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Show DRY Uffi' IS AJUttESS Early In the '90s J. C Munson, while driving freight teams to tho southern mining camp from Wells was impressed with the possibilities of the lands lying in Clover valley, especially espe-cially in the south end, where there were any quantities of level ground, coverod with big sage brush, says the . Elko (Nov.) Free Press. When tho mining camps ceased active opera- I tlons. ho went to Utah and engaged in business, but he could never get away from the mental pictures he carried with him of the lands in Clover Clo-ver valley. Seven years ago he returned and went directly to where his ranch now is in Clover a alley, and took up a homestead of J CO acres He at onco cleared off a portion of the land and started in dry farming. His nelghboro laughed, and declared he wouU never nev-er make a success But he has, and in addition to his homestead, ho now i owns MOO acres of land adjoining his j original ranch, and next spring will havo over S00 acres of land under I dry farming. ' He was in Elko yesterday and stat- j ed most emphatically that' dry farming farm-ing was an assured fnct in Clover valley. val-ley. He Is the owner of a steam plow . and with the assistance of his young I son last year broke up and e'earod off the brush and got S00 acres of land , ready for planting. Wthen asked .is ' to his methods In breaking up the land lift K?iM: "I hnv n rfmihlr pvlin. der, 20 horsepower plow; we inako on an average about 22 acres per dajr. The truck to which the plows are attached at-tached weighs 5,700 pounds and is quite low, which "breaks the brush down and enables us to plow tho land without clearing off the sagebrush. j After plowing we rake the brush and burn It, and the land Is ready for the sowing without further work "I have already this fall planted 200 acres In wheat, and have COO acres of ground ready for spring planting that I expect tb put In oats. Since I havo been In ,Clover valley 1 have dug at least 50 wells, in one place and another, In order to see how Jar ' down it was to water. In no case havo I been compelled to go deeper than five feet and I consider the lan-1 the best in the state for dry farming, owing to this fact, that the water Is so near the surface of the ground. "Our town of Towbar, on the Western West-ern Pacific, is growing rapidly and thero are now being finished a hotel, store, postoffice and snloon building. J look for one of tho greatest rushes of homesteaders Into Elko county thiG next year that has ever been seen, and dry farming is the solution of the agricultural ag-ricultural ouestlon." i |