The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-07
SAID THAT BIGGEST
SUBJECT IS NEVADA

while doing wartime newspaper
work in the East for eleven months
of last year. had occasion to see and
write about many big things in the
doing; but l am sincere In saying the
biggest thing I know of to talk or
write about today is Nevada. or
course, that is speaking of physical
rather than metaphysical subjects"
This was the earnest remark of c.
d. Ayres, a newspaperman of half
century's experience, in the course of
a fraternal call at the Gazette Office
this morning. Mr.. Ayres, with his son.
w. H. Ayres. purchased the Silver
State. a fifty-year-old newspaper at
year.
Big Work i'm East
Just year ago. Ayres continued,
II was witnessing Henry Ford's al
most staggering attempt to build
factory on the River Rouge, near De-
troit, which could turn out ships 125
feet long, fully equipped for the de-
struction of submarines, at the rate of
three day. Fifty thousand men were
employed at one time on this project
1t was too big for me to grasp the
full significance of such activity.
From Detroit went to Cleveland,
and to Rochester. and to Utica, and to
New London. the patrol and submar-
inc base. Everywhere was activity
and production on a scale never be-
fore dreamed of. The problem of OBJ
tanning skilled men to carry on these
great works is quantity illustrated by
a story | heard in front of hotel in
Utica. There the Savage Arms Com
pany was working frantically on new
factories for the manufacture of ma
chine guns, and two companies of SOL
diers were arriving each week for a
course at the machine-gun school,
His Own Boss
"The story was that little four
year-old kid was playing in the street
after his mother had called him in
Repeated calls failed to sec 1 obed
fence. AT last the youngster marked
to his parent:
Mamma, 1 don't have to mini you
any more!
What's the reason you don't" de
manded the startled mother.
Cause; I can go down to the
Savage Arms any time / want to- dc
clared the kid, with an air of finality
81 was sent down to Nitro, Wes
Virginia (the camp of Nitro. I woult
call it, if speaking to an old-timer q
Nevada,) where it was said something
more than $4,000 skilled mechanic:
from all over the United States were
then employed in the erection o
mammoth ammunition works. From
there l went to the equally wonderful
preparations for ordnance manufac
ture on Neville's Island. just below
Pittsburg. The island. three miles
long, was to be covered with 'ac
tories, and plans were going righ
forward for a city of 250,000 popuia
ton on the Ohio bank of the river.
Neyada's Wealth
"All of these stupendous things
however, impressed me no more thai
does the Nevada of today. In tn
lobby of the Golden this morning
heard a man remark that the million
of dollars which are coming into Ne
vada this year haven't even starte
yet. l am inclined to believe it. l an
convinced from several years explor
alton of the state. that its wealth ha
scarcely been scratched.
Observation and experience hav
also convinced me, however, that tn
question of roads is greater than tha
of mines. Yes, | know perfectly wei
the miner will take issue with me OF
that statement. He will say the 'roch
is the one important thing, and wher
that is found in paying quantities
roads and railroads will follow. Tha
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