The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-22
OPPORTUNITIES Of
FERED BY NEVADA

A lengthy article in January
ABROAD on the resources of Neva-
da, concludes with the following sum-
mary of the opportunities offered:
A Good Chance.
Here is the situation, industrially,
educationaliy, socially. We have
sketched it plainly, without frills, and
it sums up about like this: that if
Nevada is least among the thousands
of America, it is yet potentially great;
if it is today undeveloped it will have
a dignifed tomorrow; if its peresent
population is small-les than one per-
son to the squart mile, that means room
elbow room, foothold, freedom for
the man outside who is looking for an
opportunity to get in and win. Nevada
has great agricultural area, and has
water to irrigate twice or thrice its
present irrigated acreage; it has mil
lions of acres that will yet be dry
farmed successfully, and great
wealth of public and private lands that
will be watered from springs and wells,
and from storage reservoirs which can
be built in small way by settlers,
bu will be supplied by capital as the
need is shown and lgitimate returns
are assured for the investment; has
dry land and desert lands which need
only watr and the plough to make
them fruitful fields; has grain lands
which yield heavily if given a little
water and a good deal of cultivation;
has orchard lands that will prove bo-
nanzas for skilful growers of hardy
fruits as the apple and the pear; has
vast region as climatically attractive
as Southern California, and where
the finer and more delicate fruits will
flourish and the land will yield high
priced crops; semi-tropic region
where more than 10000 acres have
been listed with applications to
reclaim by developing water, the land
to be for sale when passed upon by
the proper authorities. Tn addition to
her lands Nevada has adequate trans
portation facilities. Electric lights,
telephones and telegraph lines in the
remotest quarters of the rreat state,
and has water to generate immense
electrical energy and the raw material
from which to manufacture many
products.
Nevada offers much to the home
to men with money, in the form of
improved ranches; offers 320 acres to
the man of energy under the law of
the expanded homestead, and where
few years of hard work will yield an
income e-producing home; offers oppor
tunities in growing towns to establish
paving industries of various kinds; of
fers the farmer more for his labor, the
Go l., clr, thn
capitalist more for his money than al
most any other state in the Union. 1t
will do this for years to come because
velopment. Something will be doing.
Nevada, for the first time in her his
tory, is awake to the Importance of
her undeveloped agriculture, and this
is one of those movements which
never lapse or go backward. The re-
sources of the state, the wealth locked
up in lands. the riches running to
waste in flood waters, the primitive
methods of irrigating, and consequent
waste where water is king-all this is
being drawn into the new movement,
and the growing state will convert
public wealth into private fortunes,
will expand the area of its productive
lands and produce what it consumes;
will conserve the water of its streams
and turn the life-giving element upon
unused lands so that men will buy
"desert' and sell GARDEN will
harness its rapid rivers in their noun
tain canyons and transmit electrical
energy to towns and farms and fac
tories, and all this will make for pros
perity, will multiply business chances,
and increase the number of doors at
which Opportunity knocks.