The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-12-13
He FOLDED HIS TENT AND AWAY
Did This Ambitious Rancher,
Who was Going to Do Things
And "Did" Some Folks.


with growing crops thereon, will hardly
be as active an industry this season as
| it was last year-unless a cash rental,
or some security therefor, is shown
early in the deal. The reason for this
chang ed condition is found in the fact
that the confiding faith of some people
in this valley has suffered rude jolt.
A gentleman named Harris (his ini-
tials are r. F. administered the shock.
He came to this locality about a year
ago, representing that for years he had
been foreman for Miller & Lux, but
had quit them despite their offer of an
increase of salary to $500 per month.
As it afterward developed, his relations
with them extended over period of q
month only, and was limited to looking
after band of sheep. But this was
not known here till later.
Harris, as he told it when first COM
ing here, had abundant capital, and in
tended to make his future home in this
valley. He wanted to buy ranch Of
some 1000 or more acres later on, but
for the first season he would be satisfied
with renting some place. He began
looking around, and among the several
places which satisfied him were those
of H. Newcomb and Mrs. Barbara
Brown. He closed deal with the Wild
ow Brown for three years lease OF
her ranch at $1,000 year, the rental
for each year payable in December of
that year-after all the crops had been
gathered in. Other than that it was
for five years the terms of the New
comb lease are not known.
Alfalfa wasn't good enough for the
willy Harris-it was too slow. So the
first rattle out of the box he plowed up
seventy-five acres of the Newcomh
ranch and put out twenty-five acres to
spuds and fifty to sugar beets. The
fact that these seventy-five acres were
already producing over $1,000 year
cut no figure with Mr.. Harris-he want
ed the dinero to come quicker. But, as
it happened-and the cause of it, as
Kipling would say, is another story-Mr.
Harris harvested neither beet nor 8
spud. About this time Mr.. Newcomt
woke up and realized that he was hold.
ing the tarred end of the stick, and that
he stood to lose not only the rent money
he had been promised but also the CON-
Portable income which he had hereto
fore enjoyed from the seventy-five
acres plowed up by Mr.. Harris. So he
forthwith cancelled the lease and fired
his tenant off the ranch.
But if Harris failed to do much good
for himself on the Newcomb ranch, be
had no reason to find fault with the
outcome of the Brown deal. He plowed
up no alfalfa on this ranch-nay, nay
Pauline. Instead he let it grow to a
purple -blossomed maturity, and har-
vested two big crops which he duly sold
to people who buy such provender. He
realized over $1,000 from the two hay
crops, which was over $4,000 more thar
Mrs. Brown realized, for when the Isl
of December-the date for paying the
rent-rolled around Mr.. Harris was nj
longer in Fallon. He had folded hi,
tent and flown.
But there are others. In addition t.
several merchants about town to whom
Mr.. Harris is indebted, man at Fair
view is out 5000 on deal with the gen
tleman Chas. Morris is mourning his
signature on a note for 500 which Har
ris persuaded him to write ; Finn Fer
guson mourns the loss of set O.
chain harness which Harris borrowed
and forgot to return, and there are {
few other victims.
Hence the leasing of ranches in this
valley is unpopular just now, unless thu
coin of the realm is in plain sight. Ant
some people get mad when you ever
hint at renting.
| Mr.. Harris present whereabouts arr
unknown. He, with his wife, left Rem
between two suns couple of weeks
since, with instructions to the Rem
postmaster that his mail was to be for
warded to Ogden. But all letters t.
him forwarded to Ogden have CONF
back with the Endorsement thereon
"No such person known at this office. ,