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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-11

officers under the provisions of the
Act of Congress, approved June
II, 1902, and known as the "Rec-
lamation Act" is the proper power
to inaugarate the work that will
lead to the establishment of the
system herein outlined.
That the Walker River and the
country adjacent to it and suscept-
ible of irrigation from it is a region
to which the provisions of the
said Act are applicable.
Your petitioners pledge their
cooperation for the consummation
of these objects of these state
ments and agree to relinquish
their present actual water rights
in exchange for an equal amount
of water from a storage system
completed and in operation.
Wherefore, your petitioners
pray, that the Honorable Secre-
tary of the Interior, will inaugu-
rate the outlining of a compre-
hensive plan of system of water
storage and water distribution for
the country adjacent to Walker
River, with all possible celerity
and dispatch and that the said
plan be followed up with reason
able dispatch by the construction
of works, so determined, for the
reasons in this petition set out and
under the provisions of the Act of
Congress approved June II, 1902
entitled "An Act appropriating
the receipts from the sale and dis
posal of public lands in certain
States and Territories to the con-
struction of irrigation works for
the reclamation of arid lands"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-11
GOVERNMENT AID ASKED
The Following Petition Being Circulated In
CoaneCrion With Water Matters.


Your petitioners, tenants of the
lands tributary to the Walker
River in Lyon and Esmerelda
Counties, State of Nevada, and in
Mono County, State of California,
would respectfully represent and
show
That the Walker River from its
various sources rises in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains in Mono
County, California, and by a
course nearly resembling an ir-
regular loop, flows through Mono
County, California, and Lyon and
Esmerelda Counties, Nevada, into
the Walker Lake, which lies in
said Esmerelda County. A small
portion of the said course is
through Douglas County, Nevada,
and the whole course is through
valleys, plains and prairies and al
so through hills and mountain
ranges that bound and mark out
the level and rolling ground. The
whole, with its water shed and
district of country susceptible of
irrigation, embraces an empire.
The land which by comprehen-
sive system of water storage and
economical water distribution
could be brought under agricul-
ture is approximately but conserv-
atively estimated as amounting to
225,ooo acres.
That your petitioners are resi-
dents of a portion of the said ter
ritory and $4,000 acres of said
territory are now occupied and
farmed. Your petitioners add to
their signatures hereafter their
respective addresses and a table
of the amount of land occupied
by them and under irrigation and
of the amount of land occupied
by them and used for no bene-
fetal purpose at this time.
That the whole of the amount of
land which is now occupied and
under irrigation is only utilized
for portion of its full possibilities
for the reason that during the
later parts of each season for the
growing of crops, being the dryest
part of each year, the amount OF
water in the said Walker River is
so small that irrigation is partially
or wholly impossible.
That the whole of the said
22s 1000 acres of land is naturally
arid, but under irrigation the said
ground, where now moistened, is,
and the remaining ground, when
it shall be moistened, will be, rich,
productive agricultural country
capable of producing large crops
of varied kinds.
That the land under irrigation
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-11

