Show TIlE OP OF NEVADA E H In the current number of or Colliers Collier's appears an article concerning the status and the suggested fate of or Nevada The writer mal makes es the point In a very ery Interesting article that Nevada evada ha had fewer Inhabitants in 1900 1000 than in 1870 i i And it Is proposed that Nevada be erase erased an and Its territory terri tern to tory tori absorbed Into tho the establishment of or adjoining state or states N I IOne One su suggestion is that thal Arizona and Nevada be made madea a n. state and amI a n. new a admission to tho the Union be effected Also Iso that Nevada eva a be divided e from north to south and California take the western half halt and Utah the east cast ern But Bul even the man map who suggests these these varlo various s dispositions dis db- ig- ig positions of or the sagebrush state does docs not grow very enthusiastic en en- thu ia lc over nn any of or them And none of them Is going going- to bo be a adopted opted Nevada was admitted to the Union and there it will remain It t I Is ls hardly the spirit of of this republic to dismember a stat state Besides there Is a l. l future for for- Nevada a. a In addition to its mines and nl and es and they are immensely rich there rich there is a n mighty area of land that can be ma made e and will be ma made e epro pro productive in Iii an agricultural wa way The They call It the sagebrush sage sage- brush lruth h state slate because there Is much sagebrush there And wherever sa sagebrush grows wheat will grow if JC properly care cared for Irrigation will reclaim man many thousands s 01 ol acres for Cor there thero is enough of ot water to make many many a de desert ert blos blossom om like the rose Dr Dry farming will do o more Utah has proved plo the practical excellence of this plan and every year ear tho lie dry ry farms maintained b by this state for forc c educational purposes are making from thirty to forty u b bushels hels o or of wheat wheal to the acre That is a 3 whole lot Jot more than the state slate average in Indiana or in Ohio And th the investment in a dr dry farm here In tho the mountain inter-mountain I region is nothing lII like e so great as that hat hat In tn the middle west i Nevada will produce in time abundant root crops i Experts Expert In the Utah experiment stations report that potatoes potatoes po po- po- po grown in dry farms are better of or texture more mor dry and dryland and more mOle capable of or shipment without injury than potatoes grown rown In either naturally moist or In Irrigated Irrigate lands land Bread made from farm dry wheat is a better petie j r product The dry farms produce much fruit Grapes Grape in fl particular are arc found to grow gron on the benches of or the hills where tho the scrub oak and tho the cedars an and sagebrush sh have for or ages been the only vegetation There Is another thing to remember about Nevada eva a i In the past it has given its all when It gave ga There Thero I Js Is something appealing In that service to the country which amounts to a a. renunciation The precious metals from Nevada evada have been of or tho the greatest value to the tho business of or the nation In hi times past Tho The volume of or it has been stupendous ous It Is not like Him tho the farms which are tho the rich richer r tho the more they give Mines are not reproductive When you get all the tho mineral there Is the end of or their possibility And after all these of years cars total immolation immola immola- tion it does not seem poem fair to propose the tho of Nevada An And there s 's Is another reason against the rather clev clever r I I scheme proposed It seems those somber arc rire are all treasure ure houses Men ren are arc finding Ing mineral today wherever they go Scarcely a lL day passes but new ore Is discovered n j And In n regions where Op operations have been profitably J conducted where the values have supposedly all been extracted which have havo been abandoned new ness processes s are discovered h by which now values are yielded Nevada a. a is Js never ne going to play pIny out There will be producing mines In that state for the next hundred years ear and with each added season the area of ot food foot production will Increase When the nation gets sets ready to cut up Rhode Island n between Connecticut nn and Massachusetts an and give Vermont Ver Vor- mont to York State Slate and New Hampshire to Maine it wil wll wIlho ho bo limo enough to talk of abolishing Nevada And taut nut till then |