AUSTIN, the county seat of Lander County, is the principal town of the Reese 

 River Valley. Thirty years ago it was one of Nevada's great mining camps. After a 

 long period of quiescence it is entering upon a revival of its former mineral production. 



WINNEMUCCA, the county seat of Humboldt County, like Elko, is the center of a 

 great stock-raising, mining and agricultural territory; is on both the Southern Pacific 

 and Western Pacific railroads, and is geographically situated to grow. The attractive 

 portion of the town is not visible from the railroad. Its population is about 2,000. 

 It contains many pleasant residences, good schools, churches, a national bank, business 

 houses and a handsome theatre. From Winnemucca is shipped annually about 3,500,000 

 pounds of wool and about 1 ,600 carloads of cattle, sheep and horses. 



Extending north from Winnemucca for fifty miles on the Little Humboldt River 

 is Paradise Valley, the upper end of which is an extremely fertile farming country. 

 A town of the same name is situated in the center of the cultivated section. It contains 

 a flour-mill, stores, hotels, and two churches. About 30,000 acres are under a thrifty 

 state of cultivation. The principal crops are alfalfa, wheat, barley, fruit and vegetables. 

 Several fine orchards are in the valley and the conditions seem favorable for fruit- 

 growing. A more perfect conservation of the water-supply would bring under cultivation 

 a much larger area of arable land. 



Northwest from Paradise Valley over a mountain range lies the Quinn River 

 Valley and west of this, Kings River Valley. While neither of these two valleys 

 belongs to the Humboldt River system, they are contiguous to it and will be mentioned 

 here. There are a number of cultivated farms. Stock-raising is the principal industry. 

 Here are vast stretches of arable desert land, naturally well watered and capable of 

 reclamation to support a considerable farming population. 



The Ellison Ranch Company is completing a Carey Act project to reclaim and open 

 for settlement 38,000 acres of rich lands on the Quinn River and its tributaries. 



LOVELOCK, the last town on the Humboldt, is the center of perhaps the richest 

 agricultural section in northern Nevada. The soil is the accumulated silt of ages of 

 river flow finally deposited in this lower extremity of the great Humboldt Valley. 

 Wells sunk fifty feet and over do not pass through the black humus-laden soil. Here 

 yields of seven tons to the acre of alfalfa and sixty bushels of wheat excite no comment. 

 About 25,000 acres are under a high state of cultivation, the principal crops being 

 alfalfa, potatoes, wheat, barley, and oats. Here is located an important flour-mill. 

 This valley should make a wonderful spot for the growing of sugar-beets, and undoubtedly 

 a considerable acreage will be planted from now on as it is within shipping distance of 

 the sugar-beet factory at Fallon. Crops such as celery, asparagus, corn, sorghum, 

 tomatoes, etc., grow luxuriantly. Land here, as in many other places, is held in large 

 tracts, but already the demand for small acreages of such rich soil is insistent. Its 

 colonization with the intensive farmer on twenty and forty-acre tracts is likely in a few 

 years to occur. Near here is the Carey Act project of the Lovelock Land and 

 Development Company, which is constructing an irrigation system to impound 57,000 

 acre feet of the flood waters of the river in a reservoir site near the Humboldt House 

 to irrigate certain lands held in private ownership and to reclaim 10,000 acres of 

 desert land. The latter on the completion of the project will be thrown open to 



TRUCKEE RIVER SYSTEM 



Lake Tahoe, lying partly in California and partly in Nevada, pronounced by 

 tourists as the most beautiful lake in the world, is the source of the Truckee River. 

 After flowing about 1 25 miles, during which it falls 2,442 feet, it empties into Pyramid 

 Lake, the latter also a surpassingly beautiful sheet of water, somewhat larger than 

 Lake Tahoe. The scenery along the Truckee is superb. The Eastern traveler on the 

 Southern Pacific, entering the Truckee Valley, seven miles below Reno, gets his first 

 and only view from the car window of what might be called "Agricultural Nevada." 

 Even here it is only the natural grass lowlands or "meadows'* that are within the range 

 of vision. Nevertheless the view of this beautiful valley, walled in by the great Sierras 

 on the west, is inspiring. 



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