The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-03-05
NfvADA'S FUTURE DEPENDS
ON RECLAMATION WORK
coyernor Boyle and Lieut.. Serugham
Outline Plan for Development
of State Resources

How Nevada can render the coun-
try at large a great service and prof
!, bv this service to the extent Of
edding thousands of acres of Nevada
land TO the cultivated area during
the reconstruction period was the
tevnote of talk made by Gov. Boyle
and Lieut.. Col. J. G. Serugham Fri
day night to $50 prominent resi-
dents of Reno and Nevada at tine
commercial Club smoker and enter
tainment, says the Gazette.
Both Gov. Boyle and Lieut.. Col.
serugham pointed out the need for
the State to cooperate with the fed
eral government in carrying on a
vast reclamation program in Neyad T..
end Col. Scrugham took up in detail
the provisions of the reclamation
bill which will be introduced in the
legislature this week and will call
for a State bond issue of 5 goo. 600.
Gov. Boyle declared that Nevada
came out of the war in a bette. a.
naneial condition than when tits
country entered the worldwide fgi l.,
with more money on deposit ia tae
banks and more money distributed
throughout the State among farmers
and others. The State made a won
derful record he said. not only in
contributing men and money TO the
government. but in an industrial
way.
with strikes in nearly every sur
rounding State" he said, Nevada
passed through the war without any
strikes and with no labor disturb-
tnees OF any consequence. The State
must maintain this tranquility dur
ing postwar times and ii must alb.
sorb its proportion of the six m!-
lion workers who are either being
discharged from the army or are be-
ing turned out of munition pla Is
and other industries of the war"
THE State must furnish new oc-
equations In public works. Public
works or pubic charity. as some one
aptly said. is what the men turned
out of employment by the ending OF
the war must depend upon
Prices will never go hack 70
where they we're before the war and
wages will never go back to the old
scale. so the people OF Nevada should
not wait to engage in building eX-
peeting that the price of steel or the.
price OF any other commodity will
fall to pre-war basis. Money Is
cheap and students of finance realize
that the purchasing power of a dol
lar will never be az high as 1T was
three years ago.
Before the war there we're thir-
teen and half million dollars in cir
eulation. now there are thirty-two.
So do not wait for prices to go down.
Render the nation and your State o
service now by starting your build
ing enterprises
Nevada is just beginning TO wake
up. For fifty years II has been pop
ulated by transients who spent time
enough in the State TO amass what
they thought was n fortune and then
went to some other State TO spend it.
The State can now offer the best OF
homes and surroundings. Reno can
hold out inducements of the great
est kind to any man--good schools,
the best surroundings-and the peo-
pie are going to remain here.
I'VE have two great building pro-
iects in the State through which we
can secure federal money and aid
reclamation and highways.
do you people realize that the
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