The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-06-17
PROMINENT OFFICIAL HERE
Irrigation Supervisor Visits Fallon
And Imparts Sound Farming Die
tum In Common Sense Talk.

Hon. l. ID. 0'Donnell, member of
the United States reclamation SER
vice, his official title being super
visor of irrigation" spent Thursday,
Friday and Saturday upon this pro-
ject on his first trip of inspection
since the reclamation commission
was formally organized under Sec
rrtary Lanes direction last fall.
Mr.. O'Donnell is rated highly
successful farmer. His rating is
| justified, for he commenced life as
farm hand, graduated into the
farm operating class and has made
so much money by scientific farm
ing that his business interests now
include banking and many other
forms of commercial endeavor His
slogan is feed all you raise and
raise all you feed and work all the
year"
Mr.. O'Donnell met with those of
the project residents who could be
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urday afternoon, and his talk proved
better than even advance notices
had credited. His remarks corre-
lated around his farming watch
words and were greatly appreciated
by his auditors. That Mr.. ODonnell
Is a very helpful man and will prov
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nation service organization and the
homebuilders who are acting under
the reclamation services direction
goes without saying.
When approached by Secretary
Lane with proffer of place upon
the commission, Mr.. O'Donnell re-
piled that his farm income alone
was far and away what even Mr..
Lane receives as a member of the
presidents cabinet, a section of
farming land near Billings, Mont,
netting him about SIS, 200 annually
for many years. His acceptance of
the position was based more upon
the impulses actuating missionary
endeavor than hope of financial bet
terment and thus it happens that he
Is Uncle Sans apostle of better
farming and better irrigation
greatly needed functionary for the
irrigation branch of the government,
which propaganda attracts very
largely the classes whose inexperi-
ence makes Mr.. o'Donnell's helpful
remarks particularly appropos.
After spending Thursday and Fri
day and Saturday morning going
over this project Mr.. O'Donnell con-
cluded that a sufficient amount of
pasturage is going to waste annual
ly upon this project to pay the main
tenance and operation charges Incl
dent upon its conduct, II the agency
of the individual can be introduced
into the situation.
Probably the most interesting
statement made by Mr.. o'Donnell
has to do with water users organ
ization. He made IL plain during
the course of his talk and in conver-
sation with this papers editor and
others that Secretary Lane is par
ticularly desirous of seeing an efiiei-
ent water users association organ
ized upon this project. Not only,
he said, would the association be
helpful to the individual farmer and
to the communities of the project,
but properly constituted and reorg-
anized many functions well within
the waters province would be dele
gated to them and the department
and its agents would thus be re-
lieved of much irksome detail, which
could better be transacted by the To-
ca association. In the view that
there is no time like the present for
the effeeting of an association organ
izaion here, Mr.. O'Donnell has the
unqualified backing of every local
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business man and farmer convers-
ant with the situation here. The
lack of organization is apparent
everywhere, Mr.. O'Donnell stated,
but nowhere more than in the mar
keting of crops. Lacking concert
the local famers have found II i'm
possible to create market for their
hay and beyond desultory cattle and
sheep feeding and the establishment
of dairies, hay has gone begging for
takers with the result that many
thousands of tons of the 1913 crop
still remain in the stack and In some
instances the production of 1912 re-
mains unsold. This. he pointed out.
Is denying the community the an