Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-04-29

a Trip 90 Mason aud Snith valleys
Prosperous and s'ayiAg Industries
On III. sides. etc.

The TIMES reporter, for want Of
space last week, was let ut tn
raoch o. Clls. Slyltr, in NJ $50 J
Valley 1t il pleasant pllee to
leadha1l, pla1ty to eat, s0D > rs
kind treltna 1T All nnJlilg - pay
Charley has been attempting to
start vineyard for the past three
years, and to this end has planted a
great number of grape settings. The
vines needed pruning last week and
in an unlucky hour he employed an
innocent lookingiPr ohibitionist,,f from
Greenfield to do the work. The work
was done and Charley has no vine
yard now. The "tree man" cut ev-
cry vine close to the ground and
covered the stumps with the soil.
The reporter was at the ranch when
Snyder learned this fact, but being
a man of peace he fastened away.
He has since learned, however, that
the "tree man" was compelled to
use large quantity of Ponds Elk
tract, together with several yards of
sticking plaster, and that he cannot
sit now with any degree of comfort.
The Gold Hill ranch" formerly
owned by Sol. Noel, has been leased
and is now being operated by Mr..
Homer Wilson, who is engaged in
perfecting plans for a pork packing
establis lment.
From the Gold Hill ranch, for a
distance of seven miles south, is the
Mason ranch, of which no better
land can be found within the State
of Nevada. This large tract of land
containing, as we believe, about
eighteen thousand acres, and now
simply used as pasture for cattle,
would, if subdivided into 40 acre
parcels, make 450 farms and afford
comfortable homes for two thousand
people. Under present conditions
the land must entail considerable
expense without any profit to its
owner, and it seems somewhat odu
to an outsider, that such larg
area of land should be kept in its
present condition.
The reporter had the pleasuse Of
meeting our genial Public Admins
traitor in Mason Valley, where he
seems to be kept busy in conducting
his office, running ranch and
teaching a plblic school. He says
that since his election as public adj
ministrator and coroner, there have
been no deaths in the county except
ing a few Of John B, Gallagher's
cattle. However, he will probably
be called upon to hold an inquest
at the Snyder ranch in the near flu
ture, unless the tree men" give it
a wide berth"
The hills surrounding Mason Val
ley are said to contain numerous
lodges Of gold, silver and copper,
but no lie igss, excepting the Garrard
Ludwig copper mines, have been
found of any value. Rich float rock
can be found on ali the hills, still
no discoveries have been made.
Charley Martin is at work on a
favorable indication for Il copper
mine, southwest of Greenfield, some
very rich specimens of copper hav-
ing been found there. Charley has
lust returned from the East, where
he had been conducting Nevada
horse sale, and when questioned oy
the reporter, relative to the price OF
horses in Kansas, said that his
health had been somewhat impaired
by the trip, the Kansas girls were
pretty and crops would never be
better than this year in Mason Val
10y, and that the prices Of horses
in Kansas was a side issue,
The reporter finally found him
self at Wabuska, which is said to
be one Of the most important ship
ping points on the G. Il G. railroad.
The favorable terms given by the
railroad company to the people OF
the Valley, on beef cattle and sheep,
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