White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-20
COUNTY FARM BUREAU
IN SESSION WEDNESDAY

1 Inc hnnudt meeting OF the Wnite
Pine county farm bureau was held In
the Odd Fellows hall last Wednes-
day and was presided over by Mayor
J. ii. Gallagher. president OF the local
organ ization. with Miss Fanny Cupid
acting a. secretary.
| President Gallagher announced
that a number OF the delegates were
prevented from being present at the
opening OF the meeting because OF
the fact that they were called az
jurors and were then In attendance
upon The district court. Much inter
est was shown In the proceedings and
the hall was comfortably filled. The
president said that while the farm
bureau work was of such n nature
that every taxpayer In White Pine
county should be interested In Il and
that suggestions would be gladly re-
ceived from all. but naturally only
the regularly selected delegates
would be entitled TO vote upon the
different measures that might he pre-
sented. Tho delegates who answered
rollcali were:
Mrs. ". q. Moorman, Mrs. J. r.
Miles, Mrs. A. J. Proctor. Mrs w. Il
Boyle and Mrs George Jackson OF
Ely.
ID. e. Gardner and George c. Gard
ner OF Lund.
Dan T. Nicholas OF Preston.
| During the regular course of busl-
ness the matter OF an amendment to
article II of the constitution by which
the BODY Is governed came up for
discussion and by unanimous vote the
J amendment was carried. the article
now reading as follows:
| "ArticlexI--This constitution may
be altered or amended by a two
thirds vote OF the delegates present
at any regular meeting or by n ma
| jorIty of the board of directors at a
| regular meeting"
| Election OF directors and officers
for the ensuing year. who will as
sumo their respective Offices January
| /, 1922, resulted as follows:
| J. II. Gallagher and Miss Fanny
Cupid, Ely; u. e. Gardner. Lund:
Martin Peterson, Preston, and Aibin
lc. Kirkeby, Spring Valley, were
chosen as the board OF directors.
| Following the meeting of the dele
| gates the directors went into session
and elected the following officers:
| J. II. Gallagher, chairman.
| ID G. Gardner. yice-chairman.
Miss Fanny Cupid, secretary.
Thomas H. King, irrigation engi-
neer for the Nevada state farm bu-
reau and county agent for White Pine
county. was the first speaker to ad-
dress the meeting. Mr. King made
an Interesting address on the work
accom- piished by the bureau. partic-
uiarIy In this county since he took
charge of the work here. He said ia
part:
II am a specialist on irrigation and
r. = cl M s~t A.
tic water supply, small power plants,
pumping plants and water problems
In general From the viewpoint OF
agriculture and livestock my work
has not been broad. most of my at
tention being devoted 10 the line with
| which / am most familiar.
Leaving out the numerous details
of the smaller things accomplished
during my FIVE months service in
this territory, ! Will name NE FIVE
| more important projects and use
them as gauge Of the work done.
''First was the development Of the
srnoldson spring az Preston. where
approximately $50 gallons per min
ute increase IN fov was obtained a.
a cost Of $3.50 The value Of this
water as appraised by the owners IL
1884.
/
approximately $1,000 on the con-
strsctIon of a cutoff canal for The
White River irrigation system. which
was expected 10 rave seepage and
evaporation losses of irrigation water.
which would make the project feast
bic. ] demonstrated by actual meas
grefnents that the pecgiiar conditions
eYfstirg II The way Of springs along
The channel Of the river more fbap
made up for any losses which might
otherwise be saved By the eonsfrue~
iion ~ the proposed csnaf--a net
saving % $4,000 tc the farmers
The next In order was the demon
strstion of developing the fow of
spring at Trout creek az Nefropoffs
! will briefly say that here FIVE hour
iaisor and an expenditure of f10 for
material developed 1900 worth of
water a. conservative value BY the
owner. This was . Demonstration
oplng $4,000 worth Of water at .
cost q around $500. the outline for
which work was given 20 the owner
NEXT ! will place the constructions
Of the power plant for the operation
Of the cooperative creamery ~ Pres-
ten II n desired 20 operate b.
water power Nan8faefurers' quota
tions on the desired water whsN
were deemed exeeesfye. an bsfI1-
Ing this wheel At q SAVING Of este -
the creamery company.
The last and probably the Doss
| important from q fnaneisi standpospf
- the development of the spring -
Lnnd during the last week Ftyv
dayx' labor an1 an expenditure Of
lsfl3.,9 have produced IN additional
Gov of 7s9 gsiions per minute. which
water is sufscisnt 90 fryigste stxty-
two acres Of land end ~ appraised b,
the owners st a minimum vatae ~
s.its. showing q net profit for the
| improvement Of 1s.ez4se. There d
every possible cha nee for q sffb
greater development n this spring
and tire ssue VIII probably take place
6ursnx the coming Honfb.
"A brief summation ~ the aboys
viii show clear profit on my worn
frE fte last TWa unnrfNa ~ effvkff<