NEVADA 



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NEW ALBANY 



Statehood. The state history of Nevada is 

 largely a history of its mines. In 1863 a con- 

 vention composed chiefly of miners drew up a 

 constitution, but it was defeated in 1864. The 

 great political crisis of the country, due to the 

 war. made two more Republican votes in the 

 senate desirable, so in March, 1864, Congress 

 passed an enabling act and the state was admit- 

 ted the following October, bringing into the 

 Union another commonwealth to support the 

 cause against slavery and states rights. The 

 state remained Republican until 1892, when it 

 was carried by the People's party. From 1896 

 to 1916, inclusive, the state voted for Demo- 

 cratic candidates in Presidential elections, ex- 

 cept in 1904, when it supported Roosevelt. 



The reaction following the exhaustion of the 

 Comstock Lode was succeeded by a greater de- 

 velopment, beginning in 1900 with the discov- 

 ery of new deposits. In 1906 and 1908 strikes 

 among the miners at Goldfield and other places 

 caused so serious a disturbance that United 

 States troops were sent to preserve order. Ef- 

 forts were made in 1913 to make the divorce 

 law, which is notoriously lax, more stringent, 

 by requiring a year's residence, instead of six 

 months, but in 1915 the new laws were prac- 

 tically repealed. E.B.P. 



Consult Bancroft's Nevada and Her Resources. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes may be consulted by the reader : 

 Carson City Nevada, University of 



Copper Reno 



Gold Silver 



Humboldt River Virginia City 



NEVADA, UNIVERSITY OF, located at Reno, 

 is the only school of collegiate rank in the state. 

 It had its origin in Federal land grants, and was 

 opened in 1874, existing as a preparatory school 

 for a number of years, at Elko. In 1886 it was 

 moved to Reno and established as the state 

 university. The departments at present are the 

 college of arts and science, the college of edu- 

 cation, the college of agriculture, including the 

 schools of agriculture and domestic science, the 

 college of engineering, including the Mackay 

 School of Mines, and the schools of mechanical 

 and civil engineering. The courses in mining 

 engineering are especially strong because of the 

 equipment made possible by gifts from the 

 family of Mackays, and because the rich min- 

 ing region about Reno offers splendid oppor- 

 tunity for experimental work. Military in- 

 struction is given as part of the regular course. 

 There are about fifty members of the faculty 

 and about 450 students. 



NEV'IN, ETHELBERT (1862-1901), an Ameri- 

 can composer, born at Vim-acre, near Pitts- 

 burgh. Pa., who placed music lovers in his debt 

 by The Rosari/, his mo.-t famous composition. 

 He began to attract much attention at the age 

 of ten by his excellent piano playing and be- 

 came so proficient that when he was twelve 

 years old he was sent to Dresden, Germany, to 

 study the art. In his fifteenth year he returned 

 to Pittsburgh to earn money for further in- 

 struction, and before he was eighteen years old 

 had saved enough to study three years with 

 the best teachers in Berlin. In 1887 he settled 

 in Boston and became a well-known teacher 

 and concert player, but in 1893 the charm of 

 Europe, especially Italy, was too strong to be 

 resisted and the next seven years were spent 

 abroad. The influence of Southern Europe is 

 very evident in the dreamy, romantic tone of 

 much of his later music. In 1900 he became a 

 teacher in the music department of Yale Uni- 

 versity, and was in this work when suddenly 

 stricken with heart-failure. Few composers have 

 excelled him in perfection of melody. His 

 Narcissus and The Rosary are among the most 

 popular compositions ever written, while his 

 Day in Venice, Water Sketches and 'Twos April 

 have won almost equal public favor. 



NEW ALBANY, IND., the county seat of 

 Floyd County, and a shipping point of impor- 

 tance in the southern section of the state. It is 

 situated on the Ohio River opposite Louisville, 

 Ky., with which it is connected by a long steel 

 bridge. Indianapolis and Chicago are respec- 

 tively 111 miles and 306 miles northwest.- The 

 Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, the Chicago, 

 Indianapolis & Louisville, the Pittsburgh, Cin- 

 cinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis, the Louisville 

 & Nashville and the Illinois Central railways 

 enter the city, and steamers connect with Ohio 

 and Mississippi river ports. A branch of the 

 Indiana Traction System operates between New 

 Albany and Indianapolis. In 1916 the popula- 

 tion was 23,629 (Federal estimate) ; in 1910 it 

 was 20,629. Germans predominate in the for- 

 eign element. The area of the city is nearly 

 three square miles. 



Two miles above New Albany the Ohio River 

 falls in a series of rapids, there being a drop of 

 about twenty feet in the course of two and one- 

 half miles. A canal provides for low-water 

 navigation, and abundant water power is fur- 

 nished for manufactories, here represented by 

 automobile and furniture factories, tanneries, 

 veneer and planing mills, and one of the largest 

 rolling mills in Southern Indiana. Enormous 



