The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-22
SOUTHERN LINCOLN.
,o,ber Good Word For The Semi
1ropical Section of Our County.

In his latest letter to the Salt Lake
tribune, Dan De Quille, writing in his
o.ual Instructive and entertaining style re-
,tes facts with regard to the southern part
q our county, the truth and force of which |
are easily appreciated by all who have at
anu time of recent years, visited that sec
ton. He says:
have Just received, through T. J.
Osborne Of Phoebe, box of pomegranates
from the ranch of my old friend, Robert
Logan of Muddy Valley, Lincoln county,
Nevada. These pomegranates are more
than twice as large as any have ever seen
from California. think the largest would
weigh over pound, as they are astonishing
" solid and heavy, Mr.. Osborne has inst
returned from trip to southern Nevada,
and seems much pleased with what he saw
there. He says Muddy Valley is now
settling up rapidly. In addition to those
now in the valley. some twenty families are
synected to arrive there this winter.
Presently, as soon as they obtain railroad
communication with the outside world, all
these people will find themselves indepeh-
IDENTIFY rich. In the valley of the Muddy
along the Rio Virgin and other streams, in
fact wherever water can be obtained with
which to irrigate, wonderful crops are
grown, the products of temperate and semi
tropical regions being seen side by side.
Oranges, lemons, figs, olives and all other
sorts of fruit, nuts, berries, etc, cultivated
in California, here flourish to perfection.
No finer grapes can be found anywhere than
are grown in this region. In the Muddy
Valley two crops are grown yearly on the
same ground. The land is first sown to
wheat, barley or oats, which is harvested
about the first of June, when the ground is
planted to corn, potatoes beets,s cabbages
and all other sorts of garden vegetables.
Corn yields 40 to As bushels to the acre,
and alfalfa is cut from four to six times each
season. Cotton yields about 1000 pounds to
the acre, and some patches are cultivated
every year. The amount grown this season
was ahont 30, 600 pounds.
The rock OF the region is Limestone and
limestone pebbles are mingled with aud ell
rich the soil, which is of reddish color.
This soil is very strong and when irrigated
proves astonishingly productive. The peo-
pie of this section of Nevada at present labor
under the disadvantage incident to a lack of
railroad gives them au outlet to Salt Lake
City and the East, their lands will be worth
as much as the best in California. They
will then have plenty ,of offers for thei
orange groves, olive orchards and vineyards
They will have the advantage OF bein
nearer to Chicago and Eastern markets thar
| the ranchmen and orchardists of California
and other regions lying to the west OF th
Sierra Nevada mountains. Also they vii
be able to send early vegetables to Utah
Montana and others of the mining states
In the meantime the people of this souther
country may do we'll to turn their attentio
to the growing of silk and other light an
easily shipped products. The condition
there are good for great slk-producing in
dustry. The mulberry hourishes finely an
all the climatic conditions are perfect. Ih
industry would give employment to tie
times the number of people now in th'
country and so build up quite hon
market.
A MUCH-NEEDED RAILROAD.
There is no better ope ming for rallroa
anywhere in the United States than troI
Salt Lake City to Los Angeles throuP
Southern Nevada. 1t would not only opt
up the rich sem-tropical valleys, but all
other large valleys of cultivatable land
higher attitudes, great grazing ranges an
immense areas of country rich In gol
silver, copper, lead and other metals al
minerals. Such road would furnish ii
winter route for travellers. 1t would q
California an abundance of cheap coal al
is in every way desirable For years sucl
road has been talked of; surveys have be
made and good routes found, but the
would seem to be somewhere power I'll
always prevents actual work and the pu'
ing of the road to completion, though
gap to be closed is very small There
doubtless somewhere dog in the mang
DAN DE QUILLE