The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-27
NEVADA'S POSSIBILITIES
State Will Soon Be in Con-
ditiOn for Settlers

There is no reason why Nevada should
not be rapidly colonized," said George L.
McDonaugh, colonizing agent of the
Union Pacific railroad to Gazette rep
.esentative.
Your state is beginning TO attract the
only remaining part of the Union til -
possesses vast tracts of untenanted land
Until recently 1t was the prevailing belle.
that you could raise nothing here but the
scanty subsistence for jack rabbits ano
horned toads. People are beginning to
learn differently.
THAT ySu have in Nevada the poten-
ialities for great agricultural state /
believe. for you have the land. That
have the water TO irrigate immense tracts
of it, enough. in fact, to support popu-
lation an hundred times as many as y, u
have now. when the highest possibilitie.
of the state are developed.
THE work of the government. If sue
cessful in the great Truckee river project
now more than half completed. fifty mile,
east of you. will bring under cultivation
10000 acres of land. This is more than
enough to support 1900 farm families
Moreover. the crops produced, the
varied industries which 1t will invite and
afford the basis for will at the scene of
that cne project in a comparatively few
years double the population OF Nevada.
II am told that you have other vallesr
north of here in the immediate vicinity
Of Reno which contain nesr;y 100000 acres
of land and whose average fertility is.
perhaps. higher than that " the land in
Churchill county. 1t is more than prob
able. | should imagine that the govern
ment. on the completion of its lower
Truckee river project. will undertake this
work. This will mean 5000 more farm
families and make Reno the center of
magnificent farming country. build vi
your city and make this one of the most
PlbuQtblNt Oh Tue west
IL believe in small farms and intense
cGltivation; that such a condition is bet
ter for the farmer ana r the community
In which he lives assured. / think tina,
The farms of the Truckee meadows in the
majority of cases could be subdivided into
smaller tracts and with great benefit
both to the farmer and to your city. That
II will come to lis in time | believe.
THE east is full CT homeseekers who
want to come west and grow up with q
new country. They have passed you by
hitherto because you had no available
water to irrigate new land without the
building of an expensive irrigation sys-
tenn. The government is NV bringing the
two together and the result will be the
conquering of the desert.
I'VE can send you colonists wheneve.
you can take care of them. and feel
certain that that time is the near future
Il am here the guest OF Colonel II. Il
Maxs~n, secretary of the National Irri-
cation Congress- and expect to see con-
siderable part of this section before /
leave, In order to familiarize myself with
II. Then, later on, perhaps l may be OF
some assistance to you. l promised the
| colonel to visit here more than a year
ago, and last month 1 met him in Chi
cago, when he would not take no for an
answer, 50 | have dropped down upon
you. l must say that from all inat |
aave seen so far | am very glad of it."
| HAM AND EAEON WEATHER.
| A large conigsnnien; :; new hams nne
bacon just rc"@ived. In order to accom-
modate our tlade. We VIII cut ham or
slab of bacon In two-that Is, one-haif
each. not overstockiEg any one. Wade
! In while they are fresh and Al.
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