The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-03-31
.FALLON'S FEDERAL BUILDING
Is Now Nearing Completion
And Will Be Occupied
About May 1st.

building on Maine street Tuesday dis
closed the fact that the contractors,
Wildes, Hammond & Robinson, are
making commendable headway with
the government structure, which when
completed, will house the project records
and provide Office rooms for project
administration. In the fire proof vault,
which is being installed by Busch &
Henricksen will be stored project sur
vey maps, of an approximate value of
$lO0, 900.
The building proper will be an artistic
affair when completed. 1t viii have
the distinction of being the first steam
heated structure in the town, j. c.
Jones having already installed most of
the plumbing in addition to to the
steam heating outfit, which could be
operated at once. The basement hous-
ing the steam heating paraphernalia is
concrete lined and appears to be water
tight. This is necessary, owing to the
nearness to the surface of the water
level in the district selected for the
federal building.
Electricians are busy with the wiring
OF the building and it is being done in
most thorough manner. Telephone
and electric lighting connections are
being provided. 1t is said that an ar
rangement is being sought whereby
the government telephone lines oper-
ating over the project will be handled
by switchboard in the county tele-
phone Office where the central girl can
do double duty and care for the two
exchanges.
The new federal building will be
thirty-four by forty-eight feet in di-
mensions and will be divided into rooms
for the various departments, and glass
will be installed in the partitions sepa-
rating the rooms, which Mr.. Means
jokingly says will afford him facilities
for watching his subordinates and thus
prevent loafing. Originally it was
planned to make the building two
stories in height, but the Washington
authorities looped off the building ap-
preparation and necessitated eliminating
the idea in favor of the present struc-
ture, which will be ready for occupancy
along about May 18th. On this date
the present quarters will be abandoned
by the clerical forces, but the shops
and stables will be continued at their
present location. In addition, the COM
missary, which is now situate near the
railroad track, will be moved to the
old headquarters, inasmucL as. it is no
longer necessary to handle the volume
of supplies common in former years,
when project construction was active.
Directly adjoining the federal build
Means informs us will shortly be filled
with project agricultural products.
Many excellent specimens of fruits,
vegetables and grains have been pre-
pared for exhibit and are now at the
experimental farm, from where they
will shortly be moved to the building
erected for the purpose of housing a
creditable local exhibit for the informa-
4 tion of homeseekers. When the federal
building is occupied it will be possible
for an attendant to always be present
in the adjoining exhibit building to ex-
plain the thousand and one things that
arises in the mind of an inquisitive
homeseeker who demands satisfaction
upon many points before he finally con-
cludes to tie to section.
Whenever the government and rail-
road company get ready to advertise
this project, like exhibit buildings will
be built in Hazen and Reno, in fulfill
ment of promise made the project
engineer some time back by the rail-
road officials. 1t will be borne in mind
that the railroad company owns many
thousands of acres of good farming
lands, susceptible of cultivation,
that is even now within reach of the
government bitches.