Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-26
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Mrs. Lydia Adams Williams is at
present visiting i'll Yerington and will
probably spend a few days in Haw-
thorne during her stay in Nevada
The following article taken from the
Yerington Times. will be OF interest
to her many friends here.
Mrs. Lydia Adams illiams, for
number OF years past employed at
Washington, d. c., in the U. S De-
partment of Agriculture, is now visit
ing Mrs. J. |. Wilson, at her home in
this city Mrs. Adams Williams, is
the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. John
Quincy Adams. two OF Nevada's
earliest pioneers, who came to Ge-
noa, Nevada, then known as the
Mormon Station" in 1882 They
settled on homestead about one
and half miles north of Genoa. and
by use OF the crude methods of irri-
CATION then in vogue, developed their
desert farm into a beautiful ranch
where it now stands and has been fire.
quently pointed out monument to
irrigation.
In their family, born and reared on
this farm. besides Mrs, Adams-Will-
Jams, were two boys, John Adams, a
member of the well known firm OF
Adams & Miller, of Hawthorne.
and who now resides at Los Angeles,
and William R. Adams, who still
lives on the "Old Homestead" at
Genoa, Nevada
When Mrs. Adams Williams first
went to Washington, d. c., in 1904,
the importance of the undeveloped re-
sources of the West had just begun
to be, to small extent, realized.
While working, at first as school
teacher, during her spare time she de
voted herself to the task of enlight-
ening, by lectures and newspaper
articles, the people of the East as to
the wonderful opportunities of the
West. When Congress finally saw
tit to open the Walker Lake Indian
Reservation for mining locations, in
1906 she came west to be il the
rush" and carried the dynamite
for the Signal gun" fired at the
south boundary near Hawthorne, and
was the first womat T. stor in the
Dutch Creek" distri;i.
Shortly after she r.ku..-d to Wash
ington, if possible mote 1, lily imbued
with the spirit of the Great West, and
shortly after her services were Sc
cured by the Agricultural Depart
ment as above mentioned, and she
was Immediately assigned to the task
Of writing descriptive and editorial
matter setting forth the work being
done and to be done by the govern
ment along lines OF conservation OF
forests and reservoir sites in the
West by the establishment of Ma
tional Forest Reserves. While SC
employed she was frequently assigned
on lecture tours to spread the gospel
of the desert" and judging from the
various newspaper comments of those
successful in making her audiences OF
the East realize and visualize the
profitable wonders that could be
worked in the west by their hearty
cooperation with us out here, as
fellow Americans in every sense of
the word. Naturally thru her connec-
ton with this work she became in.
timatcly acquainted with then Presi-
dent Roosevelt and family and later
with President Taft, both OF whom
were enthusiastic on the subject OF
the conservation of the resources ant
the upbuilding Of, our great west.
This close personal touch with
these great Americans was soarco
of qualification and an inspiration to
her through her long and arduous
campaign of enlightenment of the
Great East i'll regard to the "Bie
West"
She is now back among her own
people enjoying much needed and
we'll earned rest.
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