NEVADA. 



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The following statement shows the assessed 

 value of property by counties for the year 

 1886, exclusive of the proceeds of the mines : 



The net proceeds of mines as assessed amount- 

 ed to $554,346.62. The State tax of 90 cents 

 amounted to $231,739.89, and the county taxes 

 to $423,428.62. 



Silver-Mining. The leading industry of the 

 State has greatly revived within the past year. 

 The depressed state of public feeling caused by 

 the abandonment of deep mining on the Corn- 

 stock lode has been entirely dissipated by the 

 recent discovery of valuable deposits of ore 

 on the upper levels, and also in other parts of 

 the State. The output of bullion has been 

 thereby very largely increased. 



Live-Stock, Next in importance to silver is 

 the live-stock interest especially the raising of 

 cattle. Nevada possesses some of the finest cat- 

 tle-ranges in the world. The many nutritious 

 grasses, notably the bunch-grass, that grow on 

 the mountain- sides, afford excellent pasturage 

 for summer, while the many varieties of sage- 

 brush, which grow everywhere on the desert 

 plains and rolling hills, especially the white 

 sage, serve as excellent winter food, being 

 considered by many far superior in strength 

 and nutrition to any of the grasses. Except 

 in Nevada and other portions of the Great 

 Basin, there is no country where the grasses 

 possess the property of curing themselves un- 

 aided by the labor of man. Large sums of 

 money have been expended by the more enter- 

 prising breeders in importing superior stock 

 for the purpose of improving the grade of cat- 

 tle. While the improvement has been marked 

 in giving great size and weight, it has been 

 found that the improved cattle are admirably 

 adapted to the varied and extensive ranges. 



Political. The .Democratic State Convention 

 met at Elko on September 9, and nominated a 

 ticket as follows : Member of Congress, J. H. 

 McMillan ; Governor, Jewett W. Adams, the 

 present incumbent; Lieutenant-Governor, T. 

 J. Bell; Secretary of State, John T. Brady; 

 Judge of the Supreme Court, C. H. Belknap ; 

 Clerk of the Supreme Court, John McKernan ; 

 Attorney- General, J. F. Boiler ; State Comp- 

 troller, R. Sadler; State Treasurer, Jerry 

 Schooling ; Surveyor-General, S. H. Day ; Su- 



perintendent of Public Instruction, A. E. Kay ; 

 State Printer, Henry Duffey ; District Judges, 

 Henry Eives, A. L. Fitzgerald, and H. T. Cres- 

 well. The following are the chief planks of 

 the platform : 



We demand of the Administration at Washington 

 that it shall second the efforts of the Democratic rep- 

 resentatives in Congress to give the people free coin- 

 age of silver, notwithstanding the formidable combi- 

 nations existing between the gold rings, national 

 banks, and the national Republican party in Califor- 

 nia in refusing to insert a silver plank in their plat- 

 form, deserves the condemning of the silver-produc- 

 ions of the Pacific coast. 



e indorse the policy of applying the surplus in 

 the National Treasury, as fast as it may accumulate, to 

 the payment of the national-debt, retiring as rapidly 

 as practicable the national bank circulation and the 

 direct issue by the national Government of legal- 

 tender Treasury notes, gold and silver coin, and coin 

 certificates. 



We demand the immediate abrogation of the Bur- 

 lingame treaty, and the total suppression of Chinese 

 immigration to American soil, and we favor legisla- 

 tion providing for the deportation of all Chinese in 

 the United States, and we recommend the exclusive 

 patronage of white labor and its products. 



We commend the policy of the present Administra- 

 tion in strictly enforcing, the tariff laws, the benefi- 

 cial effect of which is so happily illustrated by the 

 fact that the great wool-growing industry of the coun- 

 try receives more protection now by collecting the 

 whole import duties on wool, than it did under the 

 high tariff of 1867, under the practice by Republican 

 officials of letting foreign wool slip through our cus- 

 tom-houses at less than one half ot said duties. 



In behall of the mining industry of this State, and 

 of the miner the pioneer of civilization on this coast 

 as well as of the whole people of Nevada, we ear- 

 nestly recommend to the authorities at Washington 

 the immediate opening and permanent running of the 

 United States Mint at Carson City, to the end that our 

 mines may be relieved from the unnecessary and bur- 

 densome expense of shipping their bullion three 

 thousand miles away for market, and we hereby 

 commend the efforts of Senator Fair to accomplish 

 this result. 



We are in favor of liberal wages and free labor, 

 All associations formed for the pur-pose of developing 

 intelligence, promoting the weltare and protecting the 

 interests of the laborer and mechanic, and to enable 

 them successfully to contend tor and maintain their 

 rights by peaceful and efficient means against power 

 and oppressive combinations, should be encouraged 

 and expressly sanctioned by law ; and the Democratic 

 party of Nevada is in favor of the enactment of liberal 

 laws fostering and encouraging the formation of co- 

 operative and protective societies among all classes of 

 laboring-men. 



The Republican State Convention met at 

 Carson on September 23, and made the follow- 

 ing nominations : For Congress, William Wood- 

 burn; for Supreme Judge, T. D. Edwards; 

 District Judges, Richard Rising, D. W. Mc- 

 Kenney, Mr. Biglow ; Governor, C. 0. Ste- 

 venson ; Lieutenant-Governor, H. C. Davis ; 

 Attorney-General, John F. Alexander ; Sec- 

 retary of State, J. M. Dormer; Clerk Supreme 

 Court, C. F. Bicknell ; Comptroller, J. F. Hal- 

 lock ; Treasurer, George Tufly ; Surveyor-Gen- 

 eral, John E. Jones; Superintendent of In- 

 struction, W. C. Dovey ; Printer, J. C. Harlow. 



On November 2 the Democrats elected 

 Judges Belknap and Fitzgerald, while the Re- 

 publican candidates were chosen to the remain- 



