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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-02-03

Geo, d. Bumpus. whose well is a
huge success, is going to put in fif-
teen acres Of oats, Immediately.
Geo. says this Is the best country in
the world for oats.
Those seven thousand trees, all B.
year-old thrifty fellows, best varie-
ties Of apples and pears, at A. L.
Taylor's ranch, looked mighty good
to the Albuquerqueans.
T. G. Aitken has ordered 1900
apple and pear trees for his south
east farm. He contemplates in
stalling an electric pumping plant
and having one of the best orchards
In this country.
Isn't much argument necessary
when one sees your big irrigation
pumping plants and the manner in
which they water the soil. re-
marked one Of the visiting boosters,
Thursday evening.
Wilson 4 Nye have just COM
pleted 5Sft. we'll for Mr.. Crochet
and Mr. Wilson says they have loft.
Of the Invest water bearing gravel
he has ever seen. Mr.. Crochet
will install a pump immediately.
Robt. Pond has just been ship
ping a car of hay to Silver City at
sl7 per ton and a sample ton of
cane to Florida Station. a carload to
follow later after the feeding test is
made. He has another car Of fine
hay for sale from his crop this
year.
w. j. Clevenger has just installed
q Schmidt Bros. air-cooled gasoline
engine of 3-h. p. to raise 400 gal
Ions per minute. The pretty part
of il all is. w. J. is using his engine
for the purpose of digging the well
that he will use which finished TO
pump the water from. Some class
to that style of brain work.
II there is a working day in the
month that from one to three en-
gines do not go into the Deming
country for the purpose of irnga-
ton we would be glad to have our
attention called to il. We have
seen as high as-four moving farm
ward in one day.
The Mimbres Valley is very glad
to welcome w. +. McCurdy and
family. including Miss Ellison, sis
ter of Mrs. McCurdy's. of Granger,
Texas. They have located on fine
tract of land near Hondale and are
going to begin permanent develop
ment. Their carload of goods came
In over the Z. Z. & s. W. to Hon
dale. Mr.. McCurdy was one of the
prominent business men of Granger
and is gladly welcomed to the sun
shine valley.
Mr.. Kimbrough, who is making
such fine transformations in the
former Raithel place near the new
school building, has this week placed
an order for 500 apple, pear and
peach trees for DR.. Hammon's farm
and is arranging to set out a large
vineyard on his own farm. Mr..
Kimbrough understands every
branch Of horticulture and knows
how to do the work himself.
Hon. t. M. Wingo, president Of
the American National Bank of Fl
Paso, was visiting Deming friends a
few days ago. and took occasion to
give a bit Of information that may
be Of great interest to our pumping
people. He said that Fl Paso is
figuring on starting a plant to man
ufacture a pump that would save
from half to three-fourths in en-
CINE power. That's what We are
MI looking for.
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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-02-03

$3.50 to "a is the advance per
thousand in the wholesale lumber
market, but the Deming Lumber
Co. Is holding to the same old prices
on what stock is on hand. Buyers
better get busy before new stock
has TO be ordered.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-02-03

Many good things are in store for
those who attend the Hospital Ben
eft a good moral lesson, good
hearty laugh and lot Of good
music.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
READY TO INSTALL MACHINERY
Jack Pot Mines Equipment Has
Been Ordered---Electricity
for Mine Workings.

E. S. Cunningham, superintendent
of the Jack Pot mine at Wonder. was
In fallon yesterday on his way to San
Francisco, where extended ore tests
will be made of the mines product
Mr.. Cunningham stated that the mine
machinery had already been determined
upon and much of it ordered. The
matter of installing the milling plant
Will be taken up actively within a
short time, probably late in the winter.
Mr.. Cunningham stated that among
the mine machinery ordered were etec-
trical transformers and material for
the sub-station that viii send the Juice
into the mine. 1t will be necessary.
he said, to build something like 1900
fee of transmission line between the
Jack Pot property and hydro-electric
eompany's line, something that will be
done within short time. The COM
pany, represented by Mr.. Cunningham
is conservative and is proceeding along
sane lines of development. The work
done to date indicates that they have
one of the best mining properties in
the state.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
That Printing at Home.

