The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-05
RANGE STEER IS
LEAVING NEVADA
His Place Is Now Supplanted by
the Small Farmer and
RanChman.
DAIRYlNG is BUILDING
UP IN SAGEBRUSH STATE
Fruits and Hops Are Grown
New Farming Conditions
Helping Nevada.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
RENO. New July At is going to be
twenty-threc for the range steer. the
buckcroo and the roundup In the best
watercd districts OF Nevada. For some
years experimenting In n quiet way has
been going on among the more thrifty
ranchers The Farmers Institute under
the direction of State and Government
agricultural experts, has done much to
encourage various experiments. me
most satisfactory results have been OBJ
tanned from dairying, sugar beets, hops
and fruit and along these lines new
farming conditions are now building up
In Nevada.
EX-CongresSman HardeSty OF Elko is
one OF the old-time cattle men that has
disposed OF his herd In speaking re-
Gently OF the changing conditions he
said: "The small farmer Is the coming
man in the agricultural districts here.
The big cattle man is becoming thing
OF the past, because the game ms now
piayed Is unprontabe Land is becoming
too valuable for other purposes and poor
range makes feeding through the winter
a necessity. 1t takes ton OF hay TO
winter a crttcr The present price OF
hay is s. per ton. That means 8 per
head TO winter. Add TO this the cost OF
rounding up, interest on money, taxes,
another $50 per head on that basis
it would cost $500 To maintain a herd of
1000 cattle According to experience p
per cent OF your herd is good market
able Increase and at the prevailing av-
erage price OF $50 per head nets YOU but
5000 for an outlay OF 5000 The new con-
ditlons simply force themselves on US
Fine Watcred Section.
The north side OF Ruby mountains Is
ono Of the best watered sections of Ne
Nada, and until recently has Summered
about 10000 head OF cattle, besides nu
mcrous horses and sheep. But the old
range has been gradually fed down. and
now the range steer is being supplanted
by the dairy COW. At La Moline cream
cry has recently boon established and
reports a most prosperous business. Thus
far the local market is taking the en-
tire output, and with the building OF new
mining camps the demand for dairy
products exceeds the local supply
Extensive experiments have been made
on South Fork with sugar beets. The
tests thus far have showed the beets TO
be of a high grade. At Greedy, Colo, the
sugar bcets average from Is to u per
cent sugar The South Fork beet. grown
I'm the high cool climate. tested from IL
10 ~ per cent Plans are now taking
a tangible form to induce capital to build
q beet factory at Lee and use the South
Fork for water power. There arc sew
eral thousand acres of available sugar
beet land in the neighborhood. and a
water power sufficient for an S0-ton mill
could be easily developed. The coming
of the sugar beet will mean the cutting
of large hay ranches into small holdings
and will enormously increase the net re-
turns. AT present prices hay averages
about SO per acre. Sugar beets will run
from $50 TO 500 per acre.
. Satisfactory results in several localities
have been obtained by hop growers, and
this year will the first attempt at
shipping that product.