The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-13

and placer mines at Island Mountain,
seyenty-iye north OF Exc. For twenty
six years these mines have been worked
by the oil fashioned method OF sluice-
boxes. So far from being exhausted a
New York company has recently taken
hold OF tAem and modern methods are
to he employed.
Lincoln county, without a railroad,
has mountains OF minerals which are
being worked in spite OF the immense
cost OF transportation. One OF these
alone, a gold producer, is valued at $40,
900, 900.
Humboldt county has within her Dor
ders gold, silver, copper, tin, antlmony,
nickel, sulphur. gypsum, iron, nitre,
cobalt, bismuth, borax. soda and salt
more different minerals than any other
like area in the world.
1t the same way every one oil the II
counties might be studied and found to
contain millions in minerals ~undevelop-
ed, or only slightly developed. Yet the
miners pick is silent, or only heard at
long intervals. The youth OF our State
are leaving it for other fields, our popu-
alton is decreasing and our Eastern
friends are talking about shutting the
doors of Congress in the faces OF our rep
resentatives.
- AI,url, a1kIaurt tho III rot RI attract
attention to Nevada, are not her great
est source of wealth. Agriculture must
follow and provide permanent prosper
itv. In fact the two could be combined
to the greatest advantage, for we find
valleys opening out from every mining
district that could profitabfy support
many times the number ever engaged in
taking ont ore, and thus give a home
market with all its advantages both to
producer and consumer.
We are in the "arid region" butthere
ia plenty OF snow on the mountains, and
the fond waters, if retained and utilized,
would transform our sagebrush stretches
into smiling producers OF every grain,
vegetable and fruit in the..temperate and
semi-tropical zones. Nevada stretches
from the AID to the 35th deg. latitude,
from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. and
although the thermometer is allowed TO
do about as it pleasea, can, with water,
proiuce anything from the hardest
grains to citrus fruits.
Irrigation is the text we should all
preach IRON in school and ont Of school
in season and out Of season. The arid
region constitutes about two-tifths OF
the area of the United States. 1t begins
at the 100 meridian or about the eastern
boundary OF Colorado, and its possession
IL greater safeguard for our govern
ment than is found in common law
OF the constitution. Uncle Sam can
still give every man farm. But it will
take united effort on the part OF the less
than 5000, 900 people this side of the 100
meridian to convince the 81 900 900 on
the other side, Of the need OF beginning
the work of retaining these waste
lands.
In our own county Of Elko consider
able has been done in the way of irriga-
ton. Ruby and Glover valleys, with
26,000 acres under irrigation Starr.
Halleck and South Fork with sc, 900
more, and several others give Elko one
third OF the amount OF land under irri-
cation in the State. The topography Of
Elko county and OF all the counties on
the Humboldt, Is favorable to the creat-
ion OF reservoirs at comparatively small
expense, and the rain and nov fall is
sufficient to supply moisture to all avail
able lands.
Humboldt county has much level land,
a mild climate, and il traversed bv the
railroad. No trans-rontinental traveller
but remembers that ''oasis on the desert"
the Humboldt House, which il simply an
illustration OF how water can transiorn,
the waste oil %sagebrush into an emerald
isle, canopied by the bluest OF skies and
%enveloped by the pureni Of atmospheres.
A review of the cou l,ies will show
that in almost every instance sufficient
water is at hand. ii stored and, use,l with
proper care, particularly If other crops
than hay or alfalfa are raised, these 7, :
q~uiring so much more water than il
needed for diversified farming. In
many places artcsian wells will aid To
tn" supply.
The ra;!rola company and The govern.
mont own most vi the Iand in Ne.AIn.