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Show NEVADA AS A WHEAT STATE. Would it not be great if Nevada ahould turn out to be the great wheat state of the union T We know a company that haa a great ranch in Nevada, and talking to one of the members yesterday, asked, "How much of your land can be irrigated!" Hia reply waa, "A good deal, aeveral thousand acres. But," he said, "that is not all. There are 30,000 acres of that land where by actual expert-ment expert-ment there is an abundance of water four feet below be-low the surface." Now, if wheat can be aown after the first rains in the fall, enough to moisten the land, and make the wheat begin to grow, the wheat roots will follow down until they find the water. That has been done here near Nephi and the wheat this year is six feet tall, and the owners own-ers do not know yet how many bushels per acre it will yield. The writer has seen wheat roots where the bank of the river had caved out, running run-ning down five feet. That waa on the Yuba river, and if it will do that on the Yuba river it will find that water sure. The old rule waa that wheat root waa as long as the stalk above the ground, which we do not doubt is true in gravelly land. If there is a clay supersoil, it is not that, because it will stop at the clay ; but where it has a chance itwillfollow down to the water, and as the water recedes in the summer it will continue to go after the water, like a grape. The grape i the most marvelous of them all. That will go down twenty feet to our certain knowledge. We have seen it where it has followed down crevices in rocks ami where the crevices were nearly closed by the rock on both sides, the grape would flatten out to an inch wide and perhaps a quarter of an inch in thickness, and then when it got through that, where it could have room, it would resume its original form. But what we began to say waa that if Nevada haa much such soil thus equipped, it has area enough to be the foremost wheat state in the union. |