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Show THE GREAT REPUBLIC. It is a wonderful tribute to the strength of our Nation, that the California calamity has hardly caused a jar in the business of the country outside of the one spot where the catastrophe spent its force; for when the great Cicil war came to our country the total value of all the property of all the States was not forty times the amount which was obliterated obliter-ated by the earthquake and the fire of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. It will cripple many individuals and bring hardships to many families, but then the entire pop ulation of the city was but one two-hundredth part of our whole people. It shows how great our country coun-try has grown to be. Still we suspect that a good deal of confusion will follow in Nevada, for San Francisco was the one place to which Nevada miners min-ers have always turned, turned for money for supplies sup-plies and for the kind of men to meet them half way in the promotions of their property. They will not find such another place. There is but one other in all the world; that is New York City .and New York is too far away for any Nevada deals, at least until they have passed beyond the prospecting age. And a good many in San Francisco will count as a part of their losses what they expected to make during the coming year out of Nevada stocks. - The loss is just about equal to last year's corn crop, and the comparison gives hope, for there will be another corn crop in a few months and with it a wheat and cotton crop, a steel and iron crop worth hundreds of millions, a mighty copper crop and a gold and silver crop big enough to vitalize all the others. The country will get along. |