can only be brought to its full de-
velopment and the land now va
cant and unoccupied can only be
brought to any development by
the construction and maintenance
of comprehensive system of
water storage and distribution.
That the annual precipitation
of moisture in the said territory
and watershed is more than suffi-
cient to supply the amount re-
quired to make every acre of ter
ritory productive and to furnish a
full supply of water for all the
agricultural purposes of the region.
That the topography of the said
territory is such that natural res
ervoirs, requiring a minimum
amount of artificial adaptation,
are numerous and easily available.
That the said region is one
which the settler of the ground
now unoccupied would locate
with especial advantage for the
reason that the ground now al
ready occupied can and does give
employment to more individuals
than now occupy it, and the settler
on a tract of wild, unbroken land
can earn enough outside of his
own place to supply the necessi-
ties of life to himself and, family
during the time he is breaking in
his new ground and waiting for
his first crop.
Your petitioners desire to draw
especial attention to the particular
feasibility of this district for an
irrigation system.
Mr.. Wolcott, Chief of the U. S.
Geological Survey, which is the
Bureau of your Department, hav-
ing direct supervision of this
work, pronounced it the most
feasible scheme that he had seen.
The nature of the country is
such that the works could be
quickly built, and at very low
expense, the magnitude of the
work considered.
Beneficial results would immedi-
ately flow from the inauguration
of the system. People now actu-
ally on the ground would receive
immediate benefits and be able to
keep up their repayments and
proportion of operating expense
out of immediate earnings. With
out the system many individuals
who are now being impoverished
by the expenses in money and
time of pending litigation must be
utterly ruined and there is urgent
need of immediate and adequate
relief to the pioneers who have
brought the present development
of the country out of the wilder
ness.
Not discrediting the advisability
of other irrigation schemes and
systems, petitioners believe this
project to be the most feasible,
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easily accomplished and least ex-
pensive of any in this State and
perhaps in the whole irrigation
West, and ask especial considera-
ton of the necessities of the pres
ent industrious, well-intentioned
population who are suffering from
the effect of circumstances over
which they have no control.
That the tenants of the ground
now occupied are holders of mod
crate quantities of ground and
while there are some holdings ex-
ceeding 100 acres to the individual,
these vested rights in the natural
course of sale and descent will
soon be divided into small holdings
of 100 acres, or less.
That two exceptions, the Miller
& Lux tract of 2I,ooo acres, and
the tract of Thomas B. Hickey
must be made to the above state
ment. But petitioners are inform
ed and believe the same to be true,
that in event of the establishment
of an adequate water-storage and
distribution system, the owners OF
the said tracts would colonize the
same and sell in small parcels to
settler owners.
Petitioners further desire to
show
That there is now pending in the
Circuit Court of the United States
for the District of Nevada a suit
wherein Miller & Lux, a corpora
ton, is complainant and about one
hundred and fifty of the farmers
of the before mentioned region
are defendants. That pleadings
in the nature of cross bills in the
said case and other suits and other
litigation of like nature in other
Courts will ultimately draw every
holder of land in the said region
into the Courts for the sake of
determining the priorities of water
rights between the several owners.
That a comprehensive solution
of the problem of water storage
and distribution which would give
an adequate supply to everyone
would obviate the necessity of
determining the priorities as be-
tween individuals.
That a complete determination
of priorities between the parties
and prospective parties to the said
suit, if it could ever be consum-
mated, would bankrupt large ma
jority of the individuals engaged
therein, and even after adjudica-
ton, render constant recourse to
the Courts necessary for the en-
forcement of superior rights, and
such an adjudication would still
leave the problem of the full
supply of water to land now oc-
cupied unsettled and the applica-
ton of water to new land entirely
unconsidered.
All the parties to the said suit
are desirous of a settlement and
compromise that would determine
an adequate amount of water for
each individual.
That the settlement of the said
suit and similar litigation must
come from an arrangement for
adequate water supply. The
water supply system that will be
delayed in preparation until after
suits shall be settled, will have to
deal with the successors of bank
rupt agriculturists, who cannot
deal with the subject with the
same immediate assurance of bene.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

Having retired from the
farm | offer my IS horse
TratIcn Gasoline En-
Cine and 80 in. Peerless
Separator, with Feeder and
Blower, for sale. cheap. Has
run two years. Just the
thing for one man, or two
to four neighbors, who
would have all the help
needed. Ten men make a
full crew. Anyone can
learn to run it. 1t cost me
just $12 for extra help to
thresh 100 acres flax last
season, and | sayed 5000.
on my whole job. No
danger from fire and will
outlast half a dozen steam
ers. Come and see it on
Sec. 7-145-54, and come
soon.
e. D. WALLACE.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

