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The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29

The Fallon-Hazen flyer is making
all kinds of time these days and travels
on schedule that makes the word
erratic seem very charitable indeed
when applied to it. 1t gets here most
any time between sun up and sun down
and sometimes turns around before it
gets to the Fallon railroad yards and
wends its way back on the homeward
journey. Usually, the train crew stops
at Hazen and in addition to eating
dinner stop and play game or two of
solo and shake the dice for an ice cold
beer or two after which they poke
leisurely over to Fallon, the land of
hayseeds and weed pullers.
The present Hazen-Fallon crew can
give the proverbial Arkansas slow
train crew cards and spades and then
take its very breath away in astonish-
ment. In fact, we have here an ex-
ample of the tortoise and the hare
and if the particular tortoise that ran
the tabled race still lives, we will bet
a plug of tobacco that he can add to
his laurels by beating the Hazen-Fallon
train over any measured course that
may be designated.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
Mrs. Wallace Fergu son Entertains.

Mrs. Wallace Ferguson entertained
the members of the Five Hundred"
card club at her home yesterday at a
dinner, which represented painstaking
effort on the part of the hostess, who
was rewarded with a manifestation of
the best appetites seen in these parts
for long time, according to one
present. Following dinner the delight
full shade of the Ferguson home was
enjoyed.
Those who partook of Mrs. Fergu-
sons hospitality yesterday were:
Mesdames E. w. and w. C. Black,
|. H. Kent, Milton Wallace, Ed. and
John Dunbar, M. E. Reed. Thomas H.
Means and Dr. j. L. Smith
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
A Communication
GoldReId. Nevada. July q. 1905

Goldheld, Nevada, July 22. 1909.
AT regular meeting of the Board
of Mining Congress Commissioners,
held this day in the office of Milton M.
Detch, Secretary, at Goldfield, the re.
ports of the solicitors, Messrs. Charles
F. Kapp and Branch II. Smith, were
read and approved.
A resolution was introduced and unan.
imously indorsed, thanking the citizens
al large, the stage and railroad COM
panies and particularly the Press OF
Nevada, for their kind treatment and
the many hospitalities shown their solic.
tors during their recent visit to the
camps throughout the State.
The Commissioners desire to state
to the various committees throughout
the State, who have charge of collecting
and shipping exhibits from their i'm.
mediate vicinity that the matter of
freight transportation has been settled
and that all exhibits will be shipped
free OF charge from point of shipping tc
to Goldfield and return if desired,
otherwise to the State School of Mines,
at Reno. The Commissioners earnestly
request that the exhibits be forwarded
Immediately that the Board may moi
be embarrassed at the eleventh hour.
The arranging, classifying and cata-
loging of specimans is one of the ar.
euous tasks and requires considerable
time. Some of the exhibits have
arrived and now that the question OF
transportation has been arranged, it is
expected that the exhibits will arrive
daily.
Yours very truly,
M. M. Detch, Secy.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
County Clerk Sitton Makes Serious
Mistake.

County Clerk j. W. i5itton suffered
an accident Saturday afternoon, that
came near costing him the sight of an
eye. In some manner he mistook a
bottle containing carbolic acid for one
containing an eye water. with which
he had been treating granulated lids,
and after filling an eyeglass with the
pure acid, applied it to his eye,
before he noted his mistake. Although
blinded and suffering great pain. he
Immediately refilled the eyeglass with
alcohol, supply of which was luckily
on hand and applied it for an sntidoie,
and after rendering all the first aid
possible, called Mr.. Clark, his neighbor
who drove him to town in hurry and
after arriving here Drs. Dempsey and
Rees took furthur precautions towards
saving the sight of the injured eye.
This they succeeded in doing together
with Mr.. Sitton's prompt action in ap-
plying the alcohol, and although he
subsequently suffered great pain from
the burned optic, it is not thought that
any serious results will follow.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
WE WILL HAVE A BIG FAIR
Meeting Called For Saturday
Evening to Devise
Methods.

