White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-03


al experiment station is being reeog-
gnized now and the fact that Nevada
cattle have been taking prizes for
several years at the Sacramento state
fair is entitled to the attention and
intelligent interest of not only the
people of Nevada but of the enter
prising people of California who are
looking for new fields for land and
agricultural operations. The value of
Nevada farm lands and buildings ae-
eording to the census figures of 1910,
was more than s35, 200, 600, an in
erase of $50 per cent over 1900. A
similar gain during the next 10 years
will put Nevada well along in the
procession of the great agricultural
states of the west. In fact, conditions
are favorable for a greater percent
age of growth during the next five
years than during the preceding 20
years. With $4,000, 900 on deposit
in its state and national banks, or
more than $3.50 per capita, local
financial conditions in Nevada are
strong as compared generally with
the new states of the vest. Nevada
gold and silver production means
more than $500 per capita, and a
considerably greater amount per
capita than that of the mineral pro-
dueing neighboring states.
Farm and livestock produce
amounts to nearly s10,00o,O0O per
year. Its livestock-its cattle and
sheep-are worth probably 100000
900. It's wheat fields average about
80 bushels per acre, for which nearly
81 per bushel has been recently
realized; 10 bushels per acre of
barley and As bushels of oats have
been fair averages, and high prices
have been received. Its alfalfa las
been averaging nearly 4 tons to the
acre at prices which have brought
nearly SO per ton in recent years,
better than has been realized by the
farmers of Montana, Idaho, Utah and
Colorado. About 5000 acres are now
in sugar beets, producing about 90
900 tons, which are being consumed
this year at the Fallon Sugar factory
under the Truckee Carson irrigation
project.
Nevada will be a great potato state
great as to amount produced and
quality and price. An average of
more than $50 bushels per acre,
worth about s1.25 per bushel, or
over 5000 per acre. is a recent re-
cord. Less than 10000 acres are
now in potatoes. but the conditions
would seem to Justify a quick addi-
ton of many thousands of acres.
Nevada has s~elf-reliant and enter
prising people, a dozen we'll built
and growing young cities. and many
good towns.
There is a general awakening con
corning the possibilities from scien-
tific soil culture and irrigation de-
velopment by pumping methods. En-
terprising railroads being double
tracked to prepare for the immense
increase in business in the near flu
ture. and the influence TO be gained
from the development operations Of
capitalists from San Francisco. Los
Angeles and Salt Lake. with the pros
perity of its mines and the better
recognition at home and in other
states concerning its resources will
bring satisfactory results. Railroads
and people cooperating to place the
facts about its many resources and
advantages before the peopleof other
states, and favorable railroad rates
for home seekers and intending
settlers, all combine to make reason
able the belief that great progress
will be made in the near future to
the benefit of all interests.