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Show O R E O (J I P A M O k. Afrfef r$s sa ;! iif . -" 4 )M r , IBM - t -IW By EDWARD EMERINE WNTJ Features. TOSS a silver dollar on the bar. If it's genuine, it has a clear tone. If it's counterfeit, it echoes only a dull thud. If a dollar doesn't ring true, any Nevadan can detect it at once. Hypocrisy has no place in Nevada, a state where there Is plenty of room for almost anything. More than a hundred thousand square miles of brilliantly colored terrain rise in chain after chain of mountains, moun-tains, with snow-capped pinnacles 13,000 feet above the level of the sea. But everything and everybody In Nevada must ring as true as a silver dollar or be quickly detected detect-ed and properly appraised. Nevada is a big, free, unspoiled land where values are fundamental. Nevada believes in a forthright approach to divorce, gambling and drinking. Human nature is human nature, and is seldom changed by passing a law. But there can be law and order and there Is in Nevada Ne-vada without deprivation of personal per-sonal rights or attempt to legislate morality. Better to have license and control con-trol than bootlegging and illegal gambling, says Nevada. The details de-tails of a partnership dissolution concern only the persons involved. But tolerance of human foibles and mistakes is one thing; flouting of laws or obligations is another. Nevada Ne-vada takes its government seriously serious-ly and tolerates no dishonesty, crime or hypocrisy. That's the way it is In Nevada and Nevadans like it. Ranchers and Miners. And besides, Nevadans are more Interested in prospecting, mining and ranching than they are In regulating reg-ulating the lives and habits of others. oth-ers. They love ranching and herds of sheep and cattle. Town folk and ranchers alike hunt for promising rocks that show a trace of gold, or silver, or other valuable mineral. They like broad highways that take them to lakes and mountains and pleasant valleys. Eating at counters and rubbing elbows with each other, and visitors, is one of their friendly habits. The "club," a social center not unlike the continental cafe, is a community institution. Those who drive rapidly through Nevada, or stop only in its clubs to drink and try their gambling luck, will never know the state. Nevada's mountains have produced nearly two billion dollars of mineral wealth, chiefly in gold, silver and copper. Other important minerals are lead, zinc, quicksilver, tungsten, sulphur, graphite, borax, gypsum and building build-ing stone. No one can estimate its untouched, undiscovered and undeveloped unde-veloped wealth. "But Nevada is a desert!" A desert? A most productive one, then, yielding wool, cattle, sheep, horses, hogs and poultry. The livestock live-stock industry is a big one in Nevada. Ne-vada. The state's agriculture is varied, and as irrigation advances even more diversification is seen. Wheat, barley, hay, potatoes and i ' J I i VAIL M. PITTMAN Governor of Nevada Jededlah Smith passed through the region in 1826, and John C. Fremont traversed it with an exploring party a few years later. Colonized by Mormons. Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, who settled the Salt Lake basin, concluded that what is now Nevada was a part of his domain. In March, 1849, he announced the organization of the State of Deseret, which included Nevada. In that same year, N. Ambrose, Nevada's first farmer, settled near what is now Genoa. Colonization by the Mormons continued until 1857, when Young recalled them to Salt Lake City in order to mass his forces in the conflict" with the 'federal government. Former lumberman, rancher and Banker, Governor Pittman is now publisher of the Ely Daily Times as well as the state's chief executive. He has also served as state senator and lieutenant-governor lieutenant-governor of Nevada. capacity to.aid the war effort. Thousands Thou-sands of people came to the state to swell its 1940 population of 110,247. "We in Nevada are individualists," individual-ists," Gov. Vail Pittman told the Nevada State Cattle association at Elko last fall. "We enjoy the thrill and satisfaction, as well as the profits, which our work brings us." The democracy and hospitality of the Old West still live in Nevada. The state's richest citizen and the lowliest cowpuncher, miner or Until the discovery of the famous Comstock lode in 1859, there were only about 1,000 inhabitants in Nevada, Ne-vada, chiefly Mormons and California Califor-nia gold seekers who had tarried along the way. But silver and gold brought a stampede of fortune hunters hunt-ers from all over the nation. The population of Virginia City spurted from a handful of men to 30,000. Bonanzas were struck and developed, devel-oped, and men became wealthy beyond be-yond their dreams overnight. Foi many years the Comstock lode was the richest silver mining center in the world,' and from it has come approximately one billion dollars in gold and silver! Soon Nevada became a territory, and on October 1, 1864, President Lincoln by proclamation made Nevada Ne-vada state. Carson City, though smaller than Virginia City, was made the capital. Nicknamed the "Battle Born State," Nevada had lived through lawlessness, bickering, bicker-ing, Indian uprisings and political chicanery to take its place as one of the stars in Old Glory. - , . - . 1, i " - - , N " i ft - "V - . - . i v, "Vs i " V ,! , " s J i , v - ' V"- h : - JEEP ON LAKE MEAD . . Most of the shoreline of Lake Mead, back of Boulder dam, is In Nevada. Shown in the amphibious jeep are Lloyd Payne, Clark county clerk; J. D. Porter, Las Vegas, and Peggy Neville, Salt Lake City. |