The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-11-18
IRRIGATION IN OUR STAT;
VIII Add Materially To The
States Wealth and Op-
portunities.

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asking The world ior io5I. dsif /. inll-
lion sturdy farmers are going to make
Nevada independent. She will raise
her own food and before very long
she viii be lending helping hand to
some of her sister states who have had
= \ lph'- n "a t
sri'nc : working these changes,
or ,eience IS helping Nevada with a
libra nshd. cience is working
t., n m Un'ted States < svernm mt,
sni n : vsra nen, is w'rking
ihr5sgh T. trt!ntd rrigatioa KIP rts.
and the irrigation experts are cha. :
Ing ths face of rs 900 square miles Of
land.
Irrigation Is working narvsls n NJ
vada. Alfalfa farms, truck farms.
vineyards, orchards are taxing thr
place Of the sage covered plans >
desolation and by leap, and oouod-
Nivada IA ju mp NJ heal NJ pro.
ducing state. as = state producing
something besides mere gold.
The government offers permanently
watsred lands TO the homeseeker TO,
tho cost price Of i's irrigation daml
and bitches. Then the state steps In
and offers any man who wants to dc
real farming f-st.class farming edu.
cation. Here indeed are opportunities.
A glance at Nevada shows how ex.
cellsnt are conditions under which
government irrigitio, wor. ia being
carried on.
Thu area Of Nev,is ia liz, 1870 square
miles, or ov 7l0)o.0oo acrss. Ths
makes it more th $500 square miles
greater than tn combined areas VI
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Connecticut, Massachus.fIs, Marylani
Delaware. West Virginia. New Jers y
and Rhode Island.
Il IL only by such comparisons that
we can realize the vas,ness Of the
region, and begin to measure Its pos
sibilities in agricultural wealth and the
population II Is capable of supporting.
The Sierra Ne ala Mountains 20 n
the western boundary of Nevsds fcl
800 miles. and between that and the
Rocky Mountains hes what is knowr
as the Great Basin. II is lofty
plateau. the average elevation being
more than 1000 feet.
The general surface .. Nevada - d
table land. high enough to have NM
invigorsting air ~ Of mountain regions.
but without the cold winters Of the
East, the blizzar Is of the Nori Invest
or even the SHOWS of the higher al :
tudes of the West. II is trsv.r-,d by
low ranges If mountain. though seph-
rate peaks may reach from 5000 90 II,
900 feet. Between these INTERIOR mour.'
tains lie valleys ranging from one mile
to twenty-five miles wide. the most OF
them easily cultivated and wonderfully
productive.
Tns valleys are threaded by numer'
Gus rivers. the rruckee, Carson, Hum
boldt, Walker. Owyhee And o'hers. and
these valleys, with their wealth of Wa.
ter. constitute the chief agricultural
resources Of the state. Thore re s,v.
eral lakes Of considerabla siz.. and
these receive the waters OF the prlpc,.
pal rivers. As they have no outl Z -
the sea, their level is maintained by
evaporation, a fact which suggests tho
extreme dryness of the air and means
comfort for the man In the folds in
summer.
The first work Of the Government
engineers under the new reclamation
law was the construction OF what il
known Is the Truckee- Carson 'rrigs'