Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-07-16
Tia" Muddy-Hs Rcsources aud Wants.
COTTON GROWING.


COTTON GROWING.
From Wan. Anderson, who resides near
ot. Thomas, in this county, We gather
some interesting facts in regard TO tn.
cultivation of cotton in that section of
Lincoln, adding another 10 the many
sources of wealth in which the county
abounds. Mr.. Anderson has from seven
to ten acres, and Mr.. Carter Ia South.
ern man and quite familiar with the cul-
tivation of cotton in the Southern States
has over twenty acres. Both climate and
soil on the Muddy are favorable to the
growth of cotton, and cultiyators of the
staple are not troubled by bugs or other
depredators upon their crops. The cot
ton tree grows to greater, hight than in
the Cotton States of the South, and ON
the Muddy the yield is greater, and the
quality of the cotton superior. The STA
pie has been cultivated to a limited ex-
tent for several years, but owing TO the
isolated geographical position of that sec
ton the public has not been fully adj
vised OF the interesting fact Planting is
commenced between the middle of April
and the same time in May, and in abou,
five months the cotton is ready TO nick
The crops on the Muddy are looking ex-
eeedingly well, and give every promise of
yielding abundantly. A good market is
obtained at the plantation where the cot
ton is raised. The cotton and wooden
factory at Washington, in Washington
county, Utah, 100 miles from St. Thomas.
has agreed to send gin to the Muddy.
gin the cotton and pay % cents pound
lori on the ground. The day is not dis
tant when Muddy Valley will be thickly
settled with cotton-growers.
WANT OF MAIL FACILITIES.
We have on more than one occasion
previously advocated the establishment
OF better mail facilities for the accommo-
dation OF settlers on the Muddy. Their
locality is about as isolated as any SPOT
within the jurisdiction of the United
States, except, perhaps, some remote
parts OF Alaska. These settlers Oh the
Muddy have worked against every disad-
vantage resulting from their remoteness
from all the centers of trade; vet they
have struggled on until now the former
waste places are brought under cultiva-
tion. BY extending to them ample mail
facilities and opening roads to their set
Element, they will be better able to devel-
op the rich resources OF that region, and
IN turn the who'll county will be bene-
htted by the more rapid settlement of
that part OF the county, and an increase
IN the amount of taxable property. The
route proposed should begin at Bullion
VILE, and continue on through Meadow
Valley Wash and the Upper Muddy set.
Elements to Las Vegas, 1870 miles; thence
to the Potosi mines, So miles; thence to
lvanpah, 30 miles; thence to New York
District, IS miles; thence to Hardyville.
90 miles--a distance of 273 miles from
Bullionyille to Hardyville. This route
would accommodate not less than 800
people, and ought to be established at
once.
BETTER ROADS NEEDED.
Another great need ofNthe settlers on
the Muddy is better road communication
with Phoebe. They would thus be en-
abled to bring their produce to this mar
ket, and valuable trade would soon
spring up between the Muddy settlements
and the merchants of Phoebe
NO RESERVATION.
Mr.. Anderson comedies in the opinion
before expressed that the establishment
of an Indian reservation ON the Muddy
would be fraught with irreparnble injury
to the settlers there. 1t is to be hoped
that the wishes of the settler, will be re =
spected and that no reservation be es-
tablished there.
We shall always be glad to hear from
the Muddy, and to give publicity to the
progress of that hitherto almost unknown
region.