The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-08-21
ACTIVE COMPANY TO
DRILL NEAR SULPHUR

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That actual drilling for oil on the
east edge of the Black Rock desert
three miles this side of Sulphur, this
county. will commence shortly, now
seems certain, with authority for tho
statement in S. c. Cassidy. general
manager of the Block Rock Oil, Gas
& Development Co., who is also a field
man Tor the Red River Lumber. Com
pany, Walker Bros. corporation.
Cassidy said timbers have already
been cut for the derrick and he ex-
poets they will be at Sulphur ready
for transportation to the drill site
rot later than September Is. The
timbers have already been loaded at
Westwood. Depending upon which
size of casing can be secured, the
hole will be commenced either twelve
or fourteen inches, with preference
given the latter.
If announcement of the company's
personnel and proposed manner OF
ioing business is correct, progressive
'ctivity may be relied upon. Cassidy
said no officers of the corporation will
draw salaries and only fifteen per
cent will be allowed upon stock sales
Otherwise money raised will be used
for labor and equipment only, not
even Office expenditures being con-
templated. Already the company has
had several biologists on the ground
men of national oil repute, all of
whom have reported favorably and
stated chances for oil in the district
chosen seem most likely to give good
results than any they have observed in
Nevada. These geologist reports will
probably receive further publicity in
future
On the board of directors are men
prominent in the Red River Lumber
Company, the president being George
a. Pratt; secretary, Claude Hunter
and treasurer, Floyd Lloyd. cashier
of the lumber company's bank, all of
Westwood, California. The resident
agent is w. Kearney of Reno, well
known throughout Nevada.
Much sign work has been done and
snars is desirable. Large signs of the
Touring Bureau model cost approxi-
nlately SIS installed. The smaller
road signs, including posts and the
work of putting them up, cost about
IS each.
Early this year the board of COM
missioners of Washoe county made an
appropriation to cover cost of signs
ON the transcontinental highways OF
this county. Miss Jewett displayed
her enterprise and initiative by visit
ing the California State Automobile
Association and inducing that body to
loan truck, driver and laborer to
place the signs so provided. She
hopes other counties along the high
ways may render similar assistance
to the work of the association.
This week Mrs Wilkie is at work
ON her first annual report of the ac
tivities of the Nevada Highway Asso-
citation. Saturday the first meeting of
members will be held in Reno at the
Chamber of Commerce. Semi-annual
or quarterly meetings are being con-
sidered advisable for the future.
Saturday night, after the meeting,
Mrs. Wilkie will depart for San Fran
cisco to attend the international con-
vention of the National Traffic Of
ficers' Association, to be held in the
Auditorium there, August 1927. This
meeting will discuss experiences in
the matter of automobile traffic of all
kinds, lessons learned in the matter of
road building for present and future,
and consider and recommend uniform
legislation concerning roads and
traffic regulations. Police chiefs
from nearly every city in the United
States and Canada will be present, it
is said.
The Nevada Highway Association
really considers itself in the light of
an automobile association, and may
change its name to something of that
kind in future. In it's present form,
however it offers one modest means
of doing something definite and sys-
tematic in the matter of better high
ways for this state, and on broader