Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Nevada “Petering Out.” [ARTICLE]

Nevada “Petering Out.”

Nevada is said to be gradually “petering out,” so to speak. JI er population has dwindled' to 6’2,000, which makes her the most thinly-inhabited State in the Union. The big residences at Virginia City, and Gold Hill, whjph cost immense sums of money, are being torn down and used for firewood; and the rich deposits of ore* out of which such great fortunes were being made a few years ago, have pearly all been exhausted. The State has no agricultural possibilities, and unless she can find a way tomtilize her deposits of salt, sulphur, and borax, must soon cease to produce anything worth mentioning.— Chicago Times.