Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-08-30
CAPITOL CITY EDITOR
SAYS NEVADA ASLEEP
TO HER RESOURCES

larson City Appeal, writes under
these appropriate headlines, the
following convincing article.
"A Few improvements Tips That
Could Be Utilized. Review of
Conditions and Plans for Improve
ments. Lack of Energy One
Cause of Cry of Hard Times"
This county caa he helped over
the financial bumps by the action
of the home people. Pick up any
of the small pauers in California
and soc what they are doing for
! each community. T napers are
filled with ads suggesting places
that can be brought under cultiva-
tim. Inducements are made to
the wage Garner ny selling him a
home on installments. The men
of money in the California COM
munities believe that their lands
are the hest on Garth and SO state.
They advertise the fact. tell what
an acre will give the farmer and
then offer him the land with i'm
provements on easy payments.
Not so here.
This program is established
firmly in each and every county in
California. The new section of
PlUmas and Lassen counties. Lake
view, Oregon. and other nearby
sections are offering such induce
ments. with the result that many
Nevada people are going into the
new lands and settling They will
succeed.
This valley can offer just as
Gle 4n-cut inducements as any other
place on earth. The farmer re-
ceives from ten to fifteen dollars
per ton for his hay. Wheat is a
dollar bushel. so is barley and
potatoes sell from S25 to $50 per
ton ard sometimes higher. The
soil is adapted to all such culture,
and when fruit crop comes along
there is an abundance of the best
on the market.
Take this season for instane.
There is hardly property owner
but who will have an over.abun-
dance of apples and pears. There
will be tons of it rot on the trees
and ground. There is no eff Jrt ma ie
to gather the crop, crate il and
send it to market. The southern
mining district is good market.
Ely and other sec ions need fresh
fruit, il could in many instances be
shipped by the carload and profits
result. II will not lie as there is
no one here TO take the matter up.
II needs 1--we man to handle this
affair and it would be worth while.
A lot Of property owners would
build had they tn opportunity.
Instead of being able to secure
money TO bring their property into
better value, make more taxes and
Il more attractive place they find it
impossible, to secure the necessary
money to carry out the plans. The
result is old fashioned holdings, no
improvements and the people
crying hard times.
Early this year movement was
made to secure options on several
Thousand acres of nearby ground
that was believ, d could be placed
under cultivation. Just why il
never went through We are unable
to state. Considerable cash has
been paid in and enough TO have
started one reclaimed ira t. if it
had been hut small farm. The
soil is right, the water close to the
surface and electric power near at
hand. II died somewhere along
the route.
Private enterprise has done a lot
Of good, such as the Broughcr tract.
bnt that took considerable money
and a lot Of personal attention.
Mr.. Broughcr had bo,h. His
effort is success. Rev. Emigh
is on the right road and another
season will have reclaimed good
tract of excellent land by pump
irrigation. The same could he
done in half a dozen other places
in the valley.
The whole trouble seems to he
that Carson is regarded rs n place