The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-05-31
A HANDY GOVERNOR
He Does Most of the Entertaining
at OIinghouse Canyon

at OIinghouse Canyon
The citizens OF OlIngnouae Canyon
gave a reception last tuesday 10 the
outside world and celebrated the
event by a barbecue.
1t was certainly great feed ana
the hospitality OF the town was
poured out like water. No visitors
money was good in Olinghouse that
day and if you attempted to spend
any the rude barkeeper pushed it
back as if it was contaminated with
smallpox.
The committee having the barbe-
cue in charge after a long talk con-
cluded that Governor Sparks had
made such success of his barbecues
that it would be the wisest course
to have him superintend this one and
he was accordingly sent for. He re-
sponded at once and agreed to see
that the meats were roasted to the
proper turn on a railroad iron grid
iron over pit which harbored the
fire OF hell for the proper period.
Then came the question OF coffee.
1t was generally agreed that when
it came to good coffee that Mrs. John
Sparks had the reputation of making
the best coffee this side OF the White
House and there was a peculiar
flavor about her brew and a peculiar
aroma found nowhere else in the
country
The committee We're unanimously OF
the opinion that Mrs Sparks was the
one and only person that could make
the coffee.
Then there was piquant red sauce
that she had invented that went with
barbecued meat without which the
meat was hardly worth eating and by
common consent she was selected t
make the sauce.
The committee by this time became
so impressed with the stunts tn
Sparks family could do in connection
with a barbecue that they assignee
all of his family and his servants t
run the barbecue and the visitors
when they struck the place found tn
Governors people doing the receptio
act and serving the coffee and carr!
ing the meat as if it was the Alan
ranch itself.
Beautiful. Beautiful murmere
the committee. Isn't it great ths
we thought of this in time. Whs
would we have done without tn
Governor and his wife"
The crowd said the meat was ju'
right and the committee said Lea,
it to old John Sparks
And the sauce is simply heaven
and the coffee an aromatic dream
You bet that Mrs Sparks wor
We selected the right people.
The only draw back was no butt
in sight. but the crowd made no kit
and the bread went just as fast wit
out butter.
Then at the close of the feast son
one found a great pile of beautif
fresh butter by the spring, but !
one having any use for spring wat
the butter had not been discovered.
Around the hillocks about a hu
dred Indians sat waiting for the fes
to close that they might fall aboard
the remnants ald fill p. 1t was
picturesque sight those red men wa
ing for their turn at the second tai
as they shifted the scents of t
baked meats.
Who is the proper party to inv
those Indians.
Mrs. Sparks knows all those
dians they have helped at the [
end of many a barbecue on
Alamo ranch
OF course. of course Mrs. Spar
was the party to ask the Indians
eat which she did most heartily a
when they got word from her II
knew it was Official
Well it was a great day at Oil
house. 1t is great camp and W.
Stevenson, the main guy of the pl;
was in his glory.
The mines are yielding libera
and all the miners are prope
owners there and have faith in
future of the place. After the fl
they had horse racing up the m
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