

About 45,000 acres are cultivated from the Truckee River, not including the 

 lands reclaimed by the Truckee-Carson Reclamation Project lower down. The stream 

 is harnessed at a number of places with hydro-electric plants, generating energy to light 

 and supply power for domestic, industrial and mining purposes from Reno to as far 

 south as Yerington and Wabuska, including Virginia City and the great mines of the 

 Comstock Lode. 



Surrounding Reno is a rich agricultural section with medium-sized farms under a 

 compartively high state of cultivation. The principal products are alfalfa, potatoes, 

 and onions with other more or less diversified crops. 



RENO, the county seat of Washoe County, and the most important city in the State, 

 is located on both banks of the Truckee. Its population in 1910 was 10,867. Three 

 miles distant and connected by electric street-car system is the town of Sparks, population 

 2,500. Reno is a live, progressive Western city, and its busy thoroughfares thronged 

 with people, with clanging street-cars and innumerable automobiles, give the visitor the 

 impression that this is a place of no mean importance, and he is not in error. Its 

 location so far as scenic environment is concerned is not surpassed even by Colorado 

 Springs. Its position as a business center with railroads radiating north, east, south 

 and west gives it an enormous tributary territory. Here are modern business blocks, 

 department stores, excellent hotels, fine public buildings, schools, churches, libraries, and 

 a modern theatre where the stars of the first magnitude appear, and Schumann-Heink 

 and Gadski have sung. It is a city also of beautiful residences, trees and shrubbery, 

 asphalt and macadam streets. There are churches of all denominations, and a splendid 

 Y. M. C. A. building; also four large banking institutions with combined resources 

 aggregating $10,000,000.. Here are located the Nevada State University and 

 Experiment Station. The University is richly endowed by the state and federal 

 governments and by Mrs. John Mackay and Clarence Mackay, of New York, widow 

 and son respectively of the late master spirit during the bonanza days of the Comstock 

 Lode. There is an able corps of instructors, and 350 students. The Reno Commercial 

 Club is an organization of leading business men and citizens, with extensive club head- 

 quarters and will reply to inquiries with respect to the city and surrounding country. 



The average annual run-off of the Truckee River is 674,000 acre feet, or sufficient 

 water if conserved to irrigate 225,000 acres of land. Immediately north of Reno 

 are several arable valleys capable of reclamation from the river, containing 73,000 

 acres now in sagebrush. The "meadow" lands on the east side of the Truckee Valley, 

 containing about 5,000 acres, could be drained by deepening the river channel near 

 Vista about six feet, thus reclaiming from swamp a body of wonderfully fertile bottom- 

 lands. South of the Truckee Valley lies Steamboat Valley, also highly cultivated 

 and beyond this is a succession of farm valleys for fifty miles, through which runs the 

 Virginia & Truckee Railroad and its Minden branch. 



THE CARSON RIVER SYSTEM 



Like the Truckee, the Carson River rises in the Sierras and flows northeasterly 

 about 200 miles, to empty in the Carson Sink. Its estimated annual run-off is 436,000 

 acre feet, or sufficient to irrigate if conserved 145,000 acres. Carson Valley, situated 

 on the upper Carson, elevation 4,750 feet, is second to no other valley in Nevada in 

 soil fertility and grandeur of natural scenery. On its west side the picturesque Sierras 

 rise abruptly and afford a mountain perspective over the verdure of the fields and thrifty 

 farms to satisfy the most ardent Nature lover. Five to seven tons of alfalfa and forty 

 bushels of wheat are ordinary crops. The largest dairy industry in the State centers here, the 

 farmers owning the Gardnerville Creamery co-operatively, and they have grown wealthy 

 from turning their forage crops into butter and cheese. Here is also a large flour-mill, 

 second only to the Riverside flour-mill at Reno in importance. A large land estate in 

 this valley is being subdivided into small farms, and many new colonists have in the 

 last few years acquired homes. Land so productive is valuable. The settler will get 

 exceptional value in fruitful soil, but he must expect to pay anywhere from $150 to 

 $300 an acre for improved land. 



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