Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-08-11
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the railroad where there is timber in
any quantity in the State. 1t would
almost pay to construct a narrow
gauge railroad from .Deeth into this
timber belt for the timber trade alone,
! without counting the large mineral
and agricultural country that would
be opened. The land is almost all of
the first group and lays G,00O feet and
over above the sea level
EAST OwYHEE VALLEY
Lays. west OF Brnneau Basin and
north of the upper North Fork Valley.
This valley is in three parts. The
upper part consists Of a rolling bench
land laying in the north end of the
large valley Of which Upper North
Fork, Pie Creek and Upper Susie
Creek Valleys are parts of. From the
low divide which separates the two
valleys the bench land slopes grad
ually north seven miles covering 49,
600 acres Of good land all of which
can be irrigated. To the north east
Of this valley the land is mountainous
but not rugged, rising gradually to-
wards the Brnneau range with small
bench lands and valleys covering
FIR om ten to two hundred acres OF
good land where crops can w raised
with little or no irrigation. In this
country is Island Mountain mining
district, about five miles from the
main valley, consisting Of both quartz
and placer ..lines.. The placer mines
have been worked for years but are
not very rich. The quartz mines are
rich, carrying gold and silver, but
need better railroad facilities than
now before they can be successfully
worked. The upper main. valley is
over 5000 feet in elevation and sub
ject to deep snow fall in the Winter;
but, what partly il not more than
counterbalances that, it also has con-
siderable rain fall in the Summer
rendering irrigation almost unneces-
sary. At the lower end of the valley
the river flows north westerly four
miles, breaking through a mountain
in that distance, and then flows north
west across another valley about ton
miles long and containing 5000 acres
Of good land all of which could be
irrigated. These lands lay on the
benches considerably above the river.
On the southwest side are several
settlers irrigsting about 1000 acres of
land with the streams that flow from
Bull Run mountains. At the lower
end Of this valley is located Cope
mining district, and Mountain City is
on the right side OF the river q short
distance down the canyon. This
district has good placer and quartz
mines but they cannot be worked
with profit now. Below the valley
the river again flows through a can
yon or gorge in the mountains for
about eight miles, where it enters the
largest and best valley in this division
| called '... .. ~. ."..
| DUCK VALLEY.
This valley is at present inside the
Duck Valley Indian Reservation. It
covers over 100000 acres OF land, 49,
600 acres OF which are in Nevada and
the rest ia Idaho. or the 900 acres
in this State fully 10000 acres could
be irrigated. The valley was at one
time an old lake bed, and in. high
water, when the gorge in the basaltic
table land through which the waters
flow in leaving the valley, is not large
enough to carry of the surplus water,
they cover the greater part OF the
valley a few inches in depth.