Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-06-22
Nevada Airline Will
Start on Regular
Schedule In a Few
Weeks, Says BOggs

Regular airplane service between
Las Vegas and Reno will be started
as soon as the new Las Vegas Ne
vada airport is completed, which
it is expected will be within two
or three weeks.
c. Ray Boggs, president Of Nc
Vada Airlines, Inc, which company
will initiate the service, made THIS
statement to the Age late yesterday
during q brief visit i'll this city
with Capt. Roscoe Turner, manager
Of operations for the company.
REGARDLESS Of whether or not the
privilege OF carrying the mail is
granted, the service will be started,
Boggs said. Although, for the time
being at least, no mail contract
will be granted Boggs' company, it
is possible that permission to car
~ the mail between here and Reno
will be granted without contract.
The seeking Of conference with
Senator Oddie in regard to this
possibility motivated BoggS' trip to
Las Vegas yesterday from Carrara.
Senator Oddie had not as yet ar
rived in this city, however, and
Boggs stated he would return some
time today to see the Senator IN
Las Vegas. He returned to CarIara
last night by plane with Captain
Turner.
L. A. Line Grows
The line which was started by
Nevada Airlines, Inc, between Reno
and Los Angeles, the divorce spe-
cial." as it was dubbed by Los An
geles newspapers, since its start
Nav is has grown from trl-
weekly service into daily service
according to Boggs, and now SIX
trips are made a week each way
between those two cities.
The service between Las Vegas
and Reno will be inaugurated on
two-or-t r-three-times-a-W basis.
with Iockhead-Vega monopianes
faving capacity for four passengers.
The company owns three sun
planes. which are to be used Oh tlie
two lines, according to Boggs.
The fare from Las Vegas TO Reno
will be $50, with no reduction lof
wound trips, Boggs stated. a4lo
nIanes will probably connect with
the Los Angeles-Reno line ea3t-
bound. The schedule will ocpenc
entirely upon demands, and on
whether or not the mail-ca1Tyln2
privilege is granted, said Boges.
The plane probably Will leave
Reno at l pm, Immediately alter
The arrival there OF the plane
which left Los Angeles at that
morning. 1t is expected to reach
Las Vegas at 4 pm, stopping OIL
at Tonopah and possibly at Car
rara The return trip will be nIaoe
tbe next day, according to pIesehf
tentative plans, leaving Vegas Ut $
an. and arriving at Reno at ~
noon.
Tonopah Has Field
Tonopah built municipal ar
mort a month ago with two o,1Cl
foot runwayS, Boggs stated, anc
stops there are definitely planned
should the growth Of the CaiTara
1istrict's population and Business
warrant it, stops will be made ther'
also for there is already an ace
ulate landing field there.
Dodge Brothers OF Fallol, VIZ
we're granted a franchise fol cal
service between Reno and Las We
GAS at the same time the francfls'
was given Boggs' company hav'
Withdrawn from the field, accord
ing to Boggs.
Further expansion of the com
many by the starting of lines iron
Reno to Alturas and Ely 10 COLI
tempIated, the president OF tn
company said yesterday. Both o
these towns now have landing fields
The Reno-Los Angeles line nov
carries express as we'll as pass
engerS.
Service for corporation paper
between this city and Carson CIT
will cut time necessary fol tranSl
Of papers to Carson and back froI
12 days to two, the plane connect
ing with Feno-Carson stages
There are four pilots. four me
chanics and two relief pilots III tn
service of Nevada Airlines.