The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-24
Sec. Bride of New. Com.
mercial League to Col.
OniZe CdrSSOn.Trucke
TO MEET HEADS
Will Unite New. University Expert.
ment Station. Govt. Engineers
and Other Bodies to Gain End

Secretary Bride of the Nevada
Commercial league is hard at work
at present on a scheme to unite the
Nevada University Experiment sta
ton, the government engineers, the
Farmers Association of Churchill
county and the Nevada Commercial
club into one great movement to colo
nize the government land in Churchill
county irrigated by the Carson
Truckee project.
He has been at work on this
scheme for several weeks and now be-
lieves that it will be a success. A
representative of the Churchill Coun-
ty Farmers association, Engineer
Means of the Carson-Truckee irriga-
ton project and Prof. True of the Ne
vada University Experimental station
will meet with Secretary Bride this
week, and at that time some definite
nlans will be made.
The Cars on-Truckee irrigation can
ais makes it possible for thousands
of acres of fertile desert land to be
thrown open to settlers and turned
into fields of grain and hay, but
homeseekers must be made to realize
that this offer of the government is
golden opportunity to secure pros
porous farm and happy home.
THE Carson exec irrigation
project means more to this city and
to the state of Nevada" said Secre-
tary Bride than all the mines in the
state. 1t means that some day there
will be thousands of prosperous
farmers living on that land, which
has recently been thrown open to set
tiers and that Reno WI. be the princi-
pal distributing point for that vast
territory. Now the Nevada CONNER
cial league intends to work with Prof.
True of the Nevada University Ex-
perimental station, with the govern
ment officials and tho Farmers as
ISOLATION to advertise the opportuni-
ties this land offers and to effect a
scheme of colonization that will re-
suit in the land of the Carson-Truckee
project being quickly settled. | be-
lieve that our work will result in
much good and | am now busy work
ing on the plans that have been of
fered.'
The crops that can be grown I'M
der the conditions of soil and climate
found in the Carson-Truckee project
are too NUMEROUS to recount Up
to the present alfalfa and grain have
been the staple products, and no at
tention has been given to fruit and
vegetable growing. Very few of the
old ranchers raised gardens. All
this, however, has been changed in
the past two years the government
has been irrigating the country. Gar
dening is possible and very profitable.
Many kinds of crops have been tested
and grown with success, and while
the farmers of the valley have not
yet learned all about growing these
crops and it is assured that any crop
that can be grown in the north tenn
perate zone can be raised here.
Alfalfa is yet the staple crop,
yields from five to seven tons of hay
per acre, and at this time is selling
for from $40 to $12 per ton in the
stack. Wheat yields 35 bushels per
acre, barley 80 bushels and oats Is
bushels per acre. Oats and barley are
now wholesaling at from $35 to $40l
per ton. Corn has not been grown
except in an experimental way, but
promises to become an important
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bushels per acre. Kaffir corn, Milo
maize, millet and many other forage
crops of this kind of garden vegeta-
BILE has proved successful, Melons
of excellent quality have been raised
and bring high prices in the mining
camps close by, while all kinds of
green stuff which can stand one or
two days shipment to the mines have
been a most important source of rev.
enue to the people. Apples, pears,
peaches, plums, apricots and cher
ries all do well, though only a few
trees of these have been planted, and
none have been cared for as fruit
trees should Gazette.