The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-19

U9 " IA ASlE Is, perhaps, 10 grown IOlkS' tne napp1eSt eleDrauOn
kM TX of the year in this country. For children, to whom ightness of
NEUYSN heart and freedom from serious thoughts seem the natural state
Hx11wMW1H there is Christmas; and the Fourth Of July; and Thanksgiving
bSTJau Day; and April Fool Day, and other events without number
N0WYSU They are for fun. And perhaps it is the fun which the passing
- of Easter permits them to indulge in, which is the great charm
of the occasion fol many adults. Easter Monday always is marked by balls
and festivities Of different kinds. These follow one another with greater Or
less frequency until the feeling of restraint which is imposed during Lent is
sufficiently dssipated. Then the summers work begins.
Spring has no arrived, in a great portion Of the north temperate zone
until Eastertme. This is a n astronomical fact a IS well as a seeming physi
cal condition. According to almanacs, Spring begins about March 81; but
tune TO say that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the
vernal equinox 1t is a rather strange fact that many people arr to be found
who believe it to be a fixed festival.
What is now Easter marked the ancient Jewish Feast of the Passover
Now it is generally celebrated in commemoraion of the resurrection of the
Christine most inspiring Of human thoughts. This Easter Sunday tomor-
row, April 20, is nearly Is late Is Easter "a occur a full month having
elapsed since the sun passed the spring equnocdal point March 23 if We
remember Alright is the earliest date possible for Easter Sunday.
And with Spring there is a renewal of ambition. Naturally enough, in
Spring. Spring means tn renewal of seeming le Vegetation apparently
has been dormant during past months, and because of storms and cold and
is changed. Along with festivities comes the opportunity and demand for
much hard wok-whch shall lead to the harvest
This spring in Nevada surely is a inspiring me- On very hand evidences
OF a boom year accumulate Beginning with Divide, just owe the line into
Esmeralda county. money is flowing into all manner of mining proposition
perhaps it is fair 10 say, from the best to the worst. Northern mine owners
r. rapidly catching the spirit They are going to do something" Pros
perity is in the air. Mining is scheduled for a wonderful year of develop
ment and a great era of prosperity.
People of the United States and the est of the world will know much
more about Nevada a year hence than they do now. Not in mining only,
but in agriculture; in irrigation; in roadmaking; in diversifcation of crops;
and from having seen much more of this wonderful State because of trans
IL is tn sal now!-the Great American Desert taught to the young idea
as much as the ouran-outan of Africa. 1t was a dreadful thing-a terrible
aweinspiring precursor of death!
All of ths, teaching must be changed. ultimately. Probably it will take a
w are witnessing and understanding a wonderful opening up of new thought
People from California, the Land of Flowers" re coming to Nevada in ever
increasing numbers, being informed of agricultural possibilities here, and
going back to get their friends o come nd zee" From being nothing but
desert" Nevada is right now unfolding into a spot of wonderful riches of
every kind In Clark county. to the south, cotton, peanuts and tee are tt be
grown In Humboldt county, to the north, a nurseryman in winnemucca
has sold out his entire stock of fruit trees and trees for shade and ornament,