
after some modification Of it's bound
aries. It was admitted into the Unio'
as a state october 81, 1864.
The first settlement was made a
Genoa. at the foot of the Sierra Ne
vadas, in 1850. though as early a
1S4S. fifty seven years ago, the Nor
mons travelling between Salt LAX
city and California had established
temporary camp at that place. tn
also made several sma
settlements in the valleys along I'll
base Of the Sierras, and until 1S5'
forty-four years ago., when silv'
mines of the Comstock we're disco
cred. they we're the principal inhah
tants.
This il must be remembered, W
Al a time when the entire surface
this section Of the country was co
sidered by the white mar general
as a worthless, barren, rocky, a
mountainous region, uninhabited, a
unfit for the consideration of civi
cation. But after the Mormons d
covered, between the parallel rang
valleys from five to twenty miles
width, all having about the same al
tude above the sea-, and conditio
favorable for cultivation, with veal
er In these valleys as a rule in whit
dry, bright and pleasant, with su
mer nights everywhere delightful
cool, and word was sent out to
the world that silver had been disc
cred, then the people beyond the G.
zines OF this wilderness began to thi
became restless, and in 1860, crov
Of all n~ationalities began to pour o
the Sierra Nevadas' from Califor
and ere long had laid out and bl
up several thriving towns and the
flag Of Nevada's civilizat
began to move onward and upward
a new light.
Twenty-Five years afterwards
1882, when it became known t
the Comstock at Virginia City
Gold Hill had produced over So
600 900 in silver and gold, and
product in the precious metals of
Nevada had reached the enorm
sum Of $500, 900 900 then anot
and a greater strange new light
circled this far away region and 1t
came one Of the great magnets of
nineteenth century, in attracting
tention to the broad lands, and
mineral and metallic wealth, of
our great empire in the west. c
began to appear and state after s
rounded into form. strange VI
through the heavy respiration
steam engines and the click Of
telegraph were heard, forests ms
away, and in their stead great SO
houses, fine churches and fair hi
with fruitful fields appeared,
each and every year since that
the greetings to the advance fla
American civilization has e.
deeper, stronger, wider and br
er until today, with the opening O