The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-10
NEVADA is NOT ALL A DESERT

Under the head, "was 1t Ignorance or Ironyso last issue we published
a clipping from the Battle Mountain Herald, which held up to ndiule the
following from a eastern magazine:
esThe little cabin in the Nevada woods was filed with sunshine. To the
west rose the mountain range, peak on peak, a ghtterng line of giants.
The old mar at the freside reused himself with an effort
The editor of the Herald comments as follows or the above passage:
'soh, ye wise men of the East, how little ye know of Nevadas woodsi
Tell us more of her majestic oaks and stately ems, her towering sycamores
and signing pines. Tell us of woodland pastures, tell u of still
waters and slvery streams that peacefully flow through shady glens
kissed by murmuing zephyrs wandering through sylvan shades. Tell US
this and more. The woods of Nevada Where are theya Echo does not ever
answer whereof
The writer of the article in tn eastern magazine, which the editor of
the Herald critizes had probably nr visited Nevada, and perhaps he
vas entirely ignorant of the environment which he sought o weave into
his description, but nevertheless there are many places in Nevada which
can be described as a "ntle cabin in the woods, with the mountain ranges
rising near by, peak upon peak, agiterng line of giants'
Those who live in Nevada, in the far stretches of the southern desert, or
in the mineral belts in the central portion of the state, know not of the
beauty n exceeding grandeur of these portions where nature hs dealt
more kindly While the state in general is barren and hundreds of miles
of ii, deserts upon which the sunshine of day beats INCREASINGLY and at
night nothing moves say tn horned toad, the RATHER o the coyote, there
are portions which compel the admiration of connoisseur on the beautiful
and grand in nature, organicaly and inorganiany These sections of the
state are all the more beautiful because of their isolation in a world OF
rolling sands and sagebrush.
Follow us for a days ride due north of Winnemucca, and we will show
you .smounhn ranges that re peak on peak, a gitteing line of
giants' We will show you pastoral scenes, where herds and focks Craze
N mountain meadows, N snvery streams trckle through the woodland
We will take you to spots where deer sage hens and prairie ehickens
habitate. We will take you to mountain passes where you "a look hun
dreds of feet below and behold a tiny mountain stream studded with noun
tain pines and gazing upward, you can see mighty peaks covered Win
perpetual snows.
We will take you to scenes that, being first beheld by emlgrants passing
through Nevada on their way to California, caused them to utter excia
nations of delight and surprise and to nam this spot a "Paradls on
earth. Beautiful is Paradise Valley especially in spring time, when
stretches as far as the eye cal reach are covered with fields Of green n
the tow of Paradise, close clustered with tall trees, gives a setting OF a
shade grener than the surrounding fields. More beautiful still are the
mountain ranges to the west and north of the valley, from whence the
streams that water her broad acres rise. he Santa Rosa ountal mere
the natural beauty has been undisturbed, save for the inroads made by the
wood choppers.
No. not all Nevada is a desert, IN We, ourselves, gazing on THESE we
vda scenes, have felt a inspiration to write in description as the author
of the eastern magazine article wrote.