Show UTAH By ALBERT BERT F. F PHILIPS Nevada of the thc old days clays was a part of or the territory toni terri tory of Utah The first white man to visit Nevada was as Garces a Jesuit who was in Arizona in 1776 when Escalante gazed upon Utah Garces had an interview with the tho Yavapai Indians at l his s home north of the Colorado river in what is now the state of ot Arizona as asto to the country north but trace of him was lost Then came Fremont and his exploration part party The country west to the Pacific ocean was vas a blank Years later with the discovery of ot the Comstock lode came a flood of or miners and prospectors The unearthing of the Comstock was in June 1859 The population of oC the state of ot Nevada then was A year later when noses were counted the population had Increased to Machinery brought In at a acost acost acost cost of 5 to 10 cents per pound freight resulted Inthe in inthe inthe the construction of 20 quartz mills and as many saw mills The stampede was as was on Fortunes were cre mado in a n da day Stocks selling at 90 cents one day In a a. month had jumped to 1500 Fabulous gains gams and lo losses es were of every day occur occur- rence Like the turn of a a. card men were in affluence ence once or in the slough of poverty It was the silver sil I state for it was in the state of Nevada that mining was born and Nevada was headquarters for forthe forthe forthe the whole earth a It U was as said of John Mackay continued the old old- timer that when the United States resumed specie payments and there was great doubt of or the ability of or the country to bear the burden Mr Mackay who was the warm friend of President Ulysses S. S Grant called on the president and offered to take a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred million of the bonds required to sustain the millions of greenbacks and the thc gold cold and silver rolling in a steady stream from tho the Consolidated Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia and the California made good his word but the tender was not needed Nevada had for a while said the timer old as I much difficulty in securing a territorial and state government as had Utah There was vas a very bitter feeling feeling feel feel- ing mg towards the Mormons as ns shown by what the people said ald to Judge Child who was vas sent out from Salt Lake to the Carson valley in the fall faU of oC 1859 to look after territorial affairs Ho was informed that much as the people desired the protection of la laws s 's we do not want the laws of Utah hence Judge Child ChUd I was powerless and could do not nothing Ing In the report of the grand jury for forthe tho the September term of or the United States district cour court for the Second judicial district of Utah territory territory terri tern tory to Judge it said Hitherto wo we have presented the without a parallel In the United States of a people living under a constitutional constitutional constitutional government without courts or other tribunals of ot Justice yet et maintaining lo loyalty alty to the co constitution Utu- Utu tion Uon supporting its laws and promoting the prosperity and wealth of the country A territorial government was as given Nevada by congress on March 2 1861 |