The races are on at Page this
week.
Not very good weather for the
ice man.
Miss Pearl Hench was visiting
relatives at Finley this week.
Miss Nina Bogart of Finley
was visiting friends in town Sun
day.
The Sherrys did not appear at
the opera house last Friday as
advertised.
Miss Quinn of Finley was the
guest of her friend Miss MYRTLE
Wells last Friday.
Go to Carpenter & Warmers
for that new suit for the races
the most complete stock in the
city.
Mrs. f.. H. Fuller and children
returned last Saturday from a
two weeks visit with relatives at
Park Rapids, MINI.
Howard Boise returned to
Hope last Friday and is now
working with L. o. Finn.
Mrs. Usselman, Mrs. Wells
and Miss Myrtle Wells visited
friends at Finley last Saturday.
Road Commissioner Laramore
and force of men are busily en-
gagged on our streets these days.
Mrs. E. S. Curry, of Sharon,
was visiting her sister, Mrs. Fl.
H. Fullmer, at this place last
week.
The best time made at the
Buffalo race meet was 2:24 by
Frank S. Violet E. won second
money in the 2:10 class.
Geo. A. Fead departed last
Thursday for his old home in
Michigan. Congratulations will
be in order on his return,
Mrs. M. A. Mil]igan was taken
quite suddenly i'll, while down in
| Minnesota last week, and is now
at St. Johns hospital, Fargo.
Geo. King got tangled up with
a wind mill last week and come
very nearly receiving severe in
juries. Luckily he came out alive
but he certainly had a general
shaking up, which he will moi
forget for a day or two.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23
Mrs. Frank Bissel is visiting

Mrs. Frank Bissel is visiting
friends at Finley.
Page won out in the ball game
yesterday against Hunter-score
2 to 0. e
A large crowd from here are
patronizing the race meet at Page
this week.
WANTED: Man and wife to
work on farm. Enquire OLA. w.
Greenwood, Z miles n. e. ofHope.
About one hundred of our
townspeople patronized the Sun
day dinner at the New Hope
House last Sunday.
The sermon next Sundaymorn-
ing in the opera house will be on
"Ruth's Choice''. In the evening
on THE Making Of st. john.
The w. G. II. u. will meet with
Mrs. Gene. Williams Friday
afternoon June oath. Business
of Importance. A good attend
ance is desired.
The M. e. Sunday services are
now held in the opera house.
Preaching at II a. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday school at II m. and Ep,
worth League at 7:15 p. m.
Mrs. Stevens departed last
Thursday evening for Boston,
Mass, whers she goes on an ex-
tended visit. Mrs. Walker ac-
companied her as far as Fargo.
j. P. Burling returned from
Montana last Thursday with a
carload of fine western mares
some with colts by their sides,
drivers and work horses-which
he is offering for sale.
The Broadlawn Sunday School
will give a picnic at Pratt's grove
the 4th of July. A nice program
will be rendered and everybody
is invited to come with well filled
dinner baskets.
B. o. Cumming Of Minnesota
Mimi, formerly Asst.
of the LIST Nat. Bank of
Minnesota Lake, arrived last
Tuesday and has accepted posi-
ton with the First National Bank
of this city.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

The Hope Creamery Company
returNs duplicate weight tickets
with every can Of cream received,
and renders an itemized state
ment OF the same each month.
32tf.
1t is estimated that fully fifty
thousand dollars worth of build
ing improvements will have been
done in Hope this year by the
LIST of September.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

) LUIAL NLHO NUlLO. 4
Next Tuesday and Wednesday
at Hope.
All the latest styles of Mems
straw hats at G.. & WIS.
5 dozen Mems $3.50 and $500
Hats-Your choice for $1.00 at
@. & WIS.
Mahara's Minstrels next Tues
day and Wednesday nights at the
opera house. 8
The work of excavating for the
basement of the new Methodist
church is under way.
Hope and Concordia College of
Moorhead on the Hope diamond
tomorrow afternoon.
Atty. and Mrs. Shippy return
ed Tuesday from a visit with re-
latives at Kensal, N. D.
North Dakota State Fair will
be held at Mandan, September
q, 90 and Goth this year.
Charley Brown, Of Jessie, N.
D., was visiting friends in town
from Saturday until Monday.
K. & K, the big store, have a
change of ad. this week. They
invite you to make their store
headquarters during the races.
At the school election held last
Tuesday B. T. Kraabel and DR..
NJ. G. Johnston we're elected
members of the school board for
three years.
Lightning struck the chimney
on the Masonic and I. 0. 0. F.
Hall during the storm last Sum-
day afternoon. There was no
damage done other than to the
chimney.
w. w. Hazlett has purchased
the old M. E. church building
and is moving the same onto the
lots just west of the Pioneer
office. The building will be fitted
up for his meat market.
Elsewhere will be found the
insurance statements of the
North British & Mercantile Co.,
Alliance Hail Association, The
Northern Trust and N. D. Mutual
Fire ms. Co. Look: them over
if you are interested.
Mrs. Thos. Sussex and son
Geo. returned yesterday from a
two weeks visit with relatives
and friends at st. Paul. Miss
Scriber, a niece of Mrs. S. &C
companied them home and will
visit here for a few weeks.
E. D. Weshburn, F. E. Carp
enter and W. H. Ferris have just
received the deer heads they
sent to J. D. Allen, the taxider-
mist at Mandan, to have mount
ed. They are all fine specimens
and the boys are justly proud of
them. MI. Allen certainly knows
his business and gave the boys a
f~rst-class job. The heads are
now on exhibit at the furniture
store.
Ed. Gallipo, who has been all
ing for the past few weeks, was
suddenly taken worse last We'd
nesday and Thursday evening
was taken to the hospital at Far,
go. r. F. Beadle and a brother
of Eds who lives west of Valley
City, went down with him. We
understand he is much better,
(which his friends will be pleased
to learn,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23
PASTURE

