The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-01
A TRIP ALONG THE COAST

try comprising two portions of the
project at large out
lay of money was an error of judg-
ment.
A notable thing in connection with
the development of certain other Sec
tions including the klamath govern
ment irrigation project is the active
advertising propaganda under way.
Klamath boosters are maintaining pub
licity bureaus in all the principal cities
of the Coast, including Sacramento,
which have for their purpose the at
tracing of new blood, and the best an
swer to the question whether it pays
is contained in the announcement that
tie scope of their advertising scheme
is to be rapidly enlarged. Klamath is
getting returns far out of proportion
to the money outlay and it makes US
know that our project can never be of
the Importance warranted by Its re-
sources until the business men whom
growth will most directly benefit put
forth greater and concentrated efforts
to attain this end.
In fact, If the outside world were to
judge our project in the future by our
actions in the past, the project would
have to be placed in the category Of
failure. but our own efforts are palp-
able and cannot keep the country down
for long.
The trouble in the main lies in our
slipshod methods and the unattractive-
ness of our sandy lands. If they were
located in an Indian reservation
and thrown open for drawing, the
homeseeking population of the country
would bowl each other over in an ef-
fort to get piece of land. There is an
element Of luck about drawings and a
mystery and romance about Indian
lands that will always attract. As
evidence witness the rush to get the
lands involved by the Spokane Couer
d'Aline and Flat Head reservation
drawings scheduled for August 9th.
To go back to our trip We found Sac
ramento upon our arrival, Tuesday,
the same hot, malarial, sot withal,
beautiful and substantial center. A
number of ex-Fallonites, including
Geo. Pasonault, live here. The streets
are dusty, so dusty in fact, that when
you expectorate in the street, side
walk expectoration is prohibited. that
if the proper momentum is given the
wad of saliva, it rolls along and mud
ball as big as the snow ball of our
youth results. The air of the Cali
fornia valley was full of dust and if a
Churchill county resident could COM
plain of the clean sandstorms of our
county after getting bite and Whit
of Sacramento's alluvia soil he should
be ashamed.
After taking in Tuesdays Coast
League ball game between Sacramento
and Portland, in which the webfooters
were bested by a score of one to moth
ing, we went from the capital city to
Davis Junction where we found Charles
Spoon and family, who visited few
days in Dixon before proceeding north
to Oregon, where they will spend the
summer. Through an agents error
Mr.. Spoon failed to board the new
Portland limited, which makes the dis
tance from San Francisco to Portland
in day, cutting off twelve hours from
the 70 mer running time. The train is
The NOS. nagniiicent o. any ey er run
on the Coast and affords the Seattle
fair traffic an opportunity to enjoy the
comforts of home en- route. Generally
speaking the Hartman service has
been improved on the Pacific Coast in
recent years until it now compares
favorably with the railway service of
the east.