scale the Knox Di- WHEELER IS HIGHEST While many unexpected things can LEASERS REFUSE TO SEND fortunes from Montana production, I men the old and The Record-Courier MOUNTAIN IN NEVADA If your watch is not correct happen In the course of one year to ORE TO MILLS WITH >EW SCALE took another view, and are reported vide never lost a shift at its Klondyke makes watch time BERT SELKIRK an- the as the old He your keep change the best laid plans, it la to have said they would not ship to property during strike, Owner and Publisher is the busi- threatens scale was retained there. The Knox Wheeler peak highest point nounced at this time by leading The situation at Tonopah any mill paying the new scale. This In Nevada. to a map of this town a Is In sinking, According pub- Year ness men that gigantic to become further by ap- brought about an impasse which engaged developing, Take it to‘Beck’ Subscription Rate_$3.00 per complicated United States celebration will be held and In solid ore so lished by the geological Fourth of July parent reluctance on the part of leas- could be dissolved by the MacNamara wlnzlng, drifting and of the Interior, WORK AND Published every Friday morning in In 1922. that the has reached a survey, department AIX GUARANTEED Gardnervllle ers in the district to ship their ores paying the old scale, as the leasers production entered at the Gardnerville, Nevada, this mountain stands 13,058 feet above Not one new building has been state where the workings are conges- DELIVERED PROMPTLY at second class matter. to mills operating under the reduced were perfectly willing to stand for an postoffice mall sea level. The average elevation of erected in Gardnervllle in the ted and the surface Is covered with past wage scale, according to advices re- increase in the treatment charges to the state of Nevada Is 5500 feet. and while several ore around the shaft. Only CARL P. BECHTEL ADVKBT1S1NO BATES eighteen months, ceived by the Reno Gazette from Nye absorb the increased cost, it was re- shipping four states—Utah, Mexico, Colorado. 16c new homes are under contemplation, county. ported. The leasers also are quoted Display advertising, per inch, per a average al- -At Dempsters- no Wyoming—have higher issue; single insertions 30 cents per it seems quite probable that Over 2000 tons of ore is held at as saying that a custom mill has no Attention has been invited to the inch. All will this titude. G&rdnedtllle Nevada advertising be charged building will be done here year Klondyke for shipment, but it Is excuse for Insisting on lower wages fact that the wheels of vehicles intend- for by the week, not by the month. ma- because of the uncertain price of claimed by the mine workers that none since the cost of all milling supplies ed for drlvtug-roads have not kept of the terials. It is declared that are IJfe is too short for most WILL IT HELP! prices of the companies will send ore to a have declined. The MacNamara is pace In development with other parts long speeches. expected to reach a lower level next ore and It has been advocated that as an mill that does not have the approval treating Divide Extension may of carriage mechanism. Experiments when a revival of building will aid of con- spring of their men. secure some shipments from (JoldfieUl with heavy vehicles indicate that to irrigation, a committee A woman lead a man astray, be resumed. may be sent West to first- The leasers operating In the Mon- ores, which are not ameanable to the wheels should be made both higher OS. H ermes gressmen get but she never has to pull him. hand knowledge of the possibilities tana have shipped most of their ore cyanide process installed in Tonopah and broader. In England it has been After getting a first-hand glimpse that exist through storage irrigation to the MacNamara mill, and that com- without being mixed with a consider- recommended that with a maximum of thrills that enter into the lives the there would not be able of ores. C. E. of the width of projects financed by the federal gov- pany thought any quantity Tonopah axle load eight tons, some of the local en- Painter and of racing drivers, trouble in their bins with Mon- Knox, of the Montana To- tire should be about inches. In- ernment The plan, no doubt, is a filling president 10t4 thusiasts who believed themselves tana as it was the leas- and the Knox Divide, take crease of the diameter of the wheel is good one, but the results wholly de- ore, supposed nopah may REPAIRING to a car in a road race Decorator qualified pilot ers would be to resume a hand in about an under- in pend upon the type of men that willing ship- bringing said to be more effective preventing WATCHES, CLOCKS A*D com-1 was held last have de- such as week, The between road-beds width of pose the committee. ments without delay. leasers, standing the milling company damage to than JEWELRY REPAIRING Special attention giver to high, rather enter cided that they would most of whom have and leasers. their Some ten years ago, a committee of made good-sized the The latter pay tire.. All Werk GiitruM class Painting and Decorative the ring with Dempsey and stop a congressmen came West on a similar EXPERT ENGRAVING Paperhanging right-hand punch; provided, that a mission, and during their tour the Mall-orders attended to their share of the spoils would aggre- promptly DESIGNS MADE OS BEQUEST congressmen viBited Carson Valley to gate the amount received by Carpen- Room 6 Imelll Bldg. view a project that has been talked tier for his twelve minutes of fight- of ever since William Stewart served Fred Kolster ing last Saturday. this state as United