The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-08-14
PARTY FROM fAtLON TOUR
OVER RICH PROJECT LANDS
Demand that Large Acreage BE
Opened Up, to be Carried to
Washington

Last Sunday a party composed of
residents of this section of the val
ley keenly interested in its develop
ment accompanied by one who has
spent many years in land promotion
work toured the immense country
north of Wadsworth now becoming
nationally famous, as having more
coils of government red tape en-
circling it than probably any other
project under its supervision.
For over five years this magnifi-
cent acreage has been the toy of Of
ficials and the puzzle of those famil-
lar witn its location and possibilities
and readers of the Standard need
not be again reminded that the re-
suit of the inertia of the government
officials in whose hands is the con-
troll of the fate of this section, has
been the loss of millions of bushels
of grain to the world and consequent
benefit to the state and nation.
Travelling north from Wadsworth
the party passed through miles of
the very choicest lands on the pro-
ject and as was expressed by one
level enough for tennis court
The character of the sage brush
on this vast stretch was pointed to
as one of the sure indications of the
possibilities of the land and its nat
ural slope appeared to be more per-
feet than skilled engineering could
plan. As the trip extended toward
Pyramid Lake the natural beauties
Of the surrounding country opened
up and every acre seemed TO cry out
for the aid OF man TO till the land
that nature had so bountifully laid
at Its feet and in such a state of pre-
paredness as is seldom found
1t needed no prophetic vision to
picture the waving fields of grain
nd rich alfalfa which would follow
the cutting of the Gordon knot
which for some unexplainable reason
those sitting in the Seats of the
Mighty" have so wrapped this splen-
lid endowment OF nature as to make
4 no better than a desert waste.
1t would be deadened nature
that could stand on the borders oil
rat beautiful stretch of waters and
not be deyoutfully thankful for the
riviiege of living, and it is not a
'topian dream to foresee the possi-
i'ity of town come into being un-
Ter a wiser treatment of the techni-
'a'ities that have thus far withheld
'ese lands from the hundreds ready
o put them to beneficial use.
One member of the party declared
hat the lands of the wonderfully
aroductive Yakima Valley did not
begin in their primary state to pre-
sent the possibilities concealed in
sese thousands of acres and it was
re unanimous opinion of the party
Aat were the Secretary of the Inter-
IT TO inspect them the points SEEM
ngly so intricate to the legal bureau
If the government would be sum-
narily disposed of and hundreds of
settlers begin at once their develop
nent and send to the markets of the
gorld the grain that today is weigh
I'd in the measure of human life.
The result of the busy day is that
he people of this valley will be called
lpon to demand immediate action in
| ibis senselessly long drawn out mat
ter and that appeal is to be made to
Governor Boyle first, on the ground
| that the opening up of these lands
is unquestionably war measure and
as affecting the prosperity of the en-.
tire state and that the whole puz-
zling question will be brought before
the proper authorities in Washing
ton in order that man may at last
come into his own.
1t is unthinkable that 40, acres
of choice land can much longer lie
in disuse because of the lack of ordi.
| nary business ability on the part oi
those into whose hands has fallen
the disposition of this nationally i'm.
portant matter.