The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-20
ERTINENT FACTS
ABOUT NEVADA
Population Doubled in Past Six
Years, and Outlook Was
Never Brighter.
SOME FIGURES THAT
MAY WELL ASTONISH
Agriculture May Some Day
Claim Attention, but Mines
Good for Generations.

1t would appear that after thirty
years of Indifferent existence and an
almost standstin population, Nevada is
again to come into It's own. Gold
doomed Nevada, there are still sew
eral Of the best-paying mines in the
world there. But these properties are
In the hands of limited corporations,
and for years the State has been
poor field for prospectors. But nature
works things out better than eco
nomics Copper Is now what promises
to bring Nevada to the front AS Col
orado rather went out of mining for
farming, Nevada promises to stop
chasing the golden dream for copper.
great district OF this mineral has
been discovered, in and around the
little town OF Ely in White Pine coun
ty. which. by the way is about the
size of the State of Massachusetts, or
5000 square miles. There is no in
centive for sensational figures. for there
Is in sight $4,000, 0000 900 pounds OF pure
copper, 81 1000. .000.0 900 In silver and $780,
600 900 in gold.
The district promises to rival some
of the Alaskan fields, the money ex
changes for property during March
exceeding those OF all the rest Of Ne
vada six times over. Comparatively
speaking, the gold and silver values
are low TO the ton. but the immensity
of the output makes them average
with higher values. Copper, however,
Is the king.
Ely is a typical new mining district
Three banks have been chartered and
three railroads are heading for the
territory. one Will be finished to the
camp within q few weeks. and pros
pectors and business men are arrlv-
ing In numbers daily. 1t is believed
that the biggest mining boom In the
West since the Leadville excitement IN
1878 is on.
Wonderful Record.
In comparison with conditions as
they existed a few years ago, this Is
a wonderful record. Millions have been
made from the mineral resources Of the
State and millions will yet be made
The population of the State has dou-
bled In the last six years and new
camps are springing up everywhere,
many of which Will eventually become
permanent fixtures.
The eyes OF the financial world are
now centered on Nevada, where prior
to ten or a dozen years ago travellers
and writer's were seemingly unable to
advance a single point in her favor.
A good Idea of this may be obtained
from Mark Twain's "Roughing It. al
though the references to the State con-
tained In this work fall far short Of
the efforts of many writer's Of the same
period.
1t is doubtful If there Is on record
the world over so complete case Of
transformation in so short a time and
unquestionably the end is not yet In
sight.
Mining Holds Sway.
The possibilities of the country from
an agricultural standpoint need not be
gone into at this time. Mining alone
will hold the floor for many generations
to come and the end OF the next nifty
OF seventy five years Will be time
enough to begin to devise schemes for
the Irrigation of such portions or the
State as have resisted the encroach-
ments of the ubiquitous gold seeker.
Neyadas In San Francisco.