Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-14
SOUTHERN NEVADA.
much Attention Being Directed 60
That section Of our state.

'F'ttou ot our Stnte.
The Southern California land boom
having collapsed, the attention Of
capitalists, ranchers, cattlemen and
those who are seeking desirable
homesteads has at last been attracted
to this State, and the lands of Nevada
will be rapidly settled by numbers of
thrifty people. Our attention has
been called to this fact by the invest
ments OF some OF our Eureka people
in the school lands lying in the
southerly portion Of the State, and
now we find that a company has been
formed by Messrs. Ford Brothers and
others of Redlands, Cal, who, with
plenty Of capital to back them, have
taken up about 5000 acres of grazing
land situated principally in Railroad
Valley, Clark Bluff, Sand Springs and
Bald Springs in Lincoln and Nye
counties, which they propose to open
up Tor cattle ranges, and to put under
cultivation such portions as they may
find most desirable for that purpose.
They have also located a number of
water rights at Deep Creek, Big Creek,
Willow Creek and Troy Greek, from
which places they will Aume water on
their lands in the valleys where they
intend to raise alfalfa to feed their
stock. They have also secured the
Chalk Bluff, Sand, Little Bally and
Cattle Springs, from which they will
convey water by pipe lines to the
valleys to water their stock. They
have have had their lands and bitches
surveyed, and estimate that the
work will cost at least $4,000. The
ranges, which have a scope Of about
p miles in width, extend from Troy
Canyon, in Nye county, south to
Groom District in Lincoln county, a
distance of nearly IS miles.
Other parties are taking up lands in
Nye and Lincoln counties, in this
State, and in Inyo county, Cal. Some
i 900 acres have been taken up in
Pahrump Valley where great ex-
are entertained OF getting
artesian water. Mr.. Winters now
owns the Pahrump ranch, in Nye
said to be the finest ranch
in the State Of Nevada. He has fully
1000 acres Of land, 800 acres Of which
IS under cultivation for hay and grain,
besides as fine an orchard as
can be found in any part OF
and in this he raises every |
kind Of fruit that can be cultivated on
the Pacific Coast. The second best
ranch in Nevada is probably the Maca,
owned by Mr.. Yont, and situated four
easterly from the Pahrumpranch
on the line OF Lincoln and Nye coun-
lies.
A number of persons are taking up
lands in Southern Nevada on specula-
ion in anticipation of railroad lines
through them. The Utah
central railroad formerly known as the
Utah Southern, has been projected to
Barstow, on the Atlantic and Pacific
rans-continental line in San Bernar-
limo county, Cal, 80 miles northeast
rom the town Of San Bernardino and
A miles southwest from Calico Dis
riot, and 240 miles OF this road have
been constructed 10 Milford,
Utah. 1t is now stated that another
.46 miles OF the line has been surveyed
o a point six miles west of Phoebe,
md that it will be rapidly pushed
through to its southern terminus. Ii
he line is completed it will open up a
lumber OF good mining districts, pass
ng about six miles north of Tenn
'ahute Mountain, II miles from the
OF that name, IL miles south of
'riberg District, and six miles west of
Jhalk Bluffs. 1t will then run so
further to Cain Springs, where it
will pass the deviding line into Cali
This road would pass Is miles
'outh of Reveille and 50 miles south OF
Cybo. Pahranagat Valley and Ash
Meadows are also attractive localities
n southern Nevada that it would
likely reach.
From Irish Mountain, in Lincoln
to Cain Springs in Nye county,
Nevada, for $50 miles the road would
raverse an open valley country.
1t is believed that an abundance Of
water may be developed wherever it
S required.
Ii another railroad were built from
by way OF Duckwater,
through Railroad Valley to Chalk
it would interesect the Utah
Central line at a distance Of 120 miles,
passing the entire distance from the
mouth OF Pinto Canyon through an
open valley country. 1t could be
quilt at as small an expense as that OF
my railroad on the Pacific slope, and
would prove Of incalculable value to
his and adjoining districts.