The city authorities of Portland. Or,
are making aprotest against the Irwin
Rodson Co., printers, on account of the
prices charged by them for municipal
printing, and state that although they
dislike sending away from home for the
printing they will certainly send to San
Francisco firms unless there is a bip re-
duction made The same company from
Portland has representatives in this
city regularly TO take orders for great
deal of printing from private business
houses and other places. The local
printing goes TO Portland, and Portland
Is figuring on getting its printing done
IN San Francisco. Funny, isn't it,
Carson Appeal.
And the same criticism applies to
fallon, as regards certain parties send
ing to Reno for their printing usually
paying more for the same grade of
vork.-ED.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
THEY LIVE IN MORE COMFORT
Do the Farmers Hereabout, As
Their Means Improve-Some
New Homes Late Built.

Handsome homes will soon be the rule
in the farming districts of this project.
As the farmer wins his place and finds
himself able to indulge in the luxury,
he erects for himself domicile that is
at once a comfort and pleasure.
Among the farmers who are indulg-
ing themselves are John Bailey and A.
R. Merritt. The Bailey home is of ce-
ment blocks, large and contains all the
modern conveniences. 1t will be occu-
pied by the family within few weeks,
and it is valuable addition to the val
ley's fine homes, indicating public spir-
it on the part of its builder.
The Merritt home, also under course
of construction on the farm in the ISL
aud district, where great fertility of
soil has already been demonstrated, will
comprise eight rooms, and is being built
of lumber. 1t will be the finest home
in the Island district.
Among others in the project who are
doting on fine homes is J. C. Whipp,
who has lately completed stucco cot
tage that is veritable eye-feast. Mr..
Whipp came to this valley seven years
ago with limited resources, and at the
end of this period of hard work and
self-denial finds himself able to indulge
himself to the extent of providing a
ranch home that would be a real attrac-
tion anywhere.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
LOOKS GOOD At The CAPITAL
Do Conditions on Truckee-Car-
son Project-.-Our Prosperity
a Matter of Comment

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-That
general prosperity has arrived on the
lruckee- Carson irrigation project,
Nevada, is indicated by recent re-
ports from that section. Baled hay on
the project is selling at s11 per ton,
with prospects of advancing prices,
and IN spite Of the unusually carly
frosts the yield was an average crop.
Potatoes made good yield and are
selling at $50 per ton. The truck farms
have disposed Of large quantities of
onions, celery, melons, etc. Figures
have not been gathered on the yield
OF grains, but the average is reported
to be better than usual. The only crop
that proved disappointing was sugar
beets, but the farmers admit their in
experience and expect better results
next year. Meanwhile the beet sugar
factory has been nearly completed and
the plant will be ready TO handle all
available beets in December. Some
beets will be shipped in from Love-
lock and other points to the Fallon
mill.
The payroll of the sugar company
has put lot of money in circulation,
while the laborers on the government
work at the Lahontan dam have con-
trtbn.nd 20 tLa aof;v,t,as af k,,e;vaee
Large numbers of cattle and sheep
are being fed on the project, with re-
sulting returns to the farmers. There
has been a considerable amount of
freighting TO the mines, furnishing
employment to surplus teams.
AT the Lahontan dam conspicu-
Gus feature of the recent work was
the hydro-electric plant, which is now
ready for the delivery of power. 9th
er work was largely the installation of
construction plants. Actual work on
the dam so far has consisted mainly in
spillway excavation and excavation in
the cutoff channel. The steam shovels
in the spillways have been operating
in difficult material, which first re-
quires blasting A total of 15, 700
cubic yards has been excavated during
the past month. The ten-ton derricks
have been installed, the concrete mix
er is being placed, several carloads of
apparatus have been received, large
stock of supplies has been laid in, and
everything is ready for rapid progress
during the winter.
The monthly expenditures of the
government on this project approxi-
mate $40, 900.
The aceruas of the building charge
amount to Sl99, ,413, of which Sl42, 994
has been paid. Advance payments in
the sum of S245s So have also been
made. The accruals of the operation
and maintenance charges amount to
s64, 5s9, of which $50, $50 has been paid,
as well as $500 in advance payments.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
TWO SUCCESSIVE SESSIONS
MUST APPROVE AMENDMENT

