The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-06-09
APPROPRIATIONS
COMMITTEE ON
WAY WEST
ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO
ALL GOVERNMENT PROJECTS.
Project Engineer Cole Points Out
Significance of Visit and Sug-
gests Reception Plans.

stSt5 ttctSftttoh tiuS.
The House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations in
company with the United States
Reclamation Commission left Chi
cago on June 1st ON a tour of the
West which will occupy six weeks of
strenuous travel.
All Government Reclamation Pro-
jeets win be visited together with
ali the principal national parks and
including also the Panama Pacific
Exposition at San Francisco, where
the party will stop three days.
It is announced that the party is
travelling on two private cars at
taehed to regular trains of the var
ious railroads. II is understood that
the trip Is strictly for business pur-
poses and that the Committee and the
Commission are utilizing every mo-
rnent of daylight for the inspection
Of the government properties along
the line. This means that the party
viii seldom sleep in regular beds
but will almost invariably spend
the night IN travel on the cars
Project managers are instructed
70 cooperate with water users or
other commercial bodies in the town
for arranging programs for the in
speeiion OF each reclamation pro
jeet.
The tour is for stricly business
purposes. 1t is the desire of the
members of the committee to see all
that there Is to see, and to learn all
that can be learned in the limited
time at their disposal concerning the
requirements, the resources, the ad-
yantages and disadvantages of each
project. In order to know how to
deal intelligently with the subject
IN future legislation, ii is desirable
that the committe shall be shown
truly representative conditions.
Plans must be made that will bring
Under their Observation the failures
and faults of irrigation as well as its
successes and blessings.
Ii must be kept in mind that this
Is serious undertaking, not a
pleasure jaunt. These men want to
be shown. They want to know the
truth as the result of their own see
ing. They want TO hear the truth
about the works and the conduct of
the Service and. tie fortunes of the
water users. They are not seeking
entertainment and the opportunity
to make after dinner speeches nor
to pose in the limelight. The men,
bers of the Appropriation Commit
tee want to be shown--not only the
wonderful engineering feats that
have been accomplished, but the crop
production that is the consequence
OF these engineering accomplish
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their own senses that the millions
they have appropriated, and are
asked to appropriate in the future,
have been well and wisely invested;
they want to learn why more mil
lions are necessary.
Therefore preparations for their
entertainment must proceed upon
thoroughly business Ike lines. A
rigorous program has been laid down
for them, and exacting schedule
from which there can be no deyia-
ton, since special train service and
railway schedules have been made
to accommodate and can not be
altered.
Banquets and speechmaking while
not forbidden must be arranged, if
at all, so as not to waste the hours
of daylight that may otherwise be
spent in inspection of the works and
land under the project.
On nearly all projects present
plans contemplate breakfast and
supper aboard the train. Lunch
must be served during the inspec-
ton. 1t is expected tnat the project
authorities will undertake to pro-
vide this so that ii may be des-
patched as expeditiously as possible
and with as slight interruption as
may be of the main purpose of the
visit
1t is understood that committees
from the Water Users Associations
and commercial bodies will cooper
ate with project officers in arrang-
ing these plans.
The program for the Truckee-
Carson project is as follows: Party
arrives in cars attached to train No.
2, Reno, 1:45 a. m, June 18th.
Cars win there be switched to v &
r. Ry., and taken by special engine
to Minden, Nevada, where 6 o'clock
breakfast will be served by the bus
inessmen of Minden. After two
hours automobile driving through
the irrigated lands around Gardner
Vile and Minden, the party will be
taken by special train from Minden
via Carson, Mound House and
Churchill TO Lahontan arriving there
about 1 o'clock. From one to two
hours will be given to inspection and
lunch at Lahontan and then the par
ty in automobiles escorted by citi-
zens of the Truckee-Carson project
will proceed down the Carson river
and through the irrigated lands max
ing circuit possibly as far east as
saltwater and back to Fallon in
time for supper. Meantime private
cars viii have been switched to Fall
Ion and be inrsadiness to receive the
party for returning to Hazen in time
to connect with train No. 10 west
ward enroute to the Orland Project
in California.
This program seems to afford the
best opportunity for simple enter
tainment of the distinguished visi
tors at Lahontan dam. 1t has there
fore been suggested that the farm
ers, water users, or chamber of
commerce, or all combined arrange
for the serving of basket luncheon
on the dam or in the Lahontan
camp.
The visiting party will comprise