McCarty, Mineral county; Mrs. Rudolph Zadow, Eureka; Mrs. Sadie D.
Hurst, Washoe; Mrs. Bray, Ormsby; Mrs. F. P. Langdon, Storey; Mrs.
Caine, Elko; Mrs. Minnie Comins MacDonald, White Pine.

Mrs. Church, Miss Mary Henry, Mrs. Hurst, Mrs. Belford, and Mrs. Maud
Gassoway were an active force in organizing societies at Sparks, Verdi
and Wadsworth in Washoe county, the largest in the State. Mrs. W. H.
Bray organized study classes in Sparks and gave prizes for the best
suffrage essays. Mrs. Hurst addressed large street crowds in Reno
every Saturday night. An important feature of the campaign was the
complete circularization of the voters with suffrage literature by the
county organizations and from State headquarters by Mrs. Bessie
Eichelberger, State treasurer for two years, assisted by Miss
Alexandrine La Tourette of the State University; Mrs. Belford, Mrs. P.
L. Flannigan, Mrs. Alf. Doten, Miss Minnie Flannigan, Mrs. Charles E.
Bosnell and Mrs. John Franzman. Mrs. Hood, the second vice-president,
and chairman of civics in the State Federation of Women's Clubs, was
the leading factor in getting its endorsement at its meeting in Reno,
Oct. 30, 1913.

Nevada's population of only 80,000 is scattered over an area of
110,000 square miles, a territory larger than the whole of New
England. Of these, 40,000 are men over twenty-one years of age, of
whom only 20,000 remained in the State long enough to vote at the last
general election--an average of one voter to every five square miles.
Nevada has the smallest urban and the most scattered rural population
in the United States. Reaching and winning this vote was done mostly
by press work and literature. The new voters on the registration lists
were circularized. The personal contact with the voter was
accomplished by street meetings in the cities and towns; in the rural
communities by train, automobile, stage and even on horseback.

All the political parties but the Republican endorsed the amendment in
their platforms and it was supported by labor unions representing
6,000 members. Prestige and assistance were given by an Advisory Board
consisting of U. S. Senators Francis G. Newlands and Key Pittman,
Congressman E. E. Roberts, Governor Tasker H. Oddie, Lieutenant
Governor Gilbert C. Ross, President Stubbs, Bishop Robinson and many
professional and business men. There was fierce opposition from some
newspapers, including the Reno _Evening Gazette_, the leading
Republican paper of