Mason Valley News from Yerington, Nevada • 1

Yerington, the Distribution Point For a Vast Farming and Copper Mining DistrictOpportunities for Investments OPENING HOQ MARKET (By Wireless) Chicago Slow; few sales; five to ten higher; ten seventy paid. Omaha Five to ten higher; ten twenty-five pad. WEATHER FORECA8T (By Wireless) Nevada tonight Sunday continued fair A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER js a ffi a a VOLUME 15, NO. 20. YERINGTON, NEVADA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924.

TEN CENTS A COPY A Great Chan HIGH SCHOOL OFFICIALS TO BE ENTERTAINED) Tonight (Saturday) Mrs. P. J. Me- FRANCESCONI RANCH SCENE OF GAIETY Communicated ce A PRETTY WEDDING IS CELEBRATED A very pleasant social event occurred last Saturday noon at i the residence of Mr. and Mrs.

Linford YERINGTON MATRON GIVES A DELIGHTFUL PARTY Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. Lot tie Scott, who has recently returned from Winnemucca, gave one of the most recherche parties given in Yerington for some time. The doings were in honor of Mrs. Louis DeAr-mond, a recent bride, and Miss Jane Spring, who shortly leaves for her home, in California. The afternoon, was spent in playing whist, after which refreshments were served.

Call will entertain the trustees and faculty of Lyon County High School at the McCall residence in West street This gathering will be for the purpose of assembling the teach- ers and trustees together and intro- ducing them. It ia a good idea and will tend to promote the high morale that is already manifest in the high school. -Buy slum- BACK FROM THE BANKERS' CONVENTION Alvise Baldini and family, and George F. Willis, cashier of the Mrs. Clark J.

Guild and family, Mr. Lyon County BankJ who attended the 1 and Mrs. Amos Fabri and family, Mr. bankers' convention at Elko and Mrs. Emilio Mainochi and am-! last week, got back Monday.

He re- ily Mr. and Mrs. Bianehi and family, ports the convention of the money Mr. and Mrs. Ugo Georgi and family, banders of the state as one ox the Mrs.

Annunziata Fabri and son, Guy best ever held in the state and great 1 Fabri, Louis Francesconi, Giulio od feeling prevailed at the meeting. Georgi, Frank Lippi, Mario Grovac-Whlle there Mr. Willis visited the Cat- hini, Naiduccio Domenic and Car-Jin Oil Shale plant, and brought hom! menMicelazzl a sample of parafln that was pro- I Musical selections were played duced from the oil taken from the by Frank Lippi and Carmen Micelaz- C. M. Coddington and L.

W. Trankle returned last Thursday from an extended trip through Owen's Valley, California, visiting the towns of Bishop, Laws, Big. Pine, Independence and Manzanar, as well as the entire surrounding country. This trip was made to the Owen's Valley section for the purpose of interesting those who had sold out to Los iingelcs City, in Mason and Smith valleys. A complete canvas was made of the farming section and a comprehensive and detailed description the great possibilities and future of these two valleys was given to each individual.

Soil and soil conditions and crop, market and water storaga conditions were thoroughly gone into Ihe latter item, water storage, in particular, interested those interviewed for every one realized the absolute necessity of adequate water storage in relation to the future of not only this district, but other agricultural and fruit great many expresed surprise when advised as to the per acre cost of our water storage when compared to and with reclamation projects ii other parts of the country. These gentlement did not make the trip with the sole view of "selling ranches" but simply to study conditions there and with the idea of convincing the people of Owen's Valley that at least a small portion of the "Lord's Paradise" lay within the confines of Eyon county, Nevada, and that before making any definite moves to other districts, to visit with js and allow us to show them one of the finest agricultural districts in the west with the cheapest water storage sysem and unbounded One noticeable' fact that impressed both Mr. Coddington and Mr. Trankle was the manner in which California "land sellers" were taking advantage of Owen's Valley conditions. Committee representatives, as well as in-, dividuals are invited, without expense, to visit various parts of California, especially the Sutter Basin district, and from all accounts the rentlemen from Sutter Basin have, been very successful in landing quite a few of the Owen's Valley ranchers on lmds varying in price from $500 to $750 per acre.

