The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-11-26
NEVADA THE LAND
OF OPPORTUNITY


lands and the opening of agricultural
territory too long neglected is our
object said Carroll Turner, of the
big realty firm known as the Morev-
/ Turner Co., which has recently estab-
lished offices in Reno, when seen Sat
urday prior to his departure for Cali
fornia.
''We believe that Nevada is on the
eve of a wonderful agricultural de-
velopment to be brought about by the
taking of her vast tracts of tillable
land that can be secured for moder-
ate prices not known on the coast by
the extraordinary influx of foreign
immigration that will be the result of
the opening of the Panama canal
Propose Big Deal.
Our firm has been preparing for
this for some time and our coming to
Nevada is the first gun in campaign
that will last to and after 1915. We
are going at it on big scale and are
now closing a deal which will soon en-
able us to put tract of 10000 acres
of irrigable land in this state on the
market
cit is not generally known, but
the agents of the trans Atlantic
steamship companies have been work
ing Europe for nearly three years clos
ing passage contracts throughout that
continent among immigrants who will
come to the Pacific coast when the
canal opens.
HThey have been offering a rate to
San Francisco that is but $3.50 more
than it costs to land them at New
York, and have already signed up the
astonishing total of 2s600O persons.
Before the canal opens the figures will
easily reach half a million.
Will Come to Nevada
Now, as is well known, the lands
of California are selling at too high
figure to interest this class of buy
+ ers. Land at $3.50 an acre will be
beyond their reach and as natural
result they will branch out into the
/ linter-mountain region, particularly
Nevada, where tillable land can be
obtained at prices that will tempt
them This will be Nevada s oppor-
tunity and our own as well, as we
! hope by that time to hold many large
/ tracts which we can put on the mar
ket.'
Mr. Turner laid great stress upon
the necessity of publicity in connec-
/ tion with the opening of Nevada
lands He said that the people of the
| east knew so little about the condi-
/ tions in this state that they believed
Nevada to be either desert or COW
cred with snow He said that com
paign of education was necessary to
prove that Nevada today possesses
more available tillable land than al
most any state in the Union.
Take $4,000 Acres.
| One of the big projects taken over
! by the MorleyTurner company is
tract of $4,000 acres in Sierra valley,
which the firm is now selling. This
country is tributary to Reno and some
important developments are promised.
Over 100000 worth of this land has
been sold in the last month and the
number of buyers is increasing daily.
I In regard to the 10000 acre tract
for which the firm is now negotiating
Mr.. Turner could give out but little
as the deal is still pending. 1t is un-
derstood that the land is subject to
| irrigation and that if the purchase is
concluded, arrangements will be en-
tered into with eastern capital look
i ing to the construction of big irri-
CATION project.
Irrigation Projects
| "Our business associations are
sueh,'' said Mr.. Turner "that we can
mt our propositions before some of
the most prominent capitalists in the
east with the assurance that they will
be seriously considered In this way
we are assured that we can irrigate
any tract that we may take up. =
/ ID