Hon. w. w. Williams, president of
the Churchill County Fair Association
has called meeting of local citizens
for Saturday evening. The Court
House has been selected as the place
of meeting and Mr.. Williams has desig-
mated 8 o'clock sharp as the time
The purpose Of the meeting is to devise
methods to be pursued in the prepara-
tion of the annual fair this fall, which
is planned to follow the race track
meet at Reno in September.
By fixing the date in this manner,
it will allow OF the horses that will
appear at the Reno meet to be shipped
to this place for participation in the
various events that are planned as a
part of our fair attractions. Mr..
Williams is, along with all other local
citizens. very anxious that a credit
able exposition of our resources should
be arranged for the fair of this fall
and he believes that in order to do the
occasion justice, falr plans should be
matured early; hence the meeting for
Saturday evening.
All who are interested are invited to
be in attendance Saturday evening
and offer suggestions for the coming
fair. Farmers are urged particularly
to enter into the spirit of the occasion
and do all they can to make it a success.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
COAST PRICES OF PRODUCE
Lovelock and Carson Sections
Have Large Hay Surplus
And Sell Cheap

AS stated in this paper in prior
issues, the one thing that is agitating
both local tradesmen and producers is
the matter of crop conditions, which
embraces condition hitherto unknown
the matter Of having a large surplus
crop of staples, while in the past the
local markets have in the course of the
seasons following crop raising absorbed
the entire output of hay, grain and
potatoes. This changed condition
means that this section is no longer
occupying the position of consuming
section but is now in the list of produc-
ing sections and must seek to establish
favor in outside markets for its pro-
ducts. This, OUT of the very nature of
things, means that where grain, for
instance, was formerly worth $40 per
ton plus the freight rate from San
Francisco. our regulating market, it is
now worth $40, less the freight rate.
Advices from California dealers state
that alfalfa hay is being laid down in
the bay city for $11.50 to $500, and
that the supply is far greater than the
demand. In short, that there is no
serious prospect of raise in hay val
ues along the Coast for at least ninety
days. This means that baled alfalfa
will be worth. if the representations of
the outside produce dealers are true to
conditions, around 50 delivered in
Fallon. Figured down to stack val
ue this would mean that local hay
raisers cannot hope for more than
s5.5 per ton until outside markets
show decided upward trend in hay
values.
One of the governing influences In
establishing this value is the action Of
the Lovelock and Carson valley hay
raisers in offering their products for this
price. 1t is claimed that the hay crop
in both these valleys is unusually
large and there is decided disposition
on the part of the raisers to unload
their hay on outside markets at the
prevailing figures.
A number of the local hay raisers are
already making arrangements to feed
their hay to beef, and this action will
partially help to solve the question of
market. Those who cannot afford to
either hold their hay for the raise that
inevitably comes during the fall and
winter periods or feed cattle will out
of the very nature of things be forced
to sell their hay at the figures offered
this fall.
1t is claimed that rolled barley will
be worth around $50 per ton f. o. b.
the cars in Fallon and whole barley
about SIS. Wheat will be perhaps the
most profitable crop of the valley, for
wheat prices are soaring and will re-
turn to the local raisers a handsome
profit on their labor. A special rate
will soon be published by the Southern
Pacific Company fixing the shipping
charge on carloads of grain from Fal-
Ion to coast points at s7.60. At the
present time it is prohibitive, being
around $500. The new rate will con-
form to the rate already enjoyed by
Lovelocks and other main line points.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
City Council Meeting.

The city council held special meet
ing Saturday evening, at which time
steps were taken to dispose of the
proposed issue of $35, 600 of city water
bonds. Advertisements were ordered
inserted in the local papers in addition
to eastern papers and every effort
possible will be made to sell the bonds.
The official bonds of Councilman C..
w. Foote and City Treasurer &. l..
Noble were approved.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
ELECTRICAL POSI- BIuTIES.
This Project Has an Asset in Its
Power Possibilities of
Great Value.

