The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-11-04
THE U. S. SENATE COMMITTEE
VIII Be Here Next Friday. The
Entire Day To Be Spent
Here.

the Court House Saturday evening with
Hon. w. w. Williams presiding. A
number of important questions were
brought to the attention of those
present, chief among which was the
matter of entertaining the Senatorial
Committee when they arrive in Fallon
tomorrow. 1t had been brought to the
notice of the association that the Reno
Commercial Club was preparing to
entertain the distinguished body of
lawmakers at Reno and the local as
sociation promptly took action to pro-
vide suitable entertainment for the
Senators during their stay in Fallon
and an invitation was voted to the
Reno Commercial Club to come down
to this project and participate in the
entertainment. 1t is the opinion of
local people that the visit of the COM
mittee to this project is cur show
exclusively and it is feared that the
Reno Commercial body's attempt to
secure its presence In the state metro
polls may hamper observations hera.
Question No. II evoked considerable
discussion. The committee report.
placed figures upon the land values,
computed on the actual basis of earn
ings, figured from actual average erors
produced that rnnst make both the local
and outside investor know that
golden opportunity is being lost in this
section. Grain land actually earns On
an average in this valley a yearly sum.
which figured on a six per cent has;s
makes the land worth around Sl66,
while alfalfa earns an annual increment
figured on the same basis of around
s400 per acre. When we know that
this land has never sold for more than
400 per acre and that, save in excep-
tional cases the price has been around
SIS for cultivated land, the disparity
between the selling price. which in a
measure establishes value, and the
actual value figured on the earning
power of the land is so great that
naturally the breath was fairly taken
out of many present at Saturday
evenings meeting.
After going into the various phases
of the question, it was voted that the
committee report be referred back to
the committee having the completed
report in their charge for final DISPOSE
ton. Just how they will dispose of
the report is not known, but it is be-
lieved that they will attach to it vari
ous explanatory paragraphs.
The association was somewhat in
doubt relative to the duration of the
committees stay in Fallon and just
what means they should use to enter
tain the members during their stay
here. Although the matter of direct
ing the committees movements in this
state was, out of courtesy, left to
Senat,r Newlands, who is both the
states senior senator and a member
of the committee. he did not give the
water users of this project the courtesy
of comforting with them relative to the
movements of the senate committee.
As a result of Newlands' apathetic
interest in Churchill county affairs it
was uot until Tuesday that local citizens
were informed of the trend of events
and on that date a telegram was re-
ceived which confirmed in local minds
the report that Reno had been desig-
mated by Newlands as the place for
senatorial entertainment rather than
Fallon. This means that the COM
mittee will arrive here early Friday
morning to spend the day and that
early in the evening their special will
wend its way into Reno, which has
been officially designated by Newlands,
of Chevy Chase, as a more appropriate
place for the banquet, which is already
being prepared. II also means that the
preparation Cor banquet that was
under way locally will have to be
aDanuOneu.
The following statement from Secre-
tary Stevenson of the Reno Commercial
Club, apparently has the official sane
tion of Senator Newlands:
Secretary Stevenson, of the Reno
Commercial Club states that tomorrow
the committee of the club in charge
of the entertainment for the U. S. SEN
atorial Reclamation committee will be-
gin to prepare for the entertainment of
the visiting senators. He says that the
Senators will arrive in Fallon from the
east at $50 a. m. on Friday, Novem-
ber 9Th. They will spend the day visit
ing the reclamation project and will
leave Fallon at o'clock that evening,
and will arrive here at $50 O'Clock the