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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20
REGISTER DEADY IS KEPT
BUSY UNDER CAREY ACT

During the past week preliminary
applications have been fled with State
Land Register C. l.. Deadly for the
segregation of 2 1900 acres of land to
be reclaimed under the Carey acts, &C
cording to the Carson City Appeal.
These applications comprise 2O2,o 900
acres in Ash Meadows Valley, Nye
county, Nevada, by J.. H. Bryant, j.. p.
LOTUS, Chas. g. Patrick, Charles 8.
Sprague and F. NJ. Chambers, capital
lists of Goldfeld; 10000 acres in Stewart
valley, Nye county, by the South Land
Irrigation company, of Goldfield and
10000 acres in Las Vegas valley, Clark
county by the Irrigated Fruit Lands
company Of Las Vegas. Other large
projects are in contemplation and with
$4,000 acres already selected in the
United States land Office it may be ex-
pected that before another year shall
have passed, at least 100000 acres of
land will be covered by projects under
this act. With a settler on each 100
acres means about 5000 new homes in
the state.
Surveyor General Deadly is kept
busy answering letters and giving in
formation to parties from all parts
of the country concerning the reclaim
alton of lands under the Carey acts.
Today State Land Register c. l..
Deadly filed in the United States land
Office maps, lists, ETC., for the segrege-
tion of 2O,706 acres of land for the
Pacific Reclamation company to re-
claimed under the Carey acts. These
lands lie in Elko county and the pro-
ject includes 10000 acres of other
lands owned by M. Badt and company
of Wells, Nevada. This company is in
corporated under the laws of Nevada
and is backed by New York capital.
The Carey act authorizes the secre
tary of the interior, with the approval
of the president, to contract and agree
to patent to certain states in which may
be found desert lands, free of cost as
to survey and price, not to exceed one
million acres of such desert lands to
each state, including Nevada, under cer-
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20
WILL DRIVE LONG tunnel
ON LEASE AT NATIONAL

~WINNEMUCCA, Nov. 18.-M.E. Hal
ley and associates of Seattle, Wash,
have just taken a lease on the West
Virginia No. l, belonging to the
Charleston Hill National Mining Syn
dictate, which company was recently IN
corporated by J.. l.. Workman and ".
s. Bonnifield. Mr.. HALEY has been in
National for several weeks and after
making a thorough inspection OF the
district decided that the ground of the
Charleston Hill Syndicate was good
enough to justify the expenditure OF
several thousand dollars on a lease
which he secured from the compar!
yesterday.
Part of the agreement covering the
lease is that Mr.. HALEY and associates
shall drive a long tunnel into Charles
ton hill to open up the block OF GROUND
which has been assigned to them. The
tunnel will be about 1000 feet in length
and will open up at great depth inc
ledge which the company has openea
up at a point higher on the hill. inns
ledge shows a width of about eign'
feet and the face of the company luh'
mel is in ore which carries values +"
gold and silver. From all indications
this ledge at greater depth will Prov
as rich as that which, in the 0sa"
brothers lease on the National Minlns
company's ground, is producing su'D
sensational pre-.
AS is well known the Charleston -"
claims lie alongside the ~
tional Mining company's properly
the west. The lease which Mr.. Han'
has taken is most favorably ioes'.'
and will open up a ledge parallel
that which has made the properly
the neighboring company famous
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20

witch, who left for DeLamar last eve
ming, will start shipping at once.
Mr.. Benovitch has been operating in
the DeLamar country for some time,
and owns considerable valuable min
eral bearing land from which he is
anticipating big returns sooner or
later. Other operators are also leas-
ing in the district, it is said, to good
advantage, the Zip Coon claim of the
Nesbit property furnishing especially
fattering results. In the opinion of
n gentleman who was connected in
a business way with the district prior
to the suspension of activities by the
Bambergers, DeLamar is far from be-.
ing a "dead one,' though naturally it
will be some time before new prop
critics can be developed to an extent
which will again bring the district into
the spotlight.
At the time Of the closing down of
the DeLamar there were some 200 men
employed at the mine and mill, and
there was also considerable freight.
ing going on between the mine and
Caliente, the railroad point. The mill.
which had a capacity of about 400
tons daily, has been d~ismantled. and
it is rumored that the machinery is to
be put in commission in one of the
new plants to be erected in the pi.
oche district in the near future.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20

