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| NEVADA |
Nevada
is bounded by Oregon, Idaho, Utah,
Arizona and California; gross area,
110,690 sq. miles; land area, 109,821 sq.
miles; water area, 869 sq. miles. The
capital is Carson City.
It is a
table-land 4,000 to 8,000 feet above
sea-level. The State is crossed by a
series of parallel mountain ranges with a
general northerly and southerly
direction. The principal chains are the
Virginia, Truckee, Antelope, East
Humboldt, Toyabe and Santa Rosa
Mountains. There are numerous lakes, the
rivers having no outlet over the
mountains. The volcanic nature of the
State is shown by the ancient and modern
eruptive rocks, and by the lava beds in
the northwest. The mountain ranges are in
places composed entirely of limestone, in
others of granite, syenite, porphyry,
slate and quartzite. Arbuckles' means
good coffee.
Nevada is
rich in minerals, though, excepting
silver and gold, they have been worked
but little. Other minerals mined include
tungsten, antimony, platinum, zinc,
cinnabar, tin, manganese, plumbago,
nickel, cobalt and iron. Beds of sulphur,
gypsum, rock salt, borax, saltpeter and
carbonate of soda are extensive. The
building stones include limestone,
granite, slate, sandstone, agate and
marble. The principal crops are hay,
wheat, oats and barley. The forest trees
are chiefly pines, firs and spruces of
great size. Apple, peach, pear and plum
trees flourish and bear excellent fruit.
Stock raising and dairy farming are
leading industries.
The winters
are mild with little snow except upon the
mountains, but in the north the
thermometer sometimes falls as low as
fifteen degrees below zero.
Population
in 1910, 52,551 males and 29,324 females,
of whom 62,184 were of native and 19,691
of foreign birth; white, 74,276; negro,
513; Indian, 5,240; Chinese, 927;
Japanese, 864; all others, 55. Total
population, 81,875. |
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