[ have room for any number Of
cattle or horses to pasture. See
Jas. Elliott or Dorrance's livery
at Hope, or me at my farm ten
miles east of Hope.
j.. P. BuBLlNG,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

Nobody could ask for finer
growing weather than has been
our good fortune to have during
the past tWo weeks,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

Send your cream to the Hope
Creamery Company. Noamount
too large or too small. 32tf.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

HAY For SALE: Good bright
hay in stack or delivered. Phone
.Broadlawn farm, G. b.. Wilcox,
Prop.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

Nos. 81 and 62 are daily Except Sunday pas.
sengert trains.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23
For Sale: One three year old
short horn bull, wgt. 100 lbs.
W. n. GRAY.
TAKEN UP

One brown mare and colt.
Owner can have same by paying
charges at the =. Wisal farm IL
miles west Of Colgate.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23
TAKEN UF

TAKEN UP
nby J. A. White, Blabon, N. D.,
one mulley white faced cow-loW-
.er half Of left ear cut off, May ~,
1904.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-06-23

The w. C. 7. U. Convention has
been postponed to July 10 and
IA, 1904.
Mrs. Lydia Northrop Pres.
Mrs.Alice Woodworth Sec,
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19
The TontO Dam.

Bids for the actual construction of the great ronto Basin dam will be opened by the geological survey Jan- uary '. 1t is understood that the con- tract for the whole gigantic monolithic structure will be let to single bidder. The contract will be in the neigbbor- hood of $2,0O0,OOO. Thus far the work has been altogether preparatory, in- cluding construction of the cement work, the building of the power canal, the construction of roads and the dig ging of the service tunnel through the rocks around one side of the dam site. Though the rock at the dam site is of the hardest character and it is not be lieved that leakage will occur to the slightest degree hot spring has been struck in the service tunnel, and it has been found that such springs are by no means uncommon along the south ern bank of the river.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19
LODGE DIRECTORY.
LODGE, NO. IS, K. OF P.

COURT COCONINO, NO. Ss6. INDEPEND. V EHT ORDER or FoREsTERs
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
 Pleasant to Take.

The finest quality of granulated loaf sugar is used in the manufacture of Chamberlain's cough remedy, and the roots used in it's preparation give it a flavor similar to maple syrup, making it quite pleasant to take. Mir. w. l.. Roderick, of Poolesville, Md, in speaking of this remedy, says: "I have used Chamberlain's cough re- medy with my children for several years and can truthfully say it is the best preparation of the kind I know of. The children like to take it and it has no injurious after effect. For sale at all druggists.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

Bisbee. Arizana, is now producing more copper from it's smelters at the Copper Queen and Calumet and Ari- zona than the output of the wonderful Calumet and Hecla, of Calumet, Mich. The total output of Calumet and Hecla for the year ending April 30, 1904, twas 76,62O, l45 pounds of copper as against 65, 0O,OO0 pounds for Copper Queen and 3O,OOO,OO0 for Calumet and Ari- zona, making total of 95,OOO, 900 pounds for these great Arizona copper mines against 77,OOO,0OO pounds for the Michigan producers.-Naco Bud- get.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

