Show n 1 I Nevada and Its amo Ranch I OP Of A T TC 2 l ww I la Nevada Neada A haute of oC undo and andA A 11 stretch ot of alkali n desert Inhabited only hy by coyotes lizard bones bolles of beasts Rud unburied mn mm home ot of ruined and amI dead hopes It A bankrupt Stale Slat P a Ii a blotch tin n th may that the Union would b be II ht r without II that your Idea Iden o oN or ortt lit III I own It was once mine tt N 11 1 IllY the hook book would Quid hold hohl what pt lL II d nut nl Snow would be or of n size ez ex great ireat Here la Is I have havu ti II LI 11 s Nevada elt au nuh Ii 1111 ays do not follow the beet ports ut L t In n Nevada Neada giving n a wrong alt I the you In Yet all eastern tu x II 1 all ull through the of at I could coull see Hee the grew graN tar far better beUer than ranges that thaI I know that r n lilt arl ar good goal True water is I Ht ar 11 c In man many places yet et ot of anti nud then thell lb tut is j the snow tl II 11 of oC desert ore alloo allo with J All And today th these tlC IIII ate fat at and happy high up In tto th where the grass is III trickle out from seem rl n and 1111 the springs 1 the great fuat tuck rocks tuckI l I k H I ff the train at Steno neno Hear In maid 0 maw that I ant III as far CIU Away from as a ono one can gel another stag one the Into aim I et There he Is supposedly In tn I went to III a neat 81 le a 0 rushing river 1 ate trout fur fr and and ilL St t 1 II berries served damply I III IEl El II tt unite I tHc III this hotel It Is 1 a 1 I pun than I have hall had In any Fa Fait I III I II hotel In it IL Ion I time Setting 11 J fI Ir breakfast I 1 walked along the theold old II that leads yet as 11 It led Oral I U City Washoe ot of the IUlO tone It Il le Is a broad highway I on 01 either side Hide with trees tre and Ind nat and after aCter I have e I Ithe the but urha or of Hello with substantial I rm s The air Is tilled with the luLL I I fumes of oC early morning the genet H t ot of trite tree and shrub anti lIu t I Sol so much sweeter In the desert than hun t tI I II herl And lId In the door dooryards yards HII Ih rollo art are till hll In bloom and their tr Intoxicates you Here lIere i is sloth antl I thing an Incredible thing IU 15 r side are green pasture Green Oreen I tell you and ot of what nhat or Of groas told white while clover lh r art ar white with bloom and rich richI enI I frt n t n As only Ohio can show In a aId anet net Id Jun And tile t e gross graM has invaded the r t l too loo I Look oak but n II fey ant tu u are are In Ohio only a richer nitre lIure than Ohio has Lift up your our eyes eye now to the el hull See the crea great t ton on the one side ot of you ou Oh II nu JU I walk to them thus this nf at lemn Itse though they look those al err th the peaks ot of the mighty all t far awaY awo for tor strolls but tile they ar em la In ore oft their mantle ot of snowy bUe and lo It Is falling on the plain I and It In a mantle ot of brightest green finn then woe the great surprise to tome me I had thought to see the rank gM growth th of alfalfa that 1 had been used 1 10 t In all arid regions Alfalfa does dOlf In dt wl thrive here herp yet ret not as In hotter but bluegrass and white clover cloer troll trued d it II out after aCter n a time and replace It making a 81 award ard so thick so soft so soo rl o h that It Is like walkIng on velvet ot of ut richness and softness to step II Wh er now are the miners the pros peelers the ger They fhe lire are here many of It them stranded keeping their little aims wielding the Irrigating instead or of the pick and drill making homes for tor wives and children putting white paint on neat noot school chool bul at e ty mill taking out more oro orn the tiny tu tunnels that the gross MIlA make than ever they took out In inthe th the gal old times limes What memories It halls rall I would not go to I see It though nn I s because It le Is nil all so changed that I tin do not want to dl disturb my very 11 Cold or of It In the larl early day There Theil la is yet It notch ot of In Ih the life here The ten and twelve hr b t ml with the hugl freight wag I na and yet It rumble along ailing II Ith freight for Virginia The lit litlie lie J trains yet puff up the strop I grat great bulging smokestacks w I emitting ling P lk the tenders plied with dry pine wood lint acres the hills hili stretch away III great golden Kolden threads of oC copper wire each bearing It Its bur burden burden den or of volts ur or ampire or whatever All from n great water on the Truckee 01 all meaning mea II I 1111 to 10 work the mighty pumps that again dr dry tile the lower loer levels or of tI the Comstock and let It onte more n little ot of her greet wealth pour out till the thirsty world I It 11 N II indeed n a queer ot of the now and the old lUlling along with John Sparks he pointed to II a beautiful horne home embower al among trees back ot of It good tood barns alii and around It fields of oC luxuriant grass and grain See Ste that place Welb the theman man who owns It sold a bull team tam to a fellow tellow In the early earh days and tOok this land RS as security When he could coull not get gel trey tor his bull team he had to lake tako the lie He felt mighty bad over losing that bull team How seldom do doWe dow We w e know la Is good far tor us UI Among cattlemen John Sparks needs no Introduction To Te acme ot of our West Western ern em n and foreign orel n readers it 11 may be well to say that he Is II a native Texan Ills 1118 father was WILS u n great cattleman before him After the WAr were very er erlow low it III the South The eating or of juicy steaks hM had quite one out of oC fashion there John Spars began trying to get t a