Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-11
TIE WHOLE RANCH COMPRISING
One NUMBERED AND sSX THOy.
SAND ACRES.
CONTROLLING TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND ACRES.

TIME CLOVER VALLEY RANCH, OR as IT
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
in the way Of a safe, permanent and profitable in
vestnent.
With this ranch will be sold four thousand head
of stock cattle, now in splendid condition, embrac
ing thoroughbred Durham bulls, purchased at cost
o; six hundred dollars EACH The entire herd is com
posed OF grades produced bycrossng the best Ameri
can cows with the very best thoroughbred Durham
bulls imported TO this country. There are
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 are two hundred and forty acres of
fine alfalfa under irrigation, capable of producing
twelve hundred and fifty tons of hay per annum.
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 and
a hal; house, with four rooms, stone cellar, and
stone dairy-house, well built Horse barn, forty by
There is splendid creek of living water running
through the ranch also, exec lent well of water
with two or throe springs. Inside the inclosure
there two springs from which Issue about TWEEN
ty-ive hundred inches of water sufficient to rrgate
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 foe
grain ranch and viii produce forty to fifty bushels of
barley per acre per annrm There is good orchard in
bearing, and live stream of water affordng 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 ndispens
able to the use of two hundred ard fifty thousand
acres of land Tor grazing. There is sufficient water
to irrgats twenty-four hundred acres in the lower
ranch, and one thousand in the upper, making
total of thirty four hundred acres
The sale will include e'ghty-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 fsrming implements necessary to run this ranch
Six years age 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 recuperated, and is now as good as
when in its primitive condition. The four thousand
head Of cattle offered for sale are the progeny
OF well-seected COWS from the best dairy herds in
California snd Nevada. They have increased to
their present numbers very rapidly; eight hundred
calves will be branded in 1885, and estimating upon
the basis of the past experience of increase, the
brand Of 1884 will exceed that number by cne-half.
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 seekitg other range than that now proposed
to be sold.
The Glover Valley ranches embrace: Township
SO north, ranges Al, ~, 43, "A east; township 81
north, ranges ~, 40, A east; township SO north,
ranges l3, "A east township 80 NORTH rangeA3 east
Mount Diablo 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.
sand dollars, Of which one hundred and seventy-fve
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 actusl
count Ii the herd falls short Of four thousand
head of CATTLE or eighty head of horses. pro
rata amount for the shortage will be deductd from
the total purchase price.
Reference ishad to ALyARo EVANS, capitalist,of
Reno, and R. L. FULTON, Reno Gazette, Reno, for
yerfcation Of the representations set forth above
Inspection CT the stock, lands and other property
is solicited.
Apply to or address,
WIZ. II. MILLS.
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