The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-07-25

CHURCHILL COUNTY INSTITUTE,
July 10, 1877.
Once again TO us the melancholy
days have come. the saddest of the
year." for they bring the
SWEEPING HOT WINDS
to our already heated browsa and canse us
to wish for the cool days of Autumn to
greet us once more. l think that
most any inidel who would visit the
Desert County" during this hot spell
would feel and make an assertion SINH
lar to that of Bob Ingersoll concerning
the lower levl of the Comstock- that
if they thought that there was a hotter
place than the sink of the Carson they
would JOIN some church Immediately.
Yet we should not scorn these sultry
days, for to the general inhabitant of
the oasis they ar jnst what is needed
to ripen his broad fields of grain.
Never 10 the history of our community
have the crops looked more promising
than at present. But fears are Justly
entertained that they will not all ripen,
from insafficiency of water for irrega-
ton. Already has the Carson, which
Is the only source of supplies, mar
rowed its delivery to the dimensions of
SMALL BROOK,
And every one whose thirsty fields are
calling tor drink, are busy tightening
up their dams, and trying to utalize
every drop it affords, and keep the
monster 'drouth" off for two weeks
more, when their crops will be free
from its relentless grasp.
We hear very much this Summer of
the future prospects of the Humboldt
meadows as an agricultural district.
1t is probably fine aud promising
country. but the people of Churchill
claim it to be
THE GARDEN OF NEVADA.
Finer lands. and ones that can be more
easily worked cannot be found in the
whole State. and they are rapidly be-
log converted into broad fields of way-
ing grain and beautiful alfalfa. In
few years more. if the tide of immigra
ton keeps on, there viii be thousands
OF acres of this profitable grass within
our borders.
/ notice by your columns that Hum
holdt county did not celebrate the
Fourth to that patriotic extent which is
her usual custom. / am somewhat
surprised that none of her country
loving citizens would step forward and
GIVE REvERENCE TO OUR NATAL DAY
In some more patriotic way than
horse race. Churchill people exhibited
their patriotism in very becoming
manner, and so Gar as | have heard
paid more respect to the anniversary
than any other county in the State,
save, perhaps, Storey, which is of
course in this. as in everything, the
banner county" Early in the morn
ing the booming of the Sam Tilden"
Indicated to the drowsy ear the dawning
of gala day, aud n little later the
pouring in from all quarters of the
devout citizens. plainly evinced the
fact that every body was going to cele-
brate. The programme was fully cur
ried out. consisting of a picnic dinner
at the Union Grove. singing. reading of
Declaration of Independence, Grafton,
defamation and prayer. This made
no the exercises of the day, and in the
evening the Churchill County Institute,
under the supervision of Mr.. and Mrs.
Pike gave
AN EXHIBITIONS THAT Is HARD To BEAT,
Consisting of the following program me
Salutatory. Mr.. Pike; Our Greeting
(lovely). School; Liberty's Triumph,
J. Allen; My Goose. II. F Ferguson;
The Know-nothing (dia.). four char
acters; Song of the Camp, W. San
ford; Trelawney, seventeen scholars;
Keeping your eyes open (dia.) two
characters; People will talk. song;
Liberty, r. Cushman; The Broken
Hearted Datchman, N. auckland;