to thirty tons of onions per acre are not unusual on these drained bottoms. Such land, after 

 drainage and with a sufficient water right, is worth easily from $150 to $250 per acre. 

 The drainage problem does not involve tiling, but deep ditching transverse with the land's 

 gradient, and these laterals leading into the main drainage ditch or channel deepened 

 to permit the water-table of the tract to be lowered from three to six feet. 



INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITIES 



Local capital and enterprise have largely kept pace with the industrial requirements 

 of the State. While in some isolated instances there may be profitable openings, it may 

 be stated, as a general rule, that Nevada is well supplied with mercantile establishments 

 of all kinds, foundries, machine shops, flour mills, and the lesser local industrial shops and 

 manufactories. The State is growing rapidly, however, and there is always an opening 

 for a live man with capital in any community, and especially in this virgin commonwealth. 



We can mention, nevertheless, a few special opportunities for financial enterprise 

 which, at the present time, are entirely open, as follows: 



WOOLEN MILLS: Since Nevada clips annually about 6,600,000 pounds of wool, 

 has abundant cheap electric power and an invigorating climate for workmen, it would 

 seem that where the raw material is produced in such quantity there should be an opening 

 for a profitable woolen mill. At the present time the Nevada clip is shipped to Boston 

 or Philadelphia for manufacturing into goods which are shipped back again to the 

 Coast. 



BEET-SUGAR FACTORIES: The first beet-sugar factory in the State will be completed 

 and in operation at Fallon by the time this booklet reaches the public. It will have a 

 daily capacity of 650 tons, and was erected at a cost of about $600,000. This season's 

 operations will hardly be an indication of its success or failure, since the beet acreage 

 planted is inadequate, and the farmers are not as yet familiar with beet culture. The 

 operating company has had wide experience in manufacturing beet-sugar, however, and 

 in carrying through to success the educational propaganda required to teach the farmer 

 the art of growing beets. Their practical enthusiasm over the outlook is extremely 

 reassuring. Beets grow prolifically in the State and are found to contain an extraordi- 

 narly high per cent, of saccharine. The ultimate success of this initial factory from which 

 so much is hoped will supply the incentive for the erection of others, by reason of the 

 fact that many other great tracts of land in different portions of the State are equally 

 adaptable to beet culture. 



LIGNITE BRIQUETTING PLANT: Coal retails in Nevada from nine dollars to 

 seventeen dollars per ton, and is shipped in from Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The 

 larger part of the fuel used for domestic purposes is wood. At several points in the 

 State are extensive veins of sub-bituminous coal and lignite, conveniently located to rail- 

 road transportation, and of a tested quality that would make excellent briquettes. The 

 local demand for such fuel would alone make a briquetting plant on any of these veins 

 a highly profitable enterprise. 



ALFALFA MEAL MILLS: While Nevada is pre-eminently an alfalfa-growing state, 

 the first alfalfa meal mill has yet to be erected. There are several localities where such 

 a mill would prove profitable. It is to be remembered that the supplies for all the 

 mining camps off the railroad have to be transported by teams. Owing to its convenience 

 in handling, alfalfa meal would have a ready sale to teamsters in preference to baled 

 hay. The demand from this special source alone would be extensive. 



CREAMERIES: There are a number of profitable creameries in the State. But there 

 are opportunities for many more. The climate and great extent of grazing and forage 

 lands should put Nevada naturally in the first rank as a dairying state. This is one 

 of its greatest lines for development and as yet, we might say, the industry is but fairly 

 started. The conditions in Nevada high altitude, pure water, abundant nutritious 

 grazing and forage crops, and a specially healthful climate for stock are ideal for 

 dairying. The butter and cheese produced by the present creameries are unsurpassed. 



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