Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-08-22
NORTH END OF COUNTY
IS IN A THOROUGHLY
PROSPEROUS CONDITION

| Quite a few new settlers are still COM
ing into that district and those al
ready settled there are thriving, pros
porous and happy.
The town has been very quiet and
| peaceable since a deputy Sheriff
rounded the hard characters up and
ordered them to move on.
Twelve thousand acres of new land
are to be thrown open next month
probbaly about the l5th-to settlers,
and there are many acres of this land
in the Fernley valley.
The second crop of hay is up, and
both the first and second crops have
been the largest ever grown in the
district There is going to be third
crop, which some predict will be
larger than the second crop.
l.. L. Wheeler has sunk we'll to a
depth of 100 feet 1t is six-inch cased
well and the water comes up in it for
distance of 100 feet A small pump
and gasoline engine raise the water
to the surface. The water is used for
domestic and dairy purposes.
The new depot at Fernley has been
completed and is beauty. A deep
we'll is being sunk and large tank
will be constructed for a water supply
for the depot and the park to be built
around it, The depot is to have its
individual electric light system also.
Farmers have been making expert
ments this season in raising string
beans, tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes,
caulifower and other truck. They
have used different methods of irri-
cation and tried various fertilizers to
see which will do the best Everything
seems to do the best
1t is believed that Fernley is going
to be quite distributing point for pro-
/ duce raised in that section. Sacra-
mento produce men are figuring on
putting up large warehouse for this
purpose This looks as though the
cutoff from Fernley to Apache, on
/ the line of the Hazen cutoff would
soon be built.
The farmers are expecting to feed
large number of outside beef cattle
at Fernley this fall and winter. There
| is big hay crop. Owners have been
offered SIS per ton in the stack but
have not yet sold Considerable baled
hay has been shipped to California
foothll points and brings $ll per ton
on the cars at Fernley.
The Fernleyites expect to have quite
large registration this year. Many
new settlers have come to the section
since last election. The registry list
of last election showed "a voters This
| year they expect to have close to 100.
In the neighborhood of thousand
acres of new land was put under cul-
tivation in the district this year
! The weather has been some hot at
| Fernley this summer There has been
practically no sickness there, how
ever, as all the residents took the pre-
caution of being inoculated to pre-
vent typhoid. This malady prevailed
to some extent last season, but there
has been only one case this year, and
that was a person who refused to be
inoculated
Fernley is on the Lincoln Highway
and splendid road has been made
of the old road to Hazen. About IL
miles of this road is in Lyon county.
Lincoln Highway signs have been put
up. They are painted red, white and
blue and have large letter IL" in
their center in white. A sign has also
been put up where the road to Elko
and that section of the county
branches off from the highway
The reclamation service is trying
out an irrigation experiment For
time water was only furnished turn
about to the farmers A continuous
| flow of one second foot for each 50
acres cultivated has recently been fur
nished, and the settlers say it is not
enough, especially for new land.
There has been some shortage of wa
ter in the Truckee river but it is un-
derstood that a settlement has about
been arranged by the government to
let water out of Lake Tahoe and this
Will furnish all the water necessary.
The dairy business is being taken
up quite extensively and the milk pro-
duct will go to the Fallon creamery.
Some time ago Geo Wingfield
brought about l,500 graded Jersey,
Holstein and Guernsey cows into
Churchill county and he has been sell
ing them to farmers at cost, plus the
transportation and some other little
expense, and giving the purchasers
time to pay for them out of the milk
furnished the creamery. This indus
try promises to be big one and re-