Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1907-10-10
VISIT OF HUMOR-
ISTS TO GOLDFIELD
Chairman of the Publicity Com
mittee Answers Some of the
Charges Against 1t

his plans to the Press Club of Gold
field and the club took the matter up
enthusiastically.
The citizens of he camp responded
with their usual generosity and some
$1,000 was raised. None OF this
money was handled by the Publicity
Commission, but was collected by the
Press Club and sent to Mr.. Searight
in Los Angeles.
Il also arranged with the towns OF
Tonpoah Carson and Reno to enter
tain the guests and money was liber-
ally subscribed by the citizens OF
these places. None OF It however.
was ever called for outside of Cod
field
The Goldfeld anc Ionopah, the
Y. & I. r. R. and the Southern Pa
cific offered special rates for the
prospective excursion party as their
contribution to the Commission and
Mr.. Ierington offered to send a spec
ial car to the Mound House TO meet
them
The forty leading writer's when
they arrived in Goldfield dwindled
down to less than a dozen and they
seemed people who had never been
heard OF outside their respective
towns.
They stayed over night and hur-
ried away in the morning. They went
over the Clark railroad and never
visited the western part OF the state
1t was certainly an imposition on the
people of the camp who had sub
scribed and paid $1,000 to these fakirs
| am probably out as much as any
single subscriber to the fund as the
individual cost to me was over S100
When the facts become known the
following letter was addressed to Mr.
Searight:
Office OF Publicity and Industrial
Commission, Carson City, New. Oct
7th.
Frank Searisht Esq. Secy. American
Press Humorists, Los Angeles, Cal
Dear Sir.-At a meeting of the
State Publicity Commission held re.
Gently the question OF the visit OF
the National Press Humorists to Ne
vada came up for discussion. The
board feels that as it endorsed the
proposition of raising funds on your
guarantee that some thirty or forty
leading writer's were to come to this
state and advertise the country and
visit the principal towns, the fact
that they failed to do so requires
some explanation from you
We feel especially that the citi
zens OF Goldtield have not been prop
erly treated and the megre results
from their generous subscription
| places the board in an embarrassing
position. Kindly enlighten us on
| this matter at your earliest conven
/ ience. Yours very truly,
SAM Z. DAVIS, Chairman
Since the matter has been agitate(
! Mr.. Searignt's book ON American
! lress Humorists has made its ap
pearance and it contains a very gooC
write up of Goldfield illustrated will
half tone pictures and a story of Car
son by Mark Twain and :. reproduc
ton of Twains cabin at Aurora and
general write up OF Nevada mining
1T looks as if Mr.. Searisht ha,
/ endeavored to do his best to brin
the writers TO the state and pOSSiDl
they fell down on him at the last me-
the state what advertising he coult
the state what advertising he coul
through his book.
; Il do not accuse Mr.. Searisht G
any bad faith in the matter as Will
: in Goldfield he worked hard to brin
about results and exhibited many le
ters from leading writer's of Americ
l accepting his invitation to visit tn
state. The fact that he has dealt s
well with Nevada in his book. woul
Indicate that he had done all in hi
? power to retrieve the failure of tn
eastern writers to visit the state, q
5 they had agreed over their sign;
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