The federation of the Womans Chris tian Temperance Union in Los Ange- les, through Mrs. M. T. Boyd, was di- rected to forward to the committee on statehood at Washington protest against the manner in which women are classed in the bill designated to give statehood to Oklahoma and Ari. zona. They are mentioned among inn beetles, criminals and others as per- sons who may be disfranchised at the will of the state. Addresses were made at the meeting by Rev. B. O. Kendall, Rev. Dr. E. A. Healy, Rev. c. Carey Willett and others.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

The suit of Judge Jamison against the Black Warrior Copper company was concluded in district court yester- day afternoon. He was an attorney for the company in its suit year ago against James A. Fleming. There had not been definite arrangement about the fee. There was in the first place retainer of $100 and after the conclu- sion of the case the company sent him draft for s5OO, the receipt of which he acknowledged as payment on his fee. There was no other payment made and suit was brought for $5, 400. The judgment of the court allows him $l, loo in addition to what he had al- ready received. Republican.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

Monday the board of supervisors of this county authorized Sheriff Roberts to offer reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the person or per sons who robbed the treasury of this county on the 8th of this month. The board will also request Gov. Brodie to offer an additional reward of $500. This will make total of s2,OOO re- wards offered, and will be a sum large enough to enlist the expert de- tective work necessary to bring to justice the outlaws.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19
ARIZONA HAPPENINGS.

J. P. Storm and wife Tuesday trans ferred their property, valued at 5000 to Mir. Storms bondsmen, this being done in part payment of the loss to the bondsmen by the recent robbery of the county treasury during the incum bency as treasurer of MT. Storm. - Courier.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

Benson was visited by destructive fire Thursday night of last week, which destroyed the row of business blocks between the Virginia hotel and the Castenada store, including the Grand Central hotel, the postoffice and several saloons. high wind blowing at the time famed the flames and the rest of the business section was saved only by the heroic work of the volunteer fire brigade. The loss is estimated at s35, 900 with practically no insurance.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

Wm. J. Collard and family, of Rhoads, departed last Sunday for Los Angeles, where they will reside during the coming winter. MT. Col lard, who has been connected for sev- eral years with the J. NJ. Dennis Lum- Der company, will, we are informed, while absent inspect several tracts of timber land in California. Williams News.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

The Flagstaff band, or rather the A. L. x T. Co. band of Flagstaff. fur nished the music here last Saturday afternoon and evening at the demo- cratic rally. The band is composed of a jolly set of young fellows who take great pride in their organization and receive the hearty support and encouragement of their town and its citizens, and bids fair at no distant day to be one of the best musical or ganizations in the territory. Hams News.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

In the district court last week Judge Sloan granted a change of venue, on the motion of Ross & O'Sullivan. in the case of John Duke vs. the City of Prescott, being a suit for Sl5, 900 dam- ages for dumpage of sewake and pol lution of the waters of Granite creek by the city of Prescott. Judge Sloan also granted a change of venue in the case of the City of Prescott vs. John Duke, ct al., being the city condemna- tion suit. In the latter suit Mir. Duke demands the sum of S20.OO0 for the property sought to be condemned by the city and the further sum of S20, 900 for damages to the remainder of his premises by reason of the erection of septic tanks and filter beds on the banks of Granite creek. Ross & O'Sullivan also represent MT. Duke in this suit. Both suits are transferred to Maricopa county and-will be tried by Judge Kent.-Courier.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19
PrrrsBuRe, KAs., March a5. loos.

Ihave been using your Bisck- Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine on my stock for some time. I have used all kinds of stock food but l have found that yours is the best for my purpose.
 J. s. HASSON.
The Coconino sun., 1904-11-19

Yesterday morning W. o. Gibbons was seriously injured by the horses running away with the threshing ma chine. He was about ready to start for the Meadows with the machine, when the horses became restless and started .o go of their own accord at a pretty good gait. Mir. Gibbons tried to stop them but they ran into fence and he was pinned in between the fence and the thresher, the hind wheel then passed over his body breaking three ribs over his heart and bruising other parts of his body badly. He IS now under the care of the doctor and is reported to be doing as we'll as could be expected. Johns Herald.