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Show THE STATE OF NEVADA. " Nevada, like Charles Sumner in -early I " boyhood, is appalled with a sense of its i own identity. Nevada has the identity j . - ; of Statehood, but her identity is a too j heavy burden upon its ' resources. The Eureka Sentinel of a recent data boldly discussed Nevada's condition, and un--...! hesitatingly declared that "there is no 'I denying the fact that Nevada is too small ; ' ' in population and taxable resources to i bear the burdens of a State government, j and something must be done to increase , : ; them, or the time is not far distant when . j ' the commonwealth will ba seriously ein- i barrassed financially, if not in a state of ! ! - absolute bankruptcy." The question 1 which confronts Nevada is the question j j which confronts humanity to-day "What ) j shall we do to be saved?" A patent ; i answer has never been vouchsafed to this I i ! question, and probably never will be. I . The Sentinel would be willing to take i Utah as a taxable resource but for the f ; :' "peculiar condition of affairs in Utah." j ' ;! It is needles? to point out what this con- ! ij dition is. . A State contemporary of the j Sentinel's suggests that Grant and Baker I ; : counties, in Oregon, and Owyhee county, I in Idaho, ba annexed to Nevada. This ; seems satisfactory so far as it goes, but it : does not go far enough. . The ( . ' Sentinel would welcome these counties to 1 Nevada's bo3om, and innocently says ' that "while the33 would form an im- '. 1 portant and welcome addition to our ter- ritory, our western neighbor should be I , ; called upon to contribute her share to- ; i; wards the relief of the little State which I has for many years poured its wealth into I ' : her lap, and to which its principal city j ', j- owes so much for its growth and present t prosperity. The summit of the Sierra J ! Nevada Mountains is the natural bound- ' H ary line 13iws?n Nevada and California. I The portion of Las3en, Modoc, Sierra, ! j Nevada, Placar, El Dorado, Alpine, Mono ('.". and Inyo counties lying east of the snm- ' , niitj could be spared by our wealthy and i ; ?! prosperous neighbor, while the acquisition I. jj would be of the utmost importance and i! benefit to Nevada, to which State th Cod - i! of. Nature assigned it." It is very doubtful whether the latter assertion could be proved. All these' suggestions are wonderfully well calculated to aid I; Nevada, but the States and Territory ifrom which the Sentinel prOjwses to take !; so freely and largely might object. As Nevada is in such great distress, how would it do to put an end to its misery, "'( and cut it up and divide it between Cali- 1 I iornia, Oregon. Idaho and Utah ? -It Nevada's trouble largely arises from I j the fact that she is neither an agricul- ' tural nor a grazing State, but a mining i I : jj State, and her population has to a con- . siderable extent been of a floating char- : acter. Whatever her capabilities in an : agricultural way are, they have never I- ; ; ': been developed, and her name, the ; 1 " Sagebrush State," has given the iin- e pression that aside from the mines, Ne- l vada is a desert. The thing for the press i : -i of Nevada to do is to dispel this idea, if : j it is untrue. |