Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-14
Prison Farm
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general wash DON for the men, an
office for the superintendent, a bath
DOM with several showers, a kitchen,
dlningroom, assembly or loafing |
room for the men in the evening, and ,
sleeping apartmtnts, with room for
about sixty men. These sleeping !
rooms are to each contain from six
to ten beds, with a private locker for
each man, SO that his limited per-
sonal effects may be kept beyond
danger of mo1estation.
The kitchen range is to be Of the
French model, built in, and the CHM
ney is so arranged that all the fumes
from cooking operations will be car
ried off with the smoke from the
stove.
Where, a couple of years ago, the
fences were old, shaky, grimy look
ing boards, patched and broken,
showing signs of decay and general
debility, there have been erected
many miles of first-class, hog-tight
and bull-proof wire fences, the posts,
or most of them, planted in a on
crete block to fill the p%osthole. This
protects the posts from the ravages
of the soil. Except the old farm resi-
dence building the houses of the
place barns, milk house, blacksmith
shop, tool house, dairy barn, hospi-
tai for sick animals, hog pens, every
thing, in fact, which was not there
when the farm was bought by the
state, is in first-class repair and all
are painted the color of a box car.
All the gates swing easily on good,
strong hinges made in the farm
blacksmith shop. The slaughter
house is modern in its appointments
and handy for the use to which it is
put.
A very large area of what has
heretofore been wild sagebrush land
has been cleared and put in shape for
use, and except the Unfinished clear
ing, has been seeded. There is q
patch of perhaps twenty acres which
the men are now working or with
mules and scrappers, which will be
ready in time to put in with potatoes
and from appearances should yield
an immense crop.
All the work on the farm, including
the building OF the new house, the
caring for the livestock, butchering
and curing the meats, repairs on
farm machinery, building Of fences,
in fact, everything on the place, is
done by the prisoners. They seem
to do just exactly as any lot of hired
' farm hands would do, except that
they do it better. No matter what
job there is to do on the ranch there
is a mechanic at hand to do it and
they take the necessary time and 10
it right.
! There is nothing about the place
to indicate that it is a penal %institu-
ton. The superintendent is the onlv
free mar on the place and he tells
the men what he wants done in the
same manner and with the same in
Election of voice hat a foreman on
any big ranch would use towards mis-
employees. There are no firearms
nor iron bars visible. If a prisoner
becomes oostreperous and refuses
duty he is simply sent back to the
prison. This is the penalty for fail
ing to behave. He loses his job on
the ranch. The only difference be-
tween these men who have trans
crossed the Jaw and the ordinary
working man is, that they can not
leave the premises when they please.
They live we'll, are comfortably
clothed and have comfortable sleep
ing quarters. There is no harsh
treatment of any kind.
The vegetable patch, which is a
small farm of itself, is in charge #
a man who understands the business
and if the weather does lot prove
too severe there will be a very large /
quantity Of garden sass for the use
of the prison and other state insti-
tutions when the crop is garnered.
There are many things on the
ranch which are worth telling about, |
but this story is too long now, so
will be left for a future story.
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