The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-05-12
HARMON RESIDENTS MIX
PLEASURE WITH BUSINESS
LITERARY AND MUSICAL PRO-
GRAM ENLIVEN PROCEEDINGS.
Meeting Last Saturday Evening Con-
Quoted by Ladies' is Potent With
Beneficial Possibilities.

There Is a growing feeling among
the more thoughtful of the dwellers
under the Truckee-Carson irrigation
project that there Is urgent need
Of an organization among all the
water users that will have an Of
fetal standing. Such an organiza-
tion should be incorporated and have
regularly elected officers, who will
be representative of every district
under the project and take the place
Of the present local clubs. AS at
present constituted all action of
water users is individual and unof-
fetal IN character. As natural re-
suit nothing can be accomplished,
since there is no constituted author
ity in whom is vested the right to
speak anthoritively upon any ques-
tion touching the welfare of those
who have community of interest,
hut no medium of expression to
make their wants known; no method
b. which the government through its
representatives on the reclamation
toard can determine is the sense of
majority of the farmers upon any
question, except by the cumbersome
and unsatisfactory method of a
plebiseite vote such as has just been
taken on the vital question of
drainage.
The good people of Harmon dis
tfiet have taken the preliminary
steps 10 perfecting such an organiza-
ton. Last Saturday the first of
what is intended to be a series of
meetings with this object in view,
took pace and was attended by about
one hundred and fifty people. The
promoters of the movement very
wisely made of 1t neighborly ar
fair, In which pleasure was mixed
with business. The meeting was
engineered by the ladies, which
more than likely accounts for the
huge success 1t was. A musical and
literary program was a feature of
the meeting, and, like all affairs In
which the ladies are the moving
spirit, substantial refreshments
were served.
The evening was very pleasantly
spent in listening to the well rem
dered program and informal discus
sicn of question touching the well
fare of the valley as a whole and
Harmon district in particular. Pro-
Jeet Manager Cole was called upon
to address the meeting on the pend
ing question of drainage and ex-
planned the objects of the govern
ment in seeking to determine the
opinion of the water users on the
adyisability of beginning the work
of digging drainage canals that
sooner or later must be constructed,
either by the government or by pri-
yate individuals working through
private contractors and along no well
devised plan that would include the
project as whole.
No attempt was made to obtain
an expression of the opinions Of
those present by vote or otherwise.
As above stated the meeting was pri-
marily get-together movement,
FATHER than one called for a definite
purpose of solidifying sentiment for
or against any line of policy.
II is to be hoped that every other
district under the project will take
the cue from the meeting held last
Saturday in Harmon district. Such
meetings are destined. II properly
conducted, to do away with much of
the feeling of suspicion that at pres
ent seems. unfortunately, to animate
a great many of the people of the
valley against anything that ema-
mates from the government through
the project officials or which bears
the stamp of approval of those who
are possessed of large private hold
ings
Isolation Is one of the most po-
tent factors in breeding discomfort
and suspicion and 1t is only by meet
ing with ones neighbors, learning
his views and the process of reason
ing by which he has arrived at his
conclusions that We are enabled to
determine what is best for the com
munity as a whole.
Eventually such meetings will
certainly tend to develop a spirit of
cooperation and crystalline public
sentiment along we'll defined lines,
as 1t offers the only possible means
of determining Just what majority
Of the people, after full and free
discussion, have resolved is to the
best interests of all concerned.
II. o. II. Memorial Services.