The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-07
GOOD ENOUGH FOR
LABOR TO TIE TO
Boulder Canyon Project Is Worthy
But There Needs To Be Atten-
tion Given To Nevada Rivers
Now Going To Waste
(Special to The Silver STATED

(opec1al TO Inc ollver otaleD
TONOPAH, Oct. Ga party of
Republican candidates aspiring to
election to state offices, headed by
John H. Miller, the Republican nomi-
nee for governor, addressed a large
crowd of voters at Round Mountain,
in the vicinity of Manhattan, yes
terday.
Mr.. Miller made it quite plain
that he has at heart the interests
of the mining men and agricultur-
sits. and that he believes their COM
mon good is so intertwined that
any legislation that will rebound to
the betterment of either industry
will prove of worth to the other.
He said that freight rates on ore
are entirely too high and that if
| the rates were materially lowered
the mines would have a further in
centive to run to full capacity, thus
giving employment to more men,
automatically increasing the demand
for more of the products of the
farms and make conditions more
prosperous for the farmers who
grow the food supplies. If elected
he promises that he will insist upon
the state railroad commission lend
ing more attention to the adjust
ment of freight rates and, concur
rently, stated that it is his opinion
that mining investors should re-
ceive more liberal consideration in
the application of the tax on bull
lion.
As citation of his desire to see
that labor derives full compensa-
tion he declared that in his manage
ment of the Luck Boy mine,, at
Hawthorne, he has always paid
fifty cents above the Tonopah scale
of wages, never asking for more
than full days work in return for
full days pay, and during his en-
tire twenty years as an employer of
mine labor he stated that he has
never had the leass trouble with
labor.
Mr.. Miller gave a comprehensive
outline of his program to effect and
bring about an economical admins
tration of state affairs, and urged
the election of all of the Repub-
lican state candidates so that the
work may be best expedited. He
said that while a hundred and fifty
millions are being spent on Boulder
Canyon, few millions should be
spent on Nevada rivers now vast
ing their waters on desert lands
that could be made immensely valu-
able by the installation of proper
irrigation projects.
The Republican candidates for
secretary of state and attorney
general, w. B. Alexander and Harry
II. Atkinson, are both former resi-
dents of this place and are not only
well known, but have friends by the
multiplied hundreds in Nye county
who will work and vote for their
election, with almost untiring zeal.
The candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor, E. w. Griffith, drew a graphic
picture of the wonderful transfor-
nation that will take place in
southern Nevada with the compile
tion of Boulder Canyon project,
stressing the limitless power posi-
bilities that will be generated, all
under state control.
Fred H. Blackwell, candidate for
state controller, is railroad union
man and a former member of the
Gold Hill Miners union-the oldest
in the state. Blackwell made a
snappy talk that made a distinct
hit with the laboring men who were
present in large numbers, and many
of them said, after having listened
with marked attention to the speak
ers: THAT bunch is good enough
for good laboring men to tie up
with"