Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-08-03
Its Location and Size.
TOPOGRAPHY AND aElaHT ABOVE
THE SEA LEVEL.
Its Mining and Agricultural Re-
sources.
A Full Description OF the County,
(CoMMUNICArED.)

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What has been done here can easily
be done elsewhere, and there is hardly
ranch located on the bench lands
in the county that can not be dub!i-
Gated 10 amount of water used in
irrigation, aud OF greater size because
the lands now irrigated require, in
most places twice as much water per
acre than milo or more below, where
the soil ia not only finer but deeper
and.richen The meadow lands were
taken up TO secure the hay upon
tPem and for pastursge. In mcst
cases these lands are of the third
group, only fit for grass on account Of
the cold nights. The bench lands
cultivated and those vacant have
nearly the same climate. Persons in
tending to settle in the county can
therefore, still find land and water
unoccupied and unappropriated,
simply requiring "a little h.ore work
to create home than required of our
first settlers which was very little in
deed. Timber, can he found in the
mountains for log houses similar to
those on large number Of the
ranches; fences constructed for Sl5O
per mile; and sagebrush lands cleared
off and ploughed for s2.5O per acre or
less. The cost OF bringing water up.
on the land is a problem unsolved.
In some cases it can be done with u
few pillow burrows as was done in most
cases Sy the first settlers. In Others
long bitches or canals may be needed.
In many cases the problem. of con-
Quoting the water over or around the
sinking places will haze to be met
and solved. And IN numberless
cases, water that IL now running to
waste can be stored in small reser vuirs
ut q slight cost.
But the greatest benefits, both to
the country and people, can be
achieved by the cooperation OF, a
number Of intending settlers and the
construction of: large reservoirs and
canals. The chances for such coloni-
zatIon are only limited by the chances
to store water. To describe Oh the
good places for colonies would be to
redescribe nearly every valley in the
county; but it may not como amss to
tell where q tsw Of the best oues are
located. On the south side of Hum
boldt river about the finest one In the
county is situated between South
Fork and Smith or. Huntington creek.
Here IL may not DO necessary for
reservoir to be constructed, as in
ordinary SEASONS the greater part Of
the water ID unused and conseq ontly
still open for any person, or persons
to appropriate. A canal six miles
long or less will conduct the water
upon tho bench land south of the
river and cover Itall.. There are H.
600 acres OF fine land having an even
slope to the northwest and without
stone, ridge or ravine over the entire
tract. TOO acres Of this land is
bought by ranchers along South Fork
bottom. $500 acres belong to The g.
P. r. II. The remaining $500 acres
are Government land and can no
bought Of the State Of, Nevada for
$l,25 per acre, % cents per acre being
paid down on application, and tho 81
per acre to run % yenrs with in terest
at 6 per cent. per annum. This tract
is inithe shape OF triangle the south
and west sides being five miles long
and the third side formed bS the
South Fork that flows north west.
The next place Id on the bench lands
that lay northwest and west of
Pleasant and LamoiiDe Valleys.
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