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GAJ robbing the government of vast sums in stealing and
consuming vast timber tracts.
He was helped on in this idea by certain New England and
Middle States editors, who when short of subjects delighted in
pcturing the timber thieves of Nevada, who not satisfied with
obtaining vast treasures from the mines, had supplemented that
by stealing from the government, that is all the people of the
United States, unmeasured wealth in growing timber. On the
strength of that belief Sehurz caused a number of fool suits to be
commenced to try to get back something from the wholesale
spoiation.
After his term OF office expired. he came West. After visiting
California, he started east over the Southern Pacific. He reached
Reno in the morning and rode all day long through Nevada.
reaching Salt Lake about II a. M the next day. He was dis
inusionized about the timber reserves of Nevada. When asked
how he liked the West, he expressed his admiration of California,
but, raising and dropping his hands several times, he repeated in
a haltparalyzed tone, Nevada, Nevada, that Nevada
He had made a picture in his fertile brain of what Nevada
probably was. Its mountains ribbed with silver, its valleys
clothed with great forests, where the despoHers had not got in
their work. We suspect that as long Is consciousness lasted he
had a creepy feeling whenever he thought of Nevada. Speaking
Oft when here, he wondered how people could live there, people
who had ever lived in other lands.
Nevertheless, a good many people as strong and bright and
brave as Carl Schurz have lived there, more will live there in the
future, and one of the secrets has and will he that there are few
lands where the Imagination has such play as in Nevada. We
mean people the opposite of those OF whom Ruskin SAYS: I'm
whose hearts the great characters of the imagination lie dead,
for whom the fancy has no power to repress the importantly Of
painful impressions, or to raise what is ignoble and disguise
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surprising in its beauty.
There are no farer skies than those of Nevada; there is no
healthier climate, and the man who has a cabin there with a
prospect, who by day while he tolls keeps in thought the days
when John Mackey worked for So per day, when Marcus DAILY
and David Keith worked each for $4, and who by right sinks to
sleep remembering that the Belcher, Crown Point and Con. Col.
bonanzas product steaded the finances of the nation when the
great war was sore, and dreams what is to be when his prospect
becomes a mine, and he re allies on it--such n man would not
change his residence if he could and would not change his hopes
to be Secretary of the Interior; indeed thinks with a kind of pity
of those who perspne in their hot Offices and fight flies through
the long Washington summers.
1t is giving play to the imagination in a new field and there
the imagination calls up flowers that do not fade with the
summer, but shine on and on in celestial white and gold forever,
and which can at all times be exchanges for houses and luXuries,
and at the touch of which tears are dried and smiles grow warm
ON the palid cheeks of despair.
Men will tell you that there is nothing sentimental about
in one sense that is true, but there is no occupation i'll which the
pillow ON the ground SO downy as mining.
See Il prospector with his DONKEY LOADED with pick and
shovel, a little bacon and flour and baking powder and coffee and
beans, starting out and he seems an object o tpity. Go up close
to him and look in his eyes and you wIlsee that there is a hope
in his heart and a vision before his eyes that makes him pity you
That is the way Nevada was settled; that IS the way bOnanzas
are found. To the genuine Nevada man there is nothing barren
there, only a mantle of serge drawn over a breast of GOLD Good
wins Weekly.