The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-04-09
WRITER
GATHERING DATA OF
EUREKA DISTRICT

reka this week. Mr.. Moore Is an old
time newspaper man, having held
desk jobs on the biggest papers from
New York to San Francisco. The
last seven years OF employment on
metropolitan newspaper was as SUM-
day editor of the San Francisco Call.
He says he was shook" out of that
Job by the earthquake of April 18th,
1905. Since that time, he has been
doing publicity work for mining and
oil camps. such as Goldfield, Roches-
ter, Nevada, Oatman. Arizona, and
for the past year he has been doing
the publicity work for the Fallon oil
field.
Mr.. Moore says that Senator Key
Pittman left Reno ON Tuesday morn
ing for Washington to attend the op-
ening Of the special session of Con-
gress. In an interview just before
leaving Senator Pittman said:
"One of my very first acts on the
opening of Congress will be to intro
duce bill affording relief to all those
who have received oil leasing per-
mits under the Act signed by Presi-
dent Wilson on February 26, 1920.
According to the terms of that Act
all persons receiving same must have
a good substantial rig on his ground
and begin drilling within six months
from date OF issue and must have a
well with 8 inch casing down 500
feet. AS many of these permits were
issued during the Summer months,
the first six months expired during
the Winter and the early Spring
months. In many locations b Q
weather conditions were not favor
able to the raising of funds so neces-
sary to drilling operations. The bill
which l will introduce will grant an
extension so that those who have not
been favored by good weather or the
easy raising of the needed funds may
not lose their holdings. / have ev-
cry reason to believe that 1t will pass
"In our new Secretary of the In
we have a man, a westerner; a man
who knows the needs of the West. He
knows what II is to pioneer and
when l say that he knows what 1t is
to punch burro.' people will under
stand that Secretary Fall knows from
experience and not from information
impaired. / have served in the Pub
lie Lands Committee with him for
eight years. and when l say he knows
the West and fits wants / know where
of speak. and that a man with such
knowledge will be of the greatest SER
vice to the West.
Senator Pittman was also very en-
, phatic in his statement that there
was no danger of the Pitttman Silver
Act. as it is known, being repealed.
He said, Both Congress and Senate
are irrevocably committed to the pur-
chase of silver up to 100000. 900
ounces. To complete that amount of
purchase will take many years, and
by that time conditions may be such
that silver will again be in such favor
that the price will hold above the
dollar mark of its own stability"
Mr. Moore is one of the few pub
licity men who reaches the eastern
papers. He sends out what he terms
his weekly syndicate letter, which
appears in the Nevada State Journal
at Reno. Salt Lake Mining Review Of
Salt Lake City, the Daily Mining Rec
ord of Denver, Colorado. the Tonopah
Miner, the Goldfield Tribune, the New
York Record of New York. and the
American Mine Reporter of San Fran
cisco. He also has another service
used by such papers as the Deseret
News of Denver, and the Times OF
Los Angeles. He has still another
service known as a paragraph SER
vice, which Is made up of short par
agraphs that goes to such papers as
the S. F. Examiner. Chronicle, Bulle-
tin, and the Call. on the Coast. and
the Denver Post. New York Tele-
graph and other papers that cannot
use oil or mining copy at greatlength.
He has just started a service dealing
with Goldfield and its possibilities Of
come back. and will now take up
Eureka. Mr.. Moore sends out his
copy from Reno. where he makes his
headquarters.