Land Sales Lincoln County NV
But now Nevada's Lincoln County, a 10,637-square-mile piece of the lonely Old West, might be headed for a bit of a New West boom. "Let us grow. Let us develop our water. Let us bring in some industry," pleads County Commissioner Tim Perkins.
The Nevada congressional delegation is doing its best to oblige. In June, members introduced a bill that would ease the way for hundreds of miles of water pipelines across federal land and carve out 87,000 acres of public holdings — the equivalent of nearly three San Franciscos — to sell for private development around the county's scattered little communities.
Big enough to swallow New Hampshire and Rhode Island, Lincoln County is home to fewer than 5,000 people. With about 1,800 residents, Pioche — the county seat and historic silver-mining center a three-hour drive northeast of Las Vegas — is as bustling as the county gets.
The legislation additionally attempts to override a court decision by ordering the Bureau of Land Management to proceed with the sale of almost 13,500 acres on the county's southeastern border, near the town of Mesquite. The auctions, authorized in an earlier bill, were blocked this year by a federal judge, who found that the environmental impact of developing the acreage had not been documented adequately.
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