IMIMM DIRECTORS
CULL BOID ELEGDOH
At a meeting of the Board of Di
rectory of the Walker River Irriga
tion District, held iin the offices in
the Webster Office Building in
Yerington Friday afternoon, Septem
ber 20, 1919 was decided on as- the
date for calling an election, the pur
pose of which is to confer authority
on the directors to issue bonds for
raising funds . necessary for further
development of the project. The a
mount of the proposed issue has not
been definitely set, will be announced
next week.
The directors also approved of the
reservoir sites recommended by John
A. Bremer, formerly with the gov
ernment reclamation service at the
town of Schurz.
They are as follows: Alkaki Lake,
capacity, 85,000 acre feet.
Leavitt Meadows, capacity 25,000
acre feet.
Below Bridgeport, on the East
Fork, capacity, 34,000 arce feet.
Twin Lakes on the East Fork to
be increased from 6,000 to 20,000
acre feet.
MASON SLEUTHS
MAKE RICH HAUL
In Mason last Monday, the T8th,
George W. O Neil and C. R. Edison,
deputy special officcers for the de
partment of justice, arrested Charley
■*" Wye, a Chinese, who runs a resturant
in the mining town. At the time of
his- arrest Wye had on his person
$1,000 worth of opium that he had
just taken out of the express.
Officers, O Neil. and Edison had
heard that he expected,the shipment
and on his taking the package from
the express office followed, Wm home
*t and made the arrest.
Wye was given a hewing before
U. S. Commissioner Smith, who held
him to appear before the next term
of the U. S. Court at Carson. He
was released .on a $750 bond, which
he produced in cash.
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PROCLUUTiaN 8f
THE eOVERNOR
WHEREAS, The facilities which
proved so efficient for the training of
soldiers at the American cantonments
and particularly at Gamp Lewis, Am
erican Lake, Washington, are still in
existence and will be continued for
the instruction of those who may en
list in the army henceforth; and
Whereas The instruction now in
cludes not only the 'highest type of
physical development, but also the
courses along academic lines as well*
hs trades and practical training in
trades and commercial arts;
Now, Therefore, I, Emmet D Boyle,
Governor of the State of Nevada, by
authority in me vested, do, by this
proclamation, call to the atteneion of
all young men, who are now consid
ering their future course, the many
advantages which are offered at Camp
Lewis and other training camps which
are still operating, for the obtaining
of perhaps the most pratical and use
ful training and education in all ac
tivities of life that have ever been
placed within their reach by any
branch of the government.
The forgoing suggestions are made
to call attention to the many radical
changes that have been ^made in
connection with the training of enlist
ed men in the last four years. This
change is so extensive and the op
portunities offered are of such value
that no young man—paniculaly of
limited means—should make a deci
sion as his future course without
making an earnest inquiry into the
opportunities which the government
now offers to him through the med
ium of enlistment in . the Regular
Army of the United States.
Given under my hand and the
Gtfeat Seal of the?.State oS Nevada,
at the Capitol, in Carson City, this ■
13th day of August, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and nineteen. .
EMMET D. BOYLE .....
Governor.
IIDUSIRML IBB.
$10.00 a ton tariff being asked by
tungsten producers to protect them,
from foreign competition and save
the industry.
Kimberly selected as site for 2000
ton smelter of Consolidated Copper
mines Co.
MasonValley potato crop will be
short.
Mine orerator?- have discounted
the future by advancing wages to
war time scale long before metal
prices justify it.
Good zinc prices benefit Tacoma
Consolidated just over Nevada line
west of Great Salt Lake.
Fallon Oi> & Gas Co. to install a
complete drilling outfit on local field
Jungo—Car'oad of machinery or
dered for True vein claim in Ante
lope range.
Goodsprings—Vein of good ship
ping vanadium ore opened on Bill
Nye.
Rochester—Abe Lincoln mine pre
paring shipment, good ore opened.
