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Show SELECTED. THE SOIL OP NEVADA. For years it was a mooted question whether the sagebrush lands ol .N evada were raJiiable for cultivation or dol If; at this late day, any person doubts the great value of our lands for such purposes, pur-poses, they should, at this timo of year, visit some of our valleys that dot them, especially those on the Truckee Meadows. These farms are rapidly increasing in number and area. Lands which, a few months ago,were covered with a heavy growth of aagebrush are now magnificent and luxurious tieids of "clover blooms;" and while they are beautiful to look noon, thev are al-sn yislding a princely income to the 1 owners of the soil. The raiding of clover, timothy and alfalfa has been proven a success in every particular par-ticular by numbers of our moc enterprising en-terprising farmers. The cereals yield quite as much per acre as the richest of California soil gives, while the vegetables veg-etables raUed in .Nevada are far superior, supe-rior, in every respect, to those grown in California; all this has been demonstrated demon-strated time and again, during the last year or two. Again, ornamental shade trees of nearly every kind in common use, thrive well, and while fruit treea do not do as well, as in our sister is tale over the mountains, the raising of fruit is not a iailure in Nevada; and the raising of berries, such ai the gooseberry, currant, raspberry and blackberry is a success wherever the same has been engaged in, To day, our bills and valleys, covered with rich native bunch grass, are feeding the "lean kino" of California by thousands. With all the beautiful, well-cultivated and remunerative farms located in our State, only a few acres, comparatively speaking, of the truly valuable agricultural agricul-tural and grazing lands have been secured, se-cured, and we sincerely beiieve the economical, eco-nomical, industrious farmer or stock raisers cannot do better than to secure a homo in some one of the many beautiful beau-tiful valleys of Nevada. One very itn portaut iact which is greatly to our advantage ad-vantage and to the interest of those seeking a permanent home is, that our agricultural lands are not in immense tracts, consequently have not been and never will bo monopolized by "land grabbers" as in Calilbroia, and from the great emigration to our State the past year we believe this fact is being appreciated by those wanting perma-net perma-net homes. Nevada State Journal. |