Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-01-16
A BIG LAND
P PROPOSITION i
Iowa People Like Mason Valley So Well
That They Secure 2Z4O Acres
of land Here


r F. Flalerty of Dodge, Iowa who visited this dis
ict in the part December last has become of the
greatness of this valley
in agricultural Mr. Fiaherty spent ten DAYS IN
the valley and looked good portion of it He is from
the Middle Western States where farming is carried
exclusively he in the of max
ing money agricultural section Each day that he stayed
in the valley his surprise increased that there not more
real farming done here looking for time he be-
there of land lying to the northeast
Yengton that had been filed if it had had re-
vered the government he slow in getting to
Carson City and making application for the land This land is
might termed foohi land it lies the western
slope of mountains that skirt the eastern edge OF
Valley. There of land in the tract ap
piled by Flaherty the part of it will
finest crops that be on land in the western
country. all probability Mr.. Faherty intends to cut this
small FARMS of about each and dispose OF
it to and the bene6 a results that
would accrue community from such transaction can
hardly be estimated would the colonization OF the
tract Faherty by forty fifty families OF
sturdy Iowa Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska farmers who
would make, few Paradise out OF what Nevada
ranchers desert
Valley the largest most fertile and best waered
vaeyiin Nevada and there sa very small per-
cen,ate of poor land in Of thirty miles long
by average miles in width The soil yields gener-
crops alfalfa all kinds of cereals and the potatoes raised
in the valley reputation of being the finest produced
on the Pacific Coast while the dairy butter manufactured IN
this section commands highest price the San Francisco
the mining camps of the surrounding the valley take
everything raised hgures and 1t must not be Tor
gotten that in the range hills the of the valley there
are being developed of the greatest copper properties the
world ever heard of there also excellent
copper properties under of development and some gold
properties that future make the other camps OF
the State sit up and take notice.
These mining resources mentioned simply to show what
fortunate location Valley has is is not often that
s splendid agricultural section found in such close touch
with one of the greatest mineral districts in the world 1t
means that with the adv railroad into the district which
is not far dstan building of concentraors and sme
m for the reduction products of the mines which are
at date, there will be market for every
thing that Mr. raise for the next one hundred years
For some past the Times has been trying to tell the
outside world the wonderful agricultural resources OF
Mason Valley and Just what Mr. Fahery proposes now
10 do coud he done but remained for him and
seq and be convinced from personal observation He
comes from State they do things agrcuturally and
where one of the greatest commonweahs IN the Union has
eep built up mainly by agricultural industries without the
stimulus Of great mining district add TO the incentive OF IN
ensve farming.
The dav seems far distant now when Mason Valley
m he settled up small farmers and the tracts of the large
s he cut into for disposal to the home
eLa who viii come STAY who will build comnodous and
homes; will the value OF all property
from ,, o 90 per cent? will increase the product OF the
land from 70 to 100 fold who while doing all this, will
independent leave heritage to their chill
dren which any might feel proud Of