The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-02-10
UPROlDS
NAME Of NEVADA

Nevada needs neither pity nor pat
ronage, and. after having an import
ant part In the enriching and up
building of other states through the
lavish wealth poured from her mines,
is still able to "padle her own canoe"
is the opinion aptly expressed by B.
F. Miller, pioneer Of Nevada In a
communication to the White Pine
News, answering an article In the
Fresno Republican. Mr.. Miller Stands
up" for Nevada In pioneer" fashion
and In q manner that is unmistakable
and convincing. He says:
Recently there appeared in the
Fresno. California. Republican an
editorial making an evidently we'll
meant, but to my mind, mis-directed
plea for federal assistance for Ne
vada. This editorial. too lengthy to
be fully quoted, said In part:
Nevada is the smallest Of the sis
terhood In population, and is shriv-
cling at that. The shriveling may be
only apparent. The loss, probably,
has all been in mining population,
rich but unsteady. while what agri-
cultural population the state has is
slowly growing. Yet the weakness of
this state as a commonwealth among
the commonwealth OF the United
states Is almost pitiable."
THAT the editorial writer was sin
cere need not be doubted. That the
good taste OF the editorial is question
able is self-evident. Had but a 1.-THE
OF the riches taken from Nevada for
the upbuilding of the Golden State
been spent where 1t had been acquired
Nevada would to-day be one OF the
strongest links in the chain of the
commonwealth. For instance, the
Palace Hotel in San Francisco, built
by the late William Sharon. United
states senator from Nevada, with
Nevada money, advertisedlby Cali
fornia as the greatest and most up
to-date hotel In the world at that
time; the Flood building, one OF San
Francisco's boosted great structures,
was built with money taken from the
mines Of Nevada; Sutro Heights. for
forty years one of the bay city's
boosted structures, owes its origin to
the millions OF Adolph Sutro, who
for years collected royalty on every
ton of ore taken through the Sutro
tunnel.
flames G. Fair was another Croe-
sus who made his money In Nevada
and spent it exclusively for the up
building OF California.
"B. o. Mills, another Of California's
multi-millionaires. made his fortune
In Nevada. It has been reported and
never contradicted that the money
made by the Virginia & Truckee rail-
road. owned by Mills. re-established
and financed the Bank of California
when that institution was on the verge
of bankruptcy through the specula-
lions of Ralston. later suicide In the
latter part Of the '70s. Mills by the
way, also built the Mills building. Of
which San Francisco Is justly proud.
General Thomas williams also ac-
quired great wealth in Nevada and.
like many others, went to California
to invest It. John P. Jones, United
States senator from Nevada for "a
years. amassed a great fortune IN
Nevada, but. like Fair. Sharon. Mills
and others, spent but little of 1t in the
state for other than political cam
paign purposes.
california justly holds in esteem
the memory OF Leland Stanford. whose
establishment Of the university which
bears his name has proved a great
blessing to the Golden State. His
purchase of California lands and his
great racing stables have added lus-
ter to CALIFORNIA; crown-and for
these great blessings California is
indebted to Nevada. whose soil pro-
drced wealth to make them all posi-
BILE.
within the state Of Nevada are
600 miles of the Central Pacific rail-
road. built by Coils p. Huntington.
Leland Stanford. the Hopkins. the
Crocksrs and other so-called Califor-
MIA millionaires. with the aid of $780,
100000 government guarantee and an
added subsidy Of every alternate sec
tioa e lanA On slthsr side a the rigAt