Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-01
TUE WHOLE RASCH COMPRISING
ONE ngXDRED AND SIX TaOU.
SAND ACRES.
CONTROLLING Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND ACRES.

TEyHE CLOVER VALLEY RANCH, OR as IT
Il is sometimes known, The Iron Point Stock
and Grain Ranch" Nevada, embracing one hundred
and sig thousand acres of land, is now offered FOR
sale upon terms which represent liberal conees-
sion to the purchaser, and offers high inducements
in the way Of safe, permanent and profitable in
vestment
With this ranch viii be cold four thousand head
o. stock cattle, now in splendid condition, embrac-
ing Thoroughbred Durham bulls, purchased at cost
OF six hundred dollars each The entire herd ia
posed OF grades pro5ucsd by crossing the best Aeri
can cows with the very best thoroughbred Durham
bulls ever imported to this country There are nom
ierior animals in the herd no Spanish cattle or
crosses from Spanish cattle. Those ranches en-
brace six thousand acres of meadow land, which
viii produce about five thousand tons Of hay per
anuum. There are two hundred and forty acres Of
fine alfalfa under irrigation, capable Of producing
twelve hundred and fifty tons of hay per ennum.
Twsuty-eight thousand acres of this ranch is now
under fence redwood posts set sixteen feet apart,
with four barbed wires, nearly new. Buildings at
tached to ranch consist of one good one story aud
a hall house, with four rooms, stone cellar, and
stone dairy house, well built Horse barn, forty by
one hundred feet, with stalls for thirty horses.
Thsre is splendid creek Of Irving water running
through the ranch also an exec lent well OF water
with two or three springs. Inside the Enclosure
there are two springs from which issue about TWEEN
ty-fye hundred inches of water sufficient toirrgate
twenty-five hundred acres of land which lie below
Them and which may be subjected to irrigation at
but little cost Included in this sale there are two
thousand acres of fine agricultural and meadow
land about seven miles northeast of the ranch
buildings, upon which there are one hundred and
twenty acres in alfalfa finely growing. This IS fac
grain ranch and wllproduce forty to fifty bushels Of
barley per acre per annum There is good orchard in
bearing, and live stresm Of water affording abund
ance of trout. About four hundred acres of this
email ranch is under fence. The vendors of these
ranches own and control the water rights indispens
able to the use of two hundred ard fifty thousand
acres Of land for grazing. There is sufficient water
to irrigate twentyfour hundred acres in the lower
ranch, and one thousand in the upper, making a
total of thirty. four hundred acres.
The sale VIII include eighty-four head Of good
American horses fifty OF which are large fine brood
mares, the remainder being saddle-horses, well
trained for herding cattle and well broken WORK
horses; also, there viii be included in this sale
grain headers, eight moving machines, harrows and
all farming implements necessary torun this ranch.
Six years ago this ranch maintained throughout
the year about forty thousand head Of cattle. The
range was injured by being overstocked, and the
stock was sold, the owner OF this ranch selling
twelve thousand head. After rest Of six years
the range has rccupersted, and is now as good as
when IN its primitive condition. The four thousand
head Of cattle now offered for sale are the progeny
Of wel-selected cows from the best dairy herds in
California and Nevada. They have increased to
! their present numbers very rapidly; eight haadred
calves will be branded in 1888, and estimating u9on
the basis Of the past experience OF increase. the
brand Of 1894 wiz exceed that number By enehalf.
The range is capable of supporting, without being
oyerstocked, twenty-five thousand head, aad the
present herd may be increased to that number with
out seekirg other range than that now prop sed
10 be sold.
The Clover Valley ranches embrace: Township
SO north, ranges Al, AZ, 43, A east. township 81
north, ranges 70, -, "a east; township IS north,
ranges 43. "A east; township 80 north ranyes3 east
Mount Dlablo meridian.
Title based upon patents from the United States
will be given to one hundred and six thousand
Of land, commanding about one hundred and fifty
thousand additional acres. to which the ownership
Of the land now offered for sale is perfect key.
The present value of the property IS estimated to be
worth four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dol
lars The whole is offered for three hundred thou
saud dollars, Of which one hundred add seventy five
thousand dollars must be paid in cash, one hun
bred and twenty-five thousand dollars in FIVE years
Deferred payments to bear seven per cent. inter
est per annum.
The cattle and horses will be sold BY actual
count II the herd falls short Of four thousand
head of cattle, eightyfour head Of horses, pro
rata amount for the shortage win be deduct from
the total purchase price.
Reference ishad to ALyARo EVANS, capitalist. OF
Reno and R. L. FULTON, Reno Gazette. Reno. for
verifcasion Of the representations set forth above
Inspection Ct the stock, lands AID other propaTt
is solicited.
Apply to or address,
/ WIZ. II. BILLS,
iyll.law4wT Land agent C. ?. r.