The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-28

propose as governor. Practically
every commission operating at Car.
son can be trimmed down and other
expenses<.e~2 be regulated.
81 @"sad many years. expert
ence in mining, and believe that a
new era of prosperity is here in
that line. In every section of the
state we find renewed efforts and
results, from Virginia City to the
south end of the state old and new
mines are operating"
Senator E. w. Griffith was intro
duced by Senator Sheehan as a col
league of the latter's in the last
assembly; and the senator, who is
now candidate for lieutenant
governor, residing at Las Vegas,
made very clever talk largely
devoted to matters pretaining to
irrigation.
During his 5000 mile drive over
the state of Nevada, making the
various towns of the state on the
campaigning tour, Senator Griffith
said that the thing that has forcibly
impressed him is the enormous area
of virgin lands-lands that have
never had plow-furrow turned in
them, and needing naught more
than water to covert them into
highly productive and attractive
farms.
Because of his residing at Las
Vegas, which is only a few miles
from Boulder Canyon, Senator Grit
fith, is thoroughly familiar with
every move that has been made
having for its object the csnstruc-
tion of dam to impound the
waters of the Colorado river and
lntelligently distribute them over
the surface of thousands of acres
of waste lands that are susceptible
If being converted into a veritable
earthly paradise.
As Senator Griffith pointed out,
his great area, subject to irriga-
ion, lies in a latitude with a eli
nate adapted to the propagation
Of practically everything in the
'itrus fruit line and all of the
vegetable life of semi-tropic ma
ture. Oranges, most delicious, are
now being grown at Las Vegas, said
The senator, and with a proper sup
ply and distribution of water
guaranteed, multiplied thousands of
acres of waste lands of nominal
worth, will be changed, almost over
night, into property values reaching
into the millions and afford great
relief, to the people who. row main
tain residence in the state, by Great
ing an influx of new citizens who
will take upon their shoulders a
part of the tax burden and, so
divided, taxes will cease to be a
never-ending SURGE of worry in the
daytime and nightmare of nights.
Due to his intimate familiarity
with the subject Senator Griffith
was enabled to tell many interest
ing things about Boulder Canyon,
and he feels quite sure that it is
only a question of comparatively
short time until construction work
on one of the greatest dams in the
world will start.
Senator Griffith said that he, just
few days ago, had received a
letter from Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover in which Mr..
Hoover made reference to meeting
to be held at Santa Fe, New Mexico,
the ninth of next month, and he
indicated that if proper steps are
taken at that meeting, federal aid,
he felt quite sure, would be en-
listed in the Boulder Canyon dam
project.
In a concise summary of the
possibilities of the projected dam,
Senator Griffith said that when
the dam is completed it will i'm
pound 53O,00o,000 acre feet of
water, and will generate 100000
horse power-sufficient energy to
run all of the train in the western
states and run a pump on every
quarter section of land in this and
contiguous states.
AT the close of the senator's quite
interesting talk Senator Sheehan
introduced Mr.. w. B. Alexander,
the Republican candidate for sec
retary of state. In the matter of
pulchritude Mr.. Alexander has it
on the balance of the bunch, save
in hirsute adornment. But that
1oes not materially detract from his
appearance, as it only accentuates
IN unusually high forehead. Mr..
Alexander knew what he wanted
20 say to the people, knew how to
ay it, said it and, stopped when
he had finished. For a political
peaker to perform in that manner
is little out of the ordinary and
most certainly is worthy of COM
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