Rawhide—General mining activity
being revived throughout the camp.
Tonopah—Electric interurban line
to be installed to Divide district.
Divide extension opens body ofsul
phide ore carrying value of $4000 ton
in silver. July production from Fair
view Mountain mine valued at $23,
000. Mayflower mill being remod
elled and enlarged.
Paramount Oil & Gas Co. start
drilling in local field.
Reno—Construction work on tele
phone to Tonopah under way.
Tonopah—Preparations for active
development in Mannapau uisirm
nearly completed. Florence Divide
Co. to spend $100,000 in development
work.
Goldfield Development Co. to now
start treatment of 2,400,000 tons of
ore in Combination, Red Top and
Florence. 8 leet of $23 ore exposed
on 380 level of Cracker Jack.
Production—more production and
increased production would prevent
; higher price levels.
r- Gjirdtjerrglle iwoo1 , brings high
hpri^, '51 1-2 cents
i Eureka is another of famous old
mining camps of Nevada which is
being revived as a result of increased
silver price.
The Virginia City mines increase
activity.
Thousands of western oil produc
ers threatened with loss by order
of the Navy department fixing the
of fuel oil at western ports at 86
cents a barrel when the market price
is $1.60 a barrel.
Carson City—Work will soon start
[ on new penitentiary.
; £iy—A scenic wonder cave rivaling
any in the country discovered near
here.
Lovelocks—Ground broken for the
construction of county high school
Reno—Gil indications throughout
White Pine district reported.
Tonopah—Nevada Oil Basin Co.
complete organization for drilling in
Currant Creek district.
With bankruptcy of utility com
panies and discontinuance of service
in different parts of the country star
ing many communities in tnc iace
the public is coming to rea'ize that
increased utility rates are just a inev
itable as increased bread and meat
prices.
Carson City—$31,840 to be expend
ed on building extension to Orphan's
Home.
Winnemucca—Development work
showing exceptionally rich ground at
Camp Kennedy.
Reno—10 feet ore body exposed on
O’Brien property. Develpoments in
Sunshine Camp bringing district to
front.
Farmers next—dairymen being pro
secuted in many parts for profit
eering.
Fallon—Ore shipments from Ferell
mine brings half a dollar a pound.
Elko—All available men to be used
in rushing completion eft highway to
Carlin.
Reveille—Mining activities in local
field being revived.
Panaceas for high cost of living are
being showered on us by reformers.
The only genuine remedy is increased
production or, in other words, hard
work.
Tonopah—Cornucopia mine to in
stall modern machinery and r,ush de
velopment. Ore assaying $38 a ton
opened on 300 Jevel of Blucher Ex
tension. Installation of machinery
nears completion in Midway Divide.
Bids for construction of Reno
I Sparks road let for $18,786.55.
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CONSERVATION
Last Spring 240,000 acre feet of flood or vPaste vPater ran into
; Walker Lake from Walker River.
This Fall the farmers in Mason and Smith Valleys and on
the East Walker vPill lose between $300,000 and f800*000 be
: cause there is not enough rOater In the tiver to Irrigate their
land.
This, in a nutshell, is the reason for the existence of the
Walker River Irrigation District- Plans for the practical and
economical conservation of the itoste vPater have been prepared
| by engineers vPho knot# rPhat must be done; by practical eoono
! mists vPho have made a study of the successful financing of •
similar projects; by farmers vPho knovP vfihat they vPant. find
tne plans have received the approval of a Board of Directors
knovPn personally by every man, vComan and child in the dis
trict
The plans comprise the construction of four reservoirs xChich
vt>ill impound enough vPater to irrigate every acre of land that
can be reached by a gravity ditch.
The undertaking is the biggest and most beneficial, and at
the same time the most logiCical, that has ever been started
in the district.
