Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-04-29
can file on any one Of these tracts.
PAYMENT FOR WATER.

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made. Residence must be established
on land within six months after filing
thereon and must be continuous there
after The cost of water TO settlers
has not been exactly determined, but
will probably be SIS or $40 per acre
irrigable. payable in ten equal annual
installments without interest.
ALTITUDE AND CLIMATE.
The land is situated at from 5000
to 4.2oO feet above sea level. and the
climate is dry, the mean annual pre-
cipitaton being four to six inches.
Snow rarely falls 10 a depth of three
or four inches and never remains more
than few days.
NUMBER MEN EMPLOYED; MORE NEEDED.
The cotractors on the irrigation
works now employ nearly 1000 men,
and, as additional contracts are let.
more laborers Will be required. 1t will
take about three years TO complete
the construction of the system for the
irrigation of the lands mentioned, but
water for from rs 900 to $4,000 acres
will be available in the spring of 1905.
HELP FOR SETTLERS.
In the awarding CT the contracts for
| the construction Of the smaller dis
trbuting bitches an effort will be made
to give settlers upon the land an op-
portunity to bid upon the work.
EMPLOYMENT FOR SETTLERS.
1t is likely that most OF those set
tiers who desire can find employment
for themselves and teams on the canal
during at least part Of their spare
time for the next two or three years.
MAPS SHOWING LANDS.
During the early part of May. 1904
maps showing this land with the ap-
proximate locatson Of canals for
irrigation and drainage and its sub
division into homestead tracts. will be
completed and ready for inspection at
the Carson City office and afterWard
additional maps of other parts Of the
irrigation lands will be prepared a
reasonable time in advance of the
completion Of the works for delivery
Of water thereto.
ADVICE TO SETTLERS.
Prospective settlers are advised not
to file upon land in advance of the
preparation of these maps and the
announcement OF the Department of
the Interior that 1t will be watered and
is subject to entry under the reclama-
ton law.
WARNING.
Hll intending settlers are warned
against agents claiming to have special
or "inside' information concerning the
lands to be irrigated, or Of the location
of the lands. and proposing to furnish
this information or to locate them on
such lands for a consideration. for
all such agents are frauds and i'm
posters.
CHARACTER OF SOIL.
The soils are made up in the main
from the detrlins of volcanic and
eruptive rocks, containing potash and
phospheric acid to a valuable degree =
sometimes gravelly and sometimes OF
water deposits silts and frequently
rich sandy loans. The intending
settler should not be deceived by the
frequent occurrences Of apparently
sandy tracts, as the majority OF such
cases, a close examination will show
that the sand is superficial ana lne
wind has blown it to its position, while
the subsoils are either silts or rich
quality soils carrying an abundance Of
all the mineral constituents of a soil
, adequate to the production OF the
fullest crops of grain, grasses,
) vegetables and fruits, and needing water
only.