Show JOTTINGS FROM SIL VERLAND the situation as regards n nevadas internal affairs UT airs A protracted JAMBOREE the zephyr abroad A welcome fall of snow reclamation matters dogs bogn in the manner manger both castern and the sit situation antion all well oo on the stock banges our indiana how they might bo be of I 1 CITY NOT nev feb 19 1991 after a gale that continued without a momon mo menVil ls intermission lor for sixty hours the result else of 60 much heavy wind work was given us in the 0 a tug fall I 1 of snow the wind ind was more worthy ot of the Iban name amoo of washoe washes zephyr than any blow seen bean here in some 3 sears ears it wa was a ft reminder of the old time zephyrs which rolled up tin roofs as one would handle a sheet of paper though no buildings were blown down dow n in the city several were cre a good deal rent aud and dilapidated among which was tile tho first ward school chool building which it bad a corner taken out of it the these second e 0 n d night of tile the gale u hen all the wind g gods 0 ds and lapland were doing abir worst there was not much sleeping la in the town such was tile ilia roar and din more chimney pots 1 shutters but signs anin gsand fences fence were ere carried away an ay than by any similar tini ilar gale in ID many years alho tharo was more glas g broken by hying flying various kinds in some of the iho gusts pebbles as largo sit as w walnuts nuts nere mere picked up and hurled abr through ough windows even beconi story windows all who beard the thunder of the gale that night expected to hear bear next morning of a score or two of houes being blow blown n do down n and were astonished to learn that the damage had all been in small things the fact Is 1 that thai bearing in ruled mind tile the experiences of the early days our people have all made some preparations for the riding out of such inch gales tho the frame buildings are much stronger than they look to be when viewed on OD the outside ade the roofs are tied a and d braced in every possible ble way thus t they hey are able not only to withstand a heavy gale but albi alao a great weight of snow allow it II bad been thought that were laid up tor for the season but again the merry jingle of bells Is heard throughout tile city and jolly parties of citizens both oung and old are making the most of the unexpected so snowfall ow it II beings wet clinging snow it answer well swell all uses to which young am america ties cares to put it and balling and amilar snow sports are as brisk as if th this is were the first snow of the winter T those buss m ho he are re not at all 11 ll pleased to wo me the snowfall are the heads beads of families whose woodpiles wood piles are low and whose pockets are empty these are sure to occupy tho the coldest houses bouses in I 1 town on the cloth and paper lined structures thus it 11 Is that oven even through their efforts effort to economize the poor are mado made poorer during a cold sea soap they are ruined by wood mood bills just juitt at this time too our supply of col Is gone tho the coal trains from W widin join ing were three days behind time hen the snow came ame 7 and since then wo we have not hoard from them dont know where they are the spring valley strike will also probably affect us as tho the spring vall valley ey Is the coal now most used on iho elio comstock Com pour four people can buy it by the hundred bundred weight and to ID so doing can come nearer bearer getting tho the worth of their money than when they expend a dollar or two for wood to bo be Iguess guessed pd out to them by tho the dealer doal cr m L Is 0 Ind indications leatto n 0 of a resumption of deep mining the coming season increase and multiply the big mining men below appear to be earnestly engaged in binau in endeavor to settle in ID a mauner mariner satisfactory to lit the companies COU COrneli the tie eary preliminaries connected with the resumption will be a cutting down of prices in all t bings bill wages I 1 in n order to be i enabled to work still lower grades 0 ore the past week meek there has hai been an improvement in tho the ore yielded by the con cal fe virginia it averaging 50 i a ton in tho the savage has benn been found lonal a new dew streak of good ore about 11 ll act wide and arid improvements abero are ro ported la in the ophir hala bialo A norcross toil and yellow jacket 1 1 I lie he pumps at gold are gradually getting tile ilie bolter better of 0 the water in the old workIngs be the sutro drain the water Is now lowered to a point four our feet below tub the 1600 lo 10 acl cl WATER ANI AND our 0 u stale we board of 0 in ili their cl r report to the legislature do not tell of I 1 having mado made any use of tho the too that thai as appropriated two years ago for or the purpose of 0 making a beginning in wa water ter storage they say it is to the general government wo we must look for or aid to carry out this great work they the aay that leals as large appropriations are everywhere veli cr being made in tho the eastern states E lor for arher and harbor improvements it would mould bo be but een handed banded justice I 1 if ti in n lieu lien of aher and harbor appropriations we vie should hao an appropriation for the construction of reservoirs tho the trouble will mill bo be to obtain this evenhanded