The town of Metropolis came into existence on this project. The water-supply is 

 derived from a storage system of the flood waters of Bishops Creek and its tributaries. 



South of Wells is Clover Valley, not properly a part of the Humboldt River system, 

 however, but contiguous to it, about thirty-five miles long and from five to ten miles wide. 

 Although the elevation of this valley is 6,000 feet, and the winters are somewhat severe, 

 there is a five months' growing season, producing good crops of alfalfa and grain. Some 

 splendid apples are grown here, and the valley is worthy of attention from those 

 interested in a climate producing an apple of the longest keeping quality. The average 

 annual precipitation is fifteen inches. 



About Deeth on the Humboldt, and including Marys River Valley, Star Valley 

 and Lamoille Valley, is an extensive agricultural section containing about 30,000 

 acres of alfalfa and natural grass lands, and a very much larger acreage which is 

 susceptible of reclamation. It is possible that extensive tracts of lowlands in these 

 valleys, possessing a high water-table natural moisture within a short distance below 

 the surface can be made to grow the "dry-farming" varieties of wheat and cereals 

 without irrigation. The Fort Halleck Irrigation District recently organized under a 

 new state law, is constructing an irrigation system to reclaim about 10,000 acres near 

 Lamoille Valley, at an outlay of about $225,000. Throughout these valleys are a 

 number of very attractive ranches. 



ELKO, the county seat of Elko County, is the center of the greatest cattle and 

 sheep ranges of the State, and with considerable of a farming section in the immediate 

 vicinity. It is a thriving town of about 2,000 population, with the outlook for an 

 important future. It lies on both the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific railroads 

 and is the business center of a prosperous tributary territory. From Elko north extends 

 a great stock-raising, mining and agricultural country, clear to the Idaho line, the 

 importance of which from the agricultural standpoint is not yet more than dimly realized. 

 Here are the valleys of the Owyhee, Bruneau and Salmon rivers, whose waters 

 ultimately reach the Columbia and the Pacific. This is a country, as yet, of vast cattle 

 ranges and far from railroad communication. It is well watered and with great 

 possibilities for ultimate colonization. 



From Palisade south for fifty miles is a succession of long narrow valleys, through 

 which extends the Eureka & Palisade Railway, the latter continuing on to the famous 

 old mining camp of Eureka, still on the producing list and once the greatest lead camp 

 of the world. Only about 5,000 acres of land are under cultivation on Pine and Hot 

 creeks in these valleys. Practically all the farming is a side issue to stock-raising. 



Along the Humboldt, between Palisade and Oreana, a distance of about 1 60 

 miles, some 50,000 acres are under cultivation, chiefly in natural grass meadows and 

 alfalfa. Much of the soil is river-bottom silt, susceptible of easy drainage in many 

 instances, in other cases not requiring any and naturally highly productive. Here, 

 again, farming is secondary to stock-raising, with large ranches almost universal. On 

 Spring Creek, for example, is a tract of 25,000 acres of level arable sagebrush land, 

 only a small part of which is under cultivation but practically all of which is feasible 

 of reclamation. This tract is part of a great stock range. In this stretch of country 

 along the Humboldt it is safe to say that there is room for 2,000 farm families to 

 acquire independence, where today the land is owned by perhaps a hundred. 



South from Beowawe extends Crescent Valley, nearly forty miles in length by ten 

 miles in width. In many places there is a high water-table, suggestive of possibilities 

 for so-called "dry-farming," where the subsurface moisture supplies most of that 

 required for crops. The land is level and arable. The possibilities for artesian water 

 in this valley are excellent. 



At Battle Mountain is the confluence of the Reese River with the Humboldt, but only 

 in seasons of high water do the streams mingle. It is the Humboldt's longest tributary, 

 rises 120 miles south, and flows through a series of narrow fertile valleys, along which 

 for the most part is the Nevada Central Railroad, terminating at Austin. About 

 15,000 acres are under cultivation throughout the entire river system. Stock-raising 

 predominates over farming, although there are a number of highly cultivated farms. 



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