The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-12-31
Promising For the Year 1911

~ EPORTS issued from the state Land office to the effect that ap
picahons have been made for practically all of the oneml-
lion-acre grant under the Carey Land Act throw a new light
upon the magnitude of the movement. toward agriculture and horh-
culture with their allied interests in the state of Nevada. That the
settlement, irrigation (where needed) and cultivation and develop
ment of one million acres of land in the sagebrush state is being
planned is indeed news to the majority Of the people of the state, who
have had no idea of the extent of this movement. The figures are
immense. Many people would not believe that there are one million
acres OF tiLable soil in the state aside from the valleys that are al
ready now under partial cultivation.
Of course not all the applications made for lands under the pro-
visions of the Carey act have as yet been approved by the govern.
ment, but they are being acted upon as rapidly as possible, and it is
safe to assume that the greater part of the applications will be grant
ed, save where they come in possible conflict, and in this case even,
the land will be granted, after adjudication. After the government
has approved an application, and the necessary state contract made,
the applicants have but a short time in which to commence actual
work of reclamaton-six months is the time, we believe. Many Of
the applicants, knowing the correctness of their position, have started
work before their contract with the state has been made, and others
are merely awaiting government approval of the applications before
starting work. 1t is safe, therefore, to estimate that during the yea
1911 the work of reclamation will be in progress on some half a
million acres of land in the state of Nevada.
1t is also ultraconservative to estimate that this land, when cl
tvated, either for the growth of grain, fruits, vegetables or forage
plants for stock food, should yield 20 its owners a net profit of $40 per
acre per year. At this rate, the owners of this land will make the
neat aggregate sum of 100000 per year-not gross, but net; IN
other words, dividends. The estimate both as to the net profit per
acre and the acreage to be reclaimed as a result Of work started in the
next year is low, and yet the figures give some idea of the ultimate
immensely of the revenue to be derived from the soil, sun and water
OF the Sagebrush State. The call of the soil is deep within every hui
man breast Nevada will always be a state where thousands of men
are toiling under the ground-burrowing like moes for hidden treas
ure-but the call of the soil and the sunshine is now being heard in
unison with the call of underground gold, and the tiler of the soil
will run a race with the deliver after mineral in real enjoyment. con-
tent and wealth.
The mines of the state in general will close the year 1910 with al
production of some fortyodd millions Of dollars. The year 1911 will
snow an even greater record. All over the state new mills are being
constructed, new mines being opened NJ, and new capital is lookin.
over every %wellknown field in the state.
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