History of Nevada; . lalleck. 390 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA. In 1865 the Overland Mail Company becomingtired of paying the exorbitant prices demanded bythe Mormons for barley and oats, concluded to raisegrain for their own use, and accordingly put in about1,000 acres in Kuby Valley. Their experimentproving a success, others entered into the same pur-suits, and this was the pioneer grain country ofeastern Nevada. All the supplies for the companywere raised there until the line was drawn oft in18G0. upon the completion of the Central PacificEailroad. Col. J. B. -Moore and Lieut. K. Gilman h
History of Nevada; . lalleck. 390 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA. In 1865 the Overland Mail Company becomingtired of paying the exorbitant prices demanded bythe Mormons for barley and oats, concluded to raisegrain for their own use, and accordingly put in about1,000 acres in Kuby Valley. Their experimentproving a success, others entered into the same pur-suits, and this was the pioneer grain country ofeastern Nevada. All the supplies for the companywere raised there until the line was drawn oft in18G0. upon the completion of the Central PacificEailroad. Col. J. B. -Moore and Lieut. K. Gilman hadraised grain and vegetables the previous year,though not in great quantities. There was a grist-mill built in 1867 by C. A. Griswold and SamuelWoodward, on the overland farm, with two runs ofstone. They also built a saw-mill during the sameyear on Cave Creek. Both these mills were run bywater. This was the onlj^ saw-mill ever built in thevalley, and is still standing, there being but oneother in the county of Col. J. B. Moore. Was born in the town of Piermont, Grafton County,New Hampshire, on the twenty-eighth of October,1828. He remained there until 1840, and duringthat time received a limited education, such as canbe obtained in the common schools, lu the last-named year be went to Boston, Massachusetts, wherehe cast his first vote for President James K. 1846 he enlisted in the First Alassaehusetts Regi-ment of Volunieers, and served through the Mexi-can War. (jame to California in , where heserved seven consecutive years on the San Franciscopolice force. In 1861, at the breaking out of theRebellion, he raised a company of volunteers for theThird Regiment, of which ho was elected the month of October of the same year he was promoted to be Lieutenant Colonel. In 1863 hecame to Nevada, and commanded Camp Ruby, alsoCamp Douglas, in Utah; and was discharged in themonth of January, 1865, at his own request. Set-tling in liubj Nalley, he engaged in
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