Congressman Bartlett, who, as o
member Of the house committee or
accompanied the senatorial
committee to Lake Tahoe, has given
out a volume Of accurate and up-to-the-
minute data relative to the Truckee.
Carson project, Of which the following
is an excerpt:
The Truckee- Carson project was
commenced the year following the pas
sage of the reclamation act. Surveys
were carried on over the basins of the
Truckee, Carson and Walker rivers and
the first project selected for construc-
ton was the one now known as the
Truckee-Carson project.
The original plans called for the con
struction Of an irrigation system to
water $4,000 acres of land. The
work, naturally, was divided into
units, permitting the completion of
certain parts Of the project, independ
cnt of the remainder.
The first unit undertaken provides
an irrigation system to water the Car
son Sink valley, and when completed
will water 200, 900 acres of land. AL
construction work to date has been
confined to this unit, but general sur
veys have been made of the remainder
of the units so that the work can be
done in the most economical manner
The main features of the work on
the Truckee-C Carson project are: A
canal to carry water from the Truckee
river over into the Carson basin; a dis
tribution system to deliver water to
100000 acres of land in the Carson
sink valley; a storage reservoir at Lake
Tahoe; a storage reservoir on the Car
son river at the lower Carson dam site.
At the present time the canal from
the Truckee to the Carson river is
completed, the distribution system has
been extended to cover 81, 900 acres of
land and a dam is being built at the
outlet of Lake Tahoe. The remaining
features of this work have not yet
been started.
The main canals now constructed are
of sufficient capacity to carry water
for the remaining 100000 acres in the
valley SO that competition of the dis
tribution system over the Carson sink
valley will be simply a question Of
lateral building.
Future developments of the project
will be the building Of a storage reser
voir on the Carson river at either the
lower Carson dam site or at Alkali fat,
and the extension of lateral systems in
the Carson Sink valley to use this
storage water.
The Truckee-C Carson project was
first operated in the season of 1906.
AS the construction work was not
completed at this time and the de-
livery of water to any large tracts OF
land was attended with difficulty, no
charge was made for this years water.
Actual charges were assessed for the
first time for the year 1907. bitches
Of the service were primed in the
spring of that year, but on March 20
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20
CONGRESSMAN VIEW THE
BIG TRUCKER CANAL

a heavy food damaged the vo,..
the project to such an extent
water could not be delivered 70
of the land between March On
May 80.
Inc second season of operation. Ions
was an unusually windy one and .-
dificulty was experienced bv m,.
farmers in cultivating light soil
The third season of operation ,ooo
was late in the spring, but tho 80
has been long and the general ao,;.-,
tural conditions better than =
previous year in the history Of ~
country. Throughout the period
the operation Of the system there
been an abundance of water av..-.
during the latter part of 1905 vhap
owing to the incomplete nepot;.,;o.,
for the use Of Lake Tahoe, a sbor.,,.
of water was experienced. Dur;no ~.
seasons of 1908 and 1909 no altar.
has been made to secure settlers :
the project, pending the settlement =,
the Lake Tahoe contract.
Tn canals of the project are =,
three classes. The first class co,r.,.
300 second feet of water and are IN.
miles in length. The second e,,v
from so to 800 second feet and a..
1926 feet long. There are 4sO mile,
Of third class canals, which have 90.
pacity for less than so second feet.
Tunnels number four and have an
aggregate length of 2s4O feet. Fifty.
two thousand nine hundred feet NJ
bikes and levees have been construe,.
ed. One hundred and t~hirty-three
bridges have been constructed, HAVING
a total length of 1866 feet. Fifty miles
of roads have also been built. Thirty
telephones have been installed and 100
miles of wire strung.
Riprap work consisted of 1856 Gu
bic yards. The work required the use
of $3.50 barrels of cement and
3S,331 cubic yards of concrete was laid.
The total amount Of completed work
aggregated a cost of 1926, 1897, ON
bracing the following items: Build
ings, $41, 602.s3; distributing system,
$1,876,967.6 so; examination of project
$141, 746.23; experimental farm, S.
299.43; Lake Tahoe reservoir works,
So, Main Truckee canal, 1854,
696.60; Pyramid Lake canal, $685..
$50; real estate, $54, 327.2 30; irrigable
lands, ~$12,93S.50; telephone system
construction, $37, 1924; Carson Lake
drain, $3,672.5O; administration Of
project, ~$4,5O1.O5; operation and main
tenance, $256,732.73.
At the present time the colony on
the project numbers 1920 population.
They have 1895 acres irrigated. The
crops consist of hay, grain, potatoes,
onions and orchard products. The set.
tiers have planted 1896 orchard trees.
Two hundred and thirty-fve entries
have been made, in addition to forty
nine which have been abandoned. There
have been eighteen cancellations, on
which three provisional re-instatements
have been made.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20

