The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-08-02
GREAT ISLAND DISTRICT
Presents New Revelations Each Growing Year. Will
Support Large Population In Future Is De-
veloping Rapidly New Homes Galore

harvester. Something like $50 bushels
will be harvested and this product will
all be the result of the planting of one
bushel of seed, which was sown in the
ratio of 25 pounds TO the acre or there
abouts. This bushel of seed cost Rev.
Merritt $1200 but it was a good in
vestment even at that figure. After
threshing, seed will be saved for home
seeding, after which the remainder will
be sold.
The possibilities of clover in the
Island district are shown on the Mer-
ritt ranch. A small field, not over ten
acres in extent, was set in this valua-
bic forage product, since when it has
pastured continuously from ten to
twenty head of stock, and still it grows.
Clover for pasture and alfalfa for hay
is combination unbeatable for the
dairy.
But most wonderful of all the demon
strations afforded by the Merritt ranch
he's to do with the three-acre orchard,
comprising varieties of apples, pears,
peaches, plums, prunes, apricots and
other fruits. 1t is three years old, and
is as thrifty as any orchard under the
sun. Despite the late and unusually
frosty spring and the absence of
smudge pots, fruit has set on many Of
the tees, and its waxen, healthy color
is an optical feast, showing conclusive
ly the possibilities that will be realized
with The coming of other and normal
seasons.
To the north of the Merritt ranch,
alb, NJ midway between there and the
Douglass hcne, Is a neat little church,
built in pleasing architecture, where
schod, Sunday school and preachin'
privileges are had. Miss Tobie, who,
together with Miss johnson. her part
ner, is developing a forty nearby,
wielb the rod and inculcates things ed.
ucational in the minds of the tots of
the district, and. paradoxical as it may
seem she is both good schoolma'am
and good farmer,
The potentialities of the soil are am
ply demonstrated by the fields of sugar
beets, which are undepiably among the
best, if not the best, in the valley.
The teets planted by E. P. 0sgood and
J. c. Sparks are notable the valley
over, and if the Nevada Sugar Com
pany can get many like them glisten-
ing ganulated sugar will be going out
of this valley by the train load.
After viewing the Island district in
--latest form, we are forced to remark
that the wonder of it all is that Mr..
Douglass has not been importuned for
every foot of land he owns through his
selling agents, Childs & Fitzpatrick, To-
cal real state men, for the home-
possibilities must be patent at
first sight. 1t is more than probable
that he is placing too small value on
iilo iclidt niliNh 10 OtttCi thdh AiiOot Va
the tigh-priced lands of the coast Sec
tions 1t is easy of cultivation, pre-
sents no drainage problems, though in
some cases drainage work may be nec-
essary, but it can be easily accom-
plished. 1t is extremely fertile, for it
is created from decayed vegetation, and
is particularly adapted to grains, al
falfa, clover, potatoes. sugar beets
and fruits. In short, the Island dis
trict is a homeseeker's mecca, and
with the drainage of the Carson lake
and the uniting of the IL, 000-acre Island
ranch with so, 900 acres of government
land, homogeneous communities will
then exist there that will be populous
and prosperous, and the developments
that will then ensue will certainly full
fill the prophesy that forms the open
ing sentence of this article.