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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#27 - NEVADA
Size: 5" x 3"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| NEVADA. |
| IN 1825 forty trappers
from the Yellowstone, under the
leadership of Jedediah S. Smith,
followed the Humboldt River from
its source to its fall into the
Great Basin, thence across the
sage-brush plains they journeyed,
then climbed the mighty Sierras,
until there was set before them
the broad valleys of California.
Ogden visited Humboldt in 1831;
Bonneville and Kit Carson in
1833, and in 1834 Captain
Bartleson led the first company
across the Great Basin. In
1843-45 the camp-fires of Fremont
darted rays of light along the
track of the pioneers of 1825.
Prior to the discovery of silver,
there was little or no inducement
for settlement within the State
of Nevada, and although the
overland army of gold-seekers
made an almost continuous line
across the continent, the first
mail line between Sacramento and
Salt Lake City was not
established until 1851. Rich
deposits of sulphate of silver
were discovered in the year 1858,
and in the following year the
rush to the Washoe mines was
fairly commenced. In the year
1861 quartz-mills were erected
and machinery transported across
the mountains. The white metal
soon began to be circulated in
vast and increasing fullness into
the channels of the world's
commerce, and likewise sustaining
the credit of the nation while in
great peril. Nevada has lost a
large share of her population in
recent years, and at present the
main hope seems to be in the
remonetization of silver, or else
in the development of an
extensive system of irrigation. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Mormon
Camp Stopping Place, afterwards
Genoa; Rush to the
Silver Mines; Corner-stone in
Death Valley. |
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