annual flow of the river is about 28,000 acre feet. There are about 12,000 acres 

 of arable lands along the Muddy, of which about 5,000 are under cultivation. This 

 valley is an agricultural pardise in respect to fertility. Six crops of alfalfa are harvested; 

 cotton grows luxuriantly; cantaloupes and watermelons return small fortunes from a few 

 acres; it is a natural home for the fig, olive, grape and apricot, and here is grown 

 perhaps the finest asparagus raised in America. The State of Nevada maintains an 

 experiment station here. Five hundred carloads of melons, lettuce, asparagus and fruit, 

 on the completion of the railroad from Moapa to Saint Thomas, it is estimated, will be 

 shipped to Eastern markets next season and thereafter. Two crops are ordinarily 

 harvested from the same land each year. In this valley are four prosperous towns, 

 Moapa, Logan, Overton and Saint Thomas. Considering the value of the crops, land 

 can yet be secured at reasonable prices. The scarcity of the water-supply has hitherto 

 limited the cultivated acreage, but artesian irrigation to reclaim the remainder of the 

 arable lands is believed to be feasible. This little valley is capable of supporting 500 

 families on twenty-acre tracts, with an adequate water-supply. For additional information, 

 address Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce, Logan, Nevada. 



THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY 



About sixty miles southwest of Moapa on the railroad is Las Vegas, situated in 

 what was once believed to be an inhospitable desert aside from the Vegas spring in 

 the center of the valley and the spots made fertile by the flow of mountain creeks along 

 the base of the surrounding hills. Today this desert is being transformed into a 

 wonderfully fertile oasis; slowly perhaps, relative to its great extent, but the encroachment 

 of the farms upon the desert has now reached several thousand acres and is rapidly 

 increasing. In 1906 the first artesian well was drilled, developing a strong flow of 

 subterranean water under 300 feet depth. It was several years before the full importance 

 of the discovery began to attract the attention it deserved. About two years ago artesian 

 well drilling began in earnest, with the result that a large number of wells are now flowing 

 and drill machines are constantly at work developing new flows. Not all the soil of the 

 valley is arable, owing to the presence in places of hardpan or a stratum of gypsum 

 close to the surface and in other places alkali, but aside from these there are extensive 

 tracts of good soil made especially valuable by reason of the climatic conditions. Even 

 on much of this thin soil with suitable treatment crops of all the shallow-rooted varieties 

 will produce abundant harvests. The range of crops is about the same as at Moapa, 

 and on the best lands enormous yields of grapes, cantaloupes, watermelons, lettuce, fruit, 

 large and small, are grown. There is room about Las Vegas for a large farm population, 

 and here twenty to forty acres of average soil with a flowing well spells opulence. 

 The Carey Act project of the Las Vegas Irrigated Fruit Lands Company in drilling 

 wells to open up an 8,000-acre tract for colonization. 



LAS VEGAS is a thriving town of 1,500 population, with attractive business 

 buildings and charming residences, oiled streets, schools, churches, banks, and an 

 atmosphere of enterprise and prosperitv in keeping with its outlook as ultimately the 

 distributing center for one of the largest and richest agricultural sections of the State. 

 The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce will supply any information on request. 



THE PAHRUMP VALLEY 



West of Las Vegas, across the Charleston Range which is well timbered and 

 contains many beautiful mountain parks, lies Pahrump Valley with about 75,000 acres 

 of arable land. The elevation at Manse is 2,775 feet. At Manse and at Pahrump, 

 about seven miles apart, are two great springs which supply water for the irrigation of 

 about 1 ,000 acres, transforming the desert into an oasis of subtropical vegetation. 

 The range of crops is about the same as at Las Vegas and Moapa. In this valley 

 is an empire of the most fertile character, provided that artesian water can be found 

 as abundantly as at Las Vegas. The Pahrump Valley Land & Water Company, a 

 Carey Act project, is actively engaged in drilling to determine if subterranean waters 

 exist to reclaim a tract of 15,740 acres. If this exploration proves successful, in a 

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