The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-02-08
Chamber Favors
Proposed Hotel
J. w. Flood Outlines Plan to Build
Modern Three Story Structure;
Plan Is Endorsed
ASKS SUPPORT OF PEOPLE
OF CITY; TO INCORPORATES
Discuss Highway Question; Continue
Fight for Lincoln Route At
Monday Night Meeting

commerce endorsed the proposed
Lahontan hotel as outlined by j.
w. Flood at the regular meeting of
that body Monday night Flood
appeared before the members and
story hotel in Fallon over the Rex
theater.
Flood asked that the people of
Fallon support the hotel. saying that
IL would be impossible for him to
erect two additional stories over the
present theater. Let 1t be Fallon's
hotel, not Floods" he said.
The proposal, as outlined by
Flood, would call for the building of
two stories of approximately seven
ty-five rooms over the theater, the
heating system is already installed.
Flood stated that he would take
$4,000 or $4,000 in stock in the
company as equity for the value of
the property as IL now is. A cor
poration would be formed for $780,
600 and 1t is planned to raise about
$50. in this community, he said.
The property owners will be re-
quested to invest in accordance with
the amount of property owned, the
plan being the only feasible and
possible one for the construction of
a-hotel that has ever been broached
in Fallon, in Floods opinion.
Means $50, ,0oc q Year
The speaker then stated that j.
p. Eldrege has estimated that a ho-
bring a hundred travelling men each
year TO his business alone. Flood
added that he thought that under
favorable conditions fifty travelling
men connected with the moving pic
ture industry would visit Fallon,
over night, II would mean fifty
thousand dollars a year to the town.
he added.
The hotel would include seventy
to eighty rooms with about thirty
private baths and telephone connec-
tions to all rooms. The property
has a frontage of 160 feet and is 100
feet deep. There is an additional
lot across the alley that is 20 feet
by 100 feet, which would make 1t
possible in the future to construct
hotel of five hundred rooms.
Call Special Meeting
The motion to endorse the pro-
posal included the calling of a spec
ial meeting in order that the plan
might be explained to greater
number of people. The meeting will
be held in the chamber of commerce
rooms Monday night. February 20.
c. b. Hall later explained that
the stock of the company would be
eight per cent cumulative pre-
ferred stock.
Discuss Highways
A discussion of the proposed
route of the highway through the
city of Fallon was held The cham
Der. on motion made by F. w. Dud-
ley. endorsed the construction of the
highway on the same route as now
followed by the Lincoln highway.
c. G. Swingle urged that the pres
ent route from Leeteyille to Hazen
be changed. He said that the road
might as well be through a lake as
through the bog that IL now ira
verses. He asked that the road be
changed to cross the canal above the
Hartman ranch instead of below IL
and then to go over the bench lands
south of the present route. A bet
ter road would thus be provided to
both Reno and Carson City. The
additional mileage neeessitated by
the change would be very small and
the cost of construction would be
much less. He said that the coun-
ty commissioners had indicated
their willingness to the proposition.
City Engineer l.. w. Crehore
spoke of the delay that any change
in plans would necessitate as 1t
would then have to again be ap-
proved by the federal state and
county officials.
1t was moved and passed that the
state highway association be asked
to give the proposed change careful
consideration.
President H. A. Clark then an
nounced that $2S0.000 were avail
able for highway work in the state
of Nevada from the appropriation
for the construction of roads
through national forests
Fight For Lincoln Route
In speaking of the fight to have
the Lincoln highway made the pri-
mary route through the state, Gre
hore asked that a committee be ap-
pointed to draw up letter to be
sent throughout northern Califor-
MIA to urge that the business men OF
that section demand that the Lin
coin route be SO designated, in ord
er to open up central Nevada. 1t
was also suggested that the cham
Der of commerce wire the San Fran
cisco and Oakland chambers Of COM
merce and I. II. Kent special repre-
sentative of the county in Washing
ton, that the Churchill county cham
ber of commerce was opposed to the
construction of the primary road
from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles
through the southeastern part OF Me-
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