Sparks Victorious Over
Yerington in Exciting Game
On Sunday last the local ball
lossers were bested by the Sparks
railrod team, after one of the most
:. t!y contested,and from the
tutors point of view, the best game
flayed o.i the locad field this year.
The infield had be j i freshly drag*
ed and tolled and was in the best,j
of crri'itioa for a far* game.
The nucelus of Yerington’s fut
ure Iivn - hand w s on hand audit
is probable that the music had a
Hat • in i effect ov, tieili"Ose bai!
players and without it they might
bn .1 slas ted sum. •. «.»s.
"'lie f-t four innings were un
evi n'.fu!. both pit. hers working in
goo.I >!; pe and covins, only an
oc-x -'crex nfirst xdur ttif x cyi
occasional hit. In the fifth, wHn
Yerington at the bat, came the most
sensational play of the game, when
Dan McLeod knoeked a fly hall be
tween center and left fields, and be
fore it had stopped rolling Dan was
jesting at third base, having run
John Freeman over the plate for
long fly which was grabbed up
McLeod had flashed in over the
plate Sparks brought in three runs
in the seventh and one in the ninth
the first ran of the game. The
next man at the bat Copper hit out a
making the score, Sparks, 4; Yering
ton 3.
Quite a rumpus was staged in the
ninth inning when Yerington want
ed to change the batting order and
the difficulty was straightened out
after his Umps, Dune Me Kenzie,
and he looked up the disputed point
in the book of rules.
There is to be no game next Sun
day, ns the Lovelock team, which
was scheduled to play here cafinot
come.
John Freeman, the new manager
of the team says they may go to
Mina to play on Labor day.
FORTY Tilt JURORS
CALLFD FO K 26
County officials this week drew
the names of forty men and women
who are summoned to appear August
26th. to act as trial jurors. Two
jury cases are on the calender, An
tonio Del Porto and Angela Checco,
charged with burglarizing the Fabri
store, and A, Munoz, charged with
horse stealing.
Following are a listof the jurors
who were subpenaed: ,
Wm. Genzel, Samuel S. Arentz,
W. J. Gage, N. W. McVicar, Chas.
Van Benscchoten, S. L. Horner,
Mrs. Theresa Sweat, p. W. Mollart,
A1 Hayes, W. S. Rowles, J. R. Mc
Culloh, Harry T. Dolan, J. N. Damon,
C. E. Day, A. C. Sayre, Fred Stfom
berg, Jas. Hearn, Belle M. Gates,
V. S. Graffam, Wm. Donovan, C. R.
Archer, J. J. Martin, Cassius Graves.
A. E. Askland, Mrs. Susie E. Howard,
Jas. D. Me Donald, C. S. Hilbun,
J. S. Mann, Elizabeth Baker, Robt.
Sloan. W. H. Austin, W. E. West,
j Linford Riley, G. W. F. Bachelder,
S. A. Beaman, Frank Hanson, A. C.
Lundergreen, Foren Windisch
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Benj. J. Henley and Jay Clemons
were in Yerington Thursday in at
i tendance pt the meeting of the Di
rectors of the Irrigation District.
Mr. Henley is a member of one of
the foremost law firms of the state,
which jis doing the law work for the
! project.
Reno—Mason Valley mines to re
sume operations in near fuutre.
Railroad workers wonder what
amounts to class ownership of the
government.
Goldfield—Mt. Vernon Mining &
Milling Co. to install mill and open
ore body.
Las Vegas—New management to
work Forfuna group in Jack Rabbit
district.
Tonopah-1—Total output from dis
trict for f^ast week vau'ed at $136,544
Manhatten—Development on the
Black Mammoth property bringing
district to%frOnt.
CHURCH SERVICES
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHULCH
Methodist Episcopal Church.
10:00 a. m.-^Sunday school.
11:00 a. m. Sermon by Dr John F.
Wislon, Superintendent of Ne
vada District of the California
„ Conference.
Quarterly Conference immed
iately after the (preaching
service.
