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Show - NEVADA NOTES. Hugh Martin of Island Mountain was mai ried last week tu Miss Ktta Quin-trell Quin-trell of F.iko county. 1'. A. Shearer came down from the diTyhae. He has taken up a ranch of J00 acres aud iLtends to mske it his future home. He lookins; much heartier than when be was C. !'. aeut i:i Klko sl'inyiug lihtnm:; for the railroad rail-road company. Klko Independent. In the year 18H!) the aunual precipitation precipi-tation of Klko county was 2i. 1 0 inches, as against In.iiT in Washoe; 5.117 in llumboldi; a.ii'J in JIureka; 12.'.5 in White Pine; li.OU in Sterey; 2.11 in Churchill; !-:il in Onusby; il! tiS iu Douglas; 7.15 ia Ksmcralda; 0.00 in Nye. and 1 i.ftO inches ia Lincoln county. Only Washoe and 'Douglas I counties recorded o er ouo haif as much as Klko county. Of 2,f,;is.i00 acres of irrigable lands in Nevada, about one-haif, or, to be accurate, 1,:.! :o,!i(M acres is iu places where water cannot bo ?ot upon it, or there is not enough water to irrigate with; I.OS.VIOO acres lie in positions where they ran bo irrigated, either by water now flowing past, or by waters stored in re.-iirvoirs. and the remaining PI'.7or acret are now under irrigation. And of the lands now irrigated fully niue-tenths is meadow aud pasture land. |