underground streams ana Weu IL TO the
thirsty acres. No richer soil can be
found the world over. No where is
there brighter nor more equable sun
shine.
Plenty of Water.
The waters of the Amargosa river,
which has a watershed $50 miles long
by 40 miles wide, together with springs,
alone afford water for irrigation of
10000 acres. The annual rainfall af-
fords much more water, but is sinks
out of sight in the desert sands. Drill
ing has proved that this water, and the
water from distant watersheds, travels
under that valley in great subterranean
streams, some of them of such pent-up
bouyancy and life that they bubble TO
and far above the surface when the
driller provides a way. Others provide
great reservoirs from which the water,
cold, clear and pure, must be pumped.
But there is water for every acre.
Money to Work Transformation.
There is ample money behind the
project to transform this bit of the
great American desert into a garden
spot. Plans now being rapidly per
fected will place the first unit of this
reclamation project under irrigation
and ready for the h~ome-builder in six
months from the present time. Then
another unit will be irrigated, and an
other, and another, until the whole wit
nesses the magic transformation that
has been seen in other parched lands
when soil and water were welded.
There are more than $4,000 actually
in hand to put through the initial work
and turn the first units into productive
ness. Back of this $4,000 is a fund
totalling 100000 which, or any part
of which, will become available as soon
as the men promoting this great re-
clamation scheme say that it is needed.
No failure is possible. No speculation
is considered. The results and the
WneToWltndl 10 secure results are al
ready in sight.
Railroads Will Lend Aid.
The two railroads that traverse this
new domain have already given word
that they will help in the development
of this new, self-supporting and produc-
ing empire in every way possible. They
will advertise it, they will help colon
ize it, they will give new rates for
passenger and freight traffic to this
new country that will aid in showing
the outside public the true resources,
advantages and appeal of this agricul
tural Ell Dorado. Here a man may be
sure of his profits. Mining offers great
er returns, but to the lucky few.
Development of agricultural Nevada
is beginning to appeal to all the large
interests and most of the live men of
the state, for they forsee that the agri
cultural and horticultural interests will
help make the state self producing and
lend backbone to the mining interests;
that in order that the state reach its
highest destiny, the soil must be titled
at the surface, while others burrow
beneath it. And the greatest of these
reclamation projects, aside from the
government project on the Truckee
river, is the one just being started by
a little handful of men of Goldfeld-
men who helped to make Goldfeld the
greatest gold camp of the world, and
the synonym for pluck and push.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20

ALL kinds Of state and mining district
maps. Maps showing roads,
trails, water and camps, for sale
1t The Newa
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Q

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of ns
Hickey (nstive of Tallo" '0s.
ty, Waterford, Irelandl
left New York about tvs'
months ago for Goldfeld, ~"
Height four feet, FIVE lne.
Address his sister, Mrs.
hill, New Street, Lismof'
Waterford, Ireland. otne'
psrs please copy.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20
LOCAL men TO RECLAIM
VAST Land Acreage
Two Hundred Thousand Acres Applied For Through the
Carey Act and viii be Put Under Irrigation
Ample Money Behind Great Enterprise

Reclamation of 100000 acres of rich agricultural land, with SUI
face water in sight for the irrigation of 10000 acres, and untold e
sources in subterranean streams, is the latest big project of Gohfeld
men who have already been material factors in the upbulding of the
greatest gold mining district in the world. I
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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-20

Inc nrSt news OF TINS prOJect Is SiSeu
out from Carson City in the publication
of the fact that j.. p. Lotus of the
firm of LOTUS & Davis, Charles Pat
rick of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Water company; Harry Bryant of the
legal department of the Goldfeld Con-
solidated Mines company, Frank Cham
bers of the Western Ore Purchasing
company and Charles 8. Sprague Of
the Goldfeld News, have applied for
200, 900 acres of irrigable lands in the
Las Vegas country, under the Carey
act. The news also comes that State
Engineer Nicholas has reported favor
ably upon the grant to the department
Of the interior. The recommendation
of the state engineer is taken by the de
partment of the interior as authorita-
tive, so granture of the application is
but a matter of a few d~ays-waiting
only upon the time that the officers
Of the interior department reach thu
application in the regular course OF
routine business.
The land applied for lies in the Amar-
gosa valley, extending south from Gold
Center to the Pahrump ranch, and in
Guiding Ash Meadows. The application
takes in all the surface waters of the
land applied for, including springs and
the surface flow of the streams and
drains, including the Amargosa river.
1t all lies between the Las Vegas &
Tonopah and the Tonopah & Tidewater
railways, thus having railway COM
m~unication at either side, and the high
est point is but $500 feet above sea
level.
Is a Fertile Country.
At the Pahrump ranch the fertility
of the country has been amply proved,
as has it been proved in the Las Vegas
vicinity, to which this 100,000-acre
tract may be said to be directly tribu-
tary. At the Pahrump ranch it has
been demonstrated that all kinds of
garden truck, alfalfa, grapes, oranges,
lemons, olives, English w~alnuts, pome-
~granattes, peaches, apples, plums, al
monds, small fruits and melons may be
grown in prodigal profusion. The whole
country is in what is known to horti-
culturalists and agriculturalists as the
.thermal belt which belt is at eleva-
ton just above the region of killing
frosts in spring and fall, and yet which
is below the zone of disastrous freezes
in winter. 1t corresponds to thermal
belt on the coast range and Sierra foot
hills in California whence comes the
most luscious and highly colored APP
Piles, peaches, grapes, and other fruits,
which fruits command a price that can
not be attained by life fruits grown
in the lower and warmer valley lands.
Soil Deep and Rich.
The soil in itself is one especially
inviting to the horticulturalist. 1t is a
rich alluvium, from so to more han
100 feet deep, comprised from the wash
and weathering of the mineral-contain-
ing hillsides Of thousands of years. 1t
is full of all those mineral salts that
give richness and coloring to fruit, that
lend nutrition to vegetables, and all
plant life. 1t is virgin soil. 1t has
never known the pillow or the reaper. Its
richness has been lying for ages, await.
ing the touch of the man who should
conserve the moisture Of surface and
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-12-10
AQuarterof a Million People
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TlpeMri{xl

