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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt:...applied over the whole tract, to moisten it sufficiently to sprout tbo seed. H« was surprised at the fact, and upon sounding a well 90 feet deep in about the center of the tract he found that he was filling the subsoil at that depth full of water. Since that time the laud has uot required so much water. I examined the locality, and found it, like so many of the valleys in this State, possessing a deep subsoil of gravel. A clay subsoil would not have required so much water for the whole crop season. In a few localities alfalfa is raised without irrigation. This is where the water supply is certain, and flows naturally down from the adjacent mountains in an undercurrent and is received by a clay subsoil. In these same localities it is posaible to raise tbe small grains without artificial water supply. In connection with the subject of irrigation the United States surveyor-general for Nevada has embodied in his annual report a number of interesting letters from residents in various localities of the State descriptive of the class and character of tbe lands in Elko, White Fine, Lincoln, Nye, Esmeralda, and other counties in different pints of the State of Nevada, and their natural products and capabilities wherever water can be had for irrigation purposes. FRAUDULENT ENTRIES. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE OF "WITNESSES. During the year there have been fewer new cases of fraudulent en tries reported than heretofore. The greatest difficulty the special agents have had to conteud with in investigating alleged fraudulent entries is to procure the attendance of their witnesses at the hearings before the local land officers. As a rule they have little difficulty in obtaining information from settlers aud others relative to cases under investigation, and generally o...