The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-09-09
NEVADA SURPRISES THEM ALL.
What Two San Fran cisco Men Saw
in Nevada.

The San Francisco Chronicle says;
W. S. Barton, the widely known Cali
fornia miner and prospector, and W.
j. Mcfarland have returned to the
city after five weeks spent in remote
parts of Lincoln county, New.
Mr.. Barton was surprised to find in
a region deemed by everybody wild
erness the finest semi-tropical fruits.
There were mulberries, apricots, figs.
cherries, pears and peaches, and in
some parts even oranges were doing
well. 1t is hot throughout a large area
and corn grows well, averaging as
much as seventy-fve bushels an acre,
which is very large yield, even in
the best corn-producing country.
Wheat, oats, rye, potatoes and, in
fact, almost all the vegetables and
cereals-were found to do well.
All this is illustrated by the garden
like patches of the new settlers, who
in isolated places have planted their
uOlHSo OIl0 VI 0llO l1CIlOS FdI1OJo
they saw was the Cherry Creek valley.
Iii about seventy-f miles long and
from ten to fifteen miles wide. The
land is almost all level, and covered
with sagebrush, wild rye and buffalo
grass. The altitude above sea is only
500 to 600 feet. On the northwest
is range of very high mountains,
covered with nut pine, juniper, maho-
gany and wild cherry. On the north
and east there is no timber atall. The
country is now green, this being the
rainy season. There were several
heavy rains while Barton and Nc
Farland were there.
81 never saw finer region than this
valley. said Mr.. Barton. "The
land is remarkably rich, and well suit
ed to produce almost everything. There
are also artesian springs in many
places, and streams which may be
utilized to irrigate the arid place. 1t
will be comparatively easy to store
water and irrigate from 100000 to
800, 900 acres. I do not know a bet
ter field for agriculture and fruit grow
ing.
Gone of the strangest sights we saw
was the cowboys killing the wild horses
There are 900 or more wild horses.
In the Cherry Greek valley and foot
hills. These wild horses, that is the
stations, lead away the domestic mares
and once away they get as wild as the
other horses. So the cowboys go out
and kill them. One morning [ saw
five going forth well mounted and arm
ed with tremendously big revolvers.
/ asked them where they were going.
ooh, out to kill some horses, they
said. Well, they did kill them. They
had boy to change horses and ride
round and around in circuit, miles
in extent, after them. AS the wild
h rises came around they would bang
them over. | saw horse after horse
great, magnificent stations of all
colors, killed in this way. They come
around on the dead run. There would
be shot, or probably fusillade of
shots. The horse would take a leap
into the air and come down dead. 1t
looked like a shame to kill such mag
niGcent brutes, but the cowboys shot
them down without the least COM
junction.
owe were at Fryberg, near the
edge of Nye county. The old Butter
field stage, pony express buildings and
stockade are only six miles from there.
There are four or five buildings in all,
built of logs and very strong. This is
very fertile region, as was evidence
ed by the crops of a Frenchman there.
In all the mountains about are good
mineral lodges. I visited the old
Norman lead mine, sixty miles from
Vanderbilt It is called the Potosi,
and there were 5000 tons of lead ore
on the dump. There was an abund-
ance of gold and silver outcroppings.
ga most singular thing about parts
of Lincoln was the so-called arteslan
springs. You would be riding along,
when all at once you would see stream
of water as big as an irrigating ditch.
1t came straight out of the ground,
like the water of an artesian well,
and ran across the country like any
other stream. These have been con-