The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-02-12
TELLSABOUT FACTORY AND DAM
Resident of Upper Valley Ex-
pounds on the Virtues of
Local Resources.

] +. j. conway, one OF the Dig far-
mers of Nevada, rich man, and one
who knows a big thing when he sees
it, is spending the day in this city
after a rough experience on the des-
ert, where he, with Harry Warren
were lost for SO hours. Mr.. Con-
way is resting up after his exhaus-
ton.
He with his companion visited
Fallon and Lahontan dam and the
canal features. In speaking of this
big work and the sugar factory, Mr.
Conway said:
Ii is the first time | have visited
Churchill county in a number of
years, and to my surprise | have
found that one of the biggest pro-
iects of the West is building The
Lahontan dam and its construction
is sight worth seeing The man.
ner of handling the concrete. the ex-
cavations and the results would sur
prise any citizen who has not been
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this great dam should be able to sup
ply many an acre with water and
build many a homestead in Nevada.
1t looks to me like the best move
Uncle Sam ever started in Nevada.
spent the entire day at the dam and
talked over the project with the en-
oinAGrc 7 Gf1 thic I dtrAaf1u
interested in the dam building and
reclamation work in Antelope and
Bridgeport valleys.
ITO me the sugar beet factory is
the thing that took the nerve. Just
how the people of Fallon managed to
talk three-quarters of million dol
lars out of the tight-fisted people of
the East is what sticks me. In Fal-
Ion there is one of the finest factor
les that has ever been erected on
this coast. 1t is perfect in every de-
tail. 1t is such a factory as would
supply one of the great sections of
the Middle West, and is the best as
set that | have seen in Nevada.
The problem seems to get the
beets to supply this big concern. 1t
looks like tremendous problem,
but 1t can be solved by the combined
action of the farmers. Take the spud
farmers at present. They are stuck
with big crops on hand. 1t is doubt
full if they can pull out, as spuds
are plentiful on every side. Many
ton will rot in the bins and the far
mer is out that amount of energy,
years work and the seed cost. In
beet culture it is different.
81 am assured that the minute the
beets land at the factory that the
money is ready for the farmer. 1t
comes in cash, not a promise to pay.
The same acreage devoted to sugar
beets that went into potatoes last
year would keep the big factory GO
ing. l hope the farmers along the
line of transportation can be made
to see this big advantage and that
the sugar factory will continue to
make sugar.
''The samples of sugar shown are
up to the highest standard, while the
engineer or chemist in charge told
me that the Nevada sugar beet was
the finest so far tested in any of the
states.
Another thing that seems worth
while is the feeding of the beet pulp.
At the present time six hundred
head of Texas steers are being fatted
on this pulp. 1t is taken out by the
car load and fed The steers seem
to be wild for it and leave hay to
eat the mess. To the visitor il seems
| impossible that cattle will eat this
rotted stuff. But they go at it like
it was the finest thing on earth.
Great tiers of this refuse beet pulp
| is being fed. 1t was stated that
could this factory be assured a full
supply of beets that the pulp would
be contracted for in ten-year terms
and that feeders would bid against
each other for it's use.
when the factory and the pro-
| ject are looked over it seems that
about all that is necessary is for the
farmers to stand in and Nevada will
keep the best money maker that
know of. 1t is evidently up to the
farmers and not the factory people
to make good.-Carson Appeal.