The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-06-10
LOCAL mining man
DEFENDS own TOWN

While Col. Place, manager of tho
Winnemucca Northern railroad, was at
Boise, recently, as published last
Thursday in the Silver State, a man
named Leonard, raised an objection to
building road from Boise to Winnie
mucca, for the alleged reason that
there was nothing for hundred miles
north of this town except sand dunes.
A. w. Stowe, the well-known local
mining broker, happened to be in the
Idaho cipital at the time, and was
interviewed on the subject by q
Capital-News reporter, with the follow
ing result:
A. w. Stowe, mining engineer Of
Winnemueca, is in Boise to spend a
few days on business. Mr.. Stowe was
formerly resident of Idaho, having
lived at HALEY prior to 1899. Mr..
stowe expressed great surprise at the
statement that has been made here
and elsewhere relative to the Boise
| Wlnnemucca railway that there is a
hundred miles of sand desert north of
Winnemucca, the inference being that
through all this stretch of country
there would be no business developed
| for a railway.
There is nothing farther from the
truth than such a statement said
Mr. Stowe to the Capital News. "Para-
disc valley, extending north from
Wlnnemucca, is one of the most fertile
valleys of the west. 1t is so miles
long and varies in width up to 10
miles. 1t is well settled with pros
porous farmers who produce great
quantities of hay, which is fed to cat
tie and sheep. During the months Of
March and April of this year $500
head of cattle were shipped from Cali
fornia to Paradise and Quinn river
valleys to be I'D because of the short
age of feed in that state. Paradise
valley is watered from Little Hum
boldt river and while 1T is not blessed
with the quantity of water that Idaho
is, there is sufficient for good crops
and the farmers are prosperous.
The Quinn river valley lies to
the north of Paradise valley and is
separated from it by very low
divide. This divide is Known as Para
disc hill, but it is hardly high enough
even to be caller a hill. The Quinn
river valley extends to the state line
on the north and there is a natural
easy connection from there over into
the Jordan valley country in Oregon
and Idaho
Great Stock Industry.
"There are millions of sheep and
hundreds of thousands of cattle rang
ing in the hills and valleys in and
around these two valleys and the
freighting industry from Winnemucca
is one of its leading industries, there
never being day on which there is
not at least one Is or 20-horse team
leaves that place for Paradise, the
town of the Paradise valley; National,
the mining camp in Quinn river val
ley, or McDermitt, the principal town
of that valley, and it is no unusual
sight to see from eight to ten such
teams leaving in day. These teams
return loaded with wool, ore or other
products.
At National, the National mine,
owned by the National Mines CON-
pany, is heavy producer. One day
recently this mine shipped $230,000
worth of ore and the mine has pro-
duced in the last three or four years
between 100000 and $12,000,000
worth of high grade ore. There are
mines in the same country which are
too low grade to ship out the distance
now required, but which would pro-
duce a large tonnage for a railroad
which would be within reach Some
of them are now shipping to the rail-
road ores running $40 ton.
+" Between Winnemucca and McDer-
mitt there are no less than eight road
houses for the accommodation of auto
mobiles, freighters and others. All of
them are making big money. The road
house at Rebel Creek, which is the
leading one, pays over $4,000 annual
ly This shows the immense amount
of passenger traffic there is even now
in that country and with the coming
of a railroad this would be immensely
increased. At the Rebel Creek and
Rock Creek ranches thousands of cat
tie are fed each year, and the dry
farm lands all throughout the country
are being settled rapidly even without
railroad"
As showing the demands of the
country north of Winnemucca de-
seribed as a sandy desert for hun
dred miles, Mr.. Stowe cites that mer-
chants at McDermitt ship in salt by
the carload to Winnemucca and then
haul it 90 miles across the country to
be delivered to the farmers and stock
raisers.