The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-10-05
IMPRESSIONS OF
JORDAN VALLEY
q. D. Flenner, in Jordan Valley
EXPRESS

Expressly
Until on the occasion of my Riley
trip to Jordan Valley during your
county fair, | had not seen your coun-
try since 1887. Quite long time be-
tween drinks, as remarked the COVER
nor of North Carolina to his brother
officer of South Carolina. Like Rip
Van Winkle who had a sound snooze
of twenty years while things were
moving at lively pace in his native
village, | found quite change when
woke up on Thursday morning after
an all day drive from Caldwell the
day before and looked around on your
town and the valley surrounding it.
Jordan has grown some The valley
IS an ideal one surrounded by it's en-
vironments of hills. 1t is paradise
for the stockmen and for the man or
the woman with overstrained nerves
brought on by our too strenuous life.
Here in the pulsing ozone, in the de-
lightful sunshine, in the electric
breezes of fall and winter and the long
rides over the beautiful snow in the
quiet social life of the village with it's
plain and care free democratic air.
where one man is just as good as an
other if he behaves himself, one can
laugh and grow fat and renew youth:
here he can loaf and invite his soul to
make use of Whitemanism.
Your fair exhibit astonished me- I
was hardly prepared for such fine
looking oats, wheat and fruit. Your
altitude is just high enough to rival
the world in the production of nice,
juicy winter apples. Take a tip from
me and raise tons Of them. They will
create market all their own and CON-
mand the highest market price
You are not one whit behind Idaho
in dry farming and that is great
praise. of course you are planninc to
develop your immense water resources
and will soon have plenty of water for
the more favored sections, but there
are vast areas of land where it is very
difficult to get water on and still it
can be dry farmed to great profit.
There are thousands of land hungry
people all through the thicklv settled
portions of the east The Panama ex-
hibit with its attendant advertisement
of the west will bring them here in
large Numbers to look out for homes
Make it a point to let them know be-
fore that time the wonderful resources
of your country. You are going to
have a railroad and | predict popu-
lation of five thousand for your valley
inside the next five years.
The country described in the above
article is the famous Jordan Valley
district, rich in everything except
railway transportation. It is just such
a valley as Paradise and the Quinn
River, only larger in extent. 1t is but
16 miles from the Silver City y,DeLamar
and South Mountain mining district.
The construction of the Winnemucca
Northern railway to this valley will
open this fertile district to the
markets of the world. Just as soon as
the rights of way for the first S5
miles of the road are procured, loca
ton survey for which is now COM
pleted, a survey will be made from
MceDrmitt to Jordan, tonnage data OBJ
tanned, rights of way procured, etc.
1t is a foregone conclusion that the
Winnemucca Northern is to be con-
structed. The vast area of developed
and undeveloped country lying north
of us can no longer be neglected, nor
the demand for transportation ignored
or denied