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NEVADA. 



sus since admission, was 42,491 in 1870; 62,266 

 in 1880: 45,761 in 1890; and 42,335 in 1900. Capi- 

 tal, Carson City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1900: Governor, Reinhold Sadler; Lieu- 

 tenant Governor, James R. Judge; Secretary of 

 State, Eugene Howell; Treasurer, D. M. Ryan; 

 Comptroller, Samuel P. Davis; Attorney-General, 

 William 1). Jones; Surveyor General, Edward D. 

 Kelley; Superintendent of Instruction. Orvis Ring; 

 Adjutant General, J. R. Judge, ex officio; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, M. S. Bonnifield; 

 Associate Justices, W. A. Massey, C. H. Belknap; 

 Clerk, Eugene Howell, ex officio. All are of the 

 Silver party except Superintendent Ring, who is 

 a Republican. 



State officers are elected in November, once in 

 four years. The next State election will be in 

 1902. An associate justice of the Supreme Court 

 is elected in the alternate even-numbered years. 



The Legislature meets biennially, in January of 

 the odd-numbered years. 



Population. The population of the several 

 counties, by the census of 1900, was as follows: 

 Churchill, 830; Douglas, 1,534; Elko, 5,688; Es- 

 meralda, 1,972; Eureka, 1,954; Humboldt, 4,463; 

 Lander, 1,534; Lincoln, 3,284; Lyon, 2,268; Nye, 

 1,140; Ormsby, 2,893; Storey, 3,673; Washoe, 

 9,141; White Pine, 1,961. 



Finances. The condition of the treasury, Nov. 

 16, was given thus: Coin, $129,994.52; paid coin 

 vouchers not returned to Comptroller, $16,381.20. 

 The State fund securities were : Irredeemable State 

 school bonds, $380,000; Nevada State bonds, 

 $262,900; United States bonds, $785,000; total, 

 $1,574,275.72. In February the bond commission- 

 ers redeemed $82,771.20 worth of bonds. The Ne- 

 vada war claims against the Government amount 

 to $462,000. ,The annual report of the Treasurer 

 showed the finances to be in a satisfactory con- 

 dition. 



Education. The school population is 9,026. 

 The semiannual apportionment was $65,886.37. 



The appropriation for the Nevada Indian school 

 provides for 200 pupils. This increases the support 

 more than $8,000 over that of any previous year. 

 In addition, $3,000 is given for a shop building 

 and $3,000 for general repairs. 



The experiment station at the university com- 

 prises 60 acres, with stables, cottage, and tool 

 house. The botanical department has received a 

 collection of 600 species of grasses from Prof. T. L. 

 Scribner. A university extension class is receiving 

 instruction in mining engineering. The studies 

 will include mineralogy, chemistry, mathematics, 

 mechanical and free-hand drawing, and assaying. 



The school at the State Orphans' Home had 68 

 pupils registered for the fall term. 



Lands. There are 520,000 acres of land to 

 which the State has title. In 1899 the land office 

 issued 991 contracts, drawing $8,059.35 on a prin- 

 cipal of $124,322.43. By failure to meet the in- 

 terest due, 275,093.38 acres became forfeit to the 

 State in January. The amount of United States 

 land in the State unappropriated is 61,326,740 acres. 



Products. The number of cattle in the State 

 is estimated at 20,000, and of sheep from 4,000,000 

 to 5,000,000. The wool clip was estimated at 7 

 pounds a head. 



A lost tin mine in Churchill County was re- 

 cently rediscovered, and samples of ore that were 

 sent for a test to Swansea, Wales, gave returns 

 of nearly 18 per cent. The vein is said to be 4 

 feet wide. 



A writer in the Mining and Scientific Press says 

 that in the heart of the Carson desert, about 2 

 miles east of Ragtown, there are two strange lakes 



whose waters are rich in soda. The lakes occupy 

 probably the shallow craters of extinct volcanoes. 

 " Driving through the soft, volcanic ashes which 

 here cover the ground, we ascend a gentle slope 

 for a little distance, and suddenly find ourselves 

 on the brink of a depression, perhaps 75 feet deep. 

 In the center is a pond of yellowish water, and 

 around the margin are sheds containing piles of 

 white, crystallized soda. This depression is not 

 more than one fourth of a mile across. Continu- 

 ing a little distance in a northeasterly direction, 

 the larger crater is soon seen. It is fully 1 mile 

 across and more than 100 feet deep. It is occupied 

 by a beautiful sheet of water, set in a rim as per- 

 fect and symmetrical as though it had been shaped 

 by hand. The water is shallow and intensely 

 alkaline, although around the margin there are 

 springs which are fit to drink." 



The gold product in 1899 was estimated at 

 $2,742,000; by another estimate, $2,412,000. The 

 output of silver was estimated at $1,254,800. The 

 amount of copper, lead, and antimony was greater 

 than in any previous year. 



Political. Besides presidential electors and a 

 member of Congress, there were to be elected in 

 November a justice of the Supreme Court, two re- 

 gents of the university, and a Legislature. 



The State convention of Republicans met in 

 Virginia City, Aug. 30. The platform approved 

 the national administration ; protested against any 

 plan to surrender the Philippines; favored a pro- 

 tective tariff and the building of storage reservoirs : 

 condemned trusts ; denounced the disfranchisement 

 of negroes; opposed lotteries; demanded repeal 

 of the statute permitting prize fights; denounced 

 the repeal of the purity of elections law; con- 

 demned the State administration ; and said on tin- 

 silver question: " We favor the largest use of silver 

 as a money metal in all manners compatible with 

 the best interests of our Government ; and we here- 

 by pledge our nominee for Congress, in the event 

 of his election, to exercise his best endeavors to 

 secure the greatest possible use of silver beneficial 

 to the mining States of this Union without en- 

 dangering the financial safety of our country.'' 



The State nominations were: For Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Trenmor Coffin; Regents of the 

 University, George Turritin, Mark Averill. 



The Democratic and Silver parties held their 

 conventions the same day, Sept. 6, in Virginia ( il y. 

 Committees appointed to confer on a plan of fusion 

 reached the following agreement: Democrats to 

 nominate two presidential electors and the Silver 

 party one elector; both parties to nominate 11 on. 

 Francis G. Newlancls for Congressman ; tho Demo- 

 crats to nominate the short term university regent 

 and the Silver party the long term regent : and tli 

 Silver party to nominate a justice of the Suprcnii 1 

 Court. This plan was adopted with one change, 

 that the candidate for justice be selected in joint 

 caucus of the two conventions. 



The resolutions adopted by both conventions de- 

 clared allegiance to the national platform: hailel 

 with satisfaction the nominations of 1'ryan an! 

 Stevenson; declared free and unlimited coinage at 

 16 to 1 to be the only permanent sell lenient of 

 the silver question: opposed trusts, especially de- 

 nouncing the national bank scheme of the admin- 

 istration: condemned the raising of the Hag in tlie 

 Philippines and the hauling it down in the Po - 

 cupine mining district of Alaska: expressed >ym- 

 pathy for the Boers; condemned the Porto Rican 

 policy : disapproved the proposed constitutional 

 amendment removing the prohibition of loll eric;-: 

 favored the repeal of the statute permitting pri> 

 fights; and pledged legislative candidates to tie 

 passage of an eight-hour law. applicable to all 



