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Show Nevada. S HTHE writer yesterday met an old friend, a na- tive of Nevada, foorn just about the time that Nevada became a state. He was red-eyed with wrath and a little questioning revealed that the cause of the wrath was the slurs which he con- stantly heard hurled at it; that it was a desert state; a rotten borrough; a reproach to the neighboring neigh-boring states; the one dim star in the shinning shin-ning galaxy of the "Union. "Say," he said, "why do you not sometime publish the real truth about Nevada?" Then without 'pausing he continued in about this strain: ,u. "Tell the men who cast reproaches upon No- vada that they are seggregated idiots and know nothing of the state they affect to sneer at. Tell them that for more than half a century it has been the foremost of mining tw-ds. "That on the Comstock, the miners wrought MMMMftVMMMnii more miracles in mining and the reduction of ores than all the scientists of Europe and Spanish Span-ish America had learned in five hundred previous years; that they made mining at the reduction of ores a science and set the pace for mining all over the world; that what Nevada mines produced pro-duced was the stay of the nation in the great war; that ever since her mines have been a steady reinforcement, greater than from any ether state, to the world's stock of money. That as it had the greatest mines, the greatest great-est lawyers and industrial chieftains were called there; that the biggest fees ever heard of were paid the lawyers, that the gravest problems that ever confronted the industries of a people were presented and solved by the men in control; that the prettiest girls in the iworld were iborn and reared there; that the brightest group of men along all the lines of endeavor congregated there, and foy what they produced made an epoch in the entire financial world. "Tell them that Nevada is still maintaining its ancient reputation; that about the richest gold mines in the world are Ibeing worked there and old districts are coming into bonanzas. "Tell them that Nevada as an agricultural state is fast becoming a wonder, that ten years hence it will be raising more wheat than the M Empire state; that it has the foest climate under M the sun, and the best and bravest peoplo of all fl the forty-eight states, and that the man who M sneers at Nevada, Is like the rabble around tho M cross, who, in pity, when dying, the Master prayed for because the seggregated idiots did not know M what they did. M "I tell you, you cannot make it too strong. And you may add that nowhere on all this old H earth can a .braver, (brighter, or more generous M people foe found than in Nevada." M |