The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-08-12
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Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
| RENO. Nevada.-No wonder II is
becoming increasingly difficult to en-
ploy capable newspaper workers.
Everywhere one goes he finds old
timers getting out of the business.
Detroit has seemed the center of the
exodus. During the war years many
editors, linotype operators, printers,
reporters, devils, and roustabouts
forsook the "printshops" and went to
work at higher wages in the many
great automobile factories which
were given over to production of
munitions of war. Many of them have
| remained out of the business. They
have found more remunerative and
less nerve-racking ways of making a
| living-perhaps a fortune. At Marion,
Ohio. even Linotype Operator Hard
ing has forsaken his craft. Chicago
at present is hard hit in all branches
of the art. A month ago Salt Lake
City absorbed all craftsmen from the
decedent Herald. and in four days
was crying for more help. Reno news
papers are perennially stuck" and
Winnemucca wishes it had one or
two more good printers.
These reflections were called up
! yesterday by a talk with our old
friend l.. H. Beason, erstwhile of the
Phoebe Record. Nevada State Journal,
| and Los Angeles Times. Last Febru-
airy, Beason was urged to return to
! Nevada to accept an editorial job.
| Somehow it was believed he must re-
tain his loyalty to the old Sagebrush
State where once or twice he served
as Assemblyman. and be willing to
return when his services were de-
manded. But no; he failed to rise
at any $50 or $50 week bait. He
had learned something about the mo-
| ton picture business at the Earth
quake City. He saw filthy lucre in
| il, and he saw no devils rushing into
| the sanctum to demand copy, copy,
| when there is no copy. The old-timer
had found a haven where there was
no more life-sapping commotion over
war, politics. baseball, stock markets,
disgruntled subscribers, and print
paper soaring 80 per cent in price
| every three months.
| Beason arrived in Reno last Mon
day in company with A. r. Groenke,
| director and secretary of the Stand
ard Film Laboratories, new Cali
| fornia corporation now being pro-
NOTED at Los Angeles. Names high
| in the movie business head the new
organization, such as c. f. Vermilyea,
president; John NJ. Nickolaus. vice
president and manager: S. NJ. Tomp-
kins, director and treasurer. Pre-
sumably they are looking for inves-
tors here. The business of the new
institution will be development and
/ printing of films only. Beason did
rnot possess any information regard
ing Edna Purviance, but he did tell
some interesting things about the
picture industry, which doubtless will
be appreciated by readers of The Sill
yer State. Here are some of them;
The motion picture industry is the
fourth largest industry in the United
States.
| There are more than $4,000 picture
| theatres in the United States. There
are 1900 new picture theatres now be-
ing constructed in this country, ag-
gregating total cost of more than
1000, 900.
The gross income from motion pic
ture theatres last year was $500 .O00.-
| 900. an increase over 1918 of $125,-
600, ,00O
More than $20,0O0.000 is invested in
motion picture studios in Los Angeles.
More than scventy-five per cent of
pictures produced in the United
States are made in Los Angeles.
The value of production from these
studios last year aggregated $780,
900 900.
There are 10 separate producing
units making pictures in Los Angeles.
The average cost of five-reel
pictures approximates $4,000; some
have cost as high as $500.000.
The patronage of motion picture
tbaatrac hoe Increased 90 nar cent
since the advent of prohibition.
The industry furnishes employment
for more than $4,000 persons in Los
Angeles
A conservative estimate. says Bea-
son, of the number of feet of film de-
veloped and printed for pictures pro-
duced every week in Los Angeles is:
Negative developing, 100000 feet;
l.