The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-01-06
ODDIE'S new YEAR
PROCLAMATION

! The year 1913 closed with Nevada
enjoying general prosperity and in
dustrial tranquility. The outlook for
1914 is full of good promise. On the
whole, | believe that no New Year in
the past dawned upon brighter pros
poets for the future of the state and
its people than the present.
4 Reviewing the past year, the state
{ is to be congratulated on the fact
that it has been entirely free from
industrial dissensions. We had no
strikes, no lockouts, no industrial
grievances anywhere which assumed
public proportions; but plenty of
work at good wages for our miners,
railroad employees, and skilled and un-
skilled labor in all avoeations. This
state of facts spells the best condition
that can exist in any commonwealth.
/ We has no bank failures and no
1 business failures of any moment.
/ Our banks, generally, are on the
soundest possible footing, with pub
/ lie confidence firmly established. With
our banks showing the largest volume
of business for many years, the per-
centage of reserves is the highest in
our history, guaranteeing the solvency
Of our local finance While a money
stringency has been on in other
states for months past, it has not
noticably affected business affairs in
Nevada. If the new banking law of
congress meets the expectations of its
authors. as all good citizens trust that
/ it will, the general Tightening of
ha I,
4 lieved during the coming year. and
our state probably escape entirely the
4 III effects of a money stringency.
Our mines the past year produced
approximately 100000 in gold, sill.
yer, copper and other metals and
minerals This is a slight falling off
from 1912, hnt the expectations are
+ that it will be more than recovered
during 1914. New prospects are be-
/ ing discovered from time to time, and
at recurring intervals the development
+ of prospects results IN Producing
mines. Mining in the state, today, is
conducted as a legitimate industry,
with the highly speeulating and wild
eating features of the "boom' DAYS
practically eliminated. The industry
shows growth and expansion to such
a degree that no indication of wane,
but, on the contrary, of prolonged con-
tinuation and greater production, is
+ the assurance.
7 The livestock industry, owing to
the advancing price of beef and NUT
( ton, has been specially prosperous.
/ Never before in the history of the
state have beef cattle and sheep com
manded so ready sale at such uni
/ form high prices. The export de-
mand far exceeds the visible supply,
with no immediate prospect that this
condition viii change for some years
/ to come, at least. The outlook is for
higher, rather than lower, meat
prices; and with such prospect ahead
our stockmen have reason for reioie-
/ ing.
/ While the winter of 1928 gave
us less than the normal amount of
Snowfall in the mountains, the deficit
in water-supply for irrigation, antici-
pated at the beginning of the year,
was largely covered by unprecedented
rains during the spring and summer so
/ that our agricultural crops were about
normal.
/ To date, the seasons snowfall, pro-
viding the supply for 1914, is
abundant and forecasts an ample run
off in our streams. Farming in Neva-
da is as profitable as in the most fav-
ored other states. We need more
farms, however, and the greatest
/ problem before our people today is the
/ colonization of every acre of reclaim
able land within our borders.
On all lines the state is making
good progress. We have made more
/ or less advance in the past year in
/ good government, population, indus
tries, education and morals. The state,
also, is beginning to awaken to a
! lively interest in self development, by
attempting to turn our latent re
sources to good account, as other
states have done with theirs.
/ The national movement for good
roads is interesting all our progress
/ sive citizens. We want good roads.
/ We realize the benefit that win ac-
crue to the state from the construction
of the Lincoln highway and all other
proposed transcontinental highways.
/ 1t seems apparent that during the
coming year our people will give
special consideration to the highway
problem so that, at the next session
of the legislature some well-considered
and practical plan can be formulated
into law.
In conclusion, l wish all the peo-
pie of Nevada, collectively and sew
orally, happy and prosperous New
Year.
TASKER L. ODDIE,
Governor.
Executive Department, Carson City,