

LAS VEGAS VALLEY CATTLE. 



edly become nation-wide, properly rests on its cantaloupes. There the melons 

 acquire a flavor not to be duplicated elsewhere. After the soil has become 

 fertilized with alfalfa, $400.00 worth of cantaloupes per acre is not an unusual 

 crop. Year after year the cars of the Salt Lake Route distribute these succu- 

 lent delicacies in the markets of the East, and the taste of a Moapa cantaloupe 

 is a better advertisement than a flaming, signboard. 



The climate of the valley is mild in winter, and in summer rather hot; 

 the nights, however, are always pleasant. The elevation at Moapa Station is 

 1 664 feet. It is the long, warm summers that allow six or seven cuttings of 

 alfalfa in one year, and permit the farmer to grow a good crop of maize or 

 sorghum after the cereals have been removed. These facts make the region 

 ideal for fattening beef and pork ; dairying, obviously, is remunerative. There 

 are several large poultry farms and the chief difficulty of the growers is in 

 keeping abreast of the demand. 



Considerable land remains for sale at reasonable prices; there are also 

 opportunities for renting land, either on a cash basis or on shares. There is 

 plenty of water, plenty of markets, plenty of all the natural requirements ; small 

 farms, and consequent increase in population, are the community's needs. The 

 speculator who lets his property stand without improvement checks the progress 

 of his neighbors. 



With its output of fruit and garden truck, fat cattle and hogs, the strategic 

 position of this remarkable district is striking. Three hundred and eighty miles 

 away lies Los Angeles, and further to the south, San Diego; at one or the 

 other of these growing ports all vessels that pass their way will touch. Through 

 the vast increase of ocean traffic to result from the opening of the Panama 

 Canal, the inland regions will share in the prosperity of the seaboard. At no 

 distant time the sheltered Moapa Valley, with its cloudless skies, will not 

 have an acre of untilled land. 



