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LIND AND WATER Fidelity Trust Company Gives Opinion of Yegas Valley The writer of this has had fifteen years experience in the land business and has seen the lands in nearly every state in the Union and many parts of Europe. Without fear of successful con­tradiction or injury to his reputation, he feels safe in saying that there is no land in this country better than that in the Vegas Valley. This body of land, about 20 miles wide, was evidently' at one time a lake. Age-long wash from mountain and marsh has solidified this into soil of mar­velous richness and at pointsgreat depth. Protected by the Rocky mountains from winter cold and by the coast range from the ocean fogs, the climate is very similar to that which made Italy fam­ous. It produces nearly everything that grows with that profusion typical of the tropics. With irrigation, which we have, this growth continues practically the whole year so that the farmer can take off, for example, a crop of grain from an acre of land and then follow this by a crop of vegetables, melons, etc., from the same acre the same year. Or having once started alfalfa, he has nothing to do but to irrigate and cut it about six times each year, year after year. As this rich soil seems to require no fertilization or rotation of crops other than the raising of six different crops of alfalfa the same year, the owner has practically six different farms on the same land as compared with the eastern farmer. Fruits and vegetables mature earlier than in most of the districts of Califor­nia and Florida, and the yield in fruits and vegetables per acre per annum is so much greater than in the east that I hesitate to quote the actual figures. Suffice it to say that with water from these artesian wells, ample and perpet­ual, this land of the Vegas Valley is better value for the money than we have seen elsewhere and is destined to attract thousands to this section. Fidelity Trust Co., tl Las Vegas, Nev. —Las Vegas Age, April 9, 1910.