The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-12-25
NEVADA MUST HOLD
SHARE OF RICHES
Bishop Spalding Declares In
equitable the Old Custom of
Garnering Wealth and De-
sorting State Which Yielded
So Beautifully.
By Bishop j. F. Spalding of Salt Lake
City

In my humble Judgment, Nevada has
the chance to be very great State or
very weak one. She had this claHcc
before and missed it. In 1909 the popu
latiop was 900, the same as it had
! been in 1870 and the State was aust
as poor and weak. though between
these dates there had been twice the
population and Nevada had produced
hundreds of millions of dollars Toby
there are 10000 people in Nevada and
millions are being dug from the Ne.
vada mines. VIII her present pros
perity do no more for Nevada than her
former period of prosperitys 1t will
not unless the men and women who are
in Nevada to stay, get busy immedi-
ately.
Over one hundred millions were TAX
Ell out of the mines at Eureka. Austin
teen millions; Virginia City surpassed
them all; and this is but a beginning
of the list. But what did the wealth
produced do f., the localities which
produced it? Absolutely nothing.
Tonopah. Godfeld. Manhattan, Ely,
and Rhyoite are today producing their
millions Towns there will always be
in these places. but in thirty years, will
thew be as detected and miserable and
helpless as the old, abandoned camps
are? There might have been built in
every one of these towns better school
hat 1,,ro hollc ,,,,b
lie reading and public baths and
we'll CONSTRUCTED hotels. The streets of
each one of these towns might have
sewage systems might have been in
stalled. If that had been done in the
boom days of the '7Os and sos more
people would have been content to have
STAYED in Nevada and those who have
stayed would have been happier and
more prosperous. Then there are the
greater State institutions, universities
and high schools, hospitals, orphan asy-
lums. All these institutions must have
endowments to do their work. Few. If
any endowments were created in the
early days of Nevada S wealth. Shall
they be created nowf
Social life is higher now in Nevada
than in the early boom time. Bust
ness conditions are more stable. law
ana OIuer are DeLIPT enforced, human
rights are more highly respected. This
is largely due to the presence in all the
camps of so many good women. 1t is,
in part, due to the fact that the early
settlers in all the new camps came from
the old camps and were Western men,
tired Of fooling and having no patience
with the cheap. melodramat tic idea Of
the mining camp. But there is more
for them to do still. They must not let
all the wealth being dug from Nevada
hills leave Nevada. Whether by high
taxation, or by a spirit which will i'm
pei private generosity, they must see to
it that those who are making fortunes
here divide with the State which is en-
richjng them. Those who will not agree
with the thought of this article are in
the majority. no doubt. They want to
have an exciting time-make as much
money as they can with as little labor,
and then 60 east or west. In twenty
minutes they raised $4,000 for the
prizefgh in Goldfield. In five years
they have not been able to raise enough
to build an Episcopal church. In a
short time the people who enjoyed the
prize-fght will be scattered to all parts
Of the earth, and Nevada will be af-
fected in no way save with poor repu-
tation. When the church is built 1t
will stand for decades as a blessing to
the community