A fact not generally known to citi-
zens of Nevada is that the trainers of
the states constitution placed double
time-lock On their handiwork by max
ing it mandatory that two succeeding
legislatures shall render majority on
any amendment proposed before it can
go to vote of the people for their
adoption. With this constitutional pro-
vision in vogue it requires something
like six years to bring about such need
ed innovations as the initiative, the ref
erendum and other popular government
measures after they are first proposed.
So far as we have been able to learn,
this is the only state in the union that
makes such a constitutional require
ment, and its injustice is apparent to
the most cursory observer.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
He Handed Them One

Sam Davis, who joshed his way into
office and joshed himself out again, jol-
lied the Reno Journal management into
printing lurid report of an oil discov-
cry down in the Timber lake region,
and just to lend the story color Sam
gave it out that the gusher was on fire.
The story was printed in Mondays is
sue, the news probably having gone in
after a round of ginrickies had found
their way into Samuel's anatomy. Sam
is certainly an oily-tongued old cuss,
and the Journal shouldn't fall for any
more of his jokes.
OF course, everybody in this valley
wants to see oil discovered. And there
is some reason to believe that flowing
wells may be developed by drilling to
the usual depth. But just where Sam
got the oil to grease his story that he
slid over on the Journal so nicely is now
a matter of conjecture.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
WILL VOTE BONDS
For the Installation of Municipal
Electric System.

The city council of Fallon is prepar-
ing plans for the issuing of bonds of an
amount aggregating $4,000 for the
purpose of installing an electric light
ing system to connect up with the pro-
posed government transmission line
between Fallon and the Lahontan dam
power plant. Tuesday evening of last
week plans were presented the council
by the city engineer, which were ac-
cepted, and the city attorney was in
structed to prepare the necessary or
dinances, formality that will, if sue
cessfully carried out, vest the neeess-
ary power in the city officials for the
carrying out of the projected improve
ment.
Unless local property owners protest,
and there now seems little likelihood of
such an exigeney arising, the needed
formalities can be waded through by
the first of the year and work started
on a municipal electric plant, which
will undoubtedly prove boon to the
town in many ways. Fallon has been
without modern conveniences of any
kind quite long enough to suit the ma
iority of those who reside here.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
A HAY FAMINE PREVAILS NOW
In the Golden State--Grain Sup.
plies Short, Too---All Due to
Construction Activity.

Hay will be no laughing matter this
winter, particularly to those members
of the animal kingdom which subsst
on the commodity, says the San Fran
cisco Call. According to figures gath
cred by the San Francisco Hay Associ-
alton, there is serious danger of fam
inc in the stable staple unless there are
early rains to start the new grass and
an open winter to nurture its growth.
If the rains are late and the winter is
cold, a ton of hay may be of equal val
un with the horse that eats it.
According to the hay association,
there is available in San Francisco, Oak
land and its tributary points to those
markets 161, $50 tons of hay. On Nov.
|, 1909, there were on hand 258, $40 tons,
or about $1,000 tons more than this
year, and last year there was in stock
on Nov. 2S0, ITO tons, or about lis, 800
tons more than is available now. AS
the shortage of hay is matched by a
shortage in grain, and since it is not To-
cal but general throughout the West,
there is no field which may be drawn
upon by the local market, and prohibi-
tive prices are anticipated by the hay
dealers.
The present condition surprises many
who have followed the hay trade, for
while it was known that the hay crop
of the season was about half the nor
NAL it was thought there would be a
heavy carry lover from last year which
would keep the barns filled.
Grain is abnormally high at present,
and it will be higher. Barley and oats
are at almost prohibitive figures. The
Eastern markets are drawing heavily
on the stock of California and the Vest
ern states, and it is generally believed
California has oversold to the East.
The increased consumption of hay
and grain in the state, in spite OF the
large number of automobiles in use, Is
due to the construction work that is
being carried on. The demand now is
larger than it was three years ago,
when there was a serious shortage, and
horsemen and dairymen will be hard
pressed for provender.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
MANY NEW FACES ON STREET
Teachers Institute Draws Visi.
tors to Town This Week.
The Peachblown Kind.

