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BRIEF NEWS OF THE STATE
FROM LOCAL EXCHANGES
Aunt t 450 families settled upon
public lands in Nevada in the
past year, according to figure.'
prepared by A B. Gray, register of the
Federal land office at Carson. Mr.
Gray Is boosting the possibilities of
Nevada land for agricultural purposes.
"There are millions of acres open
for settlement tn this state,' he said.
"These are waiting some method of
irrigation and men with nerve an- de
veloping in many sections. Settlors
have proved that wells will furnisii
water In northern Hunrboldt. Washoe,
Idreoln. Clark and White Fine coun
ties and th< r. are thousands of acres
in that section awaiting settlers, who
can obtain land for the asking under
either the homestead act or the 1'ltt
man act.'
Mr. Gray calls att* ntlon lo the fart
that six or seven firms in other statts
are advertising lo locate settlers on
Nevada lands and are doing a good
business. "Th»ir business Is legiti
mate." lie said. “But it seems strange
that farmers will pay a dollar and a
half an acre lo be located on laud tht>
can take up themselves. It might be a
good idea for the state to ndvertlsi
such land, as It becomes taxable when
settled.
“A mini In Oakland,' lie continued,
“advertlsi* Nevada land* and locate*
homesteaders in the Itebel Creek.
Humboldt county, district. His part
ner conducts u store at Hebei Creek,
at which the settlers obtain their sup
plies. The two men charge $1.50 an
acre for their work and have done
considerable buslniss in the lust year.
Other rial estate firms in Gridiey.
Cal.. Los Angeles, Boise, Idaho, ar.d
other cities have been locating settlers
in Klko. Humboldt. Pershing and
Washoe counties. All of these con
cerns seems to be doing a Rood busi
ness and arc bringing settlers Into
Nevada rapidly
“During the months of July and
August." Haiti Mr. Gray, “permits to
prospect for water were issued and de
livered to applicants covering more
than lUO.tGO acres of sagebrush land,
and If 50 per cent of the applicants
should be successful in developing
water for the Irrigation of twenty acres
each so as to raise agricultural prod
uct* ut a protit It will mean 12.600
acre* of deeded land for taxation and
the opening for l«0-ncre homesteads
where it la known water can be found
or 37,500 acres of the public domain."
Mr. Gray estimates that S,0t*o acres
of land arc being applied for each
week by men anxious to develop water
and secure n home under the Pittman
act. The registrar says Nevada should
take some steps Itself to obtain new
settlers for the available tracts. Some
of the advertisements of Nevada land
read like fairy tales, he explained.
“The government Is investigating some
of those concerns now. but all seen,
to be complying with the law.
“There Is one man In San Antonio,
Tex.,” lie said, “who advertises that he
Is agent for 2,000,000 acres of Nevada
land bordering on southern California.
HI* advertisements say that lemons,
oranges, peaches, pears, apples, pea
nuts and sweet potatoes can be
grown: that the climate is about the
same ns In Lc»s Angeles. At the time
he first advertised be had a copy of
the Pittman uct and plats of two
townships In Clark county. The ad
vertisement has been referred to the
federal bureau of investigation, but
so far nothing wrong has been found
W U.M Foil STOCK II %M»S
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According to statistics compiled In
the oUrc of Frank W. Ingram, com
missioner of labor foi Nevada, the av
erage wages paid approximately 1.S00
men employed in the state lift* in
creased 50 per cent during the 1917-20
period. It Is shown also that the av
erage of working hours per day for
the men engaged in these Industries
ha* decreased from 9.9 to 9.2 hours.
During the period covered by the
statistics the average monthly wage
of about 2.5O0 general laborers In the
Industry under consideration lots in
creased from $31.$9 to $7$.1G -more
than 50 per cent. The daily wag.- of
these me n shows a raise* from $1.9$ to
$2.S6
Tile largi si relative increase of liny
one class of laborers in the livestock
industry ha* been received by the
sheepherders. of whom about 750 are
employed In the state. In 1917 their
average dally wage was $1.95. In 1920
their overage daily conipc nsallon. ac
cording to available reports, was $2.22.
