The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-10-29
FROM RECLAMATION RECORD
Happenings and Conditions In
Other Projects That Prove
Ours to the Fore.

(From October Reclamation Record) }
The October Reclamation Record
reports alfalfa hay f. o. b. cars on the
Yuma project worth $3.50 per ton.
In bond election held September
27th, the residents of the Yuma val
ley voted 100000 road bonds.
In the Orland, Cal, project butter
fat reached a maximum price last
month of Al Y cents, the average
being 81 " cents per pound
On the Uncompahgre project in
Colorado, potatoes are being loaded
upon the cars for prices varying
from 85 to 95 cents per cwt. Sugar
beets were being marketed at $3.50
per ton I. o. b. the cars.
On the North Platte project in Ne
braska and Wyoming the price of
potatoes was so to 70 cents per
bushel.
Down in New Mexico the govern
ment farmers seem to fare better in
the sale of alfalfa, for there the Sep
tember price for this commodity
ranged from s13 to SIS per ton,
while wheat finds ready sale at 70
cents per bushel, oats 40 cents and
potatoes 60 cents. The price of beef
cattle down there is 7h to s1z
cents per pound on foot.
Up in Oregon on the Umatille pro-
ject baled alfalfa is being shipped
for $40 T. o. b. the cars. while back
in South Dakota, large quantities
Of alfalfa are being offered for SO
per ton in the stack, which would in
dicate a very light demand there.
Generally speaking the markets
of this government project continue
about the best, everything figured, of
any of Uncle Sans irrigated dis
tricts.
Investigation of the Salt River
Valley in Arizona is being made by
the International Development Com
pany with a view of enltivating a
large acreage in ramie, the fibre of
which is highly valued for making
cordage, nets, various fabrics and
paper used in bank notes.
North Yakima, Washington, is
promised a new manufacturing es-
tablishment in a milk condensery
which will have a daily capacity of
so, 900 pounds of milk, the product
of 1900 cows. The product of the
plant will be casine milk, chocolate
creams and whipping cream. Milk
and rice and milk syrup will also be
manufactured. The company is
capitalized at s150.000, of which
$4,000 has already been subscrib-
ed.
The Grand Valley sugar factory
Is now in full blast grinding its re-
cord beet crop. The estimates are
that 100000 tons of high-quality
beets will be turned into sugar this
year and more than half million
dollars will be paid to the farmers
for the crop.
An expert of the agricultural de-
partment has investigated 40-acre
dairy farm on the Truckee-Carson
project in Nevada. The farmer
milks 12 head of grade Jerseys
which are fed entirely on products
grown on the farm, the principal
feed being green alfalfa. His re-
turns from the creamery in 1912
we're s1,2S0 or over 500 per COW.
The estimated cost of feed is $35
per COW annually. In addition to the
cream receipts the farmer has the
skim milk and calves.
One of the best known mining
men in Nevada has recently made in
vestments in lands on the Truckee-
Carson project. His faith in the ul-
innate success of this valley now un-
dergoing reclamation by the govern
ment is further evidenced by his ac-
quirement of the local creamery at
Fallon, and the announcement that
he will soon import a large number
of grade and registered dairy cows.
These cows are to be distributed
among the settlers on the project
without requiring cash payments.
The COW is to pay for herself out of
the cream checks, one-half of the re-
ceipts each month being devoted to
that purpose, the other half going to
the purchaser.