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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January- 



largest town in the valley, and is grow- 

 ing rapidly. It has many beautiful 

 homes, is favorably located, and some 

 of the streets are well shaded arid 

 beautiful, for trees were planted in 

 this district thirty years ago. It does 

 a very extensive business among the 

 mining camps in the neighboring 

 mountains, and is practically the dis- 

 tributing point for territory within a 

 radius of fifty miles. In 1902 Fallon 

 had a population of 1,000, and has 

 more than doubled its numbers within 

 the last year. It promises to be a town 

 of 3,000 people within another year, 

 and eventually should have five to ten 

 thousand inhabitants. There are open- 

 ings for many lines of business in Fal- 

 lon, and he who enters the town now 

 will find every opportunity to build 

 up a good business. It is the geo- 

 graphical center of the irrigable lands 

 of the Truckee-Carson project and can 

 never have a competitor as a distribu- 

 ting point. 



„ J Hazen, the junction 



Hazen and • 1 r i.i- o ^u 



Stillwater point of the Southern 



Pacific, is a town of pos- 

 sibly 300 inhabitants, and is destined 

 to become an important railroad cen- 

 ter and the local distributing point for 

 25,000 acres of irrigable land. Hazen 

 has a hotel, stores, etc., and offers an 

 excellent opening for small business 

 ventures. 



Stillwater is a small town fourteen 

 miles northeast of Fallon and was set- 

 tled in the early days when travel 

 through Nevada was going on over 

 the old overland trail. Stillwater has a 

 population of perhaps fifty, but is so 

 favorably situated that it undoubtedly 

 will become an important agricultural 

 distribution point, and will be the town 

 from which miners in the mountains 

 near by will secure their supplies. 



Postofifices are conveniently located 

 at other points in the valley. The agri- 

 cultural possibilities of the valley will 



be considered in next month's issue of 

 Forestry and Irrigation. 



What Recla- Not the least interesting 

 Sf th" ^°^^ °^ ^^^ projects planned 

 Indians ^Y ^he Reclamation Ser- 



vice are those which re- 

 late to the irrigation of the Indian res- 

 ervations of the West. For the pres- 

 ent fiscal year there is available for 

 this purpose an appropriation of $i,- 

 200,000. The plan under which Sec- 

 retary Garfield and Indian Commis- 

 sioner Leupp are proceeding is to 

 make the Indians economically inde- 

 pendent. Small farms outside the 

 reservations will be given to individ- 

 ual Indians who are sufficiently ca- 

 pable to look out for themselves. The 

 majority, however, will continue to 

 live on the reservations, where in the 

 past agriculture has been hampered or 

 made impossible by lack of water. 

 Now it is the intention that the water 

 rights of the Indians shall be pro- 

 tected, and canal systems are to be 

 constructed for the proper irrigation 

 of their allotments. 



The labor on the big dam across 

 the Zuni River in New Mexico has 

 been done chiefly by the Navajo, Zuni, 

 and Pueblo tribes. These Indians have 

 been taught to work with derricks and 

 hoisting engines, and to operate steam 

 drills and perform concrete mixing 

 and trench excavation. They have 

 done this work, of course, under the 

 supervision of a competent engineer 

 and assisted by a sprinkling of skilled 

 white labor. 



It is hardly to be supposed that all 

 of the Indians can be prevented from- 

 alienating their lands when they are 

 officially allotted to them in severalty ; 

 but enough has been accomplished in 

 educating them to independence to 

 make it reasonably certain that a large 

 number will become industrious and 

 contented tillers of the soil. 