In the next quarter of century the
greatest fortunes will be made by
those discerning men who have acquired
power rights in mountain streams.
Electricity is rapidly taking the
place of steam. Electric power can
be produced at low cost and transport
ed, byimproved methods, long distances.
1t can be sold to the farm and to the
private dwelling, as well as to rail-
ways and factories. 1t can enable
any community situated near the source
of raw material to do their own manu-
featuring without regard to the proxi-
nifty of cheapness of fuel supply.
The man who has electric power has
commodity which will be in the near
future, a necessary of life. 1t is a
commodity, moreover, of which in the
sources Of supply, although practically
unlimited in capacity for development,
and limited in number and, therefore
are easily susceptible of organized
control.
Twenty years ago any man could
have acqired power rights in the Sierras
by fling claims. Today nearly every
good source of power has been taken
up by far seeing spectators who are
now preparing to turn their foresight
into money. The man who finds an
unclaimed mountain torrent is luckier
than the man who finds gold mine.
True, it was a mistake for the gov
ernment to permit private persons to
obtain ownership of such priceless
privileges in the public domain, but it
is condition. bot theory, that con-
fronts us. Modern industrial civiliza-
tion must henceforth pay tribute to
the electric power barons, as in the
past few generations ii paid tribute to
the coal baron. San Francisco Bulletin.
1t would not be out of place to add
to the above article that this project
has many thousand horsepower going
to waste, which. thanks to wise
provision of the reclamation law belongs
to the people through all time, but is
available for leasing, however. As
the development of this project pro-
crosses the value of this power will
increase, until in the end every avail
able unit will be utilized for some sort
of manufacturing concern. The util-
zation of our products will be made
co-incident with this power development.
1t is amusing to a good Judge of
water power value who is acquainted
with the avidity with which wise con-
Germs snap up available sites in countries
where cheap fuel is available too, to
listen to the talk of mining operators
who claim that power will eventually
be developed in Falion by means of
crude oil and transferred to the camps
of Wonder and Fairview. Whenever
these people need power for mill opera
ton and show Uncle Sam a good and
sufficient bond to insure faithful
business actions, a lease on cheap
power can be had from the Reclama-
ton department and this is what must
happen before power transmission can
be seriously considered from Falion to
the outlying camps.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
Fight Between Ballinger, Newell
and Pinchot Is On In
Earnest.

The fight is ON, and Ballinger has
thrown down the red rag to his subor-
dinates, Francis H. Newell, director
of the reclamation service and Clifford
Pinehot, head of the forestry branch of
the interior department, both of whom
happen to be directly accountable to
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger,
who has taken umbrage at the past
methods employed by each in their re-
spective departments and who says
that henceforth the best laid plans of
these two subordinates must be dis
carded, or they will be asked to step
down and out with their pet hobbies
under their arms.
1t times past Pinchot, who is reputed
millionaire, has basked in the lime
light of magazine advertising and slop-
py sentimentality has run over the
pages of many publications, while
the publicity all calculated to warm
the hearts of the American public to
the vast Importance of these two gen.
tlemen, who according to reports ema-
mating from Washington, mistook the
Importance of their respective jobs, for
self Importance and failed to handle
the affairs of the two sub-departments
of the Interior Department in manner
satisfactory to their new chiet.
Ballinger celebrated his advent III
ofiicialdom by repeating great many
reclamation and forestry policies, and
he has taken hold of the affairs Of his
Office with zeal and zest that would
indicate that while he may not be
wholly conversant with the multitudins
GUS conditions presented by the varis
Gus branches of the Interior Depart.
ments, he means to get in touch with
them at an early date.
The disaffection in the reclamation
department is making itself felt in
the various projects of the country and
uneasy rests the heads upon which
official crowns are worn these days,
for Newell's system is promised .
severe shaking up, and according to
reports from outside sources, both
Newell and Pinchot will likely retire
from official life under the Ballinger
pressure.
Chief Newell will be remembered in
this section mainly for his antagonis-
tic attitude toward vested rights.
He accompanied Garfield here some
two years ago and on that occasion
showed plainly the attitude of an illogi-
cal, uncompromising and extremely
narrow individual, who is not fit to
hold down the position of director of
Uncle Sans reclamation operations.
Pinchot operated in like strain in the
conduct of his Office and assumed in
his creation of forest reserves that no
interest should be considered but his
own deductions made from the blue
print of a $50 per month forest rang
er. With the passing of these two
men, the forestry and reclamation
branches will be well rid of hopelessly
impractical visionaries. Let US hope
that with their passing will come men
of ability and farseeing Judgment.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-29
Weather Bulletin.

The following weather report for the
week ending July "a, 1909, was COM
piled at the Experiment Farm, u. S.
Department of Agriculture, Fallon, Me-
vada, by Shober Rogers, Superinten-
dent:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-09
e2 West Madison Street In 1867.

forty succeeding years, it must
have been apretty good ',eater,
to have caught on that way,
otherwise, instead of forty
years, such demand for It
wouldn't have lasted forty
days. It Is hard to deprive a
good thing of a good name, and
It always had, and has to-day,
tho name of being tho best
house-heating device ever in
vented, whether for comfort
or for gorgeous ornamentation.
And among lingering homo memo
riss, how It fingers TO old settlers
and the last two generations Of
people who, In childhood, played
In Ito warmth and were dazzled by
its splendor, its associations blend
with those Of the ancestral portraits
on the wall, and win last while life
snduyes.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-09

