The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1908-08-07


you 10 ieel that you are a ,.aft and par
eel of an organization that has for its
ultimate aims the advancing of the
business interests of Fallon and Church.
i'll county. The very liberal articles of
our incorporation give US broad scope
and a large field. The opportunities are
not limited. There is plenty Of room
for effective work and there are many
matters that we can take up. As an
organization, the Club is now ready to
do things. We want to get busy in
stead of getting noisy. am sure you
will pardon US if we feel little enthu-
siastic over the fact that we are al last
standing upon safe ground; that our
organization is made effective; that the
many difficulties that usually lie in the
way of the successful Inauguration of
such enterprises have been overcome;
and that at last we are located and can
greet our friends and are ready for
business.
1t is a matter of congratulation that
the people of Churchill county are in
telligent and responsive along lines that
are safe and sane"
The hard knocks of early days made
our people self-reliant. resourceful and
of splendid mental and physical poise.
Now, when the time has come for
united effort in the way of civic i'm
proyement and commercial advantages,
they bring to the work an experience
that is fundamental, and knowledge
that is comprehensive. Go where you
will and do what you may, you cannot
get away from this splendid and con-
tagious influence. 1t is comparatively
easy now to do things in Churchill coun-
ty. The means are at hand and the
opportunities are many. The country
is settling down to the realities of mod
erd improvement.
The men who came here IN early days
and single handed and alone fought
their stubborn way in the face Of diff
eulties and discouragements, builded
better than they knew. They developed
and showed to the world the possibilities
of irrigation. They never heard of
weir, a structure, a lateral, an intake,
a dashboard or 3-acre feet of water.
But they blazed the trail and quarter
of century ago made of irrigation an
exact science. They built bridges and
school houses and roads. They put dams
in the Carson river and made of this
fair valley checkerboard of bitches.
They kept their children in school and
their citizens out of the county Jail.
For one solid stretch of II years, when
they called the roll of counties at the
State prison Churchill never answered.
For rs years the State treasurer made
his annual remark that Churchill was
the first county to settle her taxes-and
always in full and or the third Monday
Of every fiscsl year she started of with
= clean bill Of lading
For thirty years people lived here and
never owned paddock. They slept of
nights and never locked door. When
you walk under the shade of the trees
around Fallon and along the lanes Of
the county, give one thought to the
pioneers who carried these trees upon
their backs in the days of their youth.
Every day somebody asks me how we
did things in those days. My invariable
answer is that | know only by hearsay;
that have only been here thirty years
and that when | first came l was a
| tenderfoot.
| want to tell you right now that my
thanks are due to the old settlers for
what they did for me in those days.
When first came here | was just out
of school, and was suffering with an
affiiction that sometimes terminates
fatally. There was no doctor in the
county and did not know what was
the matter. | have since found out
that was suffering with an acute at
tack of the big head. The old settlers
gave me some medicine that was good
for what allied me.
| was going to revolutionize the order
of things. didn't know much about
the existing conditions, but like the
sudden reformer thought | did. The
old settler quietly took me in hand, OBJ
served me cut of the tail of his eye,
laid me on the shelf as though | were
one of Bharoah's mummys, and kept
me under advisement for about years.
During that time had plenty of op-
portunity to dry up, to dwindle, to di-
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