The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-04-02
IS
neglected

Vdua mas DeeH III bne puDl1c eye TO
a greater extent than for many years,
although she has had her full share
of publicity since the discovery of the
great southern gold camps, writes l..
a. p. Eickler in the Sacramento Bee
On top of the mining revivel came
the labor troubles, the importation of
United States troops, the special ses
sion of the legislature to organize the
state police and now there is Rawhide.
Along with the thousands of fortune
seekers there came more or less Grim
inals, whose operations have contribut
ed a large portion of the publicity
that has been sccorded the state. All
agencies with the sensational press
writer's and the promoters have given
the Sagebrush state advertising with
out limit.
The sensationalism and the stories
of erime-usually, no doubt, exaggerat-
ed, have to a certain e-tent injured the
state in the estimation of the outside
world, but there is, nevertheless, much
that is solid in Nevada 's boom, and
her future is brighter today than it
has been for many decades. The min
ing industry is in better state of de-
velopment than it has ever been even
in the days OF the great Comstock
excitement, for the industry covers a
far greater range than it did in the
past, both in extent of the fields and
the number of minerals mined. Vast
copper deposits have been discovered
along with the gold and silver. In
addition the stock industry is in very
flourishing condition, and there is be-
ing developed vast agricultural area
along the line of the Carson Truckee
canal system. built by the United
government in the Carson Valley,
where hundreds Of farmers from many
of the states are settling to become
new and profitable industry, for
heretofore Nevada has not been noted
for her agricultural products.
The fact that the press dispatches
tell nothing of the development of the
farming in Nevada, shows how little
Importance is attached to this phase
OF the states advancement. The Ne
vadans, those who have been there for
years, know little about farming and
care less. Those who have gone to Ne
vada as the result of the mining ex-
citement are accustomed to farming,
probably in the states which they left
but they did not go to Nevada for
farming but to scratch fortune off
the face of the ground, and then re-
turn home, the great possibilities of
the state for agricultural purposes es-
cape them, and they usually fail to
find the gold which they came to seek,
consequently they have nothing good
to say of the "God forsagken coun-
try Even the press of Nevada fails
to appreciate the greatness of the new
canal system and the prosperity it
viii bring to that portion of the sttae
which it reaches Seldom does there
appear any mention of this new phase
of the New Nevada, though any
flighty prospector who gets into Reno
can get column about some imagin-
ary " find he has made off in the
sage hundred miles from any camp
and hundred or more men will hit the
trail the next morning in automobile,
and on foot to stage out claims in this
new wonder, this "Greatest Mine
Since the Old Comstock Days.
Nevertheless, an agricultural period
is dawning in Nevada There are many
great possibilities in this line, and
they will be. gradually developed, as
the sources of water supply are sought
out and made use Of