Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-11-15
RNCOURAGING REPORTS.
Nevada Lands Much sought After for
Wheat Growing.

the proposition to encourage the
Nevada farmer to devote new land to
the cultivation of wheat and other
cereals, H. H. Beck, one of the pro-
prietors of the Riverside Mills, said:
no part of the earth can compete
with Nevada in the quality of wheat
she produces, and he said the guam
tity was equally as good. The
speaker said there were not a few in
stances when Nevada's lands pro-
duced from IS to 70 bushels to- the
acre, and that the average was about
IS bushels per acre. He said that
was
A GOOD SHOWING
When taken into consideration that
Ohio did not produce more than 13
bushels, and that the average
throughout the United States was
only Is bushels. He said Nevada's
bright days were at hand.
The question of what we shall do
with it after we raise it was answered
by the speaker saying, that until we
prodace enough TO supply ourselves
it was useless to talk. The country
east of the Sierras raises only wheat
enough to keep the Riveside Mills
busy for eight months in the year.
The capacity of the mill could be
doubled if sufficient wheat could be
had. The mill now makes IS barrels
Of -four a day and the California
mills ship over the mountains 100
barrels day. The farmers on the
Humboldt have sold between 600
and 700 tons of wheat this year but
Reno has not sent them a pound Of
-four, in exchange. They buy it in
Sacramento because it comes little
cheaper to them. How long the
Reno mill will buy their wheat and
pay the highest price for it when
they do not buy a sack of -four de-
ponds upon the generosity of the
mill company which Mr.. Beck rep
resents, for wheat can be shipped up
from California cheaper than it can
be bought and shipped from Love-
locks. 1t can be laid down from
California for from $50 to $62 so a
ton and it costs from So to $67 from
Lovelocks. Mr.. Beck said his COM
pany brought three cars of
THE BEST SEED WHEAT
Over last year and sold it for 81 70
per hundred. He told the farmers
that he would buy all that they
raised at that price if it was as good
as the seed. Many broke up alfalfa
ground and raised wheat, all Of
which he bought The farmers are
we'll satisfied and say they will doub-
BILE the acreage in wheat next season.
Mr.. Beck said that with the pres
emit rates iof freight on -four from
Sacramento. to points in Nevada he
could not ship -four. With free
rates he could just get in, but un-
less the railroad company raised its
rates from Sacramento to Lovelocks
and points east he could not sell
-four.
The -four rate from Sacramento
| to Truckee is 50 cents a hundred;
Sacramento to Reno, 60 cents; Reno
to Lovelocks, 70 cents; Sacramento
to Lovelocks, 70 cents. The price
of wheat in Reno is now 81 &C, and
in Sacramento 81 80. The mill
here pays out over $500, 900 a year,
besides running expenses of 500 a
day. Hon. P. N. Marker of Love
locks said if
THE PRESENT MARKET
For wheat at Reno is sustained his
valley would have as many thous-
and people in five years as it now
has hundreds. Settlers are coming
in, and he has already rented about
5000 acres of land in lots from SO
to 100 acres to grain growers. He
! says he could leasesa as much more
if he could guarantee the market
for wheat. He gives all the crop the
first year and three-fourths of it the
second and third years. Land now
idle is thus made productive and
every industry developed. Farmers
there cannot make wheat pay at less
than $25 a ton delivered on the cars.
Mr.. Bender, cashier of the First
National Bank, said he would loan
money on wheat stored in the new
warehouse at Reno to the extent of
business safety. Parties shipping
here could get loans, and Mr.. Marker
was told that he could assure his
tenants and others that the bank
would loan on wheat when thew