The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-09-16

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ment beckoned to them and said:
My lands are waiting for you, my
children. | have harnessed the
waters and am holding them in rein
to do your bidding and you may
have them for the reclamation of the
land and | do not ask cent of profit
from my investment.
Uncle Sam took a chance for his
nephews and nieees and they are
taking a chance with their ayuncu-
lar relative.
1t has been a hard, uphill struggle
with many, for they did not realize
that the soil on the project was east
ly percilated and that a vast amount
of water is needed for the first
year or two in order to sustain plant
life
But they are intrepid people and
he government has been kind, ex-
tending the time on payments from
year to year, so that all might, by
'easonable diligence and economy,
1e able to repay the United States
the millions of dollars which it ex-
pended to make of the cactus strewn
desert a garden of roses.
This, however, is a variation from
the theme, straying from the path
outlined for this article. The reas-
on for this depression will presently
be apparent. A portion of this ar
ticle should be devoted to the live
stock exhibit, one of the choicest
that ever was under one roof, or
series of roofs in Nevada, but, as a
matter of fact, Jerseys are inter
mingled with shires and swine with
sheep today for the livestock ex-
hibit proved so much larger than an
ticipated that the managers are
driven to distraction and carpenters
are hammering and saving to pro-
vide additional shelter. By today the
livestock will all be in their proper
places and noses may be counted and
pedigrees and owners elaborated up
on and catalogued.
One thing is certain; if the di-
reetors Of the Nevada state fair will
assign at least 100 feet of loon
space in the pavilion, instead of the
beggarly 20 feet allotted, and will
give stall room also in adequate
lmount. the Churchill county ex.
hibit will come so nearly taking first
prize there that the other counties
will hold their breath and endeavor
to still their fluttering hearts.
And all this is giving thrills to the
visitors from the faraway who are
here to participate in the land draw
ing Friday. They were whirled
through a surging sand storm at
Hazen. land that has not yet felt
he touch of the Spirit of the Living
Waters, but which is included in the
reclamation project and which in
time will have it's turn.
They came to vast oasis, which
old timers remember as a portion
and a rather repulsiye portion of the
Great American Desert. Their cara
van halted at Ragtown, so named
because the pioneers, after enduring
Unreliable, because unbelievable,
hardships, knelt down on the bank
of the Carson, bathed their persons,
discarded their rags and donned
other habiliments for their onward
journey through a land which Ma
ture had more kindly favored.
The change in the vicinity of Fal-
Ion has been wrought by laving the
brow of a PROSTATE and languishing
giant, whom we may well term
Cornueopia, giant who arose and
smote the rocks and they gushed
forth in streams of crystal water,
who thrust his sword into the soil
and released the dormant fruits and
flowers, the lowly vegetables, the
lordly poplars, the fields of grain.
Next Friday another army of con-
quest will assist in the giants work
of reclamation and restoral of prim-
eval conditions, when even Eden's
garden may have bloomed in this
land with its petrefaetions to re-
mind of ancient forests and its bench
marks to show where lakes layed the
hills.
At all events the Fallon fair is
teaching the world that the word
desert is misnomer. 1t should be
termed deserted" And when its
sons and daughters return to the
land their prehistoric ancestors
abandoned and bring the waters to
the soil instead of permitting them
TO aimlessly drift off to the sodden
sinks, then the mission of the Fallon