Reno : a book of short stories and information . sof cow-boys, cattle ranches and rattle-snakes; but this impression is very erron-eous. The picturesque cow-boy is practic-ally a thing of the past, and so is the high-wayman; the picturesque stage-coach withits four to six teams is almost forgotten; andI did not see one rattle-snake during all myexploits in the mountains and over the des-erts. What has become of all those historicthings which we so closely linked with thewild and woolly West of the past? Theyhave retreated into oblivion before the greatwheel of progress It is a mistaken idea to
Reno : a book of short stories and information . sof cow-boys, cattle ranches and rattle-snakes; but this impression is very erron-eous. The picturesque cow-boy is practic-ally a thing of the past, and so is the high-wayman; the picturesque stage-coach withits four to six teams is almost forgotten; andI did not see one rattle-snake during all myexploits in the mountains and over the des-erts. What has become of all those historicthings which we so closely linked with thewild and woolly West of the past? Theyhave retreated into oblivion before the greatwheel of progress It is a mistaken idea to imagine that be-cause Nevada is such a mountainous countryit is unsuitable for agriculture. There aremany broad green valleys, flourishing andproducing splendid farm products. This ofcourse is the astonishing result of artificialmethods of irrigation. Alfalfa and potatoesare Nevadas greatest crop; wheat, rye, oatsand other cereals are also grown. Some ofthe ranches have splendid orchards consist-ing of pears, apples, plums, cherries, etc., and. RENO 49 the production will undoubtedly increase asgreater irrigation developments are intro-duced. What irrigation will do for the parcheddeserts of the West remains as yet to beseen, but when I stop to consider that allthe famous spots of California owe theirbeauty almost entirely to irrigation, then Idare predict great things for the desert states. In a 1918 issue of the United States Geo-graphical Survey Press Bulletin is an articlewhich is particularly interesting for the pos-sibilities it suggests at once to the reader forthe utilization of waters. It reads as follows: Underground Water in Nevada Deserts. In Nevada the bedrock forms a corrugat-ed surface consisting of more or less parallelmountain ranges and broad interveningtroughs that are filled to great depths withrock waste washed from the great deposits of rock waste were inlarge part laid down by torrential streamsand are relatively coarse and porous. Be-cau
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