Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-02-11

OF bonds issued against Elko county
ranching properties during the latter
part of 1921.
On the Tahoe national forest lands
900 cattle and horses and $4,000
sheep and goats Will be allowed to
Craze this year, according to notices
sent out to stockmen by the forest
supervisor.
The work on the Pipestone Pass In
Montana, has been completed and it is
now open for traffic. The grading
had not been completely finished, but
as soon as warmer wheather arrives,
will be placed in such condition that he
engineers may make an inspection and
accept the project as completed.
Glacier county, Montana, will irri.
cinity of Cut Bank, If congress will
only give permission for use Of the
water of Cut Bank creek, according
to States Senator j. w. Coburn of Cut
Bank. Under his plan not dollar
of expense would be charged against
the government.
On or before July 4, next, Las We
gas New, will have one of the finest
pleasure resorts in the country. There
will be a lake, 10 feet deep 1000 feet
long and 450 feet wide and this lake
will no oI-
have row boats and canoes; will have
an island in the center covered with
umbrella and palm trees and on pen
insula at the end will have a $4,000
club house where meals will be seveu.
Packages such as those used for
shipping vegetables are being collected
by the commercial truck gardening
class under the direction of the pro-
fessor of vegetable gardening of the
Oregon Agricultural College. Each
package will be tabled with the di-
mansions, capacity and the name of
the vegetable to be shipped in it and
will be used for Institutional purpos-
eS at the college.
A bill appropriating money to COM
bat the spead of white pine blister
rust has been prepared for introduce
ton in congress by the pine blister
rust committee, which recently held
! a convention in Portland, Ore. This
money Is to be used to prevent the
spread of the disease from sections
around Puget sound to areas of white
sugar pine valued at $250,OOO 600 now
| threatened.
GENERAL
ton of prune growers is being put
under way In the Walla Walla valley.
Announcing himself as unqualified
ly opposed to any form of compulsory
unemployment insurance, Samuel Com
pers branded Unemployment conditions
as they exist today as handmade"
'premeditated" and "avoidable."
The average value per acre of 10
crops, constituting nine-tenths of all
crop production dropped from $35.76
to $14.48, or go per cent, during the
two years 1922, the United States
department of agriculture has an
nounced. This decline is unparalleled
within the scope of records of the de-
partment dating back to 1866.
The police department of New York
asked the board of aldermen for tear
gas bombs and gas masks as aids in
capturing criminals and breaking up
mobs. Inspector General Thor APP
peared before the board and urged the
appropriation of 1920 for the pur-
chase of 500 tear gas bombs for the
department and 100 gas masks for the
police bombing squads.
Finding a stolen mail pouch con-
tanning some 100000 In registered
mail near the ferry postoffice three
months ago and turning 1t in to the
authorities hasn't helped Frederick
Groves get n job, according to his
story, even though he was commended
publicly at the time for returning the
pouch. The bandit who stole the
pouch killed n postoffice clerk in the
holdup and committed suicide the next
day. Applications to various federal
and municipal officials, business hous-
es and charitable organizations for
work have failed to give him more
than temporary employment, he said,
and the government told him no re
ward was paid for the return of stolen
mail