Fallon is chockfull of pedagogues.
The reason is attributable to the dis
trict institute now in session. A corps
of worthy rod-wielders from up Hum
boldt way came to town Monday morn
ing, and their presence excited more or
less speculation until their real mission
was revealed. City Clerk w. H. Rea-
Wis was among those whose brains were
full OF speculation. In fact, he was
greatly perturbed over 80 many strange
faces. Being strong on beauty and
averse to suffrage for the weaker sex,
he carefully noted HumboIdt's peach
blown -complexioned ladies' as they filed
past the Rosenberg store. and conclud-
ing that bunch of California suffra-
gettes had scaled the Sierras and wan
dered hence to storm the town, took
this papers editor into his confidence
and told us that Fallon wss going to
destruction; in fact, there was nothing
to it. Our wives would all fall into line
and some alternative would have to be
evolved at once.
Peace and quietude were restored to
the city clerks mind When he learned
that the travelling man who gave him
his information had guessed wrong
that the ladies were the real Nevada,
homegrown product, and about the
best ever excepting, of course, Church
i'll county's bunny-eyed misses) and an
impending disaster has thus again been
averted.
Reavis once soldiered in several OF
Unc lie Sans budding colonies; he knows
what it is to take up his gun, along
with bareback and coffee allowances,
and make forced march in search OF
belligerents- But, Notwithstanding his
unsullied military record it is safe to
bet that when the suffragettes do make
their assault on the town he will offer
no resistance, but will capitulate with
grace extraordinary.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
FRACTURED HIS SKULL.
Teamster Meets With Fatal Accident
Near Town.

Bob Smith, teamster for the Com
stock Ranching Company, met instant
death last Thursday evening, when he
fell from loaded wagon near the ].
7. Richheart place in the St. Clair dis
trict, breaking his neck and fracturing
his skull. He was intoxicated at the
time of the accident, and life was ex-
tinct. A coioner's jury was empanel-
ed, the verdict of which was death was
due to the deceased accidentally falling
from his wagon while en- route from
town to the Comstock ranch.
Though the coroner's jury made
every effort to learn of Smiths ante
cedants, his birthplace, age, former
residence or the name of a single rel
ative could not be determined. 1t
would seem that these facts will never
be known, though he lived here IS
months Being of an communicative
turn, his associates knew nothing of
his family.
Undertaken E. w. Black, through
his attorney E. E. Winters, is asking
for letters of administration upon the
estate of the dead man, the extent of
which is rot fully known. On his body
a sum of money amounting to SIT or
slS was found.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
TOOK ONE MANS KIDNEY
PUT 1T IN ANOTHER MAN

A Philadelphia dispatch says one of
the most remarkable clinics in surgery
that has ever been held there, and the
most interesting that has been seen in
the present visit of surgeons of this
country and Canada who are attending
the clinical congress Of surgeons of
North America, now in session there,
was conducted the other day in the
Methodist Episcopal hospital by DR.. l..
j. Hammond, chief of staff of the hos
pital, involving the transplanting of a
kidney.
This operation. which included anas-
tomoses, or joining of blood vessels and
connecting of veins, arteries and other
ducts and glands, was highly satisfac-
tory. The patients recovery, the sur
geons said, seemed certain.
DR.. Hammond transplanted into the
patients body the kidney of man who
was killed in an automobile accident.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
THE FOXY RED MAN.
His Plea for Firewater is Frequently
But a Stall.

"When read of six and seven ar
rests week, around Carson and Reno,
of men charged with selling liquor to
Indians, am convinced there has been
some framing up, remarked Fallon
man the other day. 'They are coming
too often. Mr.. Officer simply gives
the red man 5Oc or 81, and the latter
HES forth in search of victim. This
is true in some cases at least. But bear
in mind | am referring to these special
officers"
There has been but little of this ILL
cit liquor selling around Fallon. But
not because the Indians have no desires
that way. The other day, on a road
west of town, white man asked an
Indian driving by to give him lift to
town. The Indian did SO, but all the
way in begged the white man to buy
him bottle of whisky. And he was
generous, too, offering 81 for a 50-cent
bottle.
Usually, however, the Indian gets a
Mexican to carry out a transaction of
this kind.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
The Law on Assessment Work

