The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-04-18

Nevada Stock Growing.
On our farms and ranges we have
in round numbers about 100000
sheep and about 45DOO0 head of cat
tie. We consumed locally and export
ed during the past year livestock and
poultry to the value of about &c.
100000. The states wool clip suffered
a decrease in valuation due to lower
price of wool, approximating $450,000,
which was to considerable extent
offset by the advanced price of lambs.
The estimated value of the years
wool clip, in round numbers is $780,
COO. The total live shock returns for
1913, therefore, was about $6,750,000.
If we assume that. $3,750,000 of the
same includes forage crops consumed
on our farms, the net income of our
farm and live stock industry, for 1918,
aggregated about S1D,0O0D00
Mining Production.
= According to the preliminary re-
ports of the United States geological
survey, Nevada mines yielded in 1918
gold, silver, copper and lead to the
value of $36,S74,O06, Of which $12,-
O72,0OO was gold Our copper, however
surpassed in value the gold produc-
ton, and is now our leading metallic
output, valued in 1913 at $13,500O00.
We produced i'm silver, $9,25Q,000 and
about $4,000 each IN lead and zinc.
The mining industry in Nevada,
therefore, shows a healthy condition.
When it is compared with the output
during the boom mining years 1908
OF, the maximum production in any
one year of which was $22!000,000,
the progress of the industry is made
clear.
Agriculture Va. Mining in State Pros
perity-
While our mining output is three
and one-half times the value of the
states agricultural production, in
crops and livestock, there lis a marked
distinction between the two when con-
sidered from the standpoint of the
growth of permanent wealth. We
have produced, since the discovery of
the Comstock probably $1,000,000, 600
in precious metals. The assessed val
cation of all property in the state in
f313 was about $114,000,000 Deduct
ing the valuation of the three trans
continental railroads from this, and
making the most conservative allow
ance for wealth which has been Great
ed otherwise than as the result of
mining, the balance remaining of our
permanent wealth, attributable to
mining, is small, indeed. In other
words, of the billion dollars of gold
and silver we have produced in nifty
years. and which is largely permanent
wealth, it would be overstating the
fact to say that $2O,0O0,OO0, or 2 per
cent of it, is represented in the STA
100000 assessed valuation of existing
Nevada property. The other $780,
100000 has gone. to enrich other
states. 1t has not only been paid out
In part as dividends to nonresident
mine owners, but the greater portion
has gone to other states for mining
and milling machinery, tools, imple-
ments and explosives; and even Of
the part distributed as wages, almost
the total has gone for food, clothing
and incidentals grown or manufac-
tured in, other states. Whatswe re-
tain in the state Of the cost of min
ing is largely represented in the sales
OF meat potatoes, some few other
vegetables, milk and butter, hay and
grain, and a part of the lumber and
timber used directly and indirectly in
the Industry.
syNow, under this state of facts, we
can no more look to mining for our
permanent upbuilding, as great
commonwealth. than any other state
has been able to develop in permanent
wealth from the mining industry
Alone. OF AS t10,O00,000 annual pro-
aactiol Of our farms and livestock in