Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-12-30
NEVADA FARMING
To Be BOOSTED

{. +. Wantland, general sales agent
OF the Southern Pacific land department
with headquarters at San Francisco and
also maintaining all Office at Los An
geles, is an enthusiast over the agricul-
tural possibilities of this State. Mr..
Wheatland spent several days in the
State recently, says the Journal accom-
panied by Frank Ira White, of Klamath
Falls, formerly of Denver and Portland,
Ore, newspaper writer who is engaged
in gathering data for publication to be
issued by the land department of the
railroad for general distribution. Com
paratively a small amount of Nevada
/ land owned by the railroad is now on
the market but preparations are about
completed for opening large tracts to
settlement during 1912.
In relation to general conditions and
the prospects for the immediate future,
Mr.. Wan,land said:
Nevada is. cer;ainly in for a good
land development during 1912 1t is be-
ginning to be understood that Nevada is
a farming State as well as great min
ing State. The development in irriga-
| ton projects, stimulated by the Govern
ment reclamation works of the Carson
Truckee district, has certainly been sat
isfactory. The splendid results from
dry-farming operations in some districts
in the State. where the soil has been
handled intelligently, in other words,
where the principles of scientific agri-
culture have been applied, prove that
great areas heretofore considered good
only for grazing purposes will gradually
be developed into farming districts fol-
lowing similar results in Utah. where
climate, soil and rainfall are practically
the same. The State of Utah has, by
State appropriation, conducted a number
of arid farm lands, and Wyoming has
also conducted i'll districts where the
elevation is higher and rainfall no
greater successful dry farming stations.
The development of underground wa
tiers and successful pumping operations
promise big results. The attractive
pamphlets issued by the Southern Pa
cifc passenger department and the State
bureau of immigration are i'll great de-
mand, and the result of the Nevada ex
hibit at the Chicago land show this
month and the effects of the Western
Governors train on its journey
through the East will be splendid. MANY
large ranches i'll Nevada will be taken
hold of for colonization purposes by
Eastern capitalists through land agen-
cies at Eastern points, as prices on large
tracts of land i'll Nevada are more reason
! able than the prices of similar lands in
been under way for number of years.
| The Southern Pacific has several million
acres in Nevada, which, it is expected,
will be gradually placed upon the
market and sold on the ten year pa, ment
plan, which easy terms are attractive to
settlers. During the past few months
about 50, 600 acres have been disposed OF
in Elko county in the vicinity of Deeth
and Wells and in Box Elder county,
Utah, adjoining the Nevada line. The
slogan of the Southern Pacific land de-
partment is Farmers Wanted" and
the advertising effort to attract farmers
from the central States during the
COMING season will be based upon
the idea that the farmers of the
United States have overlooked some
thing" and that in Nevada they can
find favorable conditions for general
farming and stock raising, with good
soil and climate and a market for what
is raised.
Nevada will be a we'll balanced State.
combining farming, stock-raising and
mining. 1t is probable that sheep and
/ cattle interests will hold their own bet
ter, probably, than i'll most Western
States. not only because of the shrewd-
ness of the early stockmen securing
their ranges and hay lands, but because
of the demand for cattle and sheep
which will probably increase as Califor-
MIA and all the Coast States develop.
Pacific coast cattle-buyers go farther
east each year for supplies, and good
portion of Wyoming cattle are now
shipped westward instead of to the
Omaha and Chicago markets.