The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-12-25
FARMER INDUCES
IN AN IMPROBABLE dream
While Journeying He Observed Rec
lamation Service Counsel and His
Mind Leaps to Fantasies

In the journey to San Francisco
last Thursday of a number of Fal-
lonites one of these espied on the
ferry Oliver P. Morton who rejoices
In the title of District Counsel of
the U. s. R. s., these cabalistic let
ters being of deep portent to every
homesteader on the Truckee-Carson
Project.
Ordinarily the presence of one
human in such motley throng
would pass unnoticed but Immediate
ly upon the recognition of this par
ticular passenger by our travellers
speculation became rife as to the OBJ
ject of his being listed among the
tourists at this particular season and
evidently coming from that part of
our beloved state where the ther-
mometer is not as gracious in its
warmth as in that other portion of
the territory under his legal super
vision and embraced in the chemical
ly pure atmosphere of Los Angeles.
One of the party advanced the
theory that at last the long cherish
ed dream of the settler on this pro-
ject for a final adjudication of the
age pending Lake Tahoe tangle was
to be realized and that Mr.. Morton
was to play the bountiful Santa
Claus to our long suffering people
and on Christmas day, that day when
hardened hearts have been softened
by the spirit Of the season, an
nounce to the waiting settler that
the magnificent $4,000 acreage so
long forgotten by him will be re.
leased by q paternal government.
The optimist was at once pounced
upon by the ever-present literalist
who In forceful language accused
our dreaming friend of having part
ed with his reason and added that
did he not know that he had Just
left a state where its dryness for
bade such possibilities another reas-
on might be attributed for such a
wild hope.
Even our doubling traveller was
forced to admit that there was upon
the face of the district counsel such
an expression of calm self-content-
ment as could only be associated
with a consciousness of duty well
performed and how cried our dream
er could one who had under his i'm
mediate professional charge the po-
tential development of so much rich
land and its meaning Of material
prosperity to hundreds of families
convey such a peace with the world
air had he not at last reached the
penitent stage and was prepared to
make amends for his sins of omis.
sion.
Sadly the group with the excep.
ton of the dreamer who declared
his purpose of clinging to his faitE
until compelled to part with it, ad-
mitted that long years of experience
with government methods banished
all hope of action within the ordi.
nary life of man and one daring
member stated that he could detect
in a crowd of any size the farmer
whose affairs are linked with those
of the U. s. r. s., he affirming that
such a one unconsciously bore about
him a look of utter despair.
And watching and waiting bu
hopeful to the last our dreamer de
clares that his faith will hold unit
the close of this joyous Christmai
day, SO trustful is his faith in mar
or as the crouch announced so un
sophisticated is he in the things tina
pertain to that mighty creation o
the government known as the "sys
tenn"