A Retrospect and a Prospect: Commencement Address of Hon. Frank H. Norcross, Justice of the Supreme Court; Delivered at the University of Nevada, May 17, 1911, Upon the Occasion of the Twenty-Fifth An

Excerpt from A Retrospect and a Prospect: Commencement Address of Hon. Frank H. Norcross, Justice of the Supreme Court; Delivered at the University of Nevada, May 17, 1911, Upon the Occasion of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Establishment of the State University at Reno <p/>There were represented in that convention lawyers, doctors, bank ers, miners, farmers, lumbermen, merchants, editors, surveyors, and artisans. It was a representative body of Pacific Coast Pioneers. Men of character, ability, integrity, fortitude and energy. They real ized that they had been called upon to play an important part in the great struggle that was then testing the life of the N ation. They knew that Nevada at that time possessed little that ordinarily is considered essential to make a State - a shifting and uncertain population, gath ered mainly around a few mining camps, was nearly all. The very wealth which Nature had secreted in the hills was to be taken out and removed to other more attractive climes. Railroads there were none, the nearest railroad point then being twelve hundred miles away. The telegraph had arrived, but the cx and mule team, the stage and the pony express were destined to be the mode of travel and com munication and the only avenue of commerce for some years to come. A few, who were not entirely blinded by the lure of gold and silver, saw in agriculture and kindred pursuits a slower, more modest, but more certain, fortune. The most accessible waterways were applied in a crude way to irrigation, and agriculture, that industry which must eventually share equally at least with mining in the permanent greatness of our State, had its beginning. <p/>About the Publisher <p/>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p/>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whil