The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-04-27
THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW

How many people know that this
State produces silver, copper, lead an
timony ore, sulphur, quicksilver, and
tungsten. platinum and nickel?
How many natives know from what
countries the 14,S02 foreign-born in
habitants came from What school
boy knows that England sent 1911
of her people here; Scotland. 1888;
Wales, 100; Ireland, go; Norway,
206; Sweden, 545; Denmark, sol; The
Netherlands, So; Belgium, 27; Luxem-
burg. a; France. 556; Alsace Lorraine,
AZ; Switzerland, 378; Germany, 1869,
Poland, 104; Czecho-Slovakia, So; Aus
tria, 1870; Hungary, 40; Jugo Slay-a.
693; Russia, 124; Italy. 2641; and the
rest come from Grece, Albania, Spain.
Finland, Turkey, Portugal, Romania
and Lithunia.
Do you know that the population
of 77,400 people live in POSTS homes,
and of those POSTS homes 1895 are
free of mortgage and 19.940 are
rented?
Are you familiar with the fact that
166 establishments engaged in manu-
fatcuring during the year 1919. and
that these factories employed 3100
hands and that the value of material
produced amounted to $22. 1874, 900, and
that of the 77.400 inhabitants of Ne
vada, there are 346 negroes, of which
1856 are male and $50 female, and that
there are 1922 Indians, Chinese and
Japanese in this State, and of the total
population 1924 live in cities Of over
250O and the other 62,153 live in what
is known as the rural district?
There have been six lynchings In
the great State of Nevada since 1885.
Do you know also that there are
95S3 children under years of age:
$50 between the ages of Z and 13
years, of which 7755 are attending
school, or 90.5 per cent?
The income of the 5000 Indians in
Nevada is $609.133 per year, and they
own 740,635 acres of land, valued at
$2.97s,s5S. The illiterate per cent for
1920 was SO against 81 In 1910.
Could you have told before you read
this that, of the 50,4S6 head of horses
in Nevada, 321 are of pure breed; that
of the 356,390 head of cattle, ATS are
pure bred; that of the SS0,58U sheep,
6341 are thoroughbred, ano of the
26,645 swine, only 449 are pure bred?
Did you know that you produced in
1919, the latest year there are figures
for, $963,966 worth of dairy products;
$5S5,69S for chickens and eggs; 3d.
010,06S for wool and mohair, and re-
ceived $134,917 for honey and wax,
and that the farms in your State op-
Grated by Italians number 1873? The
Japanese in 1920, titled COL acres of
your land and that there are 261 farms
of. less than 20 acres. 435 farms be-
| tween 20 and 40 acres, 555 between 80
and 80 acres, and 1912 over 100 acres;
of the 1857 1853 acres of farm land in
Nevada, only 594.741 are improved, and
of these ,741 acres 3S,637 are work
ed, and the total value of all farm land
within its boundary is $780, 2,239.
A great many Of the citizens OF
this great State are what might be
called transient eitizens-that is, they
do not remain in this State as resi-
dents more than five years at one
time. and, therefore, never really get
to know Nevada, says the Reno Ga
zette.
A great many people come here to
take advantage of the liberal divorce
laws, and their time Is taken up. for
the most part, in pleasure o. one kind
or another and they never know the
State as 1t really is.
None of these people, and very few
of the older residents, knod that Ne
vada covers a territory of more than
109,600 square miles and is larger
than the States of Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts,, New
York, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
New Jersey combined.