The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-26
Candidates Declare
For Local Irrigation

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| We should be better Americans than
to allow Argentine beef and Chinese
beans to be brought into our country
Il believe that we should protect
the backbone of our country. The
farmers must live and the people
must eat. II l have a mine and
profits drop. / can leave the mine
but the stockmen and farmers can't
do that They have to stick 1t out.
"A few days ago i was travelling
through Eureka county with Captain
Arentz, Mr.. Ayres and Mr.. Alderman
of Reno. We stopped at a store on
the way and bought some canned
goods and crackers. We stopped to
eat alongside a field in which was
Nevada cattle. And as we opened a
can of meat we noticed on the can
Swift & Co.-Argentine Beef" And
we had to sit beside that field full of
Nevada cattle and eat that beef.
belong to a party which wants to put
a stop to that business.
Mining Injured
Oddie then spoke of how his tung-
stem mine. developed during the war
at government urging, had been
ruined by importation of Chinese
tungsten produced by Coolie labor at
few cents per day. He said Nevada
is the leading tungsten state of the
union and with proper protection the
mining of tungsten would add thou
sands to our population. He pointed
out how Captain Arentz had inves-
tigated vanadium deposits in Clark
county that could not be worked be-
cause of like conditions. vanadium
being imported from South America.
How President Wilson refused to
buy the sugar crop at six and one
quarter cents, causing the price to
raise to between 25 and 80 cents was
taken up by Oddie and he said "The
people are being made the goats"
League of Nations
Oddie took up the league of nations
and objected to the United States
guaranteeing the territorial integ-
rity" OF other nations; he would not
vote to surrender the independence
of the United States to foreign coun-
tries. He took for example the fact
that japan is preparing to submit the
California question before the league
and pointed out we would have one
vote, England would have six votes
out of thirty-five Under the league
he claimed. the standard of American
labor would be brought down to Eu-
ropean or Asiatic standards.
Local Matters
After going over local phases OF his
election. Oddie pointed to his record
as governor of this state and his va
ried experience in mining, agricul-
ture and stock raising. Roads, he
said, are of more importance to Me-
vada than the building of the Panama
canal and he mentioned his fight in
this respect, and if successful pre-
dicted where you now have few
tourists in the summer, you will then
have hundreds"
Il will see to 1t, If am elected,
that something is done to help the
Humboldt river project, as we'll as
other Nevada projects"
Arentz for IrrigatiOnists
Captain Arentz, candidate for Con-
gress, struck a note in which the au-
dience was interested when he said
If the Humboldt river were harnessed
by a series of dams for it's full length
of 800 miles from its source to the
Carson sink, or 1000 miles counting
its meanderings, not only could wild
hay be raised on an immensely In
creased acreage, but all farm prod
ucts that could be raised in this eli
mate.
This is something / would like to
do" said Arentz, "and Oddie with me
If we are elected one of the first
things l will do is to take up this
matter. Cities along the river could
have populations of $4,000 to 10000
as easily as the few hundred they
now have.
Il was talking to man from Para
dise," continued Arentz. He had been
working out ideas for the past rs
years, ever since he was buckaroo
about four or five different projects
which might be developed in the