The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-03-30
Project Shows
Rapid Growth
Comparative Figures Show That
This Project is Rapid Growing
And Provides Many Homes

The current number of the Rec
lamation Record published In
Washington. d. c., shows tha,
Uncle Sans advent into this valley
has not been without excellent re
suits. Where but a few hundred
souls had sought out an abiding
place in advance of the building OF
the Newlands projects irrigation
system, 5,26S were found by the
project census enumerators when
the rounds were made last fall The
number of towns Is given ut five
and the number of rural homes al
742. There are II public schools
eight church edifices, three news
papers and two banks. Banks have
combined capital stock of $115,.
900, deposits aggregating $1,000.
600 and a clientele of $500.
The value of project farm land
was found to be s9.195,95O, that oi
livestock on farms, $997.46S and
farm equipment in 1920 was $2,-
ia, 900, of towns, s1,100,000 and
public utilities. including railroads,
s12, 1000.
Farm crops were produced in the
project last year of value of ST.
686,401, of which alfalfa contribut-
ed 81 ,299,466, potatoes, $44,160,
grain, s193,996 and miscellaneous
crops, $14S,779. The value of all
project crops produced In the per-
iod. 1909-1920. totaled s10.604,2S4,
During the year 1920 a total OF
2,912 carloads of project production
found its way into outside marts
Alfalfa hay baled was shipped to the
amount of 1878 cars, alfalfa meal
136 cars, livestock, 490 cars, grains
2S cars, potatoes, II cars, miscel-
laneous, 263 cars.
Fallon Is the center of the project
from which radiates all project ac.
tivities. One-half of the population
of the entire project is conferred in
this city which counts the states
only beet sugar manufacturing
plant, the best equipped creamery
in the state, a well equipped -four
mill and two alfalfa meal mills as
Industries that convert farm pro.
duction into marketable commodi.
ties.
The irrigssio project has 50
miles of main and branch line rail
road trackage, exclusive of side.
tracks. The water users own q
great hydroelectrical plant at La
hontan dam 16 miles west of this
city where energy to the amount of
1900 horsepower is developed and
transmitted to Fallon, Lovelock,
Hazen and Rochester where COM
mercial and domestic needs are
economically served.
The states second largest school
districts, elementary and high, are
eentered in Fallon. II is estimated
that the school census of 1921 will
show consolidated district "B" to
have more than 500 children be-
tween the ages of six and Is years
OF this number approximately It's
are now enrolled in the county high
school in this city and Sci in the
elementary schools serving the con-
solidated district generally referred
TO as consolidated "B."
Substantial as the above figures
appear at first glance, study of the
projects possibilities reveals the
fact that start has been made but
real accomplishment lies within the
future. The projects pioneers have
merely pointed the way to the thous-
ands who will eventually have
homes here when the potentialities
of the areas within the Newlands
federal project have been fully con-
yerted into actualities Intensive
cultivation of soils, fruit and yege-
table canneries, fuller recognition
of the value of sugar beet culture
and sugar manufacturing must be
accorded, creameries must be en-
couraged to provide an outlet for
alfalfa hay, a prime production
here from the nature of things,
these will be combined to make the
Newlands project famous wherever
farming resources are discussed.