Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-12-17
THE STATE FARM.
Of the Citrus Belt In Ne.
vs.da for Experimental Purpose.

xuA vOp eAYetyuteHt1l .P0rpooe.
The editor Of the Elko Independent
who has just returned from i visit
to the new experimental farm In Lin
coin county. prints the following de-
scription Of the new farm that Ne-
vada win experiment with.
The BARN consists of eighty acres.
mostly virgin land, donataed to the
State by Charles Cobb, n. B. Mills
and H. J. Church. The land lies in a
compact body, short distance from
the Logan postofice and is on the
main road from Moapa to Overton,
q small town about five miles further
down the valley. The land slopes
from east and west to East creek,
which runs nearly through the center
Of the farm. ana to the south. It
is mostly covered with mosquito mad
.nescrew bushes and thick though
sod called ''siccatone." This sod is so
tough that one can hardly cut through
its tops with an axe.
The valley in which the farm lies is
from fifteen to twenty miles wide and
about thirty-five miles long. 1t was
first settled by the Mormons in the
early sixties, who improved the land
and raised large crops of hay AMI
grain. They built the town of st.
Joseph, and were getting along nicely
when Brigham Young several years
latter ordered them out of the valley
because the survey of the line be-
tween Utah and Nevada threw them
into the latter. The order came when
their crops were ready for beauti-
~. harvest. This, however. did not
effect their, loyalty to the head of their
Growing crops, comfortable homes
and productive lands we're left be-
hind as they gathered up their house
hold goods and journeyed to Titan.
The adobe bulldogs left by them have
been torn down and only the ruins II
few foundations remain to mark tht
spot where forty years ago thriving
community lived and prospered Part
of the land left by these settlers is
now being cultivated and is very pro
ductive.
The soil the valley consists of san1
black loan and clay. Some alkali is
found on the higher land but this
yields to proper treatment. All tn
different varieties of soil are founs
on the land donatedto the State for n
experiment farm. The wide range o
soil gives the scientists of the agri
-~aitural experiment station of ths
State University splendid opportunl
ty to show what they can. do by scie1
tific farming.
The soil is rich and produces affair
wheat, oats, barley, and corn abuv
dainty Six crops of the former an
two crops of the latter being raise
on the same ground in one season
While the party was in the vale.
Mr.. Mills harvested his nth crop {
alfalfa Apples. peaches, apricot
pomegranates, almonds, figs, craps
and other tropical fruits produce s.
undantly. Nearly every variety I
garden truck lives and thrives.
The climate for most of the year
mild and pleasant, but in July al
August the mercury runs up to 116
the shade. Last Friday was consi
cred the worst season in the vale
but to dweller In this section of Il
State it would have been consider
a beautiful winter day. There was
heavy wind and the air was raw, b
no ice formed on the water in. t
bitches nor on that in vessels. Befo
this day the cottonwood trees we
clothed in green leaves, but the vii
sent many of them to the grour
The trees are full Of buds about req
to burst into new leaves.
Up to last year the people Of t
Muddy valley were isolated from
world All their freight was haul
from Milford, zoo miles away. n
what produce they. had to sell had
be hauled to distant mining cam
But the building of the Clark road !
opened a. new era for them The D
pie of the, upper part Of the val
are now within fifteen miles OF MOI
q station on the railroad With
increased facilities for shipping ii
productiveness Of the soil the pee
of that valley have bright fut
before them.
churct, Services.
Presbyterian Services at II !.