When tne stops to consider and compare climatic conditions, prices, storage and all other conditions of Sutter Basin and orrr own district, one has to admit that good salemanship and plenty of poonerp.tive boosting was 95 per cent responsible for geting people to invest their mony in Sutter Basin. et Settlers Lyon county, and especially Yerington, is overlooking one of the greatest opportunities of a life time right now to get in good substantial citizens. Our Chamber of Commerce, Farm citizens and busines men should get together and send committees to Owen's Valley with the sole aim of getting these investors to become one of us. Invitations should be extended to committees of farmers, also the business men and chambers of commerce of Bishop, Big Pine and other towns to visit with us in a neighborly way, for should Los Angeles finally buy up he entire Owen's Valley country, the sreatest portion of the business men nd farmers would welcome an opportunity to become permanently located in" one of the most promising factions of the west Lyon county and it is up to us to show thes people that we have what we represent and that we are ready to give them -elccme. While in Bishop and Big Pine inter views were Iiad with some the leading citizens in regard to making an all-year road over Montgomery Pass between Bishop and Yerington.

Also, the subject of double-tracking snd extension of the railroad was thoroughly gone into, and in every case, we found the people of Owen's Valley in hearty acord with and ready to boost financially and otherwise, every project which would have a tendency to, cement Nevada and lower California in closer ties. Another thing" which it would be well to mention, is the fact that a great deal of publicity and advertising can be given to. Smith and Mason Valleys by placing suitable and attractive signs along the roadway between Bridgeport and Bishop. Thousands of tourists pass daily through this lower section during the summer and fall, and it is safe to stimate that 90 per cent do not even Vnow they are within 100 miles of the "Garden of Eden." In fact, several parties were met who did not Vnow that there was a valley in Nevada, let alone such valleys as we have in Lyon county, Nevada. Assurances were given by a good number of people in Owen's Valley tint they would make our district a visit within a short time and that if p-e could show them that we have 'a country such as has been represented to them, they would seriously consider investing their money with us.

Therefore, it is upto the citizens of Mason and Smith Valleys, as well the rest of Lyon county to get bnsv and act before the "land sellers" from other districts gather in all of the plums. Frank O. Stiekney, the live wire i president of the Mason Valley Bank, who attended the bankers convention at Reno last week, is back home once more. Mr. Stiekney says the banking down owing to the poor price of cop per, loeated in California.

His many friends in this place will be glad ta' hear of his prosperity. SERVICES AT MASON CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY The most delightful and biggest banquet ever held in Mason Valley was held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. Francesconi in honor of Baby Enrico Francesconi, who was christened Sunday morning.

The godparents being Mr. and Mrs. Alvise Baldini. i Miss Nellie Bianehi and Miss Julia Baldini were given the great honor to serve the delightful dinner to the following guests: Mr. ani Mrs.

G. Francesconi and family, Mr. and Mrs zi and were greatly appreciated Clark Guild spoke on "What Mother Means to was received with applause. The dance, which followed, was attended by a much larger ciowd- Mr. and Mrs.

A Mencarini and family Mr. and Mrs. Vince Scatena and am ily, Ettore Menacarini, Angelo Pol-lastrini and Vince Marchetti were present at the dance and others besides those that attended the diner. The Messrs. Selmi, Quilici, Bon-amici and others motored in from Dayton to attend the dance.

A very good time is reported by all, who con tined dancing until a late hour. khv ut Home XZVi OREGON-NEVADA ROAD IS PROPOSED, A movement was launched atJ Klamath Falls, Oregon, for the com pletion of a main highway east of tUe Cascade; mountains and parallel to the Pacific and Roosevelt high ways through California, Nevada and Oregon, starting at Los Angeles and extending to Reno, thence by way of Susanville to a connec tion with the Dalles-California highway at Malin, 35 miles south of Klamath Falls on the California state line. Representatives from Reno, the five northern counties of California and Klamath county met. and form ed the Dalles-Reno-Los Angeles high I way association which aims to secure the necessary recognition from the California highway association; to put this extensive road program across. The association formed plans to enroll a membership of from 12 to 15 thousand persons from civic bodies from counties ana towns along tne proposed route The California and Nevada boost ors for the new highway are asking the good will and moral support of the Oregon branch of the association since Oresron alreadv has this end of the main highway com- pleted with the exception of a forty-mile gap between Klamath Falls and Bend.