even handed justice jubilee the people of the atlantic states are constantly asking tor for appropriations tor for tho the improve men treat of rivers and harbors the building of lighthouses and all manner of improvements prove provo ments in many Inq instances asking tho the government to do work which should be done by mates and cities but there Is always a great honi hoi I 1 raised by all eastern people when there Is talk of appropriating any money lur for the tha states and territories lying in the interior to the west ol of the missouri river they look upon an appropriation as good as aa thrown throw away it if abe money be not expanded in their midst the tha moment an attempt Is made to obtain an appropriation from the abo to construct storage reservoirs in novada nevada no matter on what hat terms that moment a howl will be raised in all the now en england gland states they will say they have ai much right to ask tor for an appropriation for or manure to restore to fortuity fertility their worn out farms as tho the people of the arid zone have to ask tor for an appropriation tor for the purpose of reclaiming waite lands hinds they 4 ill III not look tar far enough ahead to lo see the advantages that would accrue to them from the trude that would go to tho the cities from this direction were all the interior states slates as denly denely den ely populated as atwould would be pos possible under the irrigation batem of 0 the cultivation of the soil fine harbors are all very well but bul there should bo be something coming out of the interior of the country to these harbors in order that tho the merchants and traders settled about the ports may mav nourish in their business busin esq wo web a ve seen all that can be done for trade by covering the country with cattle tor for in most regions west of tho the missouri as many caule cattle have been beem crowded upon the langss as could exit it Is evident that ubal hat can be done with cattle Is a mere trine trifle in comparison with the results that would be obtained by the careful cultivation cu Iti of the soil by hundreds and lid thousands of small farmers the greater the number dumber of families packed into this region the boiler belter tor for the merchants of eastern cities they undoubtedly are aware of this tact fact and expect and calculate upon all the trade from hitherward hing regions yet they are such dogs in the manger that they cannot endure to see a dollar coming this way even when it Is to swell tho the volume of that trade to which they look for their gains they heartily welcome all thu the bricks that can bo be made by people in this direction but they must ask for no straw fm agricultural OUTLOOK the present snow storm la Is putting money loto latoche the tho rancher it is gold to him it will fiend down don into the soil coil of lila his fields moisture that will remain until his crops are well advanced A good deal ot of snow will also bo be piled up to in the mountains for bum frummer thus it may be said that thai the old settlers sett lors among the ranchers are now pretty provided for many of them too loo are of a stripe to do all in their power to discourage tile the construction of storage reservoirs they want the marten market to to bring into cultivation largo large areas of new land would be to bring into competition wilh them scores of other producers of grain hay bay and cattle they want to see no now land brought into cultivation to alii they have not net the title lille it Is only in time of a great drought when their own crops are burning up that these old settlers m aho vho he claim the first right to all the water that Is flowing down from the mountains can be brought broun lil to entertain projects tor for the storage of water eton eon then hen they do not m ish sh the storage to be on OD a very extensive scale in ranchers of this class wore were pretty well tinged singed by the drought of three years year that bad its culmination that season mason they had bad their opposition to water storage about burned out of them but with the great snowfall of 1600 1590 they went back to their old selfish line ol of reasoning last sear ear not one of them wanted anted to bear a word said of the election of storage reservoirs they would bo be too sure a thing thine outsiders could then take up lands adjoining the old ranchers with a certainty of obtaining aur to mature their crops without reservoirs these lands would lie ile undisturbed and could be hooded flooded by tho the old settlers at times limes when be b had a super fluett of water thus making a good and convenient pasture if we bid bad no workers lor for the reclamation rocla matlon of our arid lands ladds outside of thoe first settlers no 0 should never see a storage reservoir erected capable ca leable of holding bold ing more water thair would serve to savo save their 0 a crops la in a very dry season THE boucic kanats live soak of all kind bait done ill ell this ariter on the nevada natalia ranges tho the losses los wilt will amount to lo nothing nul liing cattle avo kept fatal 1 wlater if there has been any trouble it has been lack of an snow 0 w to fill the water holes sell and sta start r t rills la in the canyons the present snow tall fall will do this the snow mow will soon disappear from the slopes