The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-12-07
the RESOURCES OF NEVADA

The Southern Pacific Land Department is distributing $4,000
copies of a folder prepared especially 70. the information of farmers
and prospective investors in the East The folder is an unusually
attractive publication and it tells in about 5000 words the story OF
Nevadas invitation to the farmer of the East, who is casting his
eyes toward the West. The story is written by J. G. Martin, for
merly of the Goldfeld Tribune
The folder, summarized, tells the following story:
E~ighty-three per cent of Nevada farms are free from debt No
other State can approximate this immunity from heavy interest
burdens.
With s15, 100000 deposited in State and National banks, or a
per capita wealth Of over sl95 for every man, woman and child,
poverty is a negligible factor. 1t is all the more remarkable that
the leading farming counties have the largest deposits EIko banks
report deposits aggregating s2yO67, Ice; Winnemucca, Lovelock and
Quinn River banks holds for depositors something over sl,9doooo,
and Churchill County, on the Truckee Carson reclamation project
has on hand s226, 1913 AZ at a time when ranchers are still waiting
for returns on their crops. These reports do not reflect any hard
ship. This does not include the millions distributed by mining
companies to nonresident stockholders. The gold and silver pro-
duction of Nevada, according to the last United States census, Us
s27a14 per capita, or 225 per cent greater than that of the next
nearest mineral producing State. The output of gold, silver, lead,
copper and zinc last year from Nevada mines was valued at $4,000
600.
So good for the money extracted from underground Let us
take a view of the surface, which is a thousand times more interest
ing and profitable. Here there is no exhaustion. Acreage increases
and crops multiply constantly. Last year farm products aggregated
$6,OOO,000 not counting sales of wool valued at sl,35O,OO0 On
Nevada farms January l, 1912, there were hogs representing ST.,
969, 600, and the hog industry is only in its infancy; sheep, many of
them Of the purest strains, worth s5.4S7O0O, and COWS and other
cattle valued at $12 $4,000.
At the California State Fair at Sacramento, held in September
1912, the winnings of the exhibit by the Nevada agricultural college
totaled 8 frsts, IA seconds, IL thirds, and Is championships. At
the same fair last year Nevada won the prize for the largest exhibit
by a State institution.
In wheat Nevada leads with 325 bushels per acre for Spring
planting of a farm price of 95 cents a bushel, making s3OS7 IL
per acre. Winter wheat yielded % bushels, or S21 80 per acre.
Montana, the nearest competitor, is credited with 81 bushels,
but with a farm valuation of II cents a bushel, the crop was worth
only s23.s7 an acre. Idaho produced Bis bushels, but a s the
market price was but sc cents, the producer received only $40 70
per acre.
In barley, Nevada leads with 40 bushels to the acre, with a
farm value of 81 cents, netting $1,000 per acre. Utah and Idaho
are the only two States which had a greater yield per acre, but the
crop value was more than offset by the difference in prices on the
farm. The Utah farmer received &c cents a bushel, or s28.3S per
acre, and the Idaho farmer, who harvested ~ bushels, received 70
cents, or at the rate of $29.40 per acre.
In oats Nevada again claims the trophy for she was only ex-
cened by Montana with a production of 1913 bushels. valued at 40
cents, or 1892 per acre, while the Nevada yield was 45 bushels
or at the rate of s32 40 per acre.
Alfalfa is the uncrowned king of the farm when it comes to
comparing Nevada with other States. Nevada raises $40 tons per
acre of an average value of So so per ton, or 1928 per acre. The
Montana farmer is content with $40 per acre, and the Colorado farm
er thinks he is lucky when he stacks up at the rate of 1880 per
acre. Utah harvests 500 so, Idaho s23.56, and California S19O7
per acre from alfalfa These figures mean much to the stock grower
and lamb fnisher, as it is also conceded that there is more nutrition
in Nevada hay than that of other States. For feeding it brings re-
suits to the bank.
Authentic reports of hogs raised on nothing but alfalfa show
equivalent to s25 a ton for hay. In Moapa valley, in southern Ne
vada. there is a record of IL to IA tons from six cuttings which ex-
tended over 10 months of the year.