SILVER FOX RAISING IS AX
EXPENSIVE INVESTMENT
.lust because a foxskin is worth
11,200 to $1,500 do not run uway with
the i<lca that it is all profit, says the
Carson City Appeal. A year ago Char
ley La wls and I>lck Kirman started a
fox farm near I«ike Taho*-. A number
of foxes were Imported from Canada
and all promised well.
During last winter two of tin ani
mals escaped, each being valued xl
$1,500. Then a couple of the pups died
last summer and recently six more
foxes were started west. On *110 way
west two dogs In the batch died, xml
as the express company would only
Insure them for $50 each the loss can
be calculated without any serious
mental strain.
That Kirman and Lewis are not dis
couraged is evidenced when they
starled Dill Lewis east again to gather
up a couple of dog foxes to replenish
the loss.
It took the first year to get onto tin
curves thst go with the business and
it is figured thst It will be at least
two more years before the farm Is on
a paying basis. The demand for the
fur Is ever increasing and the prices
soar each year. As high as $1,000 lias
been paid for one select silver foxskin
and Charles Lewis has one running In
the pens that will reach the top notch,
so he says.
It sounds like s fascinating game
with the prices quoted, but one loss
such as thst sustained by the Nevada
venturers would set most of them back
a notch where the ladles would be a
long time without trimmings
OCTOBER NEVADA CROPS
ARE REPORTED IMPROVED
Through the m*>ntu of October good,
seasonable weather prevailed through,
out Nevada and crops were favor
ably affe.-tid. The preliminary report,
of yields Shows that, with the excep
tion of spring wheat nil crops are de
cidedly more productive this year than
last. Except In the Lovelock district
yields are about os good as usual. The
production of all wheat In Ne\ada is
about lit per rent of . last year. Oa'u
are 51 per cent more plentiful than Inst
\ ear and barley. is about 9 per cent
Potato prospects exceed last yeai's
production l>y 13 per cent, while the
has crop, as estimated last month, is
about IS per cent greater.
Pasture continues muck better tlon
last year. Alfalfa seed is reported
from a smaller acreage than last year.
The production In the slate, with a
yield of live bushels per acre, is esti
mated at 4,000 bushels.
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Tin Silver State t'hetnlc.il t'ompnn:
'which Is to establish a chemical plant
iu Wlnnemuci.i. Is m>w preparing for
the Installation of the first unit of tin
enterprise. says the Humboldt Star
Having had the title perfected to a
large tract of land located along the
crossover track from the Southern Pa
cific to the Western Pacific railway, on
the east side of the city. gradinR Is to
start during the next f > w days. The
land has been staked and men arc now
moving the sagebrush. It is the in
tention of the managi nient to start the
erection of buildings for an ore-leach
ing plant in a short time, f-ater lime
kilns and acid plants will be erected.
The leaching plant will be for the re
duction Of silver-lead and zinc ores
uml will have a capacity of thirty-five
tors a day. In handling the ores men
tioned, besides removing the precious
metal contents, the lead nnd zinc will
be reduced to a chloride nnd oxide, to
be used in the manufacture of paints
and other commercial products. Cin
nabar. or quicksilver ore. Is also to bo
reduced In tlie leaching plant. The
products of cinnabar ore will be Ver
million red (a pigment) and mercurial
nitrate. The ore to be worked in the
plant iv to come from silver-lead mines
in the vicinity and the cinnabar ore
from a mine near McDermltt.
rROPOSKD RAILKOUI WIN.
make contact second km
With iO.OoO.OOO ton* of ore available
for shipping, with oiguty-flve miles
of a richly mineralized zone to he de
veloped. witn In excess of 75.000 fe< t
of underground work actually finished
in the district. Contact, a little-known
town In Elko county, seems destined
to he a second Ely within two years,
say* the Elko Free Press. Transpor
tation is all that keeps Contact from,
being a city of 5.000 people, and steps
are now being taken to procure the
necessary funds to build the proposed
railroad from Kogerson. Idaho, to Elko
county.
The money will be rais'd and the en
thusiasm of the Contact people is such
that they themselves have subscribed
half Of the money allotted to Elko
county. With Wells aiding Contact,
135.000 of the |50,006 to be raised In
Elko county Is nssuted. and Twin Fall*
has raised the $450,000 that I* to be
subscribed by the Idaho people.
