The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-02-28
STANDARD RIGS FOR
FALLON COMPANIES

has been so thoroughly tested that
portable rigs are being abandoned
and standard rigs secured to take
their places. The Fallon Pioneer Oil
Company, the Rainier Oil Company,
the Weaver Oil Company and the Sill
YER State Consolidated already have
standard rigs on their properties. Eli
Cam, president of the Churchill
County Oil & Gas Co. is now on the
Coast buying one for his company to
take the place of the portable that
has done good work at shallow depth
on the Williams ranch. w. b. Nichols
of the Big Four Oil Company has pur-
chased one and is shipping it from the
Coast. This company has an unusu-
ally good seepage at a depth of 400
feet. The Rainier Oil Company has
its derrick UP and rig on the
ground. The Silver State Consoli-
dated has its rig on the ground
and a crew on the way from Cali
fornia. Other companies that have
either bought or are negotiating for
standard rigs are the Peerless Oil
Company, Carson Sink Corporation,
Nevada Peerless Oil Company. Dia-
mond Oil Company, Capitol Oil Com
pany, Lassen Oil and Gas Company.
Kramer Oil Company, Utah-Wyoming
Oil Company, Nevada Consolidated
and C. w. Kinney has purchased one
for private parties.
The Kramer Oil Company at a re
cent stockholders meeting in New
York City, elected the following board
of directors: Albert f. c. Kramer
shipping broker. prominent in the
shipping trade of New York; Hubert
A.. Kramer, tobacco merchant, well
known in the tobacco trade of New
York City; Alfred A. banda, general
manager of the Fahnestock Electric
Company Of Long Island City; Gus
tave Bassler, retired merchant Of
Brooklyn, New York and Richard
Beck, secretary and The
capital stock was increased to $4,000
shares OF par value of $40, and di-
yided into 10000 shares of preferred
stock and 10000 shares of common.
The preferred will carry twelve per
non is unlimited. In their selling
of stock. the preferred stockholders
buying at ten dollars a share will re-
knowing full well hat there are few
people in this world. with or without
millions, who so graciously and un-
ostentatiously play the friend in
need.
/ found later hat it was entirely
characteristic. One day / noticed a
fellow walk away from the train in
Reno. Disguised and disappointed.
Wingfeld stopped him and the fellow
got on the train, and | presume
climbed into a soft berth that was as
welcome as mine was. The people of
Nevada who know him best will bank
LutlT last uOlldT Oh ullU- Ole udy III
ronopah, it leaked out that he had
purchased some claims; he was inn
lediately besiged with subscriptions
and financed the company by selling
800, 900 shares for $4,000, in the
course of a few hours-or rather as
quick as he could write down the
names. This wasn't the only time
hat the mere rumor sen the clamor-
ing mob and their shekels in a mad
scramble to get in before the books
we're closed.
The Master Psychologist" is the
tcrm by which | would describe Ne
gada's leading citizen were to write
1 scenario of the life of George Wing
ield. 1t fittingly characterizes the
success he has achieved. Whatever
wealth he has wrung from the barren
wastes of the Silver States hills and
plains has been the result of ex-
erted brain-power-at the proper
moment.