Of wooden sidewalks and frame
houses-of oil lamps and can
dies - of houses without gas
light and of street cars with
out cushions and without mod
ern straps for passengers. The
winters were severe and good
heat had been q long-felt want,
when John NJ. Smyth Co., to
make everybody comfortable,
introduced the Favorite Base
burner, the above picture rep
resenting the first car load con-
signment to the old store on W. Aadi-
son Street. The demand for It became
4 furore, like government land-grab-
bling. The mansions Of the present
loop district discarded their furnaces for
It. and 1t got to be felt % q privation
for any dwelling to be without one.
Cottages were enlarged and one room
addition made to log cabins to let It In.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-09

q Favor1te along
tho avenues or
laboring through
quagmires and
over n q 70 w
turnpikes to tho
outlying homes,
was one of tho
familiar street
see 90 of the
pc riod. And,
az q like scene
has continued
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-09

vided BY John
M. Smyth Co.
was that of q
good house heat
er. It was In
tho Chicago Of q
former age, when
conditions were
primitive-no
palaces, no gilt
tering boule-
Yards, no park
gardens, no tele-
Dhonos---the aQo
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-09

Of furnishing over a mil
lion homes, one of the
home comforts early pro-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-01-09
InTheirW Worlds Record Feat
lContinusd.)

The continuous autumn
spectacle Of the old-style
Smyth wagons d epositing
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-07

mum 8. iOjata que reciba pronto
una carta vuestra con tai sobre!
Puedo afirmaros que no concebia
nj POGO nj mucho 10 que me decia
mi hermana mayor, y como ella Sc
sonreia al habiarme, me sonreia yo
tambien sin responderie.
lComo podre deciroslo Otto?
5como podre espIicaroslo a vos que
sols tan noble Y tan zeal?
Nenlta, que casi me dobla de edad
y que debiera haberme servido de
madre, queria perderme. Bajo aquel
dlsfraz de cariho habia una especie
de odio, del cual me es impossible adj
vlnar la causa.
No Sc 81 ella sera culpable, pero
10 que puedo deciros es que deseaba
que 20 10 fuese.
Me habio de desconocidos place
res y de misteriosos desiices. Su per
fida eiocuencia desarrollo ante mis-
asombrados ojos mil cuadros a cual
mas seductor.
Halle en- mi estancia libros. V
iquf Sc 70! iBastante os he dicho!-
Ei pudor enrojece mi frente y mi
puma tiembIa."
Anochesla; ia frescura de Ia noche
habla eNtendido una densa bruma
ante los cristaies del pabelion de Liza
y Esther y Nenita q NADIA podian
yer va, y Sc habian sentado de nue.
vo una enferente de otra junto 4 la
chimcnea.
Y dque es 10 que podeis temer,
quenda mla2pregunto Mad de Lau
rens;;-todo esta previsto; jestareis
ALI con mas seguridad que bajo vues
ira careta de anoche. 5Pensais acaso
que he obrado 20 sin mas nj mas
81 he provisto de fondos a la Batai-
lleur, 81 he coiocado Ia casa en- Go
mandlta, es porque queria ser Ia
dueha absolute y va, va vereis
con que tlno Y que destreza esta to-
do dispuesto.
Esther Sc son1i6.
-Hace va aiglin tiempo-prosiguit
Nenita, ia Bataiiieur ha hecho circu
lar entire los concurrentes otra yer.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-07
POR PAUL FEW AL

primera que la he visto me he senti-
do atraida hacia ella y hubiera que
rido llamaria amiga mia.
Parece, no obstante, que no anna
a mis- hermanas, y Nenita me ha re-
comendado mucho que desconfie
de ella.
Nenita, debo advertiroslo es mi
hermana mayor, q la cuai no Sc lie da
otro nombre en- casa. Estoy retar-
dando todo 10 possible el hablaros de
ella, y es de ella, sin embargo, de
quien principalmente deseo hablaros
Desde mi legada, mi otra hernia
ma esta tan indiferente como fria:
Nenlta, al contrario, me ha finjido
Ell mas tierno afecto, y tanto
ei mas tierno afecto, y tanta coque-
terra ha empleado para ganarse mi
conflanza que le he creido buena y
capaz de amarme.
Para atraerse mi confianza, ha
empezado por deseubrirme sus Sc.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-07

