The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-09-07
LINCOLN co. SURPRISES THEM,
What San Francisco Men saw In the
southern Portion Of the County.

The San Francisco Chronicle says that
W. s. Barton. the widely known Califor.
MIA miner and prospector, and w. J.
Mcfarland have returned to the city af.
ter five weeks spent in remote parts Of
Lincoln county, Nevada.
Mr.. Barton was surprised to find in
region deemed by everybody wilderness
the finest semi-tropical fruits. Thsra
We're mulberries, apricots. figs. cherries,
pears and peaches, and in some parts
even oranges were doing we'll. 1t is hot
throughout large area, and corn grows
well, averaging as much as seventy five
bushels an acre, which 10 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 homes.
One of the richest valleys they saw was
the Cherry Creek Valley. 1t is about
seventy-tive miles long and from ten to
fifteen miles wide. The land is almos,
all level, and covered with ssgebrush.
wild rye and buffal, grass. The altitude
above the sea is only from 500 to 600
feet. On the northwest is 4 range of very
high mountains, covered with nut pine,
juniper. mahogany aud wild cherry. On
the north aud east there ia very low
range. on which there 10 no timber At oil.
The country 10 now green, this being the
rainy season. There we're several heavy
rains while Barton and McFal land we're
| there.
g never saw finer region than this
valley" said Mr.. Barton. 1.-THE land 10
remarkably rich. and we'll suited to pro-
duce almost anything. There are also
>rteslan springs in many places. and
streams which may be utilized to irrigate
the arid places II will he comparatively
easy to store water and irrigate from
200. 900 to 800. 600 acres. do not know
better field for agriculture and fruit.
growing.
"One of the strangest sights We saw
vas the cowboys killing tho wild horsss.
There are 1000 or more wild horses in the
Cherry Creek Valley and foothills. Those
wild horses. that IL the stations. lead
away the domestic mares. and once away
they get ~ wild as the other horses. So
the cowboys 60 out and shoot them.
We we're at Fryborg, near the edge
OF Nye comfy. The old Butterfield
stage. pony express buildings and stock.
AIDES arc only six miles from there. There
are four or five buildings in oil and they
are very strong. This is . very fertile
region, ss was evidenced by the crops Of
Frenchman there.
In all the mountains about are good
mineral lodges. I visited the old Mormon
lead mine. sixty miles from Vanderbilt.
1t is called the Potosi. and there were
5000 tona Of lead ore on tho dump.
There was An abundance Of gold and sill.
yer groupings.
A most singular thing about parts Of
Lincoln county is thu so.called artesian
springs. You would be riding along,
when all at once you would see stream
OF water as big as an irrigating ditch. II
came straight out Of the ground, like the
water OF an artesian we'll. and ran across
the country like any other stream. These
have been conducted into bitches by cat.
tlemsn and farmers and are used for irri.