The new association will be man- I aged by seven directors, four from California, two from Oregon and one from Nevada. It. was decided! to elect the directors this year, one from The Dalles, one from Klamath! Falls, one fromBig Valley, Calif or-1 nia, one from Susanville, one from Reno, one from Los Angeles and one i from Fresno The next) meeting of tne new association will be held in 1 A 3 il Ri no on October 10 and a map of the proposed road from Los Angeles to The Dalles will be prepared and dis- tnbuted through the communities along the route following that meeting -Huv at Horn FOREST SERVICE AMENDS GRAZING REGULATIONS An amendment to the governing the use and protection of: the National Forests which makes possible to close them- against grazing by livestock during outbreaks, of dangerous diseases of domestic animals, such as foot and mouth disease and scabies, was signed August 12 by secretary of Agriculture Wallace, ac cording to word received by District present their movement into the for est except under special permit. This modified regulation will assist greatly in facilitating the eradication of-disease in Peiting its spread. D.

Riley on Nevada Street. The oc casion was the marriage of Miss Esther S. Swanson of Olivia, Minnesota, to Mr. Charles H. Anderson of Tonopah, Nevada.

The ring ceremony was used, and -as performed in- a very pleasing manner by Rev. M. Williams, pastor of the local Methodist Church the yresence of the following, persons Mr. and Mrs. Linford D.

Riley, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Barnes and son, Roy Milton Barnes, Mr.

and Mrs. A. C. Newing, and Mrs. M.

J. Wiliams. The youthful ring bearer was; Roy Milton Barnes. I The ceremony was followed by a I wedding dinner served at a beautif ul-ily decorated table; where the guests 1 found their places marked with miniature wedding cakes. The happy couple departed by car for Lake Tahoe and vicmty tor a short visit after which they will be at home in Tonopah, Nevada, wher the groom is engaged in the automobile business.

Mrs. Anderson who is a sister of Mrs. Linford D. Riley, is well known locally, having been a teacher in the grammar school a few years ago, and was similarly employ ed in Tonopah during the past year. Buy at Home THESE COYOTES ARE EDUCATED CUSSES Cyotes are believed by many to bo carnivorous, their chief diet being sheep, jackhabbits, chickens and the like.

This is no doubt true, but the diet of a coyote is by no means limited to flesh. When hungry; he will devour" apples, plums and other fruit ravenously, and has a habit oi" raiding orchards at night. No one claims they climb trees to get the fruit, but L. M. Jacobson, who owns a farm in the Pine Nut hills, swears that coyotes eat fruit.

He noticed that apples that fell during the were gone next morning. He thought at first that. Indians were helping themselves but after keeping a close' watch one evening, merely for determining the source of disappearance of his fruit, was surprised when a pack of coyotes invaded the orchard and lost no time devouring every f'Pple on the ground. A feed of apples after a meal of jackrabbits prob ably rounds out a feast that every co vote in the country would relish. Uardnerville Courier.

"Rr.v At TTnin NEW REGULATIONS TO AID MINERS IN NEVADA Regulations just issued by. the gen eral land office in Washington require the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railway Companies to furnish proof of the nonmineral character of lands selected by them at the time they file their selection lists in the various local land offices. These regulations prevent the railroad companies from continuing their practices of selecting-: lands claimed and worked by miners. For many years the railroad companies have pursued the policy- of filing selection lists without causing any! examination of the lands to be made. The natural result has been that these selections frequently include tracts of land that were occupied, and claimed by miners and on which active development wo irk was being carried on.

This caused the mining claimants not only much worry and. suspense, but often tied up their properties for long periods of time and in many cases resulted in serious monetary loss; to miners, it is claimed. The present regulations will prevent this, "according to land office officials, and should prove of imense benefit to the miners ani prospectors throughout the states of California and Nevada. Under the new regulations the railroad companies are required to furnish at the time of filing their selections lists in the land offices, affidavits showing that each legal subdivision of the land selected has bean personally examined, that the land contains no mineral deposits; and that ho portion of same is claimed or worked) for mining purposes or has any mining improvements thereon. The change in the regulations has been brought about through the efforts of the San Francisco field division of the general land office, which office has charge of the investigation of all railroad selections in the states of California and Nevada.

