The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-05-10
IMPRESSIONS oE VISIT OR
Tells The Standard In A Few
Words What He Thinks OF
Our Section.

A man has been in Fallon for week
past who is familiar with many sections
of the west, who is intimately ac-
quainted with conditions on the several
irrigation projects in Idaho, and knows
something about farming profits and
land prices in California. To Stand
ard representative he stated yesterday:
"You have the best thing as an agri-
cultural proposition here that Iknow of
anywhere. One posted on land values
in various states where irrigation is re-
lied on for moisture, is first and most
forcibly impressed with the fact that
prices are cheaper here than elsewhere;
perhaps fifty per cent. less than the
average, while in California prices are
from three to ten times higher than
here. There, of course, the settler
must pay for climate, but really, it is
not worth what it costs. As a matter
Of fact, no where in California is the
weather, all the year round, either so
pleasant or more favorable for crop
growth than here-and know, Tor
have visited this section in every month
in the year.
with this comparatively low price
for land and the ample water supply, a
man can establish home here with
less capital than on any other project,
government, Carey or private, in the
west, and he will also get more for his
money. And, remember, this is no
agricultural experiment, either; this
valley has been farmed more or less
successfully for thirty or forty years.
As to what the land will do when mod
ern, scientific methods are applied, one
has only to inspect the government ex-
perimentai farm, see things growing
there and talk to the superintendent,
who is studying local conditions.
1.-The one thing needed here, as else
where in Nevada, is more people. OF
course, everyone realizes that farm
lands is the investment Of the age; that
this cry of Back to the Land is a
wonderfully alluring call that is being
answered by thousands Of men drawing
salaries all through the east, especially
in the large cities; men with families:
who have become infinitely Vary of
the struggle for existence, ~ Q re-
suit of the ever increasing cost of the
necessities of life. You people in this
land of plenty don't appreciate how
acute a stage that problem has already
reached and how easy it is to entice
those who are thus up against it-good
citizens they are, too-to take advant-
age of such splendid attractions as are
offered here. All that is necessary to
start a flood of immigration this way is
to tell the people who yearn for homes
of their own the simple, unadorned
facts about conditions obtaining here
! in other words, take your light from
under the bushel and hold it up to the
interested gaze of the world.
II find that there exists here spirit
of contentment among those already
established; the result of which is to
retard material progress, as it is an ev-
idence of material prosperity. AS a
matter of fact, however, the people
already here, happy and contented. are
receiving only a small percentage of
what is coming to them. Every new
settler that comes in and opens up a
farm adds to the value of his neighbor's
holdings, and when the population Is
doubled land values will be increased
approximately in the same proportion.
This is based on the immutable law of
supply and demand. and you can't get
away from it. Differently expressed,
this means that increased population
insures increased wealth to those al
ready here--which none of them will
object to-though some people don't
seem to be able to comprehend the
proposition.
"It is scarcely necessary to state in
the surrounding mining districts Fallon
has the best market for its agricultural
products to be found in the world