The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

been started, more people have come
to the state, and more industries have
been established than during any pre-
vious year.
Its mineral product has been greater,
its cattle and sheep shipments have
been larger. and its farm products have
brought more money than ever before.
More miles OF railroad have been
built than ever before. the amount of
taxable property has increased nearly
cne-fOurth-and Nevada is still grow
ing.
The prosperity has not been confined
TO any one section, as is thought by
those not residents of Nevada. With
an area as great as many empires,
practically every section has expert
enced the good times, and all look for
ward to the coming year to be even
more prosperous than the one just
closing.
Washoe is the commercial center Of
the fourteen counties. The population
az present is more than 10000 Five
years ago the census returns showed
less than 5000. Reno, the county seat,
has population of $4,000. Five years
ago the total number was -4,50O.
The reports of the assessor just in
show a total property valuation IN
Reno of s., 432, $40, an increase of more
than S. 900. 600 in the past five years
II Is estimated That TIE luCItdoC Aot III
coming year will be close to S2,OOO,OoO.
Banks Double Assets in Year.
The total of capital, surplus, deposits
and undivided profits at this writing of
the banks of Reno amount TO more
than S11,000,000, an increase of more
than 100 per cent in the past year
Reno is the railroad center. Rail
roads run north, east. south and west
from that city, and in each direction
rich territory is tapped. 1t is the edu-
cational center Of the state. The Uni
versity of Nevada is located there. The
public schools are the best, and the
high school Is a model.
Industries are springing up on all
sides. In the past year a model iron
factory has been established, flour mills
have been enlarged, and the planning
mills have doubled their capacity and
are now working nightsand day. Brick
yards have started, ore reduction works
have been reopened, and many minor
industries have been launched either in
or close to Reno.
The Truckee river, capable of devel-
Cping %, 900 horsepower, now going 10
waste, passes through the heart OF
Reno.
The $4,000, 600 railroad shops and di-,
vision point of the Hartman system
are located at Sparks, three miles from
Reno. Washoe county. A railroad cost
ing close to 100000 was built during
the past year. 1t as now in operation
hauling the ores of the camp of Cling
house to a $500, 600 mill at Wadsworth,
all in WashOe county.
Ten miles of electric railroad have
heen built in and around Reno during
the past twelve months, and surveys
for 100 miles more were completed.
Work on these lines will begin early
next spring.
New Business Houses in Reno.
Close TO $1,000, 600 is row being spent
in erecting new business buildings in
Reno. Some of the buildings are six
stories in height, whereas a two-story
building was the highest structure in
athe city until three years ago.
Rich mines are being opened up in
the Olinghouse and White Horse dis
tricts, which are at the very gates Of
Reno. Prospects are being developed
on Peavine mountain, and to the south
of Reno all in Washoe county
The hotels even during the recent
depression were unable to handle the
visitors who are fiocking to Reno
Rents are high, living expenses are
not exOrbitant, but wages are as good
as anywhere in the United States, and
everyone is prospecting.
Residence property is bringing good
prices, while business property on the
main street of the city is now in de-
mand at $1.4O0 per front foot.
At present WashOe is one of the larg-
est farming counties III the state,
though its mines arc rapidly coming to
the front.
To the north, at Pyramid lake, what
promises tC be one of the biggest cop
per mines in the state is now being
opened up. Thousands of tons of cop
per ore, most of it going more than 10
per cent. is now blocked cut. Mills are
to be erected on the Truckee river
twenty-five miles to the south. a rail-
road is TO be built and within the next
year both mills and mine viii be in OPP
Grafton night and day, according to the
plans of Robert Parry, superintendent
Of the property.
To the south, on the line of the Vir-
ginia e Truckee railroad, the Rocky
Hill and Commonwealth mines are To-
Gated. The Rocky Hill turns out gold,
while the Commonwealth is a big sill
yer. lead and zinc proposition, and ar
rangements are now under way 10 work
them on a large scale. Mills have been
erected near the mines and the ores
are to be handled right on the ground.
This in brief. is a resume of the
growth of Washoe county in one year.
1t is given as an example because
NVashoe county is without doubt the
most developed in all Nevada. and it is
there that the principal business of the
state has been conducted
Churchill county's Advance.
churchill. the neighbor county on
the east. is where the United States
government has expended more than
$4,000 600 in the past, five years, and is
still spending money retaining the
desert lands of th4t section.
In the past year 500 families have
taken advantage of - government s
offer and have settledon the once arid
lands of Churchill county. In the next
year at least a thousand more families
are expected. Already the result of
their work is manifesting itself. Dry,
6esolate stretches Of plain, covered by
stunted sagebrush, have given way to
alfalfa and grain fields. COzy homes
have been established. Good roads
have been built and now Fallon, the
county seat, is one of the hveliest as
we'll as the prettiest town in Nevada.
A new railroad has been built in
churchill within the year. 1t connects
Fallon with the main line of the South
ern Pacific at HaZen. the junction city.
Fairview and Wonder until recently
two of the richest mining camps in Ne