8:00 p .m. Song service with sermon.
on“The Glory of Jehovah” or,
"What is Glory?”
8: 00 p. m. Wednesday prayer Meet
ing. Everybody invited.
J. A. Dixon, Pastor.
ST. JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Mass on Inst Sunday of the month
at 9:30 a. m.
All other Sundays at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School every Saturday at 2
p. m.
Week day Mass at 8 a m.
At Mason, Nevada
Mass on first Sunday of the month,
10. 30 a. in.
All other Sundays 9:30 a. m.
Sunday School every Friday at 3 p.m.
Rev. Joseph Cunha.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Leavitt Hall
11:00 a. m. Sunday Service.
The lesson sermon is "Soul.”
CARD OFJHANKS
Please accept this as an expression
of our sincere appreciation of your
kindness and sympathy in our recent
bereavement ofi our beloved sister,
Gladys Johnson Hillygus. The kind
consideration of our many friends
lias been a source of consolation and
strength and we thank the Lord for
them. Our hope is that Providence
will &ive you equally good friends in
time of trouble and the beautiful
floral offerings we appreciate the
same.
C. E. Hillygus
R. E. Hillygus ,
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hillygus
ms1
(From our Mason correspondent)
Mr. and Mrs. J. Fothergil and
two son? and sister Julia Forbush of
San Francico were the week-end
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A A. Chisholm.
Mr. O. ;H. Bo.tt received word that
Mrs. Bott had met with an accident '
while! at Tahoe and gone to Carson
to consult a physician. She and Ian 1
will spend the remainder of their va- 1
cation at Carson.
Robert, son of iMrs. R. T. Payne ^
is quite ill with malaria.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gibert left for
Reno Thursday .
Mis? Helen and Gladys Gaughn
have been the guests of Mrs. J. P.
Moore for a week. They returned
to their home Thursday accompanied
by Isabel Moore and Elaine Parish
who will spend the week-end at )the
Gaughn ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Fisher and
Mrs. C. /H. Kremmel returned from
a camping trip spent at Woodford.
California
The Rev. Arshdeacon Howe held
services at the 'Mason church last
Sunday.
Mr. and. Mrs. T. H. Lever motored
to Reno Thursday with Mr. and Mrs.
J. G. Poorman and daughters who
left the following evening for their
home in Ogden after spending two |
weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Lever.
A. H. Barlow is spending two
weeks with his brother )Ben at Gold
field.
Mrs. Bell Buchanan and her mother
Mrs. A. M. McCleod,, of Chico, Cal.,
were /visiting in Mason Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Kendall and i
children returned from Tonopah on !
Thursday.
Mrs. Mattie Pugh was a Mason ;
vfsftor Tuesday. J
Mr. and Mr. P. H. Cook and their
daughters, Helene and Inez return
ed Wednesday from an auto trip
through the Yosemite. They re
port a very pleasant time.
Mr. S. A. Talhoe returned Wed- ]
nesday from Hfeke Talhoe. i
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Mr. C. H. Churtz left for Gold- |
field Wednesday night where he has !
accepted a position. Mrs Schurtz and !
chidren will remain in Mason.
Miss Ella McCulla is spending her
vaccation at Lake Tahoe the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Waggoner.
Mrs. H. C. Hansen and son, Harry
Lee returned from Los Banos, Cal.,
Saturday. While away Mrs. Hansen
with her parents toured Yosemite.
Geoge Phillip?', brother of Mrs.
Win. Dexheimer left for his home
in Oakand last night after spending
a plesane vis it of a week.
Mrs. Marguerite Miller and son of
Oakland are visiting with their aunt,
Mrs'. Win. Dexreimer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Canney, an old and
respected resident of Carson, died
there last Saturday, aged 64.
