The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-03
THE RIO COLORADO.


man to the vast mining and farming ter
ritory that will be opened up by the i'm
provement of the Colorado river. The
improvement of the Colorado will be of
incalculable benenefit to Arizona and
California, far more so than Nevada, yet
it will be of grea. benefit to our own
State. The thousands of acres of good
agricultural land that now lie idle in the
Southern part of our State would all be
taken up and cultivated by industrious
and frugal settlers, and the desert waste
of to-day would be covered with farms.
where the grain.felds and orchards of
semi-tropic fruit, with broad fields of
cotton--that was demonstrated during the
past four years, grows most prolific in
the valleys along the Rio Virgin, Muddy
and other streams running through that
country-would decorates the vacant
land, and instead of the cotton being
sent to the mills in Utah to be manu-
featured into goods, it would be raised in
.ueh quanVieieS oha. oo.eon ~ "e
be erected right amidst the neios' where
an abundance OF water-power can be oo-
tanned. Then again most OF our low
grade mines, and we nave very exteh-
sive ones IN the vicinity OF tne Soloraao'
that are now compelled to lie idle owing
to the great expense of obtaining sup
plies, would be able to obtain their sup
plies for one-fourth of what it would cost
ut the present time, thus enabling the
owners of these mines to work them. A
shipping and business town would grow
up on the west side OF the river and the
mining camps OF Resting Springs, Ivan
pah, the borax camps, and other places
along the Sierra Nevadas, Just over the
line In California, owing to the cheapness,
would all obtain their supplies by way OF
the Colorado, and do away with the long
and expensive route OF teamlng their
goods from the interior oil CALIFORNIA.
The numerous mining camps OF North
west Arizona, now lay dormant, owing to
being unable to procure supplies, would
then don prosperity and the mines be
actively worked, and these camps would
be the market tor the produce OF the
gresham said. "the Colorado was too far
10 one emu oi 1ne ''asT " NC Vi huon scr.
ia moi ernscted that the announcement Of
the Colorado river will directly be of any
more benefit to Roop county than the
sinking of an artesian well in said county
would be of benefit. to Lincoln, yet the
sinking of the artesian well would be Of
great benefit to Roop, and the improve
ment Of the Colorado to Lincoln. The
opening up of the navigation of the Colo
RADIO will he of much benefit, indirectly,
to the State at large, for that part of the
State would become settled, the land,
which IS now worthless, as though
o"ia a =. VII" nna ' he aasr..a 80 "a thr;ft,,
farms and plantations producing large
crops from which the State would derive
handsome revenue by means OF taxes;
AS the Improvement OF TINS river "ouia
De Oh mucn greater impollance 70 tne
ooieen state Inen 70 Nevaua, 'he nepre-
ssn'i'ises Oh o1illo1hia shoul9 aiso 'ahe
TINS matter III manu- anu explain " .he
Government !he necessity OF making the
.oioraoo haVigaoie the year rouha.
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,ho s.,r;.;.,. 80 80 .,,a-. 80. -
f,ll., M. -;n,or :. ~. ono a.. - .h;s
vicinity. enough snow to cover the Ground
to the depth of half an inch. On.
less considerable snow falls during
the next two months it is feared thai
many of the mountain springs will be.
come dry and ranchers VIII be unable to
Ths o,.nt;tv Of snow ~ s. iii ,, p w;n ,.,
was such that grain could have been cult
waited in any OF our valleys without irri
eating.
A., Mill,
WORD came up i'o" 'he Au'ay curing
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trouble was we aia not iearn' put sup
pose ~ was oauseu W ,:s some oi Dry