Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-23
Nevada NEEDS
I ADVERTISING
COMMISSION SHOULD
BE ENABLED TO SET FORTH
STATES Resources

Some few years ago, Nevada had
"hunch" and created publicity h
bureau, whose duty it was to ad-
vertise the state and bring to the
attention of the country at large
the advantages offered by Nevada
in different lines Of industry. The
start was all right, but it ended
there. The appropriation committee
of the legislature failed to make
any appropriation for the commits
sion, and in fact even overlooked
the commissioners salary, so the
latter had to sue for his pay. This
did not furnish encouragement to
the publicity commissioners to turn
out work, although Sam Davis, who
filled the office, gave 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 start
ling results were obtained. Like
anyone else, Davis found it pretty
hard to make the engine go without
fuel or steam, says the Goldfield
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 re-
sources. To be sure Nevada's chief
industry is mining, and perhaps al
ways will be. A greater part of her
territory is useful for nothing else,
still there is a domain aggregating
more in extent than many of the
|; greatest agricultural and horticul-
tural states of the union that is sus-
ceptible of irrigation and cultiva-
ton. that has never been touched
| Nevada is already a large producer
/ of field and range products, but
, her possibilities in agricultural and
horticultural lines are little known
I Reaching from Oregon to the Colo
: RADIO river, or degrees of latitude,
: Nevada presents diversity of eli
: mate offered by no other state; and
, while it is known only as a desert
5 country, over 100000 acres are
I agricultural land and 10000, 900
more are used for grazing, and mil
q lions of acres yet can be brought
l under cultivation by the develop
e ment of water.
o Southern Nevada offers induce
s ments for the agriculturist and hor-
t ticulturist that should be advertised
s throughout the country. 1t was a
startling revelation to even our own
e people that the finest of semi-trop-
: ical fruits and. nuts are being sue
: cessfully raised in southern Nevada,
J. although as yet on small scale.
e In the great valleys south of Gold
q field can be raised anything that
i California produces, except oranges;
and the fruits raised in this section
are finer than any produced by our
neighboring states. Northern Ne
vada is famous for apples and po-
tatoes, and in sections of the state
fortunes are being made in the rails.
ing of onions on large scale. The
opportunities presented by cotton
l raising are just beginning to grow
on our people. Nevada has pro.
duced on small scale the finest
cotton ever grown in the country
s and was awarded first prize at the
New Orleans exposition.
But who outside of a few Neva.
dams interested in such matters
know these facts? No advertisine
4 has been done, and no one would
ever think of coming to desert Ne.
= yada for farms and orchards.
II What Nevada needs is disinter
l. ested medium of advertising, such
as state bureau would afford; ant
what Nevadans need is an awaken
L ing to the usefulness of such an in
II stitution as the state publicity com
II mission. The legislature could wei
Is AFFORD to appropriate $4,000 t
9 push the proper advertising OF Ne
- vada's agricultural possibilities
s. There is plenty of capital waiting
Z for irrigation and land projects, ant
g. much OF 1t should be directed THU
y way. and would be il the right kline
V-of publicity were given. Give Ne
m vada chance
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