There are four thriving towns in the valley Minden, Gardnerville, Genoa and 

 Sheridan surrounded by 30,000 acres of land under the highest state of cultivation with 

 an additional 15,000 acres of arable lands at the north end of the valley which are 

 rapidly being reclaimed. 



Along the Carson River, between Empire and the Truckee-Carson project at Fallen, 

 including the farm acreage about Dayton, about 20,000 acres are under cultivation, 

 producing alfalfa and potatoes as the leading crops. 



Immediately north of Carson Valley lies Eagle Valley, containing 1 2,000 acres of 

 arable lands, about a third of which is under cultivation, due to scarcity of water-supply 

 but which will in time be remedied by pumping and storage systems. The Carson River 

 traverses the lower side of this valley, consequently its waters cannot be utilized. 



CARSON CITY, the capital of the State, is situated in the center of Eagle Valley, 

 only fourteen miles from Lake Tahoe. The population is about 2,500. In addition 

 to the State buildings located here, there is a fine federal building. The city is charming 

 from its picturesque setting and wealth of magnificent trees which line all the streets. 

 It is expected that during the coming year several thousand acres of rich silt lands close 

 in to Carson City will be opened to colonization. 



TRUCKEE-CARSON RECLAMATION PROJECT 



The first reclamation project undertaken by the Government under the National 

 Reclamation Act was begun in 1903 in Nevada and is still in process of construction 

 at an ultimate cost of approximately $7,000,000. The first unit of the project was 

 completed in 1907-08, consisting of a great canal to divert the waters of the Truckee 

 at Derby, twenty miles below Reno, to the vast tract of arable land in the neighborhood 

 of Fallen in Churchill County. Work on the second unit of the project was inaugurated 

 the present year, 1911, namely, the construction of an impounding dam across the 

 Carson River about fifteen miles from Fallen to store the waters of the canal and the 

 flood waters of the Carson during the non-irrigation season in a great artificial lake, 

 capacity 350,000 acre feet. The dam will be of earth and concrete, 800 feet long, 

 1 1 feet high, 400 feet wide at the base and 20 feet wide at the top. It will be 

 completed in 1913, and with the existing appropriated water-supply of the river and 

 canal system will be the means of reclaiming a total of 200,000 acres of what was 

 once known as the "Forty Mile Desert," about 70,000 acres of which are now under 

 cultivation. The dam will supply many thousand hydro-electric horsepower as well. 



FALLON, the county seat of Churchill County, is situated at the terminus of a short 

 spur of the Southern Pacific beginning at Hazen ; population about 1 ,000, not including 

 those on the immediately surrounding farms; elevation, 3,970 feet; maximum temperature 

 105 degrees, minimum 5 degrees, mean 48 degrees, humidity low. 



The soil about Fallen is of many kinds, as would be expected in a large tract of 

 land formed from river and lake deposits, including light drifting sands, loams, clay, 

 adobe and black peat soils, all occurring in large quantities and affording an extensive 

 variety for choice. A wide range of crops are grown here: alfalfa, wild hay, corn, 

 grain, sorghum, potatoes, sugar-beets, celery, asparagus, melons, orchard fruits, berries, etc. 

 This country is at its beginning, with an outlook such that ten years from now 

 should see its fruition as one of the greatest agricultural sections of the West. Here is 

 located a new sugar-beet factory with a capacity of 650 tons per day and which will 

 give market for a crop that will net the skilful grower from $50 to $75 per acre. One 

 after the other the older farms are being broken up and sold to settlers in smaller tracts. 

 Also the vast acreage being reclaimed by the Government is open to homestead entry 

 at a cost of $30 per acre, payable in ten instalments without interest, and sixty cents per 

 annum maintenance cost. 



Northwest of Fallen, at Fernley, on the line of the Truckee Canal, a fine tract 

 of land is being reclaimed by homesteaders. This is on "thornbrush" land deficient 

 in humus and nitrogen but which is artificially supplied, with the result that splendid 

 yields of alfalfa in every instance have rewarded the settlers. For information address. 

 Project Engineer, U. S. R. S., Fallon, Nev. 



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