Show FROM LINCOLN COUNTY NEV tt it to is a long time since I 1 saw any communication from this sage brush state il broken off on as it was through spite against the mor mons mono and now I 1 hear bear that it is to 0 be joined to nevada this certainly would be an anomaly but in this way a state would exist now nevada has bag not more than half the population required to make a state yet through spite toward the mor amor monsy mons and democrats nevada became a state and to follow the example of congress our poor legislature passed a bill franchising disfranchising dis the few cormons mormons Mor mons that remained in contains only voters of whom are cormons mormons Mor mons 11 at the last fall election one man an tried to register and was refused the ease case went to the supreme court when the law was pronounced unconstitutional and we all voted we are now getting along peaceably with our neighbors we have a climate here on the upper hoaps moapa nearly the same an aa los angeles cala and can raise everything about five weeks ago it commenced to rain and we have had rain min and floods ever since today for a wonder the sun shines we are twenty five miles up stream from overton with good soil and plenty of water and we a railroad here or near here soon we want good neighbors with families so that we can establish a school the school system ay stem is good congress has given nevada three million of acres of land for school purposes so that we can buy land from the state at per acre and have twenty five years to pay it and only 6 per cent interest lei is required or we can homestead or preempt as an in other parts J W MOAPA lincoln county nevada Je december cember 81 1889 |