Buy At Home Mrs: F. O. Stiekney is' confined tn her home with a severe cold. RESERVATION PHYSICIAN TO RESIDE IN YERINGTON Dr J. T.

Rees, physician at Me-Dermitt for many years, has been transferred to Yerington, Nevada, where he has accepted a civil service the work of attending; to the medical needs of seven hundred Indians in that vicinity. He will travel be-tvecii Yerington and Schurz, and Mrs. Rees, who will accompany him, will act in the capacity of druggist, under a government apopintment. Dr. Rees has been at McDermitt over a period, of many years! He has attended to the wants of hundreds of people in that time, and he leaves a host of friends and warm acquaintance who wish him success.

Winnemucca Silver State. MOUND HOUSE PLANT REMOVAL. COMPLETE The dismantling and removal of the Pacific Portland Cement company's plant at Mound House was completed Tuesday evening of this week, when the last carload of machin ery and equipment that was used in the plant was shipped away. Thirty railroad cars were required to effect the removal, part of the plant being sent to Gerlach and the remainder to other points where the company is earying on large operations, says the Reno Gazette. A number of houses belonging to the company at Mound House have been temporarily abandoned, it is reported, after being stripped of their doors and windows.

Although large mining" and milling operations at Mound House have been discontinued, the company will eep a small force of men at work there until it has removed some surface deposits of gypsite that will be handled with scrapers. These deposits will be shipped to other plants for treatment. Hereafter the Nevada operations of the company will be carried on at Gerlach, where the company recently, erected a large mill. isuv at fTnmc Qranada ffiheatre Witli every theatre ticket you get a chance on the $120 worth of prizes to be given away October 19. Also one ticket with every purchase at Damon's Ice Cream Parlor.

One big week of fine photoplays'. Always a good show at the Granada. Get the habit. TONIGHT Allan Dawn's Paramount production, "THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON," with Bebe Daniels and Nita Naldi. A beautif ul impressive screen classic.

A gorgeous drama of marriage and divorce within the luxurious whirle of society. Also a comedy, "EXTRA, EXTRA." 30 and 10 cents. SUNDAY" AND MONDAY Program You sim-phr must not miss it. Betty Compson and Conway Tearle in Paromount's superb production, "THE' RUSTLE OF SILK." You'll never guess the weeping, stirring climax in this beau tif nl story of glibrius unrivalled love. Also PLASTIGRGAMS, a positive novelty and sensation, something en tirely new, the long sought invention that makes the actors on the screen seem so -real' and so close you feel that you can touch them.

The audience will be furnished with special red and blue glasses to witness PLAS Also good two-reel comedy and Pathe News, with special music. Can you miss it? .50 and 10 cents. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY Another great program. Notable cast in Oliver Curwood's "FLOWER OF THE NORTH." One of the best film stories of the day told in a dramatic way that no equal for spectacular scenes and thrilling action. Also two-reel comedy, "NO LOAFING." 30 and 10 cents.

But At Em Mrs. Francis Merrilees and- daug'a ter Norma will leave Sunday for Los Angeles where they expect to spend the winter. They wiQ motor down with -Mrs. JJerrilees' parejtsl shalt: also a sampli of the shale rock which are on exhibition at the bank. FAMOUS OLD CAMP MAY BE REVIVED Bodie is absolutely quiet, but J.

C. Cain, now there, is confident that a new! era of production is enre to follow an extensive development campaign. Much unexplored ground is in the Noonday and other south-end properties, and it is Mr. Cain's plan to operate on a large scale, 'ihe Standard mill is in good condition and. repair, tmd ore production will find all ready.for turnig out bullion.

Mr. Cain told the Inyo Register that he expects to stay there until things are humming again. The famous old camp i3 something of a surprise, to one visiting it for the first time in many years. Through streets which were once busy, the places where the flowing bowl reigned and the "bad man" pro vided work for the undertaker, are quiet, old buildings lean together for mutual support, and the ravages of fire and storms are plain, yet many buildings stand, gqpd enough to be repaired and made serviceable for a considerable degree of business. Aurora, a dozen miles; beyond, is no less interesting to the visitor.

