Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1911-03-02
A few FIGURES ON
STOCK feeding In
DUSTRY AT LOVELOCk


jacent territory in its special edition
OF last Friday;
Things are looking up decidedly
for Lovelock land unless something
slips, the coming year is going to
show some great results for that
town andsorrounding section. Just
now it is particularly before the pub
lie eye Oh account of the great min
ing activity at Seven Troughs, Ma
yuma, Star Peak in the Humboldt
range, Spring Valley and America
Canyon, Coppereid, Wright Canyon
RyePatch, but there is another kind
of activity which is pretty nearly
constant, and that is in connection
with the stock raising industry In
addition, a great deal is expected
Of the new water storage project
which MesseIs John G Taylor and
W. G. Pitt are carrying through for
, the benefit OF the entire valley. They
are putting in thousands of dollars
for the construction of diversion
dam and reservoir for the storage of
| waters OF Humboldt river at point
near Humboldt House. When this
is completed it is believed that there
Will be enough water stored there
to serve the country for miles ar
ound for agricultural purposes.
| The country around Loyelock is +
garded as the best feeding ground
| in Nevada and ntiul some computa
tions are made it is scarcely realiz-
| ed what this fact means to the own
ers of this land.
| 1t is the habit and custom of cat
tie, sheep and horse owners to drive
their stock into this country TO fat
! ten Tor the San Francisco market.
| They come from anywhere east to
state line, and from southern Idaho.
4 hey arrive as early as October and
some remain as late as April before
shipment is made
These figures were given to a rep
resentative of the State Journal by
man who is well informed on the
country and from years of residen-
| ce and familiarity with the stock
grazing subject and ought to know.
He declares that from $4,000 to
100000 head of sheep are fed dur
in winter months and for a per-
iod of from three to four months at
| Lovelock The rate charged for pas
turage for sheep is cent and half
Yer head. He declares they stay on
ali average of three months. TAX
ing $4,000 at one and half cents
| per day for a period of 80 days the
total amount charged would be SO.
1850
He also declares that there are
| from 10000 to 900 head of cattl
| there during the winter for a CORES
ponding period, and that the rate is
8 cents per day. If 10000 were
realized would be the almost fabul-
Gus sum of $28S,000 RFor horses
II to IL cents a day is secured.
| Taking 1900 as a basis it will be
seen that $108,0Go would be deriv-
ed from this source at the lowest
rate quoted Aggregating these am
cunts it will be seen that $497, 600
is received for pasturage privilege
| alone, in this section,
For that reason large tracts of
land are very difficult to purchase
and the owners are growing rapid
ly rich with the enterprise.
1t must not be thought that all
the hay and alfalfa is used Np in
this way. That is far from true.
From Lovelock each year 200 car
loads of baled hay are shipped.
There is still quite a quantity OF
land to go under seed in the Lovelot
section, but it will be quickly used
when the storage project is complete
Despite all of these favorable con-
ditions which it would be thought
would send land up to unreachable
prices, land can be had today adja-
cent TO the town fvr from S75
$105 an acre under good state OF
cultivation
Somge of the large holders of
F.! land In the section are the following
Rogers ranch, located nearly 1O
miles from Lovelock, 1900 acres.
Iowa Land company, $500 acres.
Big Five or Lovelock Land and
Development company, $4,000 acres.
Senator Nixon and F. M. Lee are
both heavy holders of stock in this