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Show HOW NEVADA DESERT LANDS CAN DE WATERED T C Hoyt has returned from a three weeks' inspection of the Nevada forest, which' occupies the Snake Shell Creek, White Pine, and other mountain ranges about Ely, In eastern east-ern Nevada. He states that sheep I . i -in c- rv-1 ci In full 1 1- - n W . 1 -ii' iiui, 111 Mill uiii.M hi me vo- ams &. McGill machine plant near Mc-Gill, Mc-Gill, and at hand-shearinK plants In Snake valley and near Currie In crossing the mountains he waded through snowdrifts to his shoulders and was obliged to detour from shorter short-er routes through the high country on account of snow. This indicates that this part of Nevada wa visited by the local 6torm8 which caused heavy snowfall in southern Ltah, and the people are looking forward to plenty of water and a good season. Mountain ranges of eastern Nevada are narrow and their base often strewn with boulders and other litter lit-ter unfavorable for farming. The water from the mountain springs, sinking in this rough ground, reappears reap-pears in the alkali flats, where It was early appropriated by ranchers for irrigation purposes. Many of the flats are suited for the production of salt grass and w ire gra8, however, and it Is Mr. Hoyt's opinion that In some cases great advantage would be gained by piping or fhiming the water over the rocky strip at the base of the mountains to the fertile bench lands between the mountains and the alkali flats Some of these bench lands are eiceeulngly rich and attractive. |