Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-03-01
OPPORTUNITIES OF.
FERED BY NEVADA

Nevada, concludes with the follow
ing summary of the opportunities
offered:
Here is the situation, indust-
rally, educationally, socially. We
have sketched it plainly, without
frills, and it sums up about like
this: that il Nevada is least among
the thousands of America, it is
yet potentially great; if il is today
undevcloped it will have a
dignified tomorrow; if its peresent
population is small less than one
/ person to the square mile, that
means for the man outside who is
looking for an opportunity to get
in and win. Nevada has a great
ag.icultu. area, and has water
TO irrigate twice or thrice its
present irrigated acreage: it has
millions of acres that will yet be
dry farmed successfully. and
great wealth of public and private
land that will be watered from
springs a d wells and from storage
reseroirs which can he built IN q
small way by settlers, but will be
supplied by capital as the need is
shown and Legitimate retui ms are
assured for the investment: has
dry land and desert lands which
need only water and tie pl ugh to
make them fruitful fields: has
grain lands which yield heavily if
given "A little water and a good
deal of cultivation: has orchard
lands that will prove bonanzas for
skiful growers Of hardy fruits as
the apple and the pear; has vast
region as climatically attractive as
Southern California, and where
the finer and more delicate fruit
will foIrish and the land will yield
high priced crops; semi.tropic
region where more than 10000
acres have been listed with
applications TO reclaim by develop
ing water. the land TO be for sale
when passed upon by the proper
authorities. In addition to her
lands Nevada has adequate trans
p)rtation facilities. Electric
lights. telephones and telegraph
lines in the remote quarters of the
great state, and has water TO
generate immense electrical
energy and the raw material from
which to manufacture many pro-
ducts.
Nevada offers much to the home
seeker with lite capital; offers
more to men with money, in the
form of improved ranches: offers
800 acres to the man of energy
under the law Of the expanded
homestead. and where a few years
of hardwoik will Weld an income
producing home; offers opportun.
tiles in growing towns TO establish
paying Industries of various kinds:
offers the farmer more for his
labor, the stochgrOwcr more for
his skill, the capitalist more for
his money than almost any other
state in the Union. 1t will do this
for years to come because the
state will be in the process of
devel, pment. Something will be
doing. Nevada, for the first time
in her history, is awake to the
Importance of her undevelopcd
agriculture, and this lis one of
those movements Which never lapse
or 60 backward. The resources Of
the state. the wealth locked up in
ands, the riches running to waste
in flood waters, the private
methods of irrigating and con-
seqUcnt waste where water is king
all this is being drawn into the
new movement, and the growing
state will convert public wealth
into private fortunes, will expand
the area of its productive land and
produce what IL consumes; will
conserve the water Of its streams
and turn tho life.giving element
upon unused lands so that men will
buy desert" and sell garden"
will harness it's rapid rivers in
their mountain canyons an
transmit electrical energy to towns
and farms and factories, and all
this will make for prosperity, will
multiply business chances, and
increase the number Of doors at
which Opportunity knocks.