Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-18
a Great Agricultural Empire
Offering Untold Oppor-
tunities to the Home
seeker

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brush will. be made to yield bountiful
crops OF grain.
And while the dry farmers are ex-
pending their energy in developing
the heretofore considered useless
wastes, those In the irrigable districts
are equally energetic in extending
their cultivated areas. Thousands OF
acres OF land N yearly being cleared
and broken and placed under water.
Storage reservoirs are being construc-
ted to this end and miracles are being
wrought. Vast tracts which the early
settlers little dreamed of as being
possible OF irrigation and cultivation
have been brought under the magic
touch of the pillow, canals, and lateral
bitches. And as our soil, to use a
common expression, Is as fertile as
the Valley Of the Nile, a virgin soil
made rich by countless centuries of
erosion, 1t takes but a glance to rea-
lie that the agricultural of
Elko county are now but in the swad-
ding clothes OF infancy and they are
destined to multiply many, many fold.
And with the advanced ideas of ag-
rtculture have come advanced ideas of
stock raising. Quality ia now being
looked to as keenly as quantity, and
some of the o progressive ranch
ers are improving their herds with
the finest blood that money can buy.
And some have gone so far as to COM
pletely eliminate all but full bloods
and thorobreds, and among these
latter are some, notably. Thos. Short
of Ruby valley, that have taken first
premiums at the great fairs and ma
tional stock shows. The Short ranch
has a -native-wtde reputation for its
production or thorobred Durhams.
Fine specimens of blooded horses Of
every breed, thorobred bulls, sheep
and hogs are now to be found in every
section, for the raisers have come to
realize that the better grades can be
raised as easily as the more inferior
and at far greater profits.
Facts About Elko City:
. Population, $500.
Assessed valuation, $4,000, 900.
County seat Of Elko county.
Financial and commercial center
and shipping point for almost the
entire county.
Home OF Elko county high school.
Orders. civic bodies, and religious
denominations strongly represented.
Located on two trans-continental
railroads.. Division point for Western
Pacific.
Has two substantial banks with de-
posits aggregating more than two mil
lion dollars.
Best bathing resort in the state
hot white sulphur springs possessing
wonderful curative properties.
Unsurpassed electric light and pow
Ell system, telephone system, water
system, sewer system.
A city of beautiful homes, where
peace and prosperity prevail and
where genuine hospitality Is extend
ed to strangers by a loyal, patriotic
and progressive people.
Elko is the capital of the rich agri-
cultural and mineral empire, Elko
county. It Is the largest and most
flourishing town between Reno and
Ogden and the business and financial
center for a large agricultural district,
together with mer mining dis
tricts north and south. From its to-
biographical situation II ID the natural
outlet supply and shipping center for
many rich and productive valleys, and
as a consequence It ranks in CONNER.
cIal importance with the first towns
of the state. The volume Of business
annually transacted iB enormous, COM
mercial men claiming that II IL three
times as large as the business Of 9TH
err town Of the same size. Among the
stores are to be found some Of the
largest in the state, and their num-
Der and appearance bespeak the
towns commercial activity.
Financially, Blko is as solid as the
rock of Gibraltar. It has two local
banks conducted according to modern
banking methods, both equipped with
are.proof and burglarproof vaults
and deposit boxes, and their deposits
aggregate more than S7,o00,000.
Elko is a city Of beautiful homes,
and II offers to the home.builder rare
advantages. Unsurpassed educational
opportunities are Afforded, climatic
conditions are superb, religious de-
nominations are well represented, as
are also orders and societies. A bath.
ing resort, unsurpassed for its nedi.
| cinal and curative properties, Is one
OF the towns assets, and for the