States Senator. CARSON CITY, NEVADA The visiting congressmen were given Next to Western Union If there are those in this county who; a grand reception at and Hg8DBMHlMIKBP Mihden, want to mix in any of the fifty-seven later were taken on a tour of Caron varieties of European controversy and Valley. had They ample opportunity attendant bloodshed. It would be ESSEX WINS Shoes to observe what had been accom- cheaper for the United States govern- The plished in an agricultural way in this ment to pay their passage to Europe valley, and what could be done through than to let them remain here and try Nevada Cleaners COMPLETE STOC K OF FISK the aid of a great storage system. to get 110,000,000 other Americans In F. S. OLIVER, Prop. SHOES FOR MEM, HOMES visited other sections where They trouble. ASD CHILDKES. EVERY. equal possibilities revealed themselves, Room 214 Bank Building THISG SEW AMD STRICTLY but nothing that they saw convinced car Phone MO UP-TO-DATE A Nevada was defeats motorist stopped oy them that the West was to Sturdy light entitled police in San Francisco not less than A Kent Reno Troy Laundry some consideration front the federal three times in one day recently and LEAVE SUITS AT government. UAKDMKKVILLK SHOE STORK aBked to show his registration card, ART NELSON HARDER SHOP For the most part the committee Ole}' 0. Ilougm-r, which is as plain as a one-piece bath- all in its class Prop. was made up of congressmen from competitors MINDEN, NEVADA ing suit that you will meet trouble Gardnervllle Nevada states east of the Mississippi, and in California If you fall to carry your trend of events proved that they were Nevada registration card with you. not open to conviction; at least ever resulted from their west- nothing Ninety thousand people paid $1,- Runs second to an automobile ern tour in the interest of irrigation. only 600,000 to see Dempsey and Carpen- No state in the West offers more op- tier fight for twelve minutes, which portunities from storage Irrigation indicates that hard times have passed costing $5,000 than does Nevada. Irrigation projects and that the country is fast returning Hobart Estate Co. must be financed by the federal or to normalcy. state government, later to be reim- NEVADA bursed by the landholders, themselves. Once more has the ear holding tlie transcontinental and the world’s MINDEN. WORK (JOES AHEAD STEADILY But until the State of Nevada takes endurance records shown the and the stamina that have made If IN FALLON OIL FIELDS speed hold of this great problem and shows famous. Its tfcne for the Nevada Classic desert road race of 1,1116 miles over its sincerity in the great undertak- course marked every natural testing the of a Fallon oil field activities of the by obstacle, dependability motor ing, we can hope for very little help car, was but SI hours, .VI minutes seconds. moment are full of potent. Receding Lumber from congress, and the visitations of finance and country-wide pessimism congressmen will count for naught. Considered from the of this have no effect on the morale of the every viewpoint, performance ESSEX, with stock chassis, especially in comparison with that of the la men who are busied with drilling en- rife, costly, car, Wood MOKE DESTBUUTIVE equipped with a special racinir was remarkable, For the terprises, and every day brings new body, truly THAN WAK thousandth time It has itself to be the world’s llirht car. And subjects for discussion and new aug- proved premier a what this ESSEX did any ESSEX will do. We talk great deal about abolish- uries for success. Coal ing war and we hold international The Fallon Pioneer is leading the conferences on that subject, but we field in depth with a ten-inch hole that little realize that we are destroying is down 1330 feet. The formation in life every year faster than we did in which the drill is working is a dark the war In France, and that on the brown shale, the hardest yet encoun- streets and highways of this coun- tered, and it is believed that the oil Harrison Motor Car John Mansfield & Co. try in times of profound peace. A pool capping is being penetrated. Roofing startling realization of the perils of This company is fully deserving of the streets is afforded by the statistics its name. The first to bring in a Beaver Board of traffic casualties presented by Wil- standard rig, it has passed through liam Phelps Eno at the conference on all of the vicissitudes to -Company- peculiar the RENO. NEVADA highway traffic regulation, held at pioneering period, and surmounting ISO Sierra Sreet 1‘lionc s»:i Yale University. While during the unlooked-for and heart-breaking diffi- nineteen months the United States was culties a depth has been attained and in the war 48,000 men were killed In oil evidences produced which promise battle or died of wounds, in the same to place the Pioneer in the producing period, according to Mr. Eno. 91,000 ranks in due season. were GARDNERVILLE persons killed on the MOTOR TRUCK highways The honest and effective work of the of the United States, and of these, company’s officials has resulted in at- 25,000 were children. tracting attention from leading oil in- The above facts were presented vestors on the Coast and proposals FREIGHT LINE some time and ago up to the present have been received looking to the un- time they have not been contradicted. derwriting of the Pioneer's drilling We must assume that they are correct, project. OPERATING THREE BIG MOTOR although we must, at the same time, George R. Harper of the Reno OH confess that they are almost unbe- Exchange, recently visited the well EmkkmfUttjkrn*. TRUCKS