The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-10
BIC FUTURE FOR
NEVADA FARMS

A large and representative gather
ing of Reno people in the rooms of
the Commercial club last evening
heard from the lips of five United
States senators candid and exhaust
i've facts regarding the Carson
Truckee irrigation project, upon
which facts may be based the assur-
ance that the government will prove
paternal to the extent of aiding in ev-
cry way possible the settlers who are
struggling to convert the wilderness
into a garden, says the Reno Ga
zette.
1t is regrettable that the audience
could not have been many times larg-
er, so that the addresses made by the
statesmen could have been received
and convincing logic.
The senators who addressed the
meeting were Carter of Montana,
Warren of Wyoming, Jones of Wash
1ngton, Sutherland of Utah and New
lands OF Nevada. They are men,
bers OF the senate committee on ir-
rigation and are touring the west,
inspecting the thirty reclamation
projects of the government that are
either just completed, in process of
construction or contemplated.
Upon their recommendations upon
returning to Washington will largely
depend the action that congress will
take in furthering it's reclamation
plans.
Accompanying the commission are
F. H. Newell, chief of the reclama-
ton service; Engineer Thomas 1.
Means, S~tenographer c. P. Eaton, H.
w. Smith, general colonization agent,
and George j. Scharschug of the Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Before arriving in Reno last even
ing by special train the commission
spent the day at the sink of the Car
son, inspecting the Truckee-Carson
project and addressing a meeting of
settlers, at which any complaints or
suggestions by the colonists were
noted and assurance was given that
recommendations would be made that
would tend to making their burdens
lighter.
Congressman Bartlett and a repre-
sentative of the Gazette met the par
ty, accompanying it to Reno. While
en- route, Senator Carter, chairman
of the commission, thus expressed
himself to the Gazette's representa-?
tive:
Senator Carter's Interview.
I'm a general way it can be fairly
stated hat members of the commits
sion entertain a better impression
of the Truckee-Carson district than
the water users expressed at the
hearing today. 1t is apparent that the
people who have settled in the coun-
try about Fallon have endeavored to
cultivate more land than they are
individually able to bring under the
highest cultivation. They have as
sumed the burden of water and con-
struction charges for large e or
which they are c%ultivating but small
portions. In consequence of the burr
den they are calling for relief in the
amount of payments and for extern
sion of time. .
I'm my opinion the settlers near
Fallon should resort to intensive
farming. They should use scientific
methods in the aeriation of the soil,
to supply. it deficiency in oxygen.
The growth of alfalfa, which is usu-
ally the first crop raised upon the
reclaimed land will be followed by
the planting of orchards. In my opin-
ion this warm basin will become one
of the greatest fruit producing dis
tricts in the west.
1.-THE soil at Hermiston, Oregon, Is
very similar to the desert land in the
vicinity of Fallon and Hermiston
fruit land is valued at from 500 to
$500 an acre.
1.-THE sink of the Carson is much
lower than Grand valley in the vi
entity of Grand Junction, Colorado,
and there fruit lands produce some
times as high as $1,000 to $4,000 an
acre annually. IS
There is no just LUIS to regard
the Carson sink lands as in any way
inferior to those of Grand valley.
1.-The demand here is for more in
tensive cultivation and this means a
large population of farmers who will
thrive when their problems are all
worked out"