Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-08-30

a very few years ago Mining in
Nevada has now largely been reduc-
ed to a scientific business. to the
discredit OF the hot-air wildcat boom
ers OF times past. The new mining
era is perhaps best proved in terms
of dollars. For, whereas, $4,000, 900
was considered a rich annual cleanup
from Nevada mines in the boom days
of '9S to 81, when Tonopah and
Goldfield were on everybody's con-
seriousness; now the mining income
OF the state is estimated at about
S35.0OO,O00 with prospects of a
steady increase in amount. About
one-half of this income is from gold.
with nearly all the remainder from
copper and silver. Lead and zinc
is also mined, while the state has
a great wealth OF borax. sulphur and
building stone.
Neglecting mining, the greatest in
dustries of Nevada are stock raising
and general farming Stock raising
| In Nevada, as in number of other
states of the west. has seen and is
seeing its days of conflict The war
4 is both from within and from with
out. In general, the range is stock.
ed to its capacity. and the sheep
men and the cattle men cannot al
ways mutually agree as to a proper
and an equitable division of Uncle
Sans free grass lands. Occasional
/ ly, in the past a herd of sheep has
been shot up, or driven over a bluff;
and in some few sections, in common
with other states of the west the
truce between the rival stockmen
ever, there is very little OF blood.
shed in the range conflicts of today
The time is long past when one
might expect TO see a human form
lswinging from "Hangman's Thee, =
which historic tree the writer passed
on trip through the great Truckee.
Carson government reclamation pro
ject. The tree is large isolated
one, and a great blunt tree, notched
and upturned at the end, extends out
over the lonely desert road
But the Nevada stockman's other
conflict, from without, is entirely a
different matter Here we see the
growing shadow of the future agri-
Itcultural Nevada In one sense. Ne
Hada still has its miners hat and its
spurs on. But Nevada is changing
front Its agricultural resources are
being discovered: and these resourc
es are being made known. AS an
example of agricultural Nevada in
the past, may be taken typical 300.
000-acre stock ranch. which includes
rich river bottom and plains lands
and springs and streams capable OF
irrigating large area. This ranch
is an empire, able to support towns
and hundreds of families-but the
cattle king owner. in keeping witt
his kind, has held it virgin, only
marring the 300,O00-acre surface
by a five-acre alfalfa patch and ;
low rambling ranch headquarterl
and stockage corral tucked ava!
in one corner.
This kind of stockman is beinl
pressed upon by the on-coming Ne
vada homeseeker. The homeseekeri
side. of the story, in the conflict o
r the New Nevada against the Old Ne
vada, the New West against the Oh
West, suggests another institution
0 which is doubtless destined to d.
much toward the moulding of ayr
cultural Nevada | refer to tn
state bureau of industry. agricultur
and irrigation, with headquarters i
the state capitol building in Carso
City.
This bureau. which has workln
biennial appropriation of $25,O0'
is more than a state press agen
seeking to gain the ear of the pros
pective homeseeker. In the stat
booklet, Agricultural Nevada 1t
Explained that the old working thu
DRY of the state, was that mer
general advertising would brln
> flocks of newcomers 10 fill mp "a
vacant agricultural areas. And
this end several tons of literatuI
were scattered broadcast during Sc
y eral decades. But the state bookl'
now announces new gospel
new eolonist comes only when watt