NEVADA. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



gents a dry appearance, yet its foot-hills and 

 valleys abound in the most nutritious food for 

 oattle. This, with the salubrity of the climate, 

 offers the greatest inducements to stock-raisers. 



The topography of the country shows the 

 entire State broken by a succession of inuun- 

 t liii-ranges, the general course of which is 

 north and south. Though the summits of 

 these ranges are sometimes covered with 

 snow the entire year, yet in the valleys, during 

 the coldest seasons, snow seldom lies, and cat- 

 tle are allowed to range throughout the year 

 without housing, and even in midwinter are 

 driven to the markets ready for the slaughter- 

 pens. 



It is only within the past few years that 

 this branch of industry has presented itself. 

 The droughts in California for some years past 

 have been so disastrous to stock-raisers that 

 thousands of head of cattle were shipped to 

 Nevada. As an evidence of the value attae hod 

 to the land in this State, the State Surveyor- 

 General reports that during the past year ap- 

 plications for purchase were made for 184,000 

 acres, comprising only agricultural and graz- 

 ing lands, an increase of 100,000 acres over 

 the applications of the preceding year. 



The Indian tribes residing in Nevada com- 

 prise the Pah-ntes, Pi-utes, Washoes, Shos- 

 nones, and Bannocks. The Pah-utes, num- 

 bering about 6,000, inhabit the western part 

 of the State. Two reservations have been set 

 apart for them, one known as the Walker 

 River, and the other as the Pyramid Lake res- 

 ervation, containing each 820,000 acres. There 

 are about 2,500 of the Pi-ntes, who inhabit the 

 southeastern part of the State. They have 

 no reservation set apart for them, nor have 

 they any treaty with the United States. The 

 Washoes number about 500, and the Shoshones 

 about 2,000. The Bannocks, roaming in the 

 northeastern part of the State, are about 1,500 

 in number, and arc doubtless a portion of the 

 people of that name ranging in Eastern Oregon 

 and Southern Idaho. 



Carson City is the capital of Nevada ; and 

 is also the seat of justice of Ormsby County. 

 It is situated in Eagle Valley, four miles from 

 Oarson River, and 178 miles northeast of 

 San Francisco ; population in 1870, 8,042, of 

 whom 697 were Chinese. Tt is in a fertile and 

 picturesque region. The Sierra Nevada Moun- 

 tains rise abruptly on the west, while the val- 

 ley of the Oarson extends far to the north and 

 east. A railroad connects it with Virginia 

 and Gold Hill, in Storey County, which is used 

 chiefly to transport ore from the mines at 

 those places to the crushing-mills on the < 'ar- 

 son River, and to carry back timber, which is 

 abundant on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. 

 The State-house is in course of construction. 

 The branch mint occupies a fine building. 

 The deposits of bullion for the year ending 

 June 80, 1878, amounted to $9,247,857.85, of 

 which $5,004,536.69 were gold, and $4.21:!.- 

 820.66 silver. The total deposits of gold to 



that date were $10,504,074. Of this amount 

 $124,154 was deposited in 1870, $1,008,809 

 in 1871, and $4,871,578 in 1ST-. 11,, total 

 value of the coinage since the organization of 

 the mint to June 80, 1878, was $1,883,704, of 

 which $1,491,975 was gold, and $391,729 sil- 

 ver. In addition to which, bars wi-ro manu- 

 factured, to the value of $1,9611,645 in 1^71. 

 $7,809,287 in 1872, and $8,490,681 in 1 

 total $18,329,613. Of the last amount, $!U 

 644 were imported silver bars, $8,977,K24 im- 

 ported gold bars, and $119,143 tine gold bars. 



The State-prison is at Warm Springs, two 

 miles to the east. There are four quartz-mills 

 with seventy-six stamps, for the production 

 of silver, and several churches, good schools, 

 tivo daily newspapers, and the State and Odd- 

 Fellows' Libraries. Carson City was founded 

 as a ranch before the discovery of silver in 

 N.-vuda, after which time it increased rapidly, 

 being on the line of travel through the > 

 previous to the opening of the Central Pacific 

 Railroad. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. The political cam- 

 paign in New Hampshire opens with the be- 

 ginning of the year. This year the Democratic 

 State Convention was held at Concord on the 

 8th of January. James A. Weston, of Manches- 

 ter, was nominated for Governor, receiving 

 498 votes out of 518 on the first ballot. The 

 nomination was declared unanimously by ac- 

 clamation. Horatio Colony, of Keene, was 

 nominated for Railroad Commissioner by ac- 

 clamation, and the following platform was 

 adopted unanimously : 



We, the Democracy of the State of Xew Hampshire 

 in convention assembled, hereby reaffirm, in the 

 language of the 7th article of our bill of Rights, that 



"The people of this State have the Bole nnd ex- 

 clusive right of governini themselves as a free, sov- 

 and independent State, and do, and forever 

 er shall, exercise and enjoy every power, juris- 

 diction and right pertaining thereto, which is not or 

 may not hereafter be !>y tln-m expressly delegated to 

 the United States of America in Congress assem- 

 bled ; " therefore 



Sfiolfui, That we cordially invite the cooperation 

 of all patriotic citizens in opposing the evident pur- 

 poses of the present Administration to consolidate nil 

 power in the General Government, and to accomplish 

 the subversion and final overthrow of all State au- 

 thority. 



Retohtd, That the necessity of the reforms here- 

 tofore urzed by us becomes more apparent in the 

 fact that the President is attempting to subvert, by 

 the lawless exercise of military power, tlio recorded 

 will of at least three States of the Union : in the 

 fact that he utterly ignores the rules of appointment 

 to otllcc which Congress prescribed f >r his guidance, 

 notwithstanding his ostentations pledge to the con- 

 trary ; and in the fact that scheme* nre already ma- 

 tnritu; to dissipate the small remnant of our pul >lic 

 lands. 



Ruoltud, That the only effectual civil service re- 

 form is that which lessens the patronage of the Presi- 

 dent, and limits his eligibility to a single term of 



offlm. 



Jiaolvtd, Tbnt the Credit Mobilicr frauds are the 

 legitimate fruits of the lawless, reckless am 

 policy of the present Administration : and it is due to 

 our national interests and honor, not only that the 

 operators shall be made to disgorge their ill-gotten 