, dia de la manana, oigo una planta
pesada pero discreta que parece
bajar las gradas de una escaiera in
visible situada cerca de mi.
Momentos hay en- que me vuelvo
de improviso, persuadida casl de
que los pasos suenan en- mi propla
habitacion.
Oigo abrir una puerta proxima
al pabeiion -iy no creais que sea un
suenoI oIesos rumores son claros Y
dlstlntos: los he dido veinte veces y
siempre a una mlsma hora.
| Los pasos slguen SUI camlno por
una via subterranea al parecer. 81
permanezco en- mi aposento los olgo
eXtlngWrse muy pronto, pero por
cuatro Q clnco veces he alberto la
puerta del invernadero y les he Sc
| guido.
Entonces les he dido por toda la
extension del jardin, y hasta el ex-
tremo del invernadero que termina
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-07

lpor unhosco en- el cual nadie entra
nunca.
Al IIegar ALI, el subterraneo cami-
nante abre una segunda puerta y
ACADIA ell ruido.
Por la tarde , a ESQ de las cinco,
Sc renueva la misma escena, pero en-
sentldo contrarlo.
Los pasos vienen del jardin pa
san por debajo del pabellon y suben
lentamente la escalera por Ia que han
bajado por la manana.
He preguntado al jardinero para
saber 81 Ia casa tiene subterraneos
por aquel lado Y Sc ha reido de mi.
Y, no es una illusion. AIgo estra-
no pasa en- la casa, desapercibido
para todos.
He encontrado aqui una joven
a quien poder amar. Es casi tan be-
liza como mis- hermanas, y SUI dulce
fisonomia revela un exceiente cora
zon. Sc llama Dionisia; desde la vez
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-07

sion diferente. Tras la cortina del
confesonario no Sc ocultaba va una
princesa, sino un personaje politico,
indijena 9 extrangero, un embajador
un ministro talvez. va comprenderas
querlda, que una vez admitida esta
ultima hipotesis, no tenemos va ma
da que temer por parte del gobier.
no.
-sY sois vos quien ocupa ese pal
co?-pregunto Esther.
No siempre. A palco es una
precauci6n reservada para todos los
casos peilgrosos, es decir, un asiio.
Despues q. me siento la mesa, So
mienzan a taiiar. Esther diez amos
hace que luego y jamas he expert
mentado un momento de cansancio
Q sacledad, juzga 81 vale tanto el
amor. Ademas de que 10 uno no
impide 10 otro.
Latia ei seno de Nenita: SUI voz
vlbraba baja y penetrante.
Esther tenia inciinados los ojos
Y cuando los ievanto briiiaba un ra
20 en- su pupiia.
Nenita reprlmio un gesto de triun-
fo.
Sarah jugadora- -afirm6; ;-tu VEN
dras conmigo.
Esther no contesto.
-Vendras te digo-repiti6 Sarah
aquel es el placer supreme. Y el pla
Ger que Sc proionga y que jamas Sc
cansa.
Y dicho este aproximo ei sillon a
a. de su hermana.
-Ademas-repuso hacienda que
SUI voz fuese mas insinuante a1n,-
hay otra cosa aparte del juego.
Airededor de ia mesa Sc sientan aven
turcros Y nob.es, que vienen de todos
los paises comoei ORC que traen con-
slgo.
Fl seno Gle Esther Sc estremecio;
toda su sangre fue i goiparse en- sus
melii.as.
La sonrisa de Ncnita permanecio
tran quiia Y serena.
-iPor Dios! dijo Esther
ipor Dios hermana mia
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-07
FLA VILLA DE MADRID. "

Esteimportante establecimlento aca-
ba de- reoibir los impermeables tran
ceses marea E. H. de fama universe
.si como las legitimss Camisetas Il. Il b.
1onocidss del publico de gu.to' lam N,
bien acabamos de recibir Paio de Bi-
llar frances, Casimires ipgleses propio o
p.ra yerano y ell mejor surtido de pei
funeria francesa inglesa sin faltar
II. ,Alfambras lejftimas de oriente tie,
na. MOI eompstenGa. on pet a fensmos elmas com i,
plefoH surtido en- generos de fantasia a
E los prsiss ma. linitaao.. venaer nd, b 6u,, !.
nIs mercancias es el lena de "LA
VILLA DE MADRID" Visltenos
6 pidaaos muestray sera servido sln
demerA m.
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