ol of all the iha bills anti and mountain ranges horses anil and sheep have a iso also done well all the sheep shoop men havo have been making money the tendency now Is to work out of cattle and go la in tor for sheep angora goats also do well and in n summer they may he be herded up among the highest and rockiest roc kiest peaks both sheep and goats may be kept above the cattle ranges horses are fund fond of 0 the high plateaus plateau and little elevated valleys galleys hogs where any are kept always make for the about the ibe margins mar giris of lakes and ponds TITE iana the pluto prophet has had no now revelations no ko more delegations from outside tribes tre are coming to see him the flutes have had bad only a few dances this winter and they were mostly given to got the people together for business talks talks about the education of the children and about making some gome attempts at farming the kind of farms that would suit the majority would be little pitches ol of four or five acres irrigated by a living spring mere truck patches on which th the squaw s 6 could do all the work the men will work well lor for a month or two at a time on the ranches of whites for wages wages but they have not cot the patience to plant a a crop and tend it until it matures the squaws squads like gardening and nd it if they bad the opportunity would grow a great amount of squashes SQuash cs bean potatoes corn and the uke like As such irrigable patches of land as I 1 have suggested are not plentiful and when found are claimed by the whites tor for some purpose the tha best that could be done for all indian families not on reservations would be to attach them to ranches ranche s lot let each rancher who m he has a farm under cultivation put up on a curner of it a shanty for one or two in indian d fall families with an ocre acre or two of ground a and d water to Irrl irrigate gate it the buck back or bucks could be given work on the ranch while it would bo be the bhe business of the squaws squads and children to in cultivate the truck patch this thin truck patch might be plowed tor for them in the spring by the buck while engaged at such work for the rancher all the planting and cultivating could be done by the squaws squads and youngsters were there in operation a number of 0 ranches upon which to thus distribute the indians they would soon arrive at a condition civilization which Is all that should be expected of the present generation they should bo be allowed to live pretty much in their own way in their shanties the squaws squads would pick up various household con ven venlen lences cea as soon as they tell felt the need of it them these indian families would soon begin to raise chickens an and if would have a goat or two and presently a cow and pony they would lake root in the ground with the planting of their first crop the squaws squads would not run away and loave leave behind their truck patches in two or three years these indians m would probably begin to raise some garden stuff to sell as do tho the indians in mexico also would hive have eggs and chickens to sell stuck upon a corner of a big ranch as a I 1 has hai 1 0 suggested tho the bucks would do a good deal of work in any other gitil lion aaion they would leave all ail to bo be done by the he squaws squads in western and southern states are plenty of poor whites and w bile tho the men are ara good workers ii hired lands hands on OD tho the surrounding farms they w will ill not do a stroke of work about their own homes A pluto indian Is much luo elio sort son of 0 creature A soon as he be reaches his but bat bo be lots go ill all holds gokce pt his hold bold upon his bis however even among the flutes there aro are a few men w m he bo have industry and enterprise to farm on a largo large scalo scale land of their own chief natchez Is a quiet and ambitious rancher many others would no doubt farm after a faybion if 11 they had bad undisputed of a patch of ground and sufficient water to irrigate it in 1660 1860 immediately atter atler the pluto war an indian came to me in silver city mho A he to my Aul prise was w full nil of the spirit of the tha granger lie he said he be had a ranch somewhere about the of the he wanted 1 cow a breeding how some chickens and a lot of garden seeds with a little assistance the man would doubtless have hae soon foon become an aa industrious and contented rancher ber perhaps ho he way may even now flow bo be running a ranch I 1 have forgotten the abo mans name and do not know that I 1 have seen seea him since that day lie ilo had then just sold fitly fifty tons of hay bay and bad the cash to pay ho be ft dished ashod to purchase there aro are now about this city whole herds of flutes of both sexes many of the bucks are re strapping young follows how abom work they can call do and offer thom them money and they are ready to talio take hold bold at once oine oin e but they are poor handu hands at finding work and never think cf originating anything or doing on their own account that would woud bring them money aul culess s perhaps to shoot a low fow d ducks ant and gurdie for these thoy they always manago manage to get gel top prices one over never gets a bargain kiil of a plute ile ho will hang bang on longer than a chinaman for or the lb last cent DAN DAJ |