It is a -deserted village, in truth, for during a recent journey not a human being, not a sign of animal life of any kind was found among the empty buildings which stand as monuments to a past glory." There is a three-story brick hotel and a number of two-story brick-some in good repair, some showing evidence of coming dissolution. The building once used as a courthouse has its jail hospitably open for any comer with a chain shackled to the floor of one cell and in another four coffin lids without the corresponding) boxes on which to use them. The largest room in the building, where, possibly court sessions were held, was converted to the purpose of a barroom during the attempted revival effort made ingfield some six or eight years ago. The bar is there, and behind it a large bevel glass mir ror, still valuable and sound. A safe still occupies one corner of the room A gap in the principal street reveals below a broken brick sewer.

probably about four feet in diam- eter. There are buildings along the i street which would not be out of place in any good sized town, some of them in good enough condition t'j be used if it were possible to transport them bodily as they stand. Some places are barred from the curious by iron doors; others less protected, have big doors from which the glass has been broken and through which one can pass to see the odds and ends of merchandise left when the Storekeeper packed up what he con-ered worth moving to some other place. A tattered and weathered enrtain still flaps from a broken window of the lodge hall. In one place is an old hearse, on which it is said i Sicca! ftews i i business of the state is in a flourish-Mrs.

Gertrude Webster, Mrs. L. snape Beaman and Mrs. Violet McLeod re- turned Thursday from their trip to The raided Yerington Elko, where they went to help cele- last Satarfa and there waa a brate at the Catbn Oil Shale blowout. scatterment ot cover by those who nr i deal in red-eye.

One unfortunate Mr. and Mrs. Ruel Lothrop of Yer- -i 1 uy the name of G. Montalachi, failed mgton have spending a few days at the home of Mrs. Lothrop's sister, ex Mrs.

irank Ingram. Mr. Lothrop is, -m i. XT planations to Judge Farrington at idrii ot Lyon county. Carson News Carson pretty soon.

Late reports from thai bedside of Alex McLeod and wife were arn- Hon. J. I. Wilson, who was mixed up vals this week trom Cnico, Cahror-m an auto accident last week, are to -r t. av.

nia, where Mr. McLeod has a dairy the effect that he is getting along no- ki of pedigreed cows. Alex, five years bly. ihe club is anxiously awaitinjr it. i 3 aso, was foreman of the Mason Val Bill's return.

i 3 i. ley mine, and when that concern shut Miss Helene Cook, one of the bright graduates of the Yerington high school, spent the later! part of last week with her folks at Mason. Miss Cook is a student at the University of Nevada. Mrs. Fred Burner returned home the esta te of the owner still pays I Rorester R.

H. Rutledge of the Inter- taxes, thonerh it is as dead for pos- mountain says the? Eureka sible service as the bodies it' once Sentinel. transported to their last resting The amendment authorizes the Di3- places. I trict Forester, in case of need dur The brick construction of Aurora in? outbreaks, to issue orders to re-exempted it from the mininsr camp move cattle, sheep, hoe's or other ani- fate of wholesale fire, and to a less ma's beiner crazed on the forest or to ths week from California, where she Rev. Roy Henry Barrett, D.

of has been for some time under medi- Reno, general missionary for the cal treatment. Her many friends will Baptist churcr, a young man of be pleased to learn that she is much scholarly attainments who has occu-improved in health. ipiea large pulpits in eastern cities, D. Wilson, general for the will ocnpv the pulpit Sunday Pacific railway system, was a ing at 41 o'clock. A real treat for Y-rino-to'n visitor this week, in the -on to hear h'rn.

Good music. Ev-inWpst of h''s road. He was accom- erybody cordially invited. panied by Mrs. Wilson.

Thev re-1 turned to their home in Reno, Thurs Golconda Work started on Vic-3av- tory righway east of Golconda. decree from the ra vases of the ele-! m-nts. so that, todav nni for vears ahead it will present the appearance of a town from! which the inhabitants hastily fled..