The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-03-19
|FULTON'S ADDRESS
TO SUNDAY MEETING

In addition to the informal talk to
the citizens present at Sundays meet
ing, called to organize Commercial
club, J. M. Fulton made an address,
from written notes, as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of
Humboldt County: / have travelled
pretty thoroughly over Humboldt
county. j do not mean that part
which lies near the Humboldt river
and easy of access. / mean that por-
tion from the Black Rock desert and
Summit Lake on the west to the Elko
county line on the east and the Ore
gon line on the north. | believe |
know the possibilities of Quinn river
valley and that portion of your county
near the Oregon line better than do
many of your residents.
81 am familiar with the valley that
extends from here to Kennedy. /
therefore feel competent to say that
you have got the goods to deliver to
homeseekers, and if they who come
here are of the right kind they can
make good and prosper in those To-
calities. Pumping plants are now,
and have been so extensively and sue
cessfully used for irrigation in Cali
fornia, Arizona, New Mexico and in
other states that We have no doubt it
will soon bring to Humboldt county
those who are familiar with that way
of irrigation, and their success and
methods will bring more and more;
but You must let the untold thousands
who want to come west and make
homes know what you have in this
county Your organization is on the
right lines to do this.
"When the Southern Pacific railway
was built by the old Central Pacific
company there were found but seven
white men settled on lands between
Reno, Nevada, and Corinne, Utah.
There are more now. but not one
thousandth part of what there will be
in the future: this for the reason that
we believe Nevada at this time offers
better and more opportunities for the
homeseeker than does any other state
in the Union. 1t has not been so in
the past. California, Oregon, Mon
tana, Idaho and Washington, before
settled up, offered better inducements
for settlers than Nevada, but in those
states cheap land is thing of the
past, while Nevada is only starting;
not because there is land to sell, but
because people now want lands in
Nevada, which has not been the case
until the present time.
''The Southern Pacific in 1905 got
out a book on Nevada. That book
contained photographs of Winnemuc-
cas- leading street, also agricultural
and stock-raising photographs taken
in and credited to Humboldt county.
We have regularly, since then, kent
up this aggressive campaign of adver-
tisng We feel sure that it is now
going to bear fruit. We want to as
sure you of our desire to help. We
have placed on your tables our book
+" Abroad This is distributed free in
large numbers in every city in Eu
rope. We have distributed free tens of
thousands of our book on Nevada. We
have put into enect homeseekers rates
to Winnemucea.
"We will continue to do our best to
bring in settlers. We will advertise
free and help to colonize any large
tract of land owned by an individual
or corporation, if wrothy of advertis
ing. We would welcome the cutting
up into small farms of the Dunphy
and George Grayson ranches, both of
which, we understand, are for sale.
You cannot ask of us anything within
reason that we will not do in order to
settle up this country. If you want
us to help in the way of publicity, ask
us. We are part of this state, inter
ested in the welfare and prosperity of
its people.
''We pay out in wages in Nevada
$3.50. 900 monthly-three million dol
lars each year. The Southern Pacific
company last year paid in Nevada
$469,S56 taxes, or over $l,2s7 per day,
including Sundays. OF every dollar
taxes paid in Nevada, the Southern
Pacific company pays 2S cents Taxes
are higher this year than last.
"We are not asserting at all that
our desire for population is entirely
unselfish. We have transportation to