Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-01-05
The Future Of Nevada.

Nu. Z. Smythe, in the New Edition
Of Conquest Of And America wn:ee
as follows concerning the future o;
Nevada:
No division o; the Union has been SO
perslstertly and grossly misunderstood
Is the big eagebrush wealth,
winch lies betwees Utah and California
two states o, unusual human interest.
The popular impression o; Nevada has
been largely created by those whose
opinion Of is scenery and Is
based on their experience Of q railroad
fight across its wide expanse. They
glance impgtieDtly out OF the car
vlDcoy, Daale some ElkaII dust and
then denuuuce the region as only 1T to
hold the sa-;n together II they happer
TO IL literary artists they vent their dis.
gus: IL some such striking phrases as
these, employed by L popular writer IL
q recent move.
For beauty and promise. Nevada l.
. name among nau@. Nevada. Pro
nouno= the word Gloud. Does it NOT
evoke mountains and clsai ak, heights
u urtrodder suow and valleys aromatic
with the p:E5 Snd musical with ihe tsp-
tni wate-s: Nevada! Blu! the name i
al. AbyuiDEaou o. desolaaoD presiies
over uIDe-t=ntbs o. the pIAcs- TIT Eur
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ps-ElIv= d@Eres {: b=uu:y-whEt land
~ sqoE tns desert, with IL wide
pa--uE. r. gin DuurtEJns. and liz 81.
pG-ln-ug canu;! 0: SKY. ION shall
uev= Sc ~slssybsrs HE here the done,
the ~puuracls, tbe uDa-et frs;pd With
golden ire Z; sunrise and Eunsei; you
EELl never See else here as here the
suus=: ~yElIs!E swimming IL q pink and
hIac haze, TIE greGt messs and plGteaus
fading into blue distance, the goTges
and Canyons banked iuu Of purple
shadow. Never again shall you see
such light and air and color; never sucb
fiery twilight. Look out from the
mountains edge once more. ! dusk Is
gathering Oh the deserts face. and over
the eastern horizou the purple suadow
OF the world Is reaching up TO the sky
The light Is fading ont. Plain and
mesa are blurring into unknown dis.
tances and mountain ranges are lUOu.
ing diuly into unknown heights. Warm
dri':e u ilsc.blue are drawn like ,nists
across the Valley; the yellow sgDds
have shifted into q pauid gray. The
glory .! the wilderness has gone down
with the sun. Mysiery-:hst haunting
sense Of the uDkuown-s all that re-
msius.'
The difference between the Sc two
authors is oDly difference II develop
meut. The Que beholds Z sealed book:
tie other understands. Nevada u
typical Of the whole deser, region he.
tween the Rockies and the western
ocean.
To those who cannot comprehend it,
strange ensemble II Is uude uiably ugly
but " tbose shO can comprehend. II
L d land stamped with d beauty iull 81
endless sUrprsrF. These latter are no,
necessarily cultured Van Dykes. Thy
may be men who have ueyer studied
art or even read d book. MANY 4
Piute Indian has looked upon the
deserts and mounisiDs u Nevada With
q comprehension utterly denied 10 the
novelist who beholds nothing il the
Eceoe except a mean ash dump land,
scape.'