little money mane out ot of their herds et and uC IJ by shipping north lie Ile tried one and another In 66 and 6 Tex TexI Texas as I cattle aUle were werl little known and nd not much prized Finally he struck the Wy W trail II found a market mArkel liked the country moved there From there to Nevada was another tell step Now all RII the cattle are In Ih He and hIs j art Tier ner hl have 1 here some acres of land along Salmon tIr Inver and Thousand i Springs Creek ha have about cattle atilt They have owned more The Tho terrible winner or of 91 90 and S 91 killed fur Cur them They were overstocked and without feed Now they put up thou thousands sands or of tune lit of ha hay eloh year and their winter losses art are very light John Sparks ti Is generally de described as being 1 a very fry lucky man I would not so him Is It luck that one man walks with lie hla eyes ees fixed axed upon his hili toes toe I while another lifts them to the troll I yet farther Along That I is the thc kind or of orman man John Sparks Slark is III he hoe hall the instinct that reads reada the future and provides for tor forIt It while It Is yet ot a long wa way ort off Thus This ranch ranh at Ilene Heno Is n a long way front the main ranch Some day I mean to take the Gazette readers lera with me to the great ranch on Thousand Springs Today Wt we will trill tarry among the tho cropping the sweet slet blue bluegrass grass rull We can call put In our time well WhIt What wilt will lhee and petted l white darlings do 10 when trans transplanted planted to tile the green pastures or of NI Ne Nevada vada In m my opinion the they will they do develop as I never saw cattle 01 else elsewhere where It Is 19 the fattest lot ot of cattle cUle to be on J grass alone that 1 ever saw III Mr Sprague the tho superintendent him himself self an Ohio man remarked They do better belter und and keep kOep fatter taUer on grass KrasA alone than In the We West with grass and all the grain you can give them It Is not difficult to tn account for this fart ta it 11 is III because ot of th the richness the succulence ot of these irrigated pastures The They art are what the English h farmer Carmer would call water mendo meadows The white while clover cloer Is Itself n a very er rich forage Then the air III ii cool generally and the flies Are not ball bad There Is nothing to do but eat ot of the sweet herbage drink the pure mountain water Crater lie down and digest and grow rw tat fat tatCho Cho home place Illace n at t the Alamo con stets lIsts ot of t On this ort are kept the cattle with n a very little out aide aid It if Il 11 was all In pasture It would them alland such keeping It refill really worried me more to see the cows no fIO fat Cat than any In other thing that I saw And when I saw laW the yearling heifers I thought them two they were better developed than a t rIghtly bred nod rl managed d are profitable Within the past year rear the Alamo has 1118 sold Rold more than worth of oC cattle how lIow le la that for tor an Income from Crom lie llie little blue grass ranch There Me are many things of Interest at atthe the Alamo One of oC the mo most t Interest interestIng Ins Ing to ins IIII Is the highland C cows These came from th ranch at t da There Therl are said to be bc 1 a lot ot of them themon on this rAnch one day a you OU and I will III I go see them Mr Sparks Spark highlands de tilted p 1 lit lusts matI with hi ids lie Ile ha has It a 11 little It II herd o of the buffaloes thriving remark mark remarkably ably here but thus far Car the hAve spurned the of the hues they refuse to remain In the same m field with the I Ium urn um much with these thelle ore era It seems to ml me that they ilia may prove proe very try cattle for high bleak rang ea 5 The rhe fire are blocky snoops sheep Are odd creatures Their tat tolls lolls store Ilore up nourishment a time ot of drouth Their wO wool I III is II dry anti coarse but theIr lambs lamM grow rapidly and are n pretty Unfortunately It is II hUll had on these irrigated tIl t b keep kep their feet teet bound They Thy are used to treading on the deserts I hardly eVer saw MoW so IO varied a collection of ani animal mill mal pets nl as there are arl at the Alamo The children have hav their there are elk living lives ot of contentment and ease e pigeons squirrels hares harel wa and And there thre is III A herd or of beautiful Jerseys headed by a eon aon ot of old Brown Henl Ot Of all tint mountain State Stat Nevada has haa the beet stork ot of horse and cattle callie The Improvement is III continually going on too Water U I yet et going to waste wallIe to some extent In Nev It is II certain that some day Ilay she will stand lund In touch much higher than she 1111 does lICHI no now Prue she Ahe ilia her deans some ome ot of them terrible comae I qt Ir then rich in III mineral yet she hRS hiss her soils MUll rich beyond tilt the understanding or of this the eastern moan She has hilI her MO days or of sunshine in III the year she ha has a so that as aB a nall native told me in 1 a mn man has hili lust JUI got to do something It If he ILl is doing nothing good he III doln doing some IOme devil 1111 Ilia is a mAgic In eida charm about mines lug dug deep Isto the the there le IR satisfying beauty In th the water of oC the irrigating canals canall running brimming brim mint ming with their crystal I floods beneath their bowers f willow aril And wild rose In Inthe the end It will he found that list Ih lute II stamp 11 mill thundering In the gulch ul h could not stamp out half the riche rich that the gell gene tit tie herd of cows will stain r with their thel verdant tort soft footfalls rota the lIt carpets ot of Ii g WIng In Gazette |