Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1922-07-28
HARMONY NOW
WATCHWORD Of
LOCAL PEOPLE
Booster Meeting Held Last
Night at Victor Park Brought
Out Numerous 0ptimiStS
JOHN G. KIRCHEN WAS HOST
Friction to Be Discarded and
Organization OF Chamber OF
Commerce is Assured

The boosters meeting last night
at the Victor park, with John G
Kirchen. general manager Of the To
nopah Extension Mining company
as host, was responsive Of one Of
HE most enthusiastic assemblages
# liye-wires ever gathered together
N southern Nevada. There were
over so present some of whom came
from outside points, and the com
muuity spirit manifested itself in
no uncertain manner 1t is evident
that these bauquets will do a power,
full amount of good in bringing about
an elimination of any friction that
may have heretofore existed, and
similar gatherings are assured for
the future. the banQuets to be held
at intervals Of three weeks.
The banquet tables were arranged
in a U-shape. with John G Klrch.
en- serving as toastmaster Hugh
Henry Brown. on behalf of those
present, paid a high compliment tC
the host by termlng him a man OF
large affairs, pubic spirited and the
maker of payrolls In responding
MIR Kirchen explained that the oh
ject Of the gathering was to brinf
about harmony among the residents
of Nye county that any existing diff
ference might be solved in a man
ner pleasing to the community ii
general,
Mr.. Krchen, during the course
Of his remarks, told Of the great
amount of development and i'm
provements that were being accom-
plished at the TonOpah Extension
and incidentally remarked that hi.
company was now paying $4,000
monthly for power, with every pros
peCt that the amount would shortly
be increased to $4,000 He dwelt a
some length upon the possibilities
Of the Tonopah district, laying stress
upon the fact that the persistency
of the oreshoots is no longer ques
tnoned, but that on the other hanC
deep mining will play a prominen
part in the future, which means
that the life of the camp has beer
extended over long period o
years.
J. NJ. Fulton, assistant freight ant
passenger agent of the Southerl
Pacific, gave a brief history of tina
road and the Central Pacific and 0
the order OF the United States su
preme court directing the unscramb
ling of those two lines. Mr.. Full
tons remarks were deply interesting
and edifying and he threw new ligh
on the subject matter.
J. Grant Crumley injected a lot o
pep into the meeting by offering
the suggestion that a chamber o.
commerce be formed in Tonopah
and that regular banquets be held
that our people may be brought II
closer touch with the true conditions
that are confronting us at all times
He suggested, and most timely, that
/ the knockers should discard theiI
hammers once and for all time. Mr.
Crumley.s address was well received
and upon motion a committee con
| sisting of L. R. Robins, R. Fred
Brown, William E. Waters and Joe
White, was named to arrange fol
another banquet to be held three
weeks from last night.
Among other speakers of the eve
ming were E. S. Kassler and A. B
West, who are here on business in
connection with the Nevada-Cali
fornia Power Corporation; Charles
s. Chandler OF Ely, republican can
didate for United States senator
DaYe Aspland of Goldfield, general
agent for the Tonopah & Tidewater
and Judge William Forman, H. H
Atkinson, Chas. F. Wittenberg, w
]. Douglass, A. G. Raycraft, W. D
Hatton and George A. Foster.
Those invited were: A. G. Ray
craft, L. R. Robins, B. A. Rives,
William Waters, c. F. Wittenberg