The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-05-08
CAPITAL NOTES OF
INTEREST TONEYADA
lspeeial Correspondencel

4.
consideration, it has just been learned,
is being given to the petition of resi-
dents of Smoky Valley for the re-
vival of the mail rontA DOWN the val.
ley from Austin to Milett. A petition
signed by manv of the residents of the
valley was received by Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General J. /. Blakslee
recently, and this was followed up by
letters from Senator Newlands, who
was sent copy of the petition, and
from others interested in the re-estab-
lishment of the delivery route
In the petition signed by residents
of the valley, Floyd G. Booze, who for
merly served the route, promised the
department that if bids would again
be asked by the department for the
carrying of this route, other bidders
than himself would compete for the
contract.
Fallon has a very poor chance of get
ting, inside of three or four years, a
larger, or indeed more expensive
building than the one now authorized,
IT was learned at the treasury depart
ment. Strong efforts have been made by
Senators Pittman and Newlands for
fallon, with view to hurrying up the
work, and getting a better building
one which would be ample to include
the reclamation service and the federal
court
The same difficulty is being experi-
eneed by other cities all over the
country, due to the fact that the office
CT the supervising architect, in which
plans for all buildings are drawn, is
more than two years behind with it's
work. This is understood to be one of
the plans by which, not only the pres.
ent administration, but every admins
tratIon for many years, has held down
appropriations for public buildings. Bv
the simple expedient of keeping several
years behind hand with the work
and the resulting impossibilty of get
ting results speedily, the desire Of
congressman and senators to rush
through improvement appropriations
for their own districts or states is ma
terially dampened Since thev know
that it would raise too much of y
storm to advance one particular case
when every member of Congress thinks
some town in his district or state Is
actually the worst treated in the coun.
try, they seldom request this.
On the other hand, to give the ar.
ehitect enough draughtsmen to bring
ms work up to date would swamp the
treasury, and all the members of Con
gress realize that, too.
For narcotic inspector under the
new Harrison drug law Senator New
lands mas recommended DIR. G. A. Has
call, of Fallon, Nevada, to Commits
sloner of Internal Revenue Osborn.
who viii make the appointment. Geo.
Bowers, of Reno, druggist of 20
years experience, is another candidate
for the place who has been highly rec.
commended.
Friends of Harry II. Mayer. who is
associated with the w. t. Smith com
pany in Elko. and is the son of G. n
Mayer, founder of the Maver Hotel
Co., have recommended to Senator's
Newlands and Pittman that he be an
pointed postmaster of Elko. So far as
can be learned, no action has been
taken as yet by the senato.s in recon
mending anyone for this pIs q.
Much to the surprise of postoff,e4
inspector who has Just returned ia
Washington from Sherman, Nevada.
he could find no one in the town who
wanted to be postmaster. He reportc5
to the postmaster-genera snar the can.
lilies in and near Sherman could he
served just as effectively bv the star
route, and recommended thar the Sher-
man postoffice be discontinued. If
there are no further developments, As
slstant Postmaster-Gen Frazier
states, this action win be taken bv the
middle of the month.
J. P. Morrill, has been endorsed bv
Senator Pittman for postmaster ~
Verdi. A number of other letters have
been written by prominent persons in
Nevada recommending Mr.. Morrill, for
this place.
After special investigation. an in
spector of the postoffice department
has recommended the appointment of
John Fl. Glenn as postmaster of Lur
line, Elko county. This case will be
decided on May 25.
A report is expected by the post
Office department in the next few
days by the special inspector sent to
investigate charges against Postmas
ter w. J. Niely of Wadsworth for Do
litieal activities. There is much sur
prise in political circles here that such
a charge should have been brought
since Mr.. Niely did not take charge Of
the office until November 25. while
the political activities apparently con
sisted only of distributing campaign
literature in the campaign which end
ed with the election early in ovember.
Friends are eongratulating P. C. Fis-
Ter of Tonopah, secretary to Senator
Plttman and clerk to the senate com
mittee on territories, on the birth of
an eight-pound baby boy on Nav 2.