SECOND BIENNIAL MESSAGE OF L. R. Bradley, Governor of Nevada, DELIVERED TO THE LEGISLATURE, JANUARY 6,1875. BIENNIAL MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR L. R. BRADLEY. STATE OF NEVADA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, CARSON CITY, January 6, 1875. TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA : Gentlemen of the Senate and Assembly: It again becomes my duty in obedience to the mandates of the Constitution to communicate to you such measures as are deemed expedient and necessary to the public good. Upon the commencement of the seventh session of the Legislature, there is abundant cause for rejoicing. The new era of prosperity which dawned upon our declining interests at the close of 1871 has been prolonged to the present hour. Each day, each month has brought its new tidings of the rewards of judicious investments of capital, and the achievements of tireless labor. To recapitulate would be a pleasant, but useless task. All that might be said would be but a repetition of former congratulations. Our growth has been the increase of substantial prosperity. Population has sought our boundaries. Well considered estimates place the gain of inhabitants in the past four years at twenty-seven thousand—an increase of nearly forty per cent. The tide of emigration which pours its unceasing flood along the highway to California, brings daily new accessions to our numbers. They come to add their labor, their interests and their hopes to our common stock. Let us extend to them a hearty welcome. The infancy of our State has passed. She has reached the strength of maturity. Her resources of wealth are pouring out their enriching streams in every direction, quickening the currents of the buoyant health of national commerce. To-day Nevada stands upright. She has no need of prop nor helping hand. She walks a stalwart child beside her sister State, keeping equal pace in the march of empire by the Pacific shores. There has been no step backward. The sovereign favor of the Creator, in |