Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-17
NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA

The Herald takes pleasure in present.
ing today the first opportunity for q
real public insight into the marvellous
gold fields of Southern Nevada and
their bearing upon the interests Of Los
Angeles and Southern California.
It is a great story, requiring near a
hundred pages Of today's issue to prop
erly depict, together with the neces-
sary accompaniments Of illustration, of
advertising matter and the general
news of the current twenty-four hours.
1t is a story which will entertain and
instruct, and The herald takes some
pride in being the first Los Angeles
newspaper to present an adequate view
of the tremendous enterprise growing
out Of the gold-camp developments of
the past year.
California and Nevada are one in
sympathy Of historic association, and
in the fact that the soil of both has
largely enriched the world and is still
enriching 1t. For 1t must be remem-
bered that until 1861 Nevada was part
Of California, being popularity known as
"the Washoe country" The famous
Comstock lode was discovered there in
1859, a mining property which produced
as much as $99, 100000 in gold bullion in
a single year, and it's rich deposits led
to the formation of the territory, deriv-
ing it's name from the Spanish, Nevada,
signifying "snow-covered. Nevada was
admitted into the Union as a state on
October 81, 1864, and until recent years
has had a long, hard and at last sue
cessful battle in overcoming its scanty
rainfall by irrigation and in developing
the greatest and richest gold mines
ever encountered in the world.
A new day for Nevada has dawned.
The marvellous gold deposits un-
earthed by the discoverers of
the Comscock lode has been fol-
lowed southwark and southeast
ward through the state, observing the
general direction of the southwestern
boundary line into Arizona, and it is
now known that the same character Of
deposit runs all through the state and
far southwark into Old Mexico. Gold
field, Searchlight, Rhyolite, Bullfrog,
Lee and hundred other cities and
towns have sprung up within the last
three years from the mining camps that
are today astounding the nation with
the marvellous riches of their fields of
gold and the wonders of their progress
into the metropolitan class.
These are some of the reasons
which actuated the management of
The Herald in attempting to make
public a general view of the amaz-
ing development of Nevada, along
with the glorious growth of the mother
state of California. Going forward
hand in hand, it would be strange if
California-especially Southern Califor-
nia-were not proud of Nevada; proud
of her activity, energy and enterprise;
proud of her colossal schemes of irriga-
tion and of mining; proud of her
progress, and particularly proud of her
people, who are mostly Californians
born, but now patriotically Nevadans.
In the brief period allotted the me-
chanical features of today's Herald, it
was impossible to prepare and present
all the matters of moment to the extent
originally planned, but after all suff1-
cient amount of information has been
collected and printed to demonstrate
that the new mining cities of Southern
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earnest attention not only Of Los An
geles but of every state in the Union
and every country in the globe.
Rich beyond the power of description
in single issue of daily newspaper
developing by leaps and bounds, grow
ing at a rate so rapid that those unac-
quainted with the west cannot conceive
of it, the Nevada cities and towns are
at once marvels of discovery and Won
ders of triumph over the forces of ma
ture.
The Herald congratulates Nevada
upon her sudden good fortune and be-
speaks for her people the good will Of
the world. The time is fast coming
when she may rival California in pop
ulation and power, but always she will
be recognized and honored by this state
as a true daughter of the Golden Coast.