Show I WESTERN NEVADA RICHES The Lodes Around Reno Are Coming Richly to the Front Pcno Ncv July 170111 not familiar with the condition In Nevada has but slight conception of the development on nearly all Industrial lines that IM goIng go-Ing on within the Stales confines Nevada Ne-vada has been known as the rotten boiough for years There Is nothing that the State has been gullly of lo justify jus-tify the conclusion that Nevada was any nearer decayed than any other commonwealth Trqe Nevada has been handled by L u few politicians who have worked the State and all of Its Industries to feat iier their own nests politically and financially but that sao the result of conditions that the home people were In no way responsible for Years ago when the Comstock was the It of the State men were In command com-mand who cared not a whit what became be-came of Nevada so long as they t got rich or were elevated to places of truut and honor They had no State pride and were only here temporarily for what there was In It for them Old Mount Davidson was honeycombed and hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars taken there from to enrich other States hut not a brick wan laid In Nevada to tell future generation of the Comilock1 great news Now with three or four exceptions excep-tions they arc all gone some to the bon < lJl where nature has been more lavish than In Nevada in point of beautiful mota others lu the crematory crema-tory and ur i npw forgotten others itlll have their greedy eye on the State they dcflertod twenty 1 years ago attracted but rcontly Reno and the beautiful valley of the Truckce tell lie story better perhapu than it can be told in any other section sec-tion Ucno soul Wnshot county have been prosperous notwithstanding the unsavory reputation the State at largo has borne In the minds of the world There hI hardly another Stale In the Union that nom one has not unlocked his Iroaaure vault and endowed some college whereby the boys and girls of Hut commonwealth get an education fitting fit-ting them for tho worlds battles and thereby building n monument to themselves them-selves and to posterity Not so with Nevada That task waji loft to a handful of bona fide residents of lie State to rlo by taxation How well the taxpayers have performed their duties may bo scout by a visit to Itono and awHile a-wHile to University hill Eight stately brick structures adorn the I hill equipped with IL full corps of University professors boys and girls dormitory and over 100 bright young students tho flower of the Slate with their college yell to toll the story of the Nevada university Then the young men who have been graduated from that Institution I I scattered scat-tered all over tho 1 world from Alaskas Icy banks to tho dark continent toll wllh I what thoioughncsn t they were fit tell for performing their duties ns American citizens The thriving town of Reno stretching out far from the States neat of learning learn-ing with QOn i busy workers handling the t product of the range farm a nil forest I for-est building i I homes and making para dine of that left by tho ficlllnh rich man of a generation of gold lull It patriotic story of devotion to home and Stale seldom equaled and never excelled Nevada has grown slowly to be sure until today she promises lo electrify elec-trify Ihe world with 11 1llt WONDERFUL RICIINKSS Not alone In the precious mctala taken from under the sage root but by her farm products and manufacturing plants While the Reno Star mine the property prop-erty of John Sparks Is I the only one that t has paid from the grass roots there are many prospect that promise good returns after a little Washoe county was not considered a mining section until two years ago Now It la I attracting the attention of mining men from all over the world In Ollnghousc canyon right miles northwest of Wadxworth much development devel-opment work Is being done The beauty of Ollnghousc is that the t money to pay for the work has all been taken out of the district A Dondero Spiro Francovlch and Luigi Della rina owners of Cabin Claim No 2 In Ollnghouse canyon came up from Ollnghouae with two bars of bullion nnd It was taken to the branch mint at Carecm and sold and last ACvolLntr they rctui > ncd with about c 1000 in 20 gold pieces This was the result of a run of 111 tons of ore and it was reduced by a Ilunllngton mill At no time In the hlstorv of the camp has there been such a united effort to establish the claims of the miners that Ollnghouso will become a second CrJpplc Creek with all the strange freaks which so often leave the mining man In doubt as to how much ho really knows about the min eralbearing tract in the crust of the globe The Slip Renegade and Jumper mines develop In a manner that will enable Ihcm lo reach large bodies of low grade ore The Slip tunnel No lImB been driven 100 feet to cut the Slip and Renegade leads and will be extended 300 feet further Slip tunnel Is now in 100 feet and Is belyg driven ahead to cut the 15foot lead of low grade ore on the Renegade The tunnel will also cut another vein which will run better than 100 per ton The Slip Hunting ton mill has boon running continuously for thirtyfour days on Slip and Renegade Rene-gade ore and will start on Jumper ore in a few days The ore will mill from 520nO to IO per ton The mining outlook at Steamboat eleven mile south of Reno ia very encouraging en-couraging and the Great Western Development De-velopment company will show something some-thing lo startle tho mining world before be-fore the snow tiles this fall The property prop-erty is being worked largely by Louisiana Louisi-ana capital Reno Is forging ahead and several brick blocks now In the course of construction con-struction tell of the faith the people have In the towns permanence Two throestory modcni r brick hotels are being built ahd anew frame structure of modern architecture has recently been completed for hotel purposes While other towns have had their ups and downs lleno has been growing grow-ing for years until today It has reached almost a boom point Reno Is the center of a large and productive farming section and through her gateway must pass nearly all the traffic of northern California and Southeastern Oregon ALLT3N C BRAGG |