Seventy miles, of the railroad from
Idaho to Elko county would he built
in Elko county. The proposed road,
assessed at the same valuation a* that
made for the Nevada Northern, would
be » irth $‘.'4171 a mile and In two
years would pay In taxes to K'ko
county $40.0<io a year on the bullion
and property tax. This does not In
clude the taxes that would he paid
Into the state trixury
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The work of retimbt ring ami r< lin
ing the Yellow Ja-k< t tunnel, near
Gold Hltl. will he completed within
four or five day*, according to a state
inent made by Mr Ardery. All tim
bering hap been done In the tunnel
Itself, one portal lias lit on finisher^ and
the workmen are now building the
second portal.
A new scheme h is l» i u put Into
practice In lining the tunnel. Instead
of covering alt the timber with tin or
Iron the metal work consists of heavy
galvanized sheeting abiut live feet Hi
width on the upper and renter of tile
tunnel and extending throughout Its
length. A tlange drops from each
edge of the sheeting and will thus de
flect any sparks to the floor of the tun
nel, where Ihc-y can do no harm. Should
a fire start under the metal sheeting It
will not to beyond reach of a stream
of water, us Is the '■ase where a tunnel
Is fully lined with metal. As an added
protection » water main has been ex
tended to within fifty fe« t of one of the
portals, thus giving an available sup.
ply of water should tire tver again oc
cur In this tunnel.
Hnraknldt Hlvrr Mater I «er» Orgualse
The organization of 'lie water users
of the Humbnltd rlvi r system tins been
completed with the election of the fol
lowing officers by the Ilattle Mountain
section of the association: President.
George South ward; vtce-presldeut
George Uussell .1 r.. directors. X. K.
Maver, J. If. White and Albert Kent,
secretary and treasurer, W. K. I.h king
Notice of the few remaining contents
not eliminated by the formation of the
organization were sent out from the
office Of the state engineer.
Santa Pt Controls Hallfrog II nil road
Control of transportation in south- !
western Nevada has passed from the
Halt Lake railroad to the Hants He. ac
cording to reports from Tonopah,
which say that the Tonopah 6c Tide
water road has purchased the Central
Bullfrog-Goldfield railroad with tlic
latter company's terminals.
The purchase gives the Tonopah 6c
Tidewater control of the seventy-live
miles of track leading south from Gold
field and formerly connecting with the
Halt Istke route at Beatty. The Tono
pah A Tidewater eonnects with the
Santa i> road fit Ludlow. Cat., and
close traffic associations are main
tained by the two companies.
• R. C. Baer, president of the I'aciflc
Coast Borax Company and also presi
dent of the Tonopah A Tidewater rail,
road, lias been elected president of the
Central Bullfrog line. The purchase
was made from New York capitalists
who obtained control of the short line
about d\ months ago. They tired of
their bargain, according to reports, nnd
threatened to Junk the road and dx
conllnue a< rvlct- I
PAYNE MD TALLIlAN
M REGULATIONS
Flay T.illniin. commission* i **f Ui«
general 'awj office. nml .1 *hr. Itarlon
Payne. secretary of the Interior, have
denied Ih*- request or application of
S'tnte Keglm-er f'erugliHiii foi more lib
eral and elastic regulations governing
the wafer pt ospei tors' lay passed by
congress and approved OctOhc r ‘JJ. Ills,
mii* tli* ( arson City News
In his communications t" l an
thorities in Washington the stat* en
gineer pointed out the great expense
necessary to he Incurred by each per
son att< tripling to develop an undt r
ground supply of water for reclama
tion purposes. It was requested that
the department permit the pooling by
. ntrymen of the expense of sinking
wells, Cue suggestion, by way of ex
ample. was that four applicants who
tun ■ secured the two-year t ight to
prospect for undt-rgiound water on
tract 'f nol greater *'\tent than 2,.'iCd
acres each cnuol stiar ■ the exi>< use of
drilling a well. In cits.* water was
found each would he < litltbd to I x'is*r
of It for use on th • Innd oov< red by
Ills Individual entry
following out such a plan a suf
fid nt supply *f water ought he to unit
on one claim to supply tlio needs of a'
tour ,n securing pal»nts to one fourth
of the land embrace*! In **ach entry.