1t has been held, and it is a well es-
tablished precedent, that the annual as
sessment work on group of claims
may be concentrated upon one or more
claims if the work done is such as to
contribute to the improvement of all.
For example, crosscut tunnel design
ed to traverse a series of contiguous
claims will manifestly benefit the whole
gronp, so that it matters not at what
point in the group the operations are
carried on. provided that the total work
done is equivalent to an expenditure of
S100 on each claim. In the language of
the law, it is question of fact which,
ia the event of controversy, must be
determined by the jury. The burden
Of proof falls upon the claimant.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
fHAT OTHER WIFE
SEEMS TO BE A HOAX

Anent the article in last weeks Stan
ard relative to an inquiry from a sup
posed wife of j. 7. Kerr, a former Fall
ln resident, investigation made from
here discloses the fact that no such wo-
nan as Is represented in the query has
resided at the address given. which
Ands an air of mystery to the affair.
II Mr.. Kerr has been libeled or mis-
represented by some scheming person
ais paper is genuinely sorry that space
Fss given the matter. 1t is not a
Eswspaper's rightful function to pub
lsh anything of a nature derogatory to
mes character II the same be untrue,
md we hasten to correct our last week.
lrticle. II seems probable Mr.. Kerr
as been misrepresented by schemer.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
RAILROADS WIN
In the Rate Hearing Before the New
Commerce Court.

In the Rate Hearing Before the New
Commerce Court.
Expected reduction of transconti-
mental railroad freight rates was held
up at Washington when the court Of
commerce granted temporary injun-
ton against the order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in what are pop
ularly are known as the Spokane and
other Pacific coast joint rate cases
The order was made June 22d and was
to have become effective this month.
The cases involve not only the
"back haul" freight rates from Spo-
kane and other inter-mountain points
to Pacific coast terminals, but also the
application of the long and short haul
clause of the law.
The order of the commission, par
ticularly in Reno cases, laid down the
principles to be followed by the COM
mission. The effect of the commits
sion's orders was to reduce the freight
rates from the Atlantic sea-board
points to the inter-Rocky mountain
destinations. In the reduction of the
transcontinental rates the commission
recognized the effect of competition on
the Pacific coast, but held substanti-
ally that the rates from the East to
cities like Spokane and Reno should be
lower than the existing rates.
The transcontinental railways ap-
pealed to the Commerce court, MAIN
tanning that the order was practically
confiscatory.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
Toomy Estate Sales.

A sale was consummated last Satur-
day by which John Oats becomes owner
of the undivided one-fourth interest,
formerly owned by P. s. Toomey, in
the 205-acre Toomey ranch southwest
of town, the consideration figuring in
the deal being $1,000. Coincident with
this sale was the sale of an undivided
one-fourth interest in the Toomey
apiary to j. H. Miller for $50, and an
undivided one-fourth interest in hay
in the stack, sold to the Pacific Coast
Beef and Product Company for about
$4OO.
These sales were brought about
through the agency of the administra-
tor, Fleming Mclean, and require the
confirmation of the district court in or
der to be legal.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-11-22
MAY GIVE UP PART OF ENTRY
If Entryman Has More Than He
Can Pay For--Secretary
Fishers Decision.

Secretary Fisher of the Interior de-
partment has decided that homestead
entrYman, subject to the exclamation
act, may relinquish part Of his farm
unit and have payments which have
been made on the part relinquished cred
tied on charges against the retained
part; and, further, if the entryman SC
desires thereafter, he may relinquisf
part of the retained farm unit and have
the charges paid credited on the part
not relinquished. Ten acres is the min.
imum area which any settler may re-
tain, however.
Land thus eliminated will be subject
to full pro rata construction charges by
any succeeding entryman, so the gov
ernment will lose nothing through this
ruling. Experience has shown in many
instances that forty to eighty acres is
too much for man of moderate means
to cultivate to advantage.
In order to promote intensive cultiva-
tion of all land for which the govern
ment has furnished the water supply,
and to enable deserving settlers to re-
tain part of their present holdings,
which might otherwise have been lost
through cancellation for non-payment
of charges, Secretary Fisher has au-
thorized such entrymen to reduce the
area of their farms. and will credit the
amount paid on each farm unit to the
area retained by the entryman.