The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-09
MA ATER|ALS USED
BUILDING HOTEL
To Build a Modern Hotel Building
Requires Immense Amounts of
all Kinds of Materials to
Make 1t Pleasing

Inasmuch as the Humboldt hotel
building is going to be an edifce
to which the citizens of Winnie
mucca can point with more than a
little pride and there has been
hardly more than a mere mention
made of it of real interest in the
local papers, it may not be amiss,
at this time, to give to the readers of
The Silver State some of the peril
nent facts pertaining to the con-
struction material that has been re-
quired and with that object in view
information was sought of Mr.. T.
w. Whitaker, superintendent of
construction for the contractor, C.
r. Hill of Reno and w. w. Gray
son, one of the painters.
The largest item, in volume,
used in the erection of the building
is, quite naturally, brick, as it is
brick building; and to run the walls
into the air, five stories high, en-
closing a groundsare 75 1876
feet-making it possible to provide
subdivisions totaling ninety-six
guest rooms, forty-four bathrooms,
counting-house rooms that will be
occupied by the First National
bank, lobby, foyer and cafe-re-
quired thirty-six carloads, or 620,-
600 bricks, each 21a 8 inches
in dimensions. Take that number
of bricks, place them end to end,
and they would make red strip
of vitrified earth stretching from
Winnemucca to McDermitt, an in
tervening distance Of eighty miles;
or, laid alongside of each other
they would make an eight-inch
carmine path reaching to Paradise
Valley, forty miles distant; and
piled one atop of another they
would make a brick pier, A X s
inches sticking into the air twenty
four miles, and weighing three mil
lion, one hundred thousand pounds.
Too, each brick is of singular
porosity and has such marked
absorbent powers that it will con-
tain full pint Of water; or, to
more vividly illustrate the possibi-
lities in the matter of liquid con-
sumption embodied within the bricks
that are now part of the Hum
boldt hotel, it is only necessary to
ctata tba+ those ;po,,;,,,+o raa+a,..
ular blocks of burnt mud could con-
sumo $4,000 quarts of moonshine,
a sufficient quantity of joy-water to
give every adult booze-fighter in
the United States a stiff snort of
hootch; and provocative of enough
fights to require our standing army
to quell the disorder.
Ten carloads of rough lumber
have been used in the building,
besides the 10000 feet of fir floor
ing and the large quantities of oak
and maple flooring, that are now
undergoing drying process, ready
for laying. Approximately, there
will be $4,000 square feet of
flooring required in the buildings
construction, and if the pieces of
flooring comprised in this huge stack
were laid, end to end, a ribbon of
wood would extend from here to and
beyond Jungo two miles, or a dist
ance of thirty-eight miles. The
average western, or Douglas, fir
tree will only mill, it is estimated
by logging men, 222 board feet, SO
that it was necessary to fell total
of 225 trees to afford a supply of
lumber sufficient to plane out,
groove and tongue, the flooring
essential to the construction of the
Humboldt hotel building. And
speaking of tongue-one thirty
eight miles long is surely long
enough under which to roll all the
salacious scandal it is possible for
the mind of man or woman to con-
jure with.
In the making of the partitions
and ceiling 225,000 laths are be-
ing placed in position to serve as
groundwork, or keys, to hold in
place the plaster with which they
are being covered. Laid end to
end, there are enough laths in the
Humboldt hotel to make wood
string reaching from here to Reno
10 miles away; and while the
laths are only a quarter-inch in
thickness, if they were piled or
top of each other they would mount
into the air four miles. There are
enough laths in the building tc
supply pedagogues with devices OF
chastisement sufficient to fan the
dust ont Of tha troucarc, cahnoca,