Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-02
FINE RESERVOIR SITE
HUNTINGTON VALLEY
Ranehers West Of the Ruby Range
This Year Are Short Of Water
With Small Hay Crop

| Mrs. Max Arnhold came in yester-
day from their rancn on Pearl creek
in Huntington val, Y. Sne had bust
ness with County Recorder Great
house, with the lumber company and
with the supply stores for the hay
ing season. She is staying at the Com
mercial.
Mrs. Arnhold expected to return last
night as far as the Rinehart ranch on
South Fork but was delayed. Thus
1t Is almost two days trip in her
spring wagon out home. But next
week when their new Overland car
arrives Mrs. Anhold will be able to
make the forty-five miles out to- Pearl
creek in two hours over a good road.
Mrs. Arnhold says that in seventeen
years they have lived in Huntington
valley this is the dryest season they
have ever known. They will cut hard
ly any hay on their place this year.
They will not have over fifty ons and
the usual crop is 450 to 500 tons.
She says the same conditions pre-
| vail all through the valley. All the
ranchers are short of water. Every
creek on the west side of the Ruby
range is running low and hardly gets
out of the mouth of the canyon.
John Hylton will cut a fair crop
on the home ranch and on his %
ranch, but on the big hay ranch he
will not even put a mower into the
meadow. There was no water to
make hay crop.
Mrs. Anhold says that four miles up
Pearl creek at the mouth of the can
yon there is plenty of water but ii all
sinks before it gets to their place.
|, One remedy would be 10 build a ce-
ment ditch down to their place and
another would be to build storage
reservoirs back in the mountains.
On the Arnhold place what little
water came down was used TO irri-
gate the 25 acres in oats and save the
alfalfa planted with the oats. The
main hay crop is timothy and clover.
Mrs. Arnhold says there is a natural
reservoir site above the Charles
Mitchell ranch on Brown creek. Near
Its mouth the canyon is just wide
enough for n trail, perhaps not more
than fifty feet. Water could be back
ed up for two miles and in places the
reservoir woul dbe nearly a mile wide.
This reservoir sits is in the u. S.
forest reserve.
There is now natural lake in this
reservoir site on Brown Creek
There Is another fine reservoir site
below the Charles Mitchell home
ranch ten miles distant.
Mrs. Arnhold says that among the
other ranchers in Huntington valley
suffering for want of water are Dave
Lindsey, Riley Hylton, the Spanish
ranch, Mrs. Porch and Henry Porch.
There was not even water enough
on the Arnhold place to try to save q
garden. There is some talk of bor-
ing wells, but these would come too
late to do any good this year.
The late frosts also killed most of
the apples on the Arnhold place but
there will be fair crop of crab ap.
pies.
The Arnholds are now figuring on
what they will do with their cattle
the coming winter. There Is no hay
to buy. She remarked that there had
been such a drop in the price of cat.
tie that they didn't like to sell just
now. There has been drop of three
cents In the Chicago market from ten
and a half to seven and a half
This made Mr.. Greathouse reminis.
cent for a moment. He remarked that
the last bunch OF cattle he sold I'm
1908 brought three cents. That was
thirty dollars for a thousand pound
steer Now that same steer would
bring seventy-five dollars. The Arm.
holds sold cows last fall at sos each.
Then the question came up of how
to get hay into Elko county. Mr..
Greathouse used to live in Southern
Idaho. He has seen fine alfalfa nay
sell at Twin Falls for a dollar and a
half a ton. 1t Is how bringing three
dollars over there.
1t Is only 125 miles across from