Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-30
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THE APPEAL was fortunate yes
terday in having calls from W dill
fcrcnt parties OF gentlemen, both of
whom have messages of vast impor-
lance to the citizens of Carson, the
direct stories of which were chornic-
led in our news pages of yesterday,
and both parties of men are putting
and have placed thousands OF dollars
into the State of Nevada, and strange
to relate, they are all from California.
But what we want to particu-
larly call to your attention, and in
doing so we wish to say that it is
done with the kindliest feeling toward
our esteemed contemporary, the
News, is. that these men, one party
not knowing the other, and coming to
us at different times of day, said that
they were surprised to see in the
News of Sunday an article condemna-
tory of the forthcoming Pan-Pacifc
Expositions. They could not get it
through their heads how any think
ing man in the State of Nevada could
see anything but good in these two
events.
We quote from what Mr.. f. Webb,
one of the leading spirits of The
Comstock Recovery Company had
to say after we had explained to him
some Of the points set up by some OF
the d%isgruntled press of the state on
this question.
why, man, don't you know that
for the first time in the history OF
these expositions in America, we are
this time up against a proposition OF
having hundreds of thousands OF for
eigners come to this country, not to
see the exhibits, but taking advantage
of the advertising that has been II
by the steamship companies as to the
opening of the Panama Canal. They
are coming because travel is cheap
They are bringing all their savings
Of a lifetime. They are coming to
California because it is the first point
of landing. They have heard moth
ing but the words IRRIGATED land for
the past two years. As foreigners
they realize that this is the cheapest
and best paying farming they can
get into with their money.
Now Utah, Montana, Idaho, and
other Western states are going to be
on hand with regularly organized
publicity and personally conducted
excursion bureaus to get as many OF
these people as they can.
Don't you see that every dollar OF
Nevada money will and should carry
more of these people to your state
than to any other of those mention
ed? It's only a step for you to bring
them. One thing sure, some II has
to- come and get them. California
cannot hold them because California
has not the cheap land that they, with
their little two or three thousand
dollars or less have to have. It's
the large tracts of irrigable land and
the small holdings where water Is
near at hand that these people want,
and once they get it they will make
Nevada bloom like an oasis in the
desert.
"Why, ! simply cannot understand
what the people Of this state meal,
those who are against the expendi-
turc OF money at the expositions.
The money will not 90 to help Cat
ifornia in any way. blu for heavens
sake make it bring some of those
thrifty. clean-living, empire building
families to your state"
Mr.. Morris, of the large Alpine
mining plant, later in the day spoke
in the same vein, and added: !
Roads, b! Why you already !
have the finest roads | have ever
seen any place. and a lot of growing
farms in the hands of these foreign !
ers that know how to farm, will bring |,
you all the good roads you can crowd
into your state, and bring them in
spite OF any Governor, legislature or
anything else, even though the con-