Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-11-06
MONEY IN WAR

OF late years war has taken on a commercial aspect that it
did not have in the old days of the Crusades. The firms who
make big guns and sell armor plate are naturally interested in
finding a market for their wares. Andrew Carnegie, who is the
great apostle of universal peace-when posing in public-knows
that there is n such thing and when the public have departed to
ruminate on his words he at once begins to occupy himself shear
ing the coupons off his steel bonds, whose prices appreciate in
proportion to the battleships that built. The fact that a lot
of the armor plates made by the old Scotchmans firm had blow
holes in them, don't hurt the coupons on the bonds.
Since the great navies of the world adopted oil as fuel, the
Standard Oil company has taken a great interest in modern war
fare and to a man not so very far up a tree, the revolutions in
Mexico have a smell that reminds one of the odor of Standard
Oil and the smell grows more and more pronounced every day.
The dispatches state that stale eggs were hurled at Gov.
Sulzer while he was campaigning in New York. At the present
price of eggs one would hardly expect the exasperated Tammany
voter to Isl any other kind.
Yesterday and today Los Angeles is celebrating the virtual
completion of its big aqueduct system, the largest perhaps o the
Pacific Coast. 1t runs from Owens Lake, in Inyo county, to the
City of the Angels, and is with it's spurs and laterals something
like 400 miles long. 1t has cost the people of Los Angeles approx
imately $26 100000 and has taken eight years to build. Los An
geles never stops at the cost when it wants something that will
add to its worth. Too bad Nevada cannot evnce the same spirit.
Some of the Republican papers are samming Louis Cohn for
advertising land notices in Democratic nespapers. Mr.. Coin is
merely following out the Instructions of Franklin X. Lane, Secre-
tary Of the Interior, and if he disobeyed the instructions he would
probably be relieved of his duties. The Republican papers of
Nevada seem to have overlooked the fact that this country was
carried by the Democrats in the last election.
The appointment of officials to enforce the revenue laws
is no longer under civil service rules. In other words the plain
English of it is that Republicans can be thrown out and Demo-
Gratis put in without any further red tape. This will help the
Democratic party all over the country. To the victors belong
the spols. Put none but friends on guard.
The highest point in Nevada is Wheeler Peak, which. accord
ing to a chart published by the United States Geological Survey.
is l3,O5s feet above sea level. The average elevation of the State
of Nevada is $500 feet. Only four states, Utah, Colorado, Wyo-
ming and New Mexico, are higher.
When Mrs. Lind gave up the key to her stateroom on ship
board to aid in secretng two Mexican refugees, she showed quick
wit and a woman's heart. She sat up all night 0 the decks an
the pretense of enjoying the sea view. Her kindly act saved two
human lives and will make her beloved the world over.
Over $4,000 feet of lumber now lies on the Exposition
grounds in San Francisco. Five thousand men ae at work anil