The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-02-21
F. HINzE BUYS BIG FIVE RANCH
An Important Deal at Lovelock--
Sugar Man Buys 8080-Acre
Ranch to Put in Beets.

An important deal that may spell fu-
ture Independence of Fallon and Love-
lock as communities, even though sep
arated by so miles of distance, occurred
at Lovelock last Thursday, when Fred
Hinze, general manager of the Nevada
Sugar Company, acquired the owner
ship of the SO00-aere ranch known as
the Big Five holdings, of which one
half is in cultivation. More than 1000
acres are plowed and ready for the beet
seed. to which crop it will be devoted
exclusively in the future. In coming
seasons beets will co1ne to the Fallon
factory from the Humboldt valley not
in carload lots, but by the trainload,
and the valley to the northeast of US
will prove formidable rival to ours in
the furnishing of quote of the highly
sugared vegetable, without plenty of
which the local factory. perfect though
it is in a mechanical sense, would prove
failure.
The Lovelock Review-M Miner in its
last issue has the following to say of
the ranch sale and other matters in
which the local factory is Interested:
"Y esterday the final details of a real
estate deal Of momentous proportions
was completed in Loveloek, and the
ownership Of what has locally been
known as the Big Five ranch passed in
TO the hands of Fred Hinze, the promo
ter and the general manager of the Ne
vada Sugar Company. The transfer
was for $3.50 acres of land, 400 of which
are described as cultivated lands and
located in the lower portion Of the val
ley. owned by the Loveloek Land and
Development company.
THE sale is one of great Importance
because of the significance of the en-
trance of the Nevada Sugar company
into the Lovelock valley on such large
scale and in such positive manner.
The sale is equally important because
of the history of the Big Five ranch and
the widely known personnel of the Off
GERS and directors of the selling com
pany.
"The LoYelock Land and Develop
ment company was organized in the
summer of 1900, the organizers and in
corporators being Warren G. Notware,
j. II. Thies and Hi Stoker, all men who
had reaped small sized fortune from
the cultivation of lands in Lovelock
valley. 1t had for its object the recla
nation of thousands of acres of arid
land in the lower valley. 1t was a.
daring scheme, presenting both the
problem of draining large part of the
land and also the problem of the con-
struction of a large reservoir to I'M
pound the waters of the river before
they made their way into Humboldt
lake.
Immense capital was required to put
the Big Five on a working basis, and
other men were taken into the compa-
ny, among them being United States
Senator George S. Nixon, F. M. Lee,
Joseph Hill and r. G. Moore. Many
thousands of dollars were spent on the
property, and it became widely known
as one of the largest agricultural
farms in Nevada.
1.-The purchase of the property by
Mr.. Hinze has much significance to
Loveloek. Especially is this true when
is taken into consideration the fact that
Mr.. Hinze, acting for the company, has
leased 320 acres from the Russ estate,
and that ?. Anker of the lower valley
has contracted to put 500 acres of his
land to sugar beets. The continued
heavy outlay of money for the construe-
tion of the Humboldt reservoirs may
have something to do with this, and we
leave it to our readers to realize that
the Nevada Sugar company considers
Lovelock proper section for sugar beet
raising.
"Mr. Hinze's absence from town pre-
vents an authoritative statement from
him as to what plans are laid for oper-
ating the Big Five as well as other
lands they have under control. But
suffice it to say that if there is suffi-
cient water in the Humboldt river this
summer thousands of tons of sugar beets
will be raised here.