The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-24

Eastern Nevada
Trip Gaze Him
a Line on Some
Good Things

a. -
f. Nicholas, state engineer, return
ed to Reno last evening after an auto,
mobile trip from Reno to Mill Canyon.
a new mining camp in the eastern part
of the state. He Travelled with Captain
J. B. Menardi and Herold Menardi and
went by auto for the purpose of max
ing a map of the roads from Reno to
Bannock and Mill Canyon for people
desiring to travel by auto or rig from
Reno to those points in the future and
be able to find only the good roads. 1t
took Captain Menard and Engineer
Nicholas five days to make trip and
they travelled a distance of 315 miles
They would have made the distance in
a shorter time but We're looking for
good roads and were at times greatly
delayed. State Engineer Nicholas has
roads from Reno to Palisade and has
marked it showing all distances, the.
towns, the railroad crossings, the
bridges, the hills and the sandy places.
He says that he will have his office
mail one to all persons desiring one on
receipt of a 2 cent stamp at his office
in Carson City, Engineer Nicholas
made this map for the good of the ira
Yelling public and it will be greatly APP
preciated by all persons who are called
upon to travel between Reno and points
in the eastern part of the state by
auto.
RICH LAND FOR HOMESEEkERS.
Although State Engineer Nicholas
travelled by auto from Reno to the
eastern part of the state for the pur-
pose of making a good map hat was
not the real4 purpose of his visit to-
the eastern portion of Nevada. He
spent some time in the Humboldt VAL
ley investigating the water rights and
projected irrigation schemes and also
the soil of that valley clear to Palisade.
He says hat there are 1000, 900 acres
of rich soil similar to the fertile Utah
soil of the Salt Lake and Ogden
valley. This the state engineer says
should be divided up into 10000 farms
of 200 acres each and thus furnish
homes for 100 people. He says that
there is very little irrigation in that
part of the state but that the Ian is
annually flooded and is now used only
for grazing purposes. The state en-
gineer says that the time is coming
when all this Lane will be cultivated
and under irrigation and that it will
be furnishing homes for a
thousands of people.
1.-The time is coming" said the state
engineer, when the people will realize
that they must settle this state by
means of it's agricultural sources and
some day Nevad will have hundreds
of thousands Of prosperous people,
residing on thousands of fertile, pro-
ductive farms and then will Nevada be
one of the foremost of the union.
People seem to forget that Nevada
has great agricultural resources as
well as great mines, in their mad
search for hidden lodges of gold, but
they are beginning to realize the vast
of this state as an agricul-
tural country and are beginning to
form irrigation projects and cut large
tracts of land into small farms which
will soon mean fortunes for the present
owners of the land and prosperous
homes for the people who settle upon,
the farms"
BANNOCK'S GOLDEN CAVES.
In speaking Of Bannock, the new
camp near Battle Mountain. Engineer
Nicholas said:
zone of the greatest gold stampedes
ever occurring in this state is now on
at Bannock. 1t is almost impossible to
secure a bed at Battle Mountain and
people are fiocking into Bannock from
that point. There are four autos MAX
ing many trips each day between Bat
tie Mountain Ind Bannock and many
rigs are also hauling prospectors into
the new camp.
"The discovery on the Wilhelm mine
is one of the greatest I have ever
seen. On that claim a seam of almost
pure gold has been opened for a depth
of Is feet. 1T is about an inch wide
on the surface and sixteen inches wide
on the bottom and it is more than 60
per cent solid gold with the other forty
per cent scanned with gold. hi entire
ledge which is quite wide carries good
values, but this seam is undoubtedly
the richest and the most perculiar ever
discovered any place in the world. The
owners are saving it for biologists to
view and will allow government geolo-
gists to secure a drawing of it. 1t is
in reality a pyramid sixteen feet high
with a sixteen inch base and a pointed
top, and constructed by nature of al
most solid gold.
MILL CANYON RICH GOLD.
Near Beowawe is the new town of
Kearnes where Captain Menardi, Patsy
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