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Oliver. The business world is calling
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The simplicity and strength Of the Oil
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-12-10

/, ilton last week the music was furnished
by Walter Bechtel of Cavalier and Mr..
Dunn of Pembina.
i The ID year old son of George Nc.
Lean, formerly of Hamilton, but now
living at Sarles, was drowned while
skating last week.
| st. Thomas is to exchange the old
steamer for new gasoline fire engine.
The latter is by far the best proposition
extant for village fire protection.
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid at Wal
halla have been making things hot at
the manse-added furnace and cleo
trio lights.
John Hughes was operated on by DR..
Montgomery at Neche last week for a
long standing tumor on the neck. The
tumor was removed and the patient is
doing we'll.
| r. J.Moore has bought the ''Taber-
nacle' at Drayton, ard will move it to
other lots and make it into garage for
the new automobile firm of Moore g.
Lean.
| WI Best, of Walhalla, has been APP
pointed as one of the trustees of the
Blind Asylum at Bathgate. 1t is very
good appointment. Mr.. Best was men,
Der of the constitutional convention and
is we'll versed in public matters, and has
made success of farming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew Morrison, of
Neche, celebrated the fiftieth annivers-
airy of their wedding on Nov. 10th. They
have five sons and five daughters, all
married, thirty-four grandchildren and
two great grand children.
Andrew D. Gibson, of Tyner, died
Nov. 18th. He was born at Picton, On
tario, Oct. %, 1850. He came to this
county 20 years ago. Mr.. Gibson was
very successful as farmer and bust
ness man. He has held many positions
of trust from the people. About five
years ago he was taken with brain
trouble, and while at times there was
some prospect of improvement, the dis
ease grew stronger, until the end came.
Everything possible was done for him
that care and science could do, but it
beyond human power. Hundreds Of
friends all over the county have been
much concerned during his long illness,
and will now mourn his decease and give
hearty sympathy to the surviving rela-
tives. Three daughters by his first wife,
second wife and two sons compose the
family.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-12-10
County News;

Bathgate will build new city hall in
the spring.
Big Christmas ads are common in all
the county papers this week.
A fine new boy at the w. r. McMur-
ray home in Walhalla.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Lide-
bladt at Walhalla.
The M. E. Church at Concrete was
dedicated last Sunday.
Born, at Glasston, to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Frazer, a son, Dec. LIST.
Drayton girls and st. Thomas meet in
basket ball battle Dec. 18th.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Snider at
, Walhalla, Nov. 9th, son.
The Milwaukee railroad will likely
pass through Neche next year.-Chro-
notype.
Bowesmant dedicates it's new M. E.
church next Sunday. District Super
intendent Moore will preach.
Bert Thrush and Miss Thora Einarson
~ere married at Grafton last week. They
will make their home at Crystal.
August sempf has purchased the resi-
dence property Of Mrs. Jane McG lnniss,
Of Hamilton for 81 800.
w. Brown. the Neche blacksmith, has
added . fine lathe to his already extens-
i've machinery. ....sS
Neryal Baptie. who now lives al Seat
tie. will make skating tour in the
snoFthwestern states and eastern Canada
this winter.
Il is stated that w. j. Louden 81
sBathgate township viii move 70 Winni-
peg do the spring; having rented the
farm 70 two Of the sons.
Dan and Ben Youmans and Gideon
Martineau left Walhalla last week in.
tending 70 TO the woods near Bemidji.
is. Wsrd Watts, Robert Melville and q.
Pack left Walhalls last vel Tor
Seattle. a ,sfsS
Y snsnioy ahls dancing party s. Han,
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recently, just to feel the pulse of the
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The result has been such deluge OF
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-12-10
EStray.

Been about my premises for some time
and now taken up by the undersigned, a
two-year old black and white spotted
heifer. Owner call for same, prove
property and pay expenses. Walter
Ward, post-office Macarthur, N. D., resi-
dence two miles weft of Macarthur