Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-08-08
MORE MONEY MOVING OLD HOUSES
THAN IN BUILDING new ONES

House moving at the rate of two !
and three a day is the way they are
decimating Goldfield and building up
Tonopah. Yesterday two long strings
Of animals came in Off the Goldfield
road and two more houses were add
ed to the assessable valuation of this
camp. One of these strings included
sixteen horses and the other com
prised eight horses and mules.
The outfits are the property OF
Chris Larson, Charles Akin and Hen
ry Pickle. The latter was not in the
bunch arriving yesterday, but he is
reported on the road between here
and Goldfield and is expected in be-
fore Sunday night
Charles Akin is one of the old
time moving men of the gold camp
and is willing to tackle any kind of
a moving job from a one room cabin
that can be skidded along behind
a broncho to a fifty room hotel of
brick and mortar Pickle and Larson
are not far behind Akin in resource
fulness and there is notable feel
ing of amity between the trio who
are making handsome living by
moving towns in sections across the
desert
A student of the transportation
problem who stood by when a five
room house was being lacked up
on Bryan avenue asked Akin what
he thought of the moving of a forty
room. brick schoolhouse in San Fran,
cisco for a consideration of 100000
and the desert treker said he thought
they were getting all the job was
worth He added that he would not
hesitate to move such place as the
Goldfield hotel with its 200 rooms
if anybody paid enough to make II
interesting.
The moving business has assumed
large proportions and no contracts
are taken now for delivery in less
than six weeks. Akin has moved
"a houses ranging from two to five
u rooms each and never failed to land
them in good condition. He hal
contracts for eight more and wher
these are finished he does not ex
7 pect to find any trouble over pick
ing up fresh contracts. He handle
most of the big business with foui
fene horses and has always pulle
through the hardest parts of the roa
,r In the sandy patches below Diamond
os field with the aid of another span.
N Henry Pickle, with eight horse
% has moved Is houses and says h
as has 40 more spotted for hauling ovei
mr. Chris Larson who came in thi
AZ morning with a string of eight an
mails attached to a house that
planted on the hill north of the II
ad nopah & Goldfield station, has mo-
ed 20 houses and has contracte
for is others that have been sol
for delivery in Tonopah
Prices run from 800 to S275 a
cording to the character of the stru
ture and the stability of the hous
For flimsy cabin loosely hung
gether the cost of moving is great,
than for a house of the same sii
wen built with double walls
there is less liability of it falling
- pieces on the 2S miles of road b
tween the two camps. The averai
time occupied in the trip is "
days actually on the road, one d.
ely for loading and another day I
cid blocking up at the delivery point.
in Billy Moran is the owner of t
go big house that came in this MOI
are ing and he declared himself perfe
gas ly satisfied with his purchase as
ing only lost a few shingles in pa
yhy ing under the electric wires
Brougher avenue. This house v
red planted on Bryan avenue above
to Bowler house.
and The enormous rents obtained
of Tonopah have proved a strong
re- centive TO this business Of buy
,uth vacant houses in Goldfield as it
a estimated that the house will pay
cut itself in rental the first year {
rev then all is clear profit. Buyers
ould they can pick up good houses
ring $3.50 to 5000 that cost the Goldfi
an owners anywhere from $500 to 81
Nye and which could not be duplica
ding with new material for less Z
'een $1,000. These buyers blame the
500 of building to the high wages
unity Tonopah as few can afford to
of Sc day for carpenters, IS TO
good for plumbers and Sc for paperhs
esr.