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Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio, was chosen 

 to succeed him. The financial report in Febru- 

 ary showed that the legislative appropriation to 

 the university contingent fund for 1893-'94 was 

 $25.000, of which $16.945 was expended during 



1893. The State Mining Laboratory fund ap- 

 propriation for the two years was $6,000, of 

 which $2,867.47 was expended. The United 

 States Government appropriation to the Agri- 

 cultural College fund from July, 1893, to July, 



1894, was $19,000, of which $11,998.46 was ex- 

 pended in 1893. The Federal appropriation to 

 the Experimental Station fund from July, 1893, 

 to July, 1894, was $7,500, all of which was paid 

 out in' 1893 but $410.44 About $50,000 was ex- 

 pended on the university and its auxiliary insti- 

 tutions during 1893. 



In November it appeared from the report that 

 the university would close the calendar year 

 with no deficiency in the several funds of the 

 State University 'proper, the Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and Mining and Laboratory department. 

 A deficiency of $3,220 still exists in the Agricul- 

 tural College fund. The average attendance at 

 the University is 218 students. 



A University Extension Society has been 

 formed at Carson with 104 members. 



Railroads. The total valuation of railroad 

 property in the State is given as $8,825,555. It 

 is taxed for State purposes $79,430, and for 

 county purposes $193,542. 



The' Nevada Southern Railway, a branch of 

 the Atlantic and Pacific, is completed within a 

 few miles of the southern boundary of Nye 

 County. There are large deposits of gold- and 

 silver-bearing ore in Nye and Lincoln Counties, 

 carrying from $30 to $60 to the ton. But this 

 ore could not be worked profitably until cheaper 

 transportation facilities were obtainable. 



Along the course of the Virgin river are fine 

 orchards, planted by the early Mormon settlers, 

 and experiments have demonstrated that the 

 soil in that region is adapted for the cultivation 

 of Egyptian dates. 



Not far from the point where the line of this 

 road crosses the diagonal line that separates 

 Nevada on the southwest from California is 

 what is believed to be the famous Gunsight 

 mine. One of the pioneers, in passing through 

 that section, picked up a piece of lead, almost 

 pure, and made a sight for his gun with it. It 

 was so rich that when he told the story in civil- 

 ization prospectors set out to locate it. The 

 fact of the similarity of all the valleys led many 

 astray, and they perished from thirst. His de- 

 scription of the place applied to so many spots 

 that no one has ever been able to locate the 

 mine heretofore, but the present owners believe 

 they have found it. The valley adjoining that 

 which is the route of the Nevada Southern is 

 called Pahrump. It is the principal one of 

 them all for gold and silver and lead mines. A 

 band of renegade Indians have settled in it. 



Agriculture. The "Louisiana Planter and 

 Manufacturer" says, in reference to analyses 

 made at the experiment station of the Univer- 

 sity of Nevada : 



Tt is simply surprising to see the wonderful results 

 had there in sugar-beet production during the past 

 three years. Omitting six analyses of unripe beets in 

 1893, which were made only to determine the progress 



of ripening, the entire lot of analyses for the three 

 years average in percentage as follows: 



This is a most extraordinary record and shows what 

 our so-called arid lands in the mountain States can do 

 m sugar beets and beet-sugar production. 



Mining. The annual meeting of the stock- 

 holders of the Consolidated California and Vir- 

 ginia (Comstock) Mining Company was held in 

 October, with a representation of about 200 000 

 of the 216,000 shares of stock. The financial 

 statement showed that the receipts during the 

 past year amounted to $532,450, of which $362,- 

 793 was the gross bullion product of the mine, 

 and $108,000 came from an assessment. Balance 

 on hand in the treasury of the company is $165,- 

 500 in gold coin. 



New gold mines are reported to have been dis- 

 covered at Kennedy, where more than 400 loca- 

 tions had been made in June; one mine had 

 more than 4,000 tons of $30 ore uncovered ; also T 

 near Reno, a piece of ore from which was assayed 

 and found to contain large amounts of both gold 

 and silver ; and still others in Lincoln County. 

 A new town, called Reeves, has sprung up in 

 that county, and several tunnels have been run, 

 from which paying ore has been taken. Owing 

 to the scarcity of lumber tents are used for all 

 kinds of business in the little town. 



A report in December says : " Iron ore is being 

 shipped in large quantities from Lovelock to 

 San Francisco, where it is manufactured into 

 steel. In Wolverine district, 14 miles northeast 

 of the Comstock, there is a vast deposit of abso- 

 lutely pure metal, with the exception that it car- 

 ries a small percentage of chrome, which en- 

 hances its value. This deposit can be delivered 

 to the railroad for 75 cents a ton." 



Of the discovery of coal in Esmeralda County, 

 the " Mining Industry " says : " It has long been 

 a theory among geologists that there is no coal 

 west of about the western boundary of Utah. 

 Evidently some mistake has been made, as bitu- 

 minous coal has been discovered in western Ne- 

 vada, about 25 miles east of Candelaria." 



A company has been formed in Reno to open 

 the borax fields in Washoe County, about 100 

 miles north of Reno. The company have over 

 1,800 acres of borax land in two fields, one at 

 Grant Point and the other at Sulphur Springs. 



Mineral Springs. The bulletin of the 

 United States Geological Survey shows that the 

 State is rich in mineral springs. It has 63 al- 

 kali springs, 13 mineral springs, 5 soda springs, 

 8 sulphur springs, 8 thermal springs, and 22 warm 

 springs, besides many more of more or less note. 

 One spring, near Carson City, has a flow of 4.000 

 gallons an hour, 120 F. ; soda, borax, iron, mag- 

 nesia, and arsenic. 



The Boundary Line. The line between Ne- 

 vada and California has been surveyed recently, 

 and the new survey gives to Nevada a triangular 

 slice of California 55 miles long by one third of 

 a mile in breadth, while the latter takes from 

 Nevada a similar tract 60 miles long by one third 

 of a mile in width. The boundary line follows 



