The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-12-21
County Delegates
Attend Road Meet
Many Representatives From Fallon
Expected to be Present at Reno
Highway Conference
HALL SPEAKS ON DUTIES
OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Says Organization Can Do Good In
Advertising County and Urging
Further Colonization

H. A Clarke, president of the
Churchill county chamber of COM
merce, announced at the meeting
Monday night that approximately
twelve men from Churchill county
would be present at the Reno-Hazen
road meeting that was held in the
Reno chamber of commerce rooms
last night
Clarke said that all who could
possibly go should do so. He told
of the Importance of the road to
Churchill county saying that If the
highway was constructed 1t would
only be a matter of time until Fall
Ion would be connected directly
with Reno by a concrete road.
The Churchill county commits
sioners were asked by the chamber
of commerce to attend the meeting.
Those who were expected to be
present are: T. Dolf. f. Wightman,
s. J. Rogers, B.. Cushman, A. L.
Haight. Fred Branch, F. Dudley. C.
L. Benadum and II. A. Clarke.
The following letter from the
Reno chamber of commerce to W. e.
Barney, secretary of the local or
ganization was read at the meeting:
THE road meeting to be held at
the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
night, December goth, at 500 p. m.
concerning the Reno-HaZen high
way will be represented by Hazen,
Fernley, Derby, Sparks, and Reno in
addition to the representation from
your county. Mr.. George Borden.
State Highway Engineer, will either
be at the meeting or will furnish
me with complete information con-
cerning the Nevada program of
highway construction.
I'VE hope at this meeting next
Tuesday night to work out some
definite program In connection with
the Reno-Hazen highway. We are
glad to hear that you will have your
county commissioners present in a
body at this meeting.
with best wishes for a happy
holiday season and with kindest re-
CARDS, | am,
Most cordially yours,
"CHAS. S. KNIGHT,
Managing Director"
II. NJ. Hall. botanist representing
the Carnegie institute of Washing
ton appeared before the meeting and
gave short talk. He spoke of
three typical institutions in Church
i'll county of which the people of the
community should be particularly
proud. The federal experiment
farm represents research, he said,
the high school, teaching and the
sugar beet factory, application, the
three great steps in human progress.
However, in California, he added.
there is not as much heard of those
three institutions as there is of the
Fallon Sink. That is condition
where the chamber of commerce can
do effective work in remedying the
impression that the Fallon sink is
the most important thing in the
county, the speaker added.
When asked about the colonial
ton plan of DR.. Elwood Mead Hall
said that anything that has been
done in California can be done here.
He expressed himself as being
heartily in favor of that plan for
colonization.
He explained the plan as one
whereby the state purchases the
land at their real value before real
estate booms place a false valuation
on them. The state would then sell
them to worthy settlers on easy pay
ments, provided that the prospective
settler proved himself to be compe-
tent and had a good financial status.
The plan is working In California
and two tracts have been developed
under 1t.
f. Hinze, manager of the sugar
factory, stated that he had received
a letter requesting that the county
furnish an exhibit for the union
depot at Omaha Reed stated that
the exhibit that had previously been
prepared had been destroyed in the
fire In the Richheart market. Presi-
dent Clarke stated that steps would
be taken to obtain another suitable
display.