Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-01-31
STATES RESOURCES
ARE WONDERFUL


issued by the National Copper bank
has the following to say Of Ne
vada and it's agricultural aud
mineral resources:
Public opinion regarding Nevada
is beginning to repeat the change
from a belief that the State was
valuable only for its mineral pro-
ducts to a knowledge that agri-
culture will prove to be its most
permanent and valuable asset. We
may repeat" because the same
change of opinion has been
wrought as to nesrly every
western State one by one.
Nevada has a range of climate
greater than that of any. other
state or territory with the single
exception of California, . which
covers 300 miles of the Pacific sea-
board. Its northern boundary is
the same as that Of Pennsylvania
and it extends as far south as the
northern boundaries of Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia. Northern
Nevada has moderate winters and
temperate summers, and a grow
ing season extending from the mid
die of April to October. Southern
Nevada is seni-tropical, It's climate
resembling that of Utah's Dixie.
Far from being state without
agricultural possibilities, its arabic
and irrigable valley lands alone
total. 100000 acres an area
equal TO that of New Hampshire,
MasIachu sets and Rhode Island.
Then there are 100000, 900 acres
more of hills unsuitable for irri-
cation, but excellent for grazing
land and arabic at least in part by
dry farming methods. This equals
the combined areas of New Ham
pshire, New Jersey. Vermont and
Indiana. 1t is true that there is
another area which is apparently
worthless for agriculture, but this
is a comparatively small part of
the State, though the traveller 60
ing through on the train and see
ing this has supposed that the
whole State was of the same sort.
Yet for 1911 Nevada stood third
among all the States and Terri
tories in the average yield Of wheat
per acre, second in the average
yield of barley, third for potatoes,
third for oats and second for hay.
That is wonderful record, equaled
by no other state, and it tells Of
fertility not of a desert More
over, in the production for the
last ten years Nevada's high record
has been maintained almost as an
average, demonstrating her most
extraordinary agricultural posi-
biities in a way that precludes
argument. In addition, Nevada
CLIPS about 1000, 900 pounds of
wool annually. Yet home seekers,
not knowing these things, have in
the past avoided it and less than
five per cent Of its irrigable land
is now under cultivation. The OPP
portunity is extraordinary. Moapa,
Star valley, Metropolis, the Owy-
hee, Bruneau and Salmon River
valleys. the Humboldt valley,
where the rich black soil is over
fifty feet in depth; the Paradise,
Truckee, Carson, Mason and Smith
valleys, and others so numerous
that our space will not permit
mention, invite the settler. A
650-ton beet sugar factory has
been erected at Fallon.
The hundreds Of mining camps
and discoveries, great and small,
afford strong and growing
market for the products of the
Nevada farmer, and at prices
higher than obtained else where in
America.
Nevada's mines pay more than q
third of the dividends paid by all
the gold, silver, lead and copper
mines of the United States.