BETWEEN lieveable. Hut 1 accidents are so com- northeast of Stillwater, and upon his BUICK-r-yK7zv*Trrrr~rt—■ m mon nowadays that when we see them return to Reno gave out a statement in the newspapers we hardly stop to in which as a practical oil man, he RENO, GARDNERVILLE read the particulars, unless we hap- voices evidence of oil possibilities at pen to see some name business that is familial the Pioneer well. GjyUICKpredominance among MINDEN AND CARSON CITY to us. The New York World, com- "I found oil sludge running all AJ men means but one is menting on these same thing—Buick statistics, as- through the sands issuing from the Freight routed via our line will suming thorn to be correct, says: well. From a position on the derrick absolutely dependable. It has proved its “If be these flgures are authentic, they I could look down over the 300 feet of received by you quicker than reveal a waste of life for twenty years. in the public sludge running and see the iridescence dependability by train and will be delivered at streets wholly criminal in Its wan- that has been producing oil for some tonness. your door. Less and This human sacrifice of the days.” You don’t need to try out a Buick for handling, costliest kind, precious lives devoted The Big Four well is now down tJ prompt service will insure you not to a cause or an ideal, but ruth- a of about 1300 feet That is universally known. depth and drill- dependability. continued freight satisfaction. lessly crushed out in a manner that is on ing going constantly, three shifts But you should try out a Buick to realize makes their loss a lasting reproach to of workers forcing the drill down just their to Authorized to Haul Freight Between country. as rapidly as possible. A gray shale its comfort, its power, how easy it is "Life has become cheap in America, is Points Given being penetrated at this thue and There’s real in by Nevada Public Service but is it anywhere so cheap as in the oil indications are constant. operate. pleasure driving streets? Commission The time has come when it The Churchill County Oil and Gas a Buick. would seem to demand some of the Company is down with its eight-inch GINOCCHIO public there BROS. OWNERS protection that it receives drill to a depth of 963 feet on the Wil- Series and Prices June 1st, 1921 in Hfw Effective the factory and in the home. What liams ranch. This has had company Roadster is the net Model 22-44 Three Passenger $1495 gain from saving life in oil a extraordinary showings for Model 22-4J Five Passenger Touring ... 1525 in other and quarters wasting it in long time and drilling has been pushed Model 22-46 Three Passenger Coupe ... 2135 the .... 2435 thoroughfares? with feverish haste. Just now the rig Model 22-47 Five Passenger Sedan “The lesson of the Model 22-41 Four Passenger Coupe 2325 wanton sacrifice is shut down, as needed repairs are Model 22-49 Seven Passenger Touring ... 1735 to traffic, which grows made. annually being Model 22-50 Seven Passenger Sedan .... 2635 worse, is that every possible safeguard The Fallon Oil & Gas Extension F. O. B. Hint, Michigan should be applied which human in- well has a depth of 640 feet and but / genuity can devise and at any conceiv- 160 feet more remains to be drilled | Willys-Knight able cost to municipal administration." when the promised oil in commercial Yes, life has become cheap in quantities should be encountered Reduced almost $300 America, the cheapest thing we Eight hundred feet or thereabouts was have, and the reckless drivers rush the goal of this company from the their cars streets and through high time the drilling rig was set on the ways like juggernauts of old. New Price June First ground, inasmuch as experts gave the i| $1895 opinion that oil would be had on the The Nevada Fish and Game Com- C. A. Gummow ranch before the 1000- mission has recommended that a cer- foot level had been reached. The Willys-Knight Sleeve-valve motor tain portion of the Carson river, The Nevada-Union well on the Rice with use. It is closed to fishermen by an ordinance ranch is down 560 feet and in a very ; Improves amazingly passed by the board of county com- hard formation. ; free from care and cost. The gasoline missioners, be thrown again open, in- above 2o miles asmuch as the proposed spawning sta- JACK O’SI'LLI VAN RESIGNS mileage averages per tion for that section is a very remote AS SURVEYOR GENERAL ; gallon. Its smooth performance is a possibility. The commission also de- ; source of satisfaction clares in its lasting recommendation that the Jack O'Sullivan, one of the moat fact of keeping this portion of the Car- popular of the Democratic federal of- son river is ! Prices o. b. closed, unfair to the fice holders, has resigned his position M2 f. Toledo, Ohio of sportsmen Douglas county. as federal surveyor general of the was There is \ Touring $2195; June 1, |1895 little or no objection to state. The resignation is passed in in keeping this of the Carson portion order that he may accept a position ; Delivered in Carson river closed Valley $2145 on the part of Douglas with the Standard Oil Company in the county sportsmen, but there Is con- sales department. The resignation Is C. O. D. GARAGE siderable to the or- COMPANY objection county to take effect just as soon as a suc- dinance on the part of sportsmen of i cessor can be appointed. Ormsby county. The commissioners Minden, Nevada declare ! that the ordinance is not to Nobody ever was willing to "let by- Brunkyle Garage ha repealed by them. WHEN gones be bygones." BETTER. AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM ! GARDNERVILLE NEVADA