NEVADA FARMS 



cessful experiments of this kind would give to 

 emigration seeking farms forms an object well 

 worthy the attention of the Government. But 

 all that California farmers in the grand central 

 valley require is the preservation of the forests 

 and the wise distribution of the glorious abun- 

 dance of water from the snow stored on the 

 west flank of the Sierra. 



Whether any considerable area of these sage 

 plains will ever thus be made to blossom in 

 grass and wheat, experience will show. But in 

 the mean tune Nevada is beautiful in her wild- 

 ness, and if tillers of the soil can thus be brought 

 to see that possibly Nature may have other 

 uses even for rich soil besides the feeding of 

 human beings, then will these foodless "des- 

 erts" have taught a fine lesson. 



