The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-29
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FRIDAY, JUNE 90, 1894.
AN INLAND EMPIRE OUR BACK
COUNTRY.

1t is pleasant to pass from the con
temptation OF strikes, railroad tie-up
and the thousand dissgreeabls subject
which the financial stress has force,
upon the public to a theme that is in
atinct with the promise of great pros
perity. We had an interview YESTERDAY
with Mr.. G. G. Kirby, who is the lsnC
surveyor for the Nevada Southern Rail-
way company. Mr.. Kirby's chief dutie:
seem to be to carefully inspect the de
veloping possibilities of the lands il
Southern Nevada and Utah that will b'
subsidiary to the support of his railroad
He is thus brought into direct contact
with the pioneers of that frontier region
who are either prospecting for mines or
settling on lande suitable for agricul-
ture. He says that there are great
stretches of land that will make fine
homes for settlers as soon as they are
furnished with the facilities OF trans-
portation to market of the crops they
can raise. Some OF these lands are ex-
cellently located for the production OF
fruit, and he showed us number of fine
samples of apples, apricots, figs. olives
and other fruits raised at Las Vegas,
within short distance OF the line
where the Nevada Southern will
be run. He says there are many
thousands of acres of similar land
open to settlement, all of which
will furnish desirable homes for
industrious settlers az soon as the iron
horse has given that region an outlet.
This land nearly all belongs to the state
of Nevada. Congress made the state
large grant for school purposes, and the
state has of course selected the best
lands it could find. 1t sells them in
homestesds to actual settlers at the
fixed price of slips per acre. The
settler is required to pay 20 cents per
acre when he first makes his selection,
the balance to be liquidated in easy
subsequent payments. An orchard or
vineyard of twenty acres now started
would be fine paying piece of property
by the time the railroad has reached it.
In the meantime there are mines ada
cent in some places, whore the industri.
GUS man could earn enough to keep him
in necessaries. and the facilities for
grazing sheep, raising hogs or cattle, are
extensive and inviting. In few years
there will be thousands OF comfortable
homes built up in this region, which is
now a waste and solitude. Thanks to
the railroad which is penetrating it, all
this territory will be placed in colnec-
ton with the outside world, and the
hand of industry will change it into
scene OF prosperous settlements.
Mr.. Kirby says that large party OF
surveyors with instruments started out
on the line OF the Nevada Southern Just
before he left Vanderbilt. He believes
their destination is to survey defect
ing route from the main line to Phoebe.
Mr.. Lamar. who is largely interested in
mining property in Ferguson district,
cast of Phoebe. and the termination oil
the grading done by the Utah Southern
two years ago for the extension of that
road from Milford, is understood to have
purchased the right of way over the
graded road and will at once begin work
in the construction OF o railway to
Phoebe. Mr.. Blake. president Of the
Nevada Southern, and Mr.. Lamar are
believed to have entered into an agree
ment by which a DETECTING line of tn G
Navajo Southern mill ha rnD IN oop
nection with the Utah Southern at
Piocho. Mr.. Kirby accounts for the sur
veying expedition just started out from
Vanderbilt on the hypothesis that it j.,
in pursuance of the agreement enter /
tato between Mr.. Blake and Mr.. Lam
Should the conclusions OF Mr.. K!rn5
prove true. then the Nevada Southern q
about to bring into direct business com
munication with Los Angeles very ex-
Gensive and rich section OF country
which has heretofore been completely
isolated from us. Connection with Pr
oche would mean to extend our trade to
the north and east as lar al White Pine,
taking in a large number of rich but dor
mant mining districts. la addition 1t
would place US in direct rapport with
Salt Lake and all OF Northern Utah,
whilst the continuation OF the main line
of the Nevada Southern to the coal and
iron mines of Utah would open to us
commercial communication with the
thriving communities Of Southern Utah.
Mr. Blake ia now in New York max
ing negotiations in tho interest OF tbs
extension OF his road, and n kea cheer
ing reports OF the prospects OF euccess.
Railroad investors look with great inter
est upon the inducements, in railway
sense, OF the region which the Nevada
goushern is opening. 1t is cons.d ered