The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-08-21
THE 1912 TRUCKER. E.CARSON FAIR
viii Be Bigger And Grander Than Ever And The Whole State
Is Invited To Come And Note The Rapid Progress OF
Development In This Great Irrigation Project

The Truckee-Carson project will have
more than ever before to show the
county fair visitors on September 25th,
26th, 9th and 18th. 1t will present an
improved front as broad in its lines as
that which separates awkward squad
drills from the dress parades of season
ed regiments. There will be a wider
range of interesting things for the eye
than has ever before formed the sum
total of fair attractions in Nevada.
These will include agricultural, horti-
cultural and stock exhibits from the
farm, racing events of all kinds and
athletics participated in by the leading
athletes of Nevada. There will be in
Vulnerable attractions, all crowded into
four days of enjoyment.
Interesting Sights Abound.
And features, not properly classified
as fair attrac tions, but worth coming a
long way to see will be the Nevada
Sugar Company plant and the partially
completed government dam at Lahon-
tan. The sugar factory will in all proba-
biIity be grinding out sugar throughout
the fair week, while the hoppers will
be filed with the thousands upon thou.
sands Of tons of Nevada raised sugar
beets. 1t will be the fait visitors privi-
lege to witness The sugar making pro-
cess from the time the beets are sluic-
ed from the hoppers into the first sta
tion by means of fume until the
period when the contents have been
utilized and made ready to be placed on
the tables of the epicures of the land.
Lahontan Dam A Feature.
At Lahontan, to which point numer-
Gus excursions will be run from Fallon
throughout the Fair week, will be seen
a substantial beginning on what is to
be the greatest earthen dam in the
world; dam that will store sufficient
water to irrigate domain fit for
king and when full to its capacity will
have shore line of more than 80 miles.
At this point, 16 miles west of Fallon,
the rock has formed a resistance to the
erosions that created the valley below
and the basin above resulting in a mar
row chasm where owing to peculiar
geological conditions, nothing but an
earthen dam can be safely built. The
features of this extraordinary dam are
fairly well defined by the accomplish
ments to date, and are also inducement
plenty for our neighbors over the state
to take vacation from their business
cares long enough to bring themselves
hither for sightseeing tour.
Nature Kind Here.
The folks hereabouts want the state
residents generally to know that this
is a section where rainbow glories do
not illuminate the mental heavens of
the inhabitants, but rather is a place
where bountiful production and honest
work are co-incident; that theirs is a
blest realm, where nature does Its best
in every department. Even the apples
that grow in our halcyon wales are all
perfect apples, globulously huge and
as rubicund as the cheeks of the Fallon
girls. With the same generosity,
Nature gives all local products its most
artistic coloring and generous size.
Asks No Public Aid.
Though the scheduled fair will be
the fifth annual event of the kind,
never dollar of public money has ever
come from hiding to aid it, nor has a
request ever been made for state as
sistance. These fairs have been made
possible by the public spirit of peo-
pie who are proud of what they have;
so proud in fact that they will array
their products against those of any
other section and bet on the result with
the same inner feeling as does the
gambler who plays with a marked
deck of cards.
Local Citizens Proud.
Fallon and all Churchill county Is
perennially proud of what they have,
and being justly proud they may be
pardoned for giving little extraordi-
nary evidence of their proudness once
a year.
On these occasions visitors have
never been disappointed and rather
than disappointments the local fair
will have many pleasant surprises for
folks both at home and at distance.
An exhibition of fruits grown on the
Truckee- Carson project is being pre-
pared at the Experimental Farm. The
fruits are placed in an exhibition jar
for the purpose and preserved in suit
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