The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-11
TELLS OF LAND
ALONG NEW ROAD
Literature IS Being Distributed
by Salt Lake Route.
CHANCES FOR FARMING
BIG RUSH OF G. A. R. ExCUR-
sIoNIsTs CONTINUES.
HANCES FOR FARMING

Now that contracts have been LET nv
the salt Lake route TO fill the gap be-
tween Calientes, New. and Daggett.
Cal, the traffic department has begun
10 advertise the resources along the
way. particularly i'm southern Nevada.
1t is expected that before the road is
completed there viii be an influx of set
tiers all along the line. wherever there
IS a good opening.
AS preliminary to its campaign
al"hg this ne the traffic department is
distributing a pamphlet on southern
NeVada and Its Resources" copies OF
which were received at the headquar-
ltrs yesterday. In this pamphlet is the
following:
he valleys particularly described
herein are the Los Vegas. Pahrimp,
Muddy and Virgin valleys. While they
are about fifty miles apart. the SINH
larity in climate and productiveness is
so great that one description answers
for all. They are in Lincoln county,
Nevada, near the extreme southern
part of the state directly east of the
northeastern corner Of San Bernardino
county. California. and on a line which
n extended eastward. would pass
through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennes-
see and North Carolina
With the apples. grain and potatoes
OF the northern states are grown the
hgs cotton, sugar cane, tobacco. pea
nuts, etc. OF the southern states. The
valleys are located on direct line be-
tween Sale Lake city and Los Angeles
about 300 miles from the latter and 400
miles from the former.
Los Vegas valley is twenty-five
miles west of the head of navigation
ON tie Colorado river which now fur
nishes one means of transportation It's
situation is beautiful being a basin
with mountains on all sides. some Of
them towering to an altitude Of over
IL. 600 feet their sides covered with
pine forests and their tops snow
capped nearly the whole year. and fur
nishing delightful mountain breezes
during the summer months.
Los Vegas valley has long been
known as a fertile spot. and was first
occupied by some Spanish monks who
assembled the Colorado river in 1880,
looking for place TO establish mis-
sion. Leaving the river. they came to
this beautiful valley and named il Los
Negas-Spanish for the meadows
The Pahrimp valley lies off Los We
gas and the Muddy adjOins it on the
east. Large tracts Of the land 1aVs
been purchased by Los Angeles pc bDle.
who are thoroughly alive to its Ndiue
and the Importance to southern Can
1orEia of it's great agricultural ana
mineral wealth. Today there is NO bet
ter place for a poor man to get home
the sick to find health and the capital
ssts To- make good investments.
THE soil of these valleys is made
~ mainly of decomposed granite ana
lines one. with volcanic AMI Inineial
substances. thus making II very rlch
with The proper chemical quaNues
11nich give life to vegetation. Tho IA
ture of this soil varies in different parts
~ the valley. In some Didc-s it is =
cravsIlv and a sandy loan. out the
greater part is heavy alluvium or sed-
imentary loamy soil. enormously pro-
ductive and inexhaustible. Il viii no.
bake and needs but little irriga zion
when worked. Two crops can be raised
yearly on the same land. Small grains
arc first sown, and harvested about
the first of June. 1t is then planted in
corn. potatoes beets, beans. cabbage,
unions. melons and other garden veg q
tables"
The booklet goes on TO tell of The
climate. the amount of water available
md the possibilities for crops of ap-
ples apricots. peaches. prunes, ngS, COZ
toH. corn. potatoes, sugar beets. aIIal-
IA and other things. II is stated that
Nevada honey and apples took mist
prizes at the Chicago Worlds fair OF
1898. The mining and other POSSIBLE
tiles are also touched on briefly, ana
The methods Of securing land are eX-
planned.