Mrs. Margaret Dewar, mother of
the late Senator Dewar, died in Vir
ginia City last Saturday ,
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CHICKENS
Select a location for a poultry
house that has a natural drainage
away ffom the building. A dry, por
ous soil, such as sand or gravelly
loam, is preferable to a clay soil.
In most localities the buiding
should face south, which insures the
most sunlight throughout the year.
Allow about three square feet of
floor space to a bird,
ation mean a dry house and healthy
birds.
Chickens should always be provid
ed with fresh, clean water. Char
coal, grit and oyster shell should be
placed before the fowls so that they
can have access to them all the time.
The hen’s greatest egg producing
periods are the first, second, and the
third years, depending upon the
breed. The heavier breeds, such as
Plymouth Rocks may be kept pro
fitably for two years; the lighter
breeds, such as Leghorns, three
years.
MM RELEASED 01
HMEAS CK WRIT
Frank Shinn who has been acting
n the capacity of water commission
:r on the Fox Ditch, and who was
irrested last week, charged with ac
:epting bribes from the water users
dong the ditch, was held to answer
>efore a higher court, at the pre
iminary hearing before Judge Blan
:hard last Friday.
The testimony at the preliminary
s to the effect that Shinn has re
reived from Frank Giromi On the
Brady ranch and yuillici and Men
:sini on the Estes ranch- a total of
i>l70, the money having been paid at
various times fn amounts averaging
twenty dollars.
Shinn was released on $500
He was represented by Attorney
Pilkington and District Attorney
Guild prosecuted the case.
Mr. Pilkington has gone to Carson
in the interest of his client and it
is stated that he wifi apply to the
supreme court for a writ of habeas
corpus.
Since the above was in type, At
torney Pilkington has returned from
Carson, and he informs the Times
that the writ ordering the sheriff to
release Shinn was issued. Mr. Pilk
ington based his plea on the ground
that all of the evidence adduced at
the hearing consisted of the uncor
roborated testimony of the ranchers
who had paid Shinn the money, and
who were accomplices, and as a con
sequence their (testimony was not
admissable.
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DRILL FOR Oil
AT PINE GROVE
Frank Rugbee, the discoverer and
principal owner of the oil teilds in
the Pine Grove-Rocklin district, sit
uated about 25 miles south of Yer
ington, spent-a, few days in town
during the week.
While very little has been said
about the new oil district, it is re
ported that the oil indications are as
good or better than in many of the
places that have hee» widely adver- ,
tised.. Mr. Bugbee and associates. *
who comprise many of the county
officials of Lyon County, have had
an expert oil man and geologist ex
amine the ground, and his report was
so favorable that they state that they
will have a drill in operation within
61) days.
START NTIONAL
THRIFT CAMPAIGN
When flie Savings Division of the
Treasury Department appointed Dr.
J. Stanley Brown of Joliet, Illinois,
in charge of a thrift canipaingn in
the schools, organizations through
out the country began to formulate
independent campaigns through other
channels.
In Chicago, a Do Without Club of
national scope has been formed to
further the savings habit, and is fur
nishing free membership buttons and
pledges to those in any part of the
country whq wish to join and save
money for any definite purpose, and
who send stamped addressed envel
opes to headquarters, 634-635, 410 S.
Michigan Avenue .Chicago, for re
turn literature, being no member
ship dues and no expense to members.
M'rs. Roy Dickey, former editor of
one of the national maganizes, organ
zed the Do-Without Club during the
war as part of her work in connection
with the Woman’s Committee Coun
cil of National Defense.
“We should not lose rhe spirit oi
either of saving or giving which the
war encouraged," says Mrs. Dickey*
‘D. J. Stanley Brown says that every
body who ‘sufficiently desires’ can
put away a part of every income.
The Do-Without Club preaches sys
tematic saving for the good of the
individual and a considered use of the
pennies, dimes or dollars we expect
to' give to church, Suday school, home
charities or other work and objects.
We believe the American public
needs to learn to think about paving
and also about the proper methods of