| Show OUR SISTER STATE NEVADA contributed our sister state nevada made favorable progress during the past year and gives bright promise for greater prominence with the opening of the year 1904 mining its chief industry has naturally opened the way to all its other industries and the present conditi condition of its agriculture and stock raising industry is flattering both of these industries received their impetus with the of silver and when common commo n sense legislation shall have restored silver as money of ultimate redemption accepted as such by the civilized world then the welding of these three principal industries mining agriculture and stock rai raising sing throughout its square miles would soon make it among the foremost states of the west gold mining today is giving employment to as many men as did silver mining in the past the history of the great comstock yielding the proportion of about 40 in gold to 60 in silver is about to repeat itself in the already famous tonopah To the state has bid farewell to the wild speculation in worthless mining claims and mining 0 stock gambling is nearly a memory of the past has beens is applied to all the old camps but the great comstock enters the new year employing more men and I 1 resuming operations more substantially than at any time since its brightest days esmeralda and nye counties are entering upon the most fruitful period in their existence the railroad to tonopah seems at this moment to have its terminus known but who can foretell its future destination and its branches washoe with the metropolis tro polis reno is on the eve of its most flourishing career eikos progress is most marked eureka and white pine counties are giving favorable and encouraging accounts of their progress and lincoln county with the building of the railroad to the coast spurs the prospector the well known trail blazer on to action the additional transportation facilities throughout the state aids most materially in its future |
