Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-12-10
LYON COUNTY.
What the Assessor Has TO say in His
Annual Report, to the surveyor
General.

In his annual report to the sur
veyor General Assessor Brann
speaks as follows of the resources
of our county:
The agricultural interests of Ly-
on, which are among the main
stays of the county, have for the
past year shown a steady and
healthy growth. Mason Valley,
situated in this county, and which
is one of the largest and finest val
leys in the State, has been greatly
benefited by the erection of two
creameries, which have proved
dividend payers to the ranchers
who have gone into the business of
milking COWS. For many years
previous to 1892 hay in this valley
was drug upon the market, the
farmers having to depend upon its
sale and consumption from pur-
chases made by parties driving cat
tie and sheep into the valley to
winter. Their hay was then sell
ing for from 50 to So per ton in the
stack. Now it is being fed to milch
COWS and is selling from 81 to 1850
per ton, with fair prospect of its
going to Sc per ton before the win
ter is over. The ranches through
out the valley will produce on an
average about three tons of hay to
the acre.
Both the creameries are doing a
fine business, making money and
giving the farmers the advantage
of monthly payday. They are
of a capacity to handle great deal
more milk than is now being fur
nished them, but by next year it is
expected that the farmers will be
milking enough cows to keep both
creameries running to their full
capacity. The capacity of the up
per creamery is about 10000 lbs. Of
milk day, but it is now only re-
ceiving about 1000 lbs. daily, and
turning out $50 pounds of butter
and 450 pounds of cheese. The
principal market for this butter and
cheese in San Francisco, where the
articles command top prices. The
Creamery is under the supervision
of Thos. Me Adams who is an ex-
perienced butter maker from the
East. He has had the company
place in the creamery the latest i'm
proved machinery, and it is his
opinion that the climate, feed for
stock, ETC., makes Mason and Smith
valleys among the finest localities
in the world for the manufacture
of butter and cheese.
The Phoenix Creamery Compa-
ny, which is not as large a concern
as the other, is a home company.
1t is producing a gilt-edged article
of butter and cheese, and the home
market takes all that is produced
from the amount of milk now being
received.
In Smith Valley the company
which owns the upper Mason Val
ley creamery has erected another
creamery of the same capacity as
the one in Mason Valley. This
creamery started up on October II,
last, and already the farmers are
beginning to feel the benefits of it,
although enough COWS are not being
MIXED yet to keep it running to
anywhere near its full capacity.
The Carson River creamery, also
owned by the above company, has
a capacity of from $4,000 to 90
600 pounds of milk daily, but is
not running full yet.
Lyon county has produced dur
ing the current year 40, 200 pounds
of butter and 5S,965 pounds OF
cheese.
Another industry that will bene-
fit Mason Valley greatly is the new
Touring mill which was completed
the first of the year by David Will
son & Sons. 1t is equipped with
the latest improved roller process
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