The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-09-02
NYE C0UNTYs CHANCE
TO EXPAND AND GROW

A. b. Gray. mayor of Carson City.
recently made a trip through south
ern Nevada and returned home filed
with the grand possibilities of the un-
foreground water resources of that
section, which, IL developed. would
reclaim hundreds of thousands OF
acres Oh FERTILE lands. The same arg
uments used by Mr.. Gray for the de-
Velopment OF southern Nevada will
apply with equal logic to the valleys
OF eastern Nevada, where, in fact,
the water can be had at less Expense,
which fact has already been demon
strated by agents of the Federal gov
eminent.
The article by Mayor Gray follows:
Perhaps an outsider should apollo
gize for introducing a portion of Nye
County to Tonopah. Perhaps the
prominent citizens of Tonopah have
been toe busy with politics and oil
n mining stocks to give heed or
to investigate the possibilities and
opportunities to build up agricultural
communities.
OF course Ii is a handicap to have
the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad
otoR ~ ootoAClus WHY Tic lOuO-
pah" In name?
"Tonopah should get acquainted
with southern Nye County and II
some of the Office seekers don't get
familiar with that part of the county
pronto they will lose some votes
needed to win.
"At the present time three well
drilling outfits are operating in the
country near Beatty. Five wells have
been drilled south of Iceland and
pumps have been installed. A we'll
is being drilled at Zealand station.
Three wells have been drilled north
of Springdale. Eleven miles north
of Springdale ]. II. Nicolaides has a
we'll 80 feet deep. He has put In a
pump and is using the engine from
an old Cadillac a and is pumping
$50 gallons Of water per minute on
% acres that he cleared in three
days. He will SOW sorghum seed
(sugar camel and expects to mature
a crop and get his patent this year.
He has corn fourteen days old that is
nine inches high. BY expanding less
than $4,000 he will become the own
er of $40 acres of land that will be
worth at least $50 an acre in FIVE
years. Not a bad investment. He
has vision, nerve and confidence. He
is a peptimist. All peptimists are
optomists. but all optimists are not
peptimists.
"At Beatty the residents have al
ready demonstrated that practically
every variety of grapes can be sue
cessfully grown. At a restaurant In
that town grapes. three varieties in
Guiding the seedless, cantaloupes,
casaDa and watermelons are served
daily from the garden of the owner.
Peaches and pears, English walnuts,
dates. olives and plums are success
fully grown. The writer purchased
six boxes of California sugar prunes
on the trees in Beatty, to be shipped
to Reno in September. 1t may inter-
est cattlemen to know that six cuts
of alfalfa are made each year.
THE growing season in southern
Nye County is nine months and the
soil will produce anything in the line
of vegetables, fruit, grain and hay
when watered.
The money spent on the Divide
would have made a grape vineyard
of the entire Amargosa desert. and
grape lands in California are selling
as high as $500 an acre.
with citizens of other States ready
to put in their money, time and en-
ergy to reclaim the lands OF south
ern Nye, 1t would seem that Tonopah
might show her faith by investing
and boosting projects that mean
great wealth and prosperity to his
country"