Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-25
THE WHOLE RANCH COMPRISING
ONE HUNDRED AND SIX THOU.
SAND ACRES.
coRFRoLL1EG TWO HUNDRED AID FIFTY
THOUSAND ACRES,

FTNHE CLOVER VALLEY RANCH, OR AS 1T
Il is sometimes known, " The Iron Point Stock
and Grain Ranch" Nevada, embracing one hundred
and six thousand acres Of land, is offered for
sale upon terms which represent liberal conces-
SION to the purchaser, and offers high inducements
h the way Of safe, permanent and profitable in
vestment
With this ranch will be sold four thousand head
of stock cattle, in splendid condition, embrac-
ing thoroughbred Durham bulls, purchased at cost
Of six hundred dollars EACH The entire herd is COM
posed OF grades produced by crossing the best Amer
can cows with the very best thoroughbred Durham
bulls imported to this country. There noin
ferior animals in the herd no Spanish cattle or
crosses from Spanish cattle. These ranches EN-.
brace six Thousand acres of meadow land, which
will produce about five thousand tons Of hay per
annum. There two hundred and forty acres OF
fine alfalfa under irrigation, capable OF producing
twelve hundred and fifty tons Of hay per annun.
Twenty 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 the ranch consist Of good story aud
half house. with four rooms, stone cellar, and
stone dairyhouse well built. Horse barn, forty by
one hundred feet, with stalls for thirty horses.
There is splendid creek of living water running
through the ranch also, an excellent well Of water
with two or three springs. Inside the inclosure
there two springs from which issue about TWEEN.
ty-ve hundred inches of water sufficient irrigate
twenty-five hundred acres of land which lie below
them, and which may be jected TO irrigation at
but little cost Included in this sale there two
thousand acres of fine agricultural and meadow
land, about seven miles northeast of the ranch
buildings, upon which there one hundred and
twenty acres in alfalfa finely growing. This Is fac
grain ranch and wp produce forty to fifty bushels of
barley per acre per There good orchard in
bearing and live stream of water affordiny 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 indspens
able 20 the use of two hundred and fifty thousand
acres Of land for grazing. There is sufficient water
to irrigats twentyfour hundred acres in the lower
ranch, and one thousand in the upper, making
total OF thirty four hundred acres.
The sale will include eighty.four head OF good
American horses, fifty of which large fine brood
mares, the remainder being saddie-horses, we'll
trained for herdiug cattle and wen broken WORK
horses also, there viii be included in this sale
grain headers, eight moving mAchines, ha-rows and
all farming implements necessary to run 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 siz years
abe range has reeuperated, aud is now as good as
when in its primitive condition. The four thousand
head of cattle now offered for sale the progeny
Of well-selected COWS from the best dairy herds in
California and Nevada. They have increased to
their present numbers very rapidly; eish. hundred
calves will be branded in 1883, and estimating upon
the basis Of the past experience of increase, the
brand Of 1854 viii exceed that member by one-haif
The range is capable of supporting, without being
overstocked, twenty-five thousand head, aad the
present herd may be increased to that number with
out seeking other range than that now proposed
to be sold.
The Clover Valley ranches embrace: Township
&c north. ranges Al. ~, 40, a east; township 81
north, ranges ~, IS, "a east; township So north
ranges a. ~ east tosnshp 80 NORTH rax ya4S east
Mount Diable meridian
Title based upon patents from the United States
will be given to hundred aud six thousand
of land commanding about one hundred end fifty
thousand additional acres, to which the ownership
Of the land now offered for sale is perfect key.
The present value Of the propertys estimated to be
worth four hundred and twenty-eight thousand dol
lars The whole is offered for three hundred thou
sand dollars of which one hundred ard seventy-sve
thousand dollars must be paid in cash one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars IN five yeare
Deferred payments TO bear seven per cent. inter
est per annum-
The cattle and horses win be sold By actual
rosnt. If the herd falls short Of four thousand
head Of cattle, or eghtyfOur head Of horses, pro
rats amount for the shortage viii be deducted from
the total purchase price.
Refsreooe ishad to ALvARo EVANS, capitalist,of
Reno, and R. L. FULTON, Reno Gazette, Reno. fox
verifcaeon Of the representations set forth above.
Inspection q the stock, lands and other property
is solicited.
Apply to or address,
WIN. II. MILLS,
{rlI-Lw<uW Land agent C. p, R. r