ained pledges of $1,000 from
Senator Newlands; $1,000 from Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw of Boston through
Mrs. Maud Wood Park; $1,000 from the National American Woman Suffrage
Association; $500 from Mrs. Fels, $300 from Miss Eileen Canfield;
also $250 from Mrs. W. O'H. Martin of Reno and many smaller sums from
individuals and organizations.

With the assurance of an adequate fund, amounting to over $7,000 in
all, the final "drive" for suffrage for Nevada women was begun after
the State convention. Miss Vernon arrived, as promised, in April and
at once made a trip around the State to strengthen the county and
local organizations. At State headquarters in Reno Miss Martin kept in
touch with the work in every section of the State, wrote suffrage
leaflets and planned the final campaign. Its concrete object was to
secure the endorsement of labor unions, women's clubs and political
parties; to rouse as many women as possible to active work and to have
at least one in charge of every voting precinct; to reach every voter
in the State with literature and by a personal message through a
house-to-house canvass, and to appeal to both men and women everywhere
through press work and public meetings addressed by the best speakers
in the country.

The 20,000 voters were scattered over the enormous area of 110,000
square miles. There was only one large town, Reno, with about 15,000
inhabitants, and three or four others with a population of a few
thousands each; the rest of the people lived far apart in families or
small groups, in mining camps on distant mountains and on remote
ranches in the valleys. Nothing could prevent a heavy adverse vote in
Reno and other towns where the saloons, with their annexes of gambling
rooms, dance halls and "big business" generally, were powerful, so
everything depended on reducing their unfavorable majority by building
up the largest possible majorities in the mining camps and rural
districts. "Every vote counts" was the slogan.

In July, 1914, Miss Martin and Miss Vernon started out on their final
canvass of the State, "prospecting for votes" in the mines, going
underground in the vast mountains by tunnel, ladder or in buckets
lowered by windlass to talk to the miners who were "on shift" and
could not attend the street or hall meetings. To reach less than 100
voters at Austin, the county seat of Lauder county, required a two
days' journey over the desert, and many places were a several days'
trip away from