Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-01-30
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
WHY is NEVADA?

Nevada has been ripped up the back, tickled in the Stats, given
short arm iots in the solar plexus; N fat she has received from
time to time treatment in California papers little short of contemp-
iibie. But Nevada is sthl here-growing in population and wealth
from year to year, and will continue to prosper in spite of efforts of
our western neighbors to reflect on her good name, And now our
fair state is beginning to be recognized by the very ones VINO nave
tried so hard and so long to make themselves and their consttu-
ents believe that Nevada was not entitled to a place on the map
The following from the Sacramento Union would indicate the tide is
turning in the right direction:
California should protest against the practice of pert eastern
writer's who smear at our sister state of Nevada. For instance, we
noticed in the Chicago Tribune the other day an editorial article
which said:
why is Nevada?' asks an esteemed contemporary. Well there
was a reason for Nevada when it was admitted to the union.
There is q reason for Nevada now. There are a dozen reasons.
1t s a state that is growing greater in resources and population
every day Its output of gold is second alone to Colorado1s in all the
states, territories and insular dependencies of the United States. II
is still one of the great silver producers of the world, and its copper
mines show ore in sight the percentage of which would make men
accustomed to the meager returns from Montana properties open
their eyes. It has all the metals known to man within its borders.
awaiting only the inspiring touch Of capital to breathe into indus
trial life the needed impulse.
"Nor are its mines it's only resource. A few miles over the line
that divides California from what is sometimes dsparagngy term
ed the sagebrush state the greatest reclamation project the govern
rnent has ever undertaken is in full fruition. The Carson and True
ke rivers have been guided into irrigation bitches with a principal
fy under them, and, where once great herds of cattle tramped
through the sagebrush plains, the sturdy American farmer has es-
tabished himself. Fields of alfalfa greet the eye in all directions,
and the town of Falon has come into being, with schools and
churches and all the influences that tend to uphft American rural
communities 4 similar project, financed and managed by private
capital, is under way in the eastern part of the state, and around
Elko, without the aid Of the government Or any assistance from out
side sources, a farming community has grown up as rich and prosper
Gus as any in the east, o even in golden California.
THE stock raising interests have also been large, and along
every stream are ranges trod by sleek cattle destined for the mar
ket at the great stockyards of Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago. The
cattlemen are leading citizens. progressive, men of breadth, and
often of culture. Unlike the stockraisers of other cattle districts,
they are not only friendly to the wool interests, but have hundreds
Of thousands of dollars invested in sheep, and it may be news to the
penny-aliners Of the east, but it is a fact, that long before the east
knows the luxury, the coast is having spring lamb from Nevada on
its tables.
"The trouble with the east is that it closed its eyes to the posi-
bilihes of our neighboring state when the Comstock ceased to be the
greatest producer that 1t had been in the big bonanza days. That
as nearly thirty years ago. Since then the world has moved, and
Nevada has moved with the rest of it. The east should wake up"