Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-02-13
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

A"NASA WAL DEt ELOPMENT.
What Has Been and Ia ReinU Done i'm
that Line i'm SOuthe en- stern Nevada
IL Is Our Best Guarantee of Per.
mnncnt Prosperity.
Silver production is and probably ever
Will be the specially of our industries,
the superstructure on which, at least for
generation, must rest all the other great
material interests. But fortunate are we,
indeed, that along with our seemingly
lnexhaustible and wonderfully rich min
eral deposits. We also have extensive
tracts of cultivable and grazing lands.
Civilized man can never become recon-
ciled to permanent home in region of
rugged mountains and sterile plains, let
it be ever SO rich in deposits Of the
precious metals. Fruit, grain and fow-
ers, in possession or prospect, are SO in
separately connected with the idea of do
nestle happiness, that it is never ex-
pected to be permanently enjoyed in a
country without them. Even with the
most ,sordid, the feeling of incomplete
existence where the soil refuses to give
forth the natural sustenance of the race
is an instructive impulse. Family rela-
tons, the district school, the church,
the college, hold elementary relations to
social progress, are essential parts of it,
where the cultivation of the soil is the
first or one Of the leading industries; but
they seem to be accidental results, or
exotic in character, in communities held
together by the temporary excitements
and hazardous enterprises of mining in
dustry solely. We cannot over-estimate,
therefore, the importance of the agricul-
tural development that has been and is
being made in Southeastern Nevada. 1t
stimulates better public spirit with
all classes. 1t is proving to those
now here, and within the next
two Yeas will be conclusive evidence to
the outside world that we can success
fully foster and build up all the insti-
tutions OF high civilization. 1t is a
substantial promise that the rush OF for
tune-seekers here will be followed, as it
has been in some Of California s delight
fui valleys, by homes of establishment
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radius of 100 miles of Phoebe, excluding
the Mormon settlement of st. George,
about $50 farms; some are already under
a fair state of cultivation, and they all
will be before the close of the year. They
lie all around us-north, south, east and
west. And the agricultural resources OF
the country are just beginning to attract
attention. By the fall of 1873 we will
not be injured if Brigham Young's st.
George followers adopt the non-inter-
course policy he has dictated to them,
for we shall then be independent of
Mormon as well as California importa-
tons. In the south is the magnificent
valley of the Muddy; to the north the
fine valleys of Spring and Snake Creeks
and in the west Steptoe, White River
and Pahranagat They embrace tens Of
thousands of acres of soil which, under
t our semi-tropical suns, will produce AZ
bountiful and varied harvests as an,
lands ON earth crossed by the same par
) alles 'Ehe time is not distant whel
y they will all be made to blossom as tn
: rose. New locations are being mad
e almost daily. The agricultural develop
y ment we consider our best guarantee q
Q permanent prosperity.
= DEAD HoGs.-About halfway betweel
r the Catholic cemetery and the Flora
g mill there are from twenty-five to thirt
g dead hogs-some of them quite large
!, Crows are flying around these carcase
+ in great numbers. Whether they wer
4 malciously killed, or committed suicid
in dread of the approaching New Yea
' Of the Cinnamon we are unable to say
but we are certain that the sooner the,
= are hauled off to distance or buried tn
:. better it will be for the community.
J. SEMI B1rUM1Nous CoAL.-We hay,
/, been shown, and witnessed the burning
&c of some excellent semi-bituminous coal
" from the mines of the Wahsatch Com
- pany, about 80 miles east of here, il
=. Utah. 1t burns with clear, brigh
, flame, leaving behind white ashes, FIRE
70 of clinker" The deposit now bein
~ worked is twelve feet in thickness. Pref
~ arations are being made to deliver it i
~ Phoebe in large quantities, as soon as tn
a. roads become passable.
al HOMER S. KING, general travelling agel
CT of Wells, Fargo & Co., and one of the
TO oldest employees, who formerly ha
H. charge of their banking business at Vi
GINA and Hamilton, is now in Phoebe @
business connected with the compan
'. He meets hosts of friends througho
rs this State, wherever he goes. He HI
1g been in the service of Wells, Fargo x G.
H. from early boyhood, having been pr
a noted through all the different offices
y" the highest and most responsible.
o. MAGNETIC AND HERMATITE IRON ORE
es Specimens of these ores may be seen
Ie- the Office of Mr.. j. r. Duff, Meade
h Valley street. The hermatite assays s
,e. in silver. Both are of the purest qu'
We ity. They are from the iron mines
,es lion Mountain district, Is or SO mil
east of here, and on line with the BIZ
lionville narrow-gauge railroad, whic
es- we are promised, will be extended
on them within two years, at the furthe'
wo Mr.. GEORGE BOOTH, who has been
ng successful in the treatment OF epizoot
er- can be seen by all desiring his servic