Show NEVADAS NEVADA'S S LATEST BiO DIu III IRRIGATION A TION SCHEME j l J Thousand Acres Are Under Canal West of L. L Pioche c I L to J. J j- j G. G Davis of Xe Nev Willi Will i Las bus been In the city several days dars pur- pur 1 chasing ch ng supplies left last night for tor his home i Mr fr Davis Is the promoter of ot a bl big irrigation scheme on Cherry creek miles w west t of Pioche He and I his associates have constructed a n dam am sixteen and a half feet teet high and threeS three- three S quarters of or a n mile long IonS It Impounds the water of ot Cherry creek Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- wood and Pine creck creeks The Thc water f is nine feet deep behind the tho dam and anti will Irrigate acres The Tho nearest town Is s Oneota and the nearest railroad point is Ploce fifty miles mlles east A railroad has been between Ely and Goldfield q and will pass the tho dam The rho land ll lies at an average e elevation ole ele of ot 4 OO feet Tho The greater portion portion portion por por- tion of ot the land under the dam darn is still n n the hands of the government There are now fort forty families In th the vicinity of the town of Oneota |