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Show Nevada J , NEVADA has had a pretty trying year, this last one. When the flush days passed by and the Comstock, Eureka, Ploche, Candel-erla, Candel-erla, Austin, Treasure Hill and Tuscarora all gave out and the state lapsed into an almost morl bund condition for fifteen years. Then came the discoveries of Tonopah, later of Goldfie'd and of several other camps, and Ely made clear .what its tremendous undeveloped wealth would probably prob-ably be, and the excitement returned to the old slate and the output of Goldfield apparently crazed the people. They put all their money in stocks. The stocks, under the labor difficulties and under the too great depression of a year ago. failed, and the men of Nevada were about as badly broken as the whole state ever was before. be-fore. That was the situation at the beginning ot the present year, and it has been a hard struggle, and still 'immense strides have been made. Three or four new districts have made clear that the old prestige of Nevada ought to come back, and the showing in Goldfield and Rawhide and Seven Troughs and Gold Circle and many other camps give almost a certified assurance that In the next year or two Nevada will be producing more gold than any other state, and that her mining will exceed that of any other state. Within the year the mills at Silver Peak have got under motion; two gieat new mills at Goldfield have been built; the rebellious ore has been mastered, and it 1ms been pretty well demonstrated dem-onstrated that if the bullion is in the uro, thtre will be a way found to extract it. She has added a good deal to her agricultural area; a great many new 'discoveries have been made within the last twelve months; she Is a great old state, and will be the concernment in money centers during all the coming generation. The old race of Nevada people has passed away, but the new race Is taking up the burden. Wo look for nothing but good In Nevada for the coming com-ing years. |