The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-12-03
Give Nevada a Chance

~ ONE few years lgo, Nevada had a 'hunch'' and created a pub
lcity bureau, whose duty it was to advertise the state and
- bring to the attention of the country at large the advantages
offered by Nevada Indifferent lines of industry. The start was all
right, but it ended thre. The appropriation committee of the legis
lature failed to make any appropriation 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 public
iy commissioner to turn out work, although Sam Davis, who filled the
Office, gave a great deal of time and used lets of ingenuity in getting
advertising for little or nothing. But this wa not the kind of adver
tisng needed, and no startling results were obtained. Like anyone
else, Davis found lit pretty hard to make the engine go without fuel or
steam.
The incoming legislature should furnish the publicity commission
With some STEAM = OF, in other words, furnish it some money to 10
business or. No state in the union needs advertising more than Ne
ada. No state in the union has more latent and undeveoped re-
sources. To be sur Nevada's chief industry is mining, and perhaps
always will be. A greater part of her territory is useful for nothing
disc; still there S a domain aggregatng more in extent than many Of
he greatest agricultural states of the union that is susceptible of irri-
tation and cultivation, that has never been touched. Nevada is al
nady a large producer of field and range products, but her possbili-
ties in agricultural and horticultural lines are little known. Reach
ing from Oregon to the Colorado river, or 7 degrees of latitude, Neva-
Ia presents a diversity OF climate offered by no other state; and while
It's known only as a desert country, over 100000 of acres are agri-
cultural land and 100000 more are used for grazing, and millions
of acres yet can be brought under cultivation by the development of
water.
Southern Nevada offers inducements for the agriculturalist ana
hoticulturalst that should be advertised throughout the country. 1t
is a startling revelation to even our own people that the finest of semi
tropical fruits and nuts are being raised in southern Nevada, although
as yet on a small scale. In the great valleys south Of Goldfeld can be
;alsed anything that California produces, except oranges; and the
fruits raised in this section are finer than any produced by our neigh
BORING state. Northern Nevada is famous for apples and potatoes,
n IN sections OF the state fortunes are being made in the raising Of
onions on a large scale. The opportunities presented by cotton rails
ing are just beginning to grow n our people. Nevada has produced
on a small scale the finest cotton ever grown in the country and was
awarded first prize at the New Orleans exposition.
But who outside of a few Nevadans, interested in such matters.
know these facts9 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 disintereaed medium of advertising
such as a state bureau would afford and what Nevadans need 10 an
awakening 10 the usefulness OF such an institution as the state pub