The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-01-09
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Chamber of Commerce
Elects Officers for Year

| Monday evening the Churchill
County Chamber of Commerce held
its annual meeting and election of
officers and directors. The meeting
brought out more members than
have gathered in some months and
very substantial program for the
year Is under way, as several matters
for the good OF the county are to be
pressed during the year.
The terms of seven directors hav-
ing expired the following were elect
ed on the board to I'LL the three year
term:
J. N. Tedford, L. C. Taylor, Will
liam Harmon, L. e. Cline, G. G.
Swingle, AL Reed and Claude Smith.
Following the selection of the direct
ors the report of Treasurer Bryan
Laveaga was read and approved This
report shows that receipts for the
year amounted to s1,3Ss90 with
expenses amounting to s1.32S.12,
leaving a balance of $11.78, with
some bills outstanding.
Must Raise Money
There was much discussion as to
the ways and means of securing
money enough to keep this organiza-
tion going and paying its running
expenses. The trouble has been that
collections have not been kept up
and many members have not paid as
they have not been approached by a
club collector. Efforts will be made
to round up some of the dollars that
are necessary and committee. com
posed Of Edgar Maupin, Earl woos-
ter, Bryan Laveaga and II. r. Nigh
els was named to map some plan that
would make collections better and
thus assist in putting over the pro-
gram Of the year.
Elects Officers
There being more than a quorum
OF all the directors present the cleo
tion of officers for the year followed.
OF the several candidates suggested
the directors chose c. l.. Benadum
for the office of president of the
club. He will be assisted by AL Reed
as secretary and Bryan Laveaga as
treasurer
A committee on committees which
will name the other active commit
tees for the year consists of j. N.
Tedford. William Harmon, Edgar
Maupin, Carl Dodge and Claude
Smith. They will meet within a short
time and name the committees that
are to take up the work this year.
Big Meeting Planned
A meeting that 1t is hoped will
bring out all of the old and new
members is to be held on the second
Monday in February. On this occa-
sion program and banquet is plan
ned. The idea being to get all of the
vital forces of this valley under cover
for one night and gain their coopera-
tion in a program of progress. The
entertainment committee will take
up their end of the work within al
short time and some members from
In charge. 1t must be remembered
that this was the first of the projects
to be undertaken, that the organiza-
tion had to be built from the ground
up, that the engineers were neces-
sarily without experience and that.
there was little in the way of data
by which they could be guided. But
we wish to emphasize the fact that
requiring a handful of homeseekers
to pay for the costly mistakes and
blunders OF the officials of the gov
ernment In instituting a huge ex-
pertinent of this kind would be an
act Of monumental injustice even If
1t were possible of accomplishment.
We wish to add In justice to those
concerned that in our opinion the
actual work of construction has been
accomplished with reasonable econ
omy particularly in regard to the
later works. Both the Lahontan res
ervoir and the recent deep drainage
system have been kept within their
estimated cost and they are both
accomplishing the work for which
they were designed. s
m Encouraged Now
From an engineering point of
view we have only words of praise
for the magnificent organization
which has been built up in the SER
vice. but as to sympathetic under
standing of the needs of the settler
and the problems that he is called
upon to face, the failure has been SO
great that at one time we were dis
posed to ask that the management
of the projects together with their
settlement be turned over to the de-
partment of agriculture. The fact
that Secretary Work is taking hold
Of this problem fills us with encour-
agement.
I'VE are also greatly encouraged
by his attitude and by his assurances
that the obligations of the govern
ment to the settler will be fulfilled as
we'll as by his expressed realization
of the fact that II the government
collects what is justly due it will be