The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-10-11

mineral are important and
that department Of its exhibit is in
terasting, but it is with agricultural
and irrigated Nevada that readers of
the Age are chiefly concerned. TIE
Worlds Fair visitor expresses M sur.
prise at beholding a complete display
Of the products of the mines, but
Thousands of people have stood before
the Nevada booth in the Agricultural
Building and Rubbed their eyes before
fully believing that they read the
name Alright. They are surprised to
learn that the State has am agricullu-
raj industry at all they are more sur-
prised when they look earthly and
observe the extraordinary quality Of
the cereals.
OF course Nevada has great possibili-
ties beyond the cereals, forage crops and
vegetables which form the principal part
of its agricultural exhibit. 1t can pro-
duce splendid results with all the decidu-
Gus fruits, and these are very profitable.
In the southern part of the State, figs,
almonds and many other crops ofithe
semi-tropic region are successfully pro-
dnced. The list OF possible products is
a very large one
But after all. the agricultural side of
Nevada's display at the Fair is valuable
not as evidence of what has been done,
hut as an indication of what will be
done. 1t is important as a suggestion
rather than achievement. When the
visitor goes into the Illinois State Build
ing he sees the results of a massive agri-
cultural industry. He learns how many
bushels of wheat, corn and other cereals
are raised in the aggregate. 1t is, of
course, a great showing, and the beholder
loses sight of quality and finds himself
aGmiring bulk. He is in the midst OF a
state that is already made. Nevada rep
resents the other extreme. Its exhibit is
to be studied as a prophecy. As the,
world has SO often beentold that Nevada
has no future and is in a way to be.
abandoned in the end to the Piute Inc
dians, he is surprised to see it's agrieul='
tural possibilities wildly illustrated and
aggressively presented for consideration.
Let us consider now some of the actual
results that intelligent men have obtain
ed in the intensive cultivation of small
areas in Nevada. One forty-acre lot pro-
duced, in 1883, $3.50 from wheat, pota-
toes and hay. This fact shows how far
short are the census figures of giving the
remotest idea of the best results of irri-
gated farming in Nevada. George Alt,
of Glendale, put fifteen acres into vege-
tables last year, and raised on one hall
of it 100 tons OF p~atatoes, which he sold
for "a cents per pound. He also sold
800 worth OF celery from half an acre,
and 81 900 worth OF cauliflower from one
acre. He sold forty tons OF cabbage at
IA cents per pound, and says he could
have disposed of 1000 tons of produce if
he had had it. Joseph Frey sold $500
worth OF apples, pears and plums from
one acre in 1889. The traveller on the
Central Pacific never forgets Humboldt,
which is one OF the rare GASES OH the
Nevada desert. He remembers the hotel
at the railroad station, and the little
orchard of eight acres that surrounds it.
That orchard produces about 800 bushels
OF the finest apples which sell readily
for So per bushel. These facts taken in
connection with the splendid exhibit at
the Fair, leave no doubt as to what can
be done in building up a prosperous irri-
CATION industry in the State. :,
n Y 4 -,
Nevada's exhibit in the chemical de-
partment has also attracted much atten-
ton. Its salt and soda took first prize,
proving nine-nine per cent. pure. The
gross value of salt, borax and soda from
the single county of Esmerelda has
amounted to $ 1870, 900 since 1875. This
department OF Nevada's natural
offers a fine prospect for profitable bus
mess enterprises in the future. One of
the most curious thing shown at the Fair
is a sample of mineral soap. Men have
stood with xriao.opap noutba hafora