One large central pumping plant could
be ni.tlnlalned far more economically
than four smalUr outfits. fnd.-i a
pooling plan, t* a u man would not
necessarily be out his entire eapital
by the drilling of a single Well on hi*
land lie would still have a cliaacc
of benefit* to be derivid from finding
water on an adjoining tract
Messrs Tillman and Payne, howct. i
take the stand that the wording of the
law precludes them from so modifying
the regulation* as to permit entrymen
to secure title to lands watered fr o.i
a community well. l'nd**r their rilling
a prospector must develop under
ground water on the land to which he
secures title, and it would aval) him
naught should a great abundance of
water t> • developed In a well on ad
joining land, even if he did contribute
to the expense of sinking such well.
Capitol Oil Syndicate Permit Granted
The Capitol Oil Syndicate, of which
the officers and main stockholders nre
Carson City mer. has been granted a
permit to prospect for oil on Its hold
ings in the Kallon (hid. according to
Washington advices. Tnls no a ns that
other claims or applications for the
same ground have been rejected, giv
ing the Capita people the eaclustve
right to prospect for oil and making
their land valuable in ease oil In com
mercial quantities is struck anywhere
in the district. It is understood that
word was wired to Carson City as soon
as Ihe permit was granted at Washing
ton. hence it will be several days be
fore official advices and doeum* nt»
reach the local land office
A North Dakota cow recently ate 10
erui sticks of dynamite lying along
side a railroad track—and In s f w
hours beef went up.
Stockmen Decide
Rules for Ranges
Stockim n using the Humboldt forest
to pasture cattle have reached an
agreement with the United States lor*
est reserve office at Ogden regarding
the rules applicable to grazing stock
in that reserve. The federal officers
met at Klko with representative stock
men ami discussed tht proposed agree
ment. Vernon Metcalf, secretary of
the Nevada Livestock Association, re
turned to He DO Thursday from lit*
meeting, says the Gazette.
Mr. Metcalf said the governemnt had
withdrawn its proposal to reduce the
number of cattle grazing in the re
serve on condition that tin stockmen
agreed to shorten the grazing season.
The reserve season will he shortened
fifteen days for sheep, the droves not
being permitted in until after July 1.
the fornu r date being June IS.
The season for glazing cattle baa
been shortened by from fifteen to
thirty days, depending upon tlu loca
tion of the rang-- used
This plan, was decided upon to give
tin- vegetation in the r--serve i belter
chance to mature In the spring before
being trampled by slock
Developing Plan
to Reinstate llool
Word l-as been received in IL.nu b)
the Nevada Livestock Association that
the Montana wool growers have re
cently orgunized. a* they express It,
"to plan rescuing the business from
the hands of manufacturers, jobbers
and speculators, say* the Journal."
It I* purposed to contract with Inde
pendent mills for the manufacture of
all virgin woolen cloth rind perhaps
blanket! and sell them direct to the
consumer. The principal Idea In this u
to show the people that there has been
an enormous toll tuken from the trad<
hy the several middlemen and jobbers
and also to show the dl(T> r- nce be
tween an all-vlrgtn woolen cloth and
one made from the large percentage of
shoddy. The officers of the National
Wcol Growers' Association find that
such contract* can be made. It Is also
thought that a market organization can
be developed The national associa
tion has assured their hearty support
In this work The Idea is given pub
licity by Professor C. M. Arnett of the
agricultural department of the t'nlv*r•
site of Montana
Mary I’lrkfsrri Case net tar %•*. *7
The latest date in the serial of post
ponement* in the hearing of the mo
tion to quash the summons in the case
brought to annul the divorce granted
Mary Plekford in Mlnden last March
Is November it After much delay the
matter was finally set for November <>
That date was unsatisfactory to Judge
Langan and a change to November 13
was made Now Gavin McNab says he
has a case that will last several daj*
which Is set for trial on that date and
it is agreed by all patties concerned
that the motion will »•• heard Novem
ber 2?. _
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