Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT
A FLOWER GARDEN OF POSSIBILITIES.
W. C. Black, Editor

T1HAT Churchill county is about to resolve herself into a
- vast flower garden of possibilities, where many posies
GEg of good fortune will be plucked by the enterprising ones,
seems now to be the universal opinion. Mines and mining
Farms and farming! What a world of wealth is conveyed into
the laps of mankind by the two processes. Seldom, indeed, it is
when a county can embrace the two. In orr particular case, the
future is brilliant beyond the dreams of the most optimistic OF a
few months ago. The fact that mines rich in hidden treasure are
being developed, augurs well for the future of the agricultural
resources, the extent of which will only be limited by the all-wise
hand of a magnanimous government. Think, will yon reader,
ofan irrigation system costing nine millions of dollars, and then
extend your thoughts to include the wonderfully rich mines that
commence almost where the agricultural lands ceases, and YOU
will have a combination the like Of which is rarely seen.
Strikes have been made with such ALA ming rapidity during the
past few weeks, and sales of mining properties at large prices
have been SO frequent that it would tax the resources of a score
of correspondents to keep an accurate record of events as they
transpire. 1t is enough to know that the dormancy under which
our wonderful countys lumbered for two score years has sudden
ly given way to a feverish activity. An activity pregnant with
results. Mining operations are being carried on in the same
extravagant manner that characterizcs the camps of Tonopah,
Goldfeld and Manhattan, and the ore tests are responsible for it
all.
knowing ones predict with an opinion OF unanimitv-an
opinion that includes an active exploitation that must make
ofFairview and Eastgate, Fairfield and Sand Springs, rivals Of
Goldfeld and Tonopah. Dormancy has gwen way to a eondi-
ton that is irrepressible and can only result in one end-the most
magnificent county in the state of Nevada or the whole west for
that matter.
While the mining development continues growing in extent
and Importance the homesteaders, composed of the same stead
tastness of purpose, endowed with the same energy, are finding
their way into the country in large numbers. Their work must
be productive of wealth, even greater than the mining develop
ment.
Kind reader, put the two classes of work together, for an
instant. If your imag inaton is good you may be able to set an
inking of what future years hold for our county. This is a
process that can only be INDUCED by the optimist. The p@ssi
mist must be content with seeing things las they really are, and
the golden opportunities are slipping by him.
The plains, even the sand dunes of Churchill county, are the
very representation of agricultural wealth, when coupled with
water. Nature has clustered untold treasure contiguous to this
agricultural wealth. There will one dav be a center of commerce
in Churchill county, that must challenge the admiration OF the
entire state, and the day fits realization can not be far away,
for across the plains OF never ending human secrihce
the marks are already being set, and the me engaged i'll the
process are the pr ospectors and the homeste; ,ders.