White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-18
NEVADA NEEDS
ADVERTISING
LEGISLATURES SHOULD PROVIDE
FUNDS THAT PUBLICITY COM
TO SET FORTH RESOURCES.

Some few years ago, Nevada had a
"hunch" and created a publicity
bureau, whose duty it was to adver-
tise the state and bring to the atten-
ton of the country at large the advan-
tages offered by Nevada in different
lines of industry. The start was all
right, but it ended there. The APP
preparation committee of the legis-
lature failed to make any appropria-
ton for the commission, and in fact
even overlooked the commissioners
salary, so that the latter had to sue
for his pay. This did not furnish
encouragement to the publicity COM
missioners to turn out work. although
Sam Davis, who filled the office, gave
a great deal of time and used lots of
ingenuity in getting advertising for
little or nothing. But this was not
the kind of advertising needed, and
no startling results were obtained.
Like anyone else, Davis found it
pretty hard to make the engine go
without fuel or steam, says the Gold
field News.
The incoming legislature should
furnish the publicity commission
with some steam" or in other words
furnish it some money TO do business
on. No state in the union has more
latent and undeveloped our To
be sure Neyada's chief industry is
mining, and perhaps always will be
A greater part of her territory is use
full for nothing else, still there is a
domain ag%gregating more in extent
than many of the greatest agricul-
tural and horticultural states of the
union that is susceptible of irrigation
and cultivation, that has never been
touched. Nevada is already a large
producer of field and range products,
but here possibilities in agricultural
and horticultural lines are little
known. Reaching from Oregon to
the Colorado river, or ! degrees of
latitude, Nevada presents a diversity
of climate offered by no other state;
and while it is known only as a desert
country, over 0 1000, 900 of acres are
agricultural land and 80, 900
more are used for grazing, and mil
lions of acres yet can be brought
under cultivation by the development
of water.
Southern Nevada offers induce
ments for the agriculturalist and
hoticulturialist that should be ad-
yertised throughout the country. 1t
Is a startling revelation TO even our
people that the finest of semitropical
and nuts are being raised IN
Nevada. although as yet on
a small scale. In the great valleys
south of Goldfield can be raised any
thing that California produces, ex-
cept oranges; and the furits raised In
this section are finer than any pro-
duced by our neighboring states.
Northern Nevada is famous for apples
and potatoes, and in sections of the
state fortunes are being made in the
of onions on a large scale.
The opportunities presented by cotton
are Just beginning to grow
our people. Nevada has produced
a small scale the finest cotton ever
grown in the country and was award
ed first prize at the New Orleans ex-
position.
But who outside of a few Neyadans
interested in such matters, know
these facts? No advertising has been
done, and no one would ever think of
coming to desert Nevada for farms
and orchards.
What Nevada needs is a disinter-
ested medium of advertising, such as
a state bureau would afford; and
what Nevadans neeu is an awakening
TO the usefulness of such an institu-
ton as the state publicity commits
sion. The legislature could well afford
to appropriate $4,000 to push the
proper advertising of Neyada's agrf-
cultural possibilities. There is plenty
OF capital waiting for irrigation and
land projects, and much of it should
be directed his way, and would be il
the right kind of publicity were given.