Chronicler: Fritz Buckingham
Interviewer: Gretchen Holbert
History, Hotels
Paradise, NV

0:12	freight teams into Genoa, Carson city, Austin, Eureka, Elko, and Siver 
City, Idaho
0:25	Morton Creek
0:35	boarding house or store
0:43	Jason Merchant became first postmaster in Paradise; took care of someone's 
(maybe speaker's grandfather?) affairs
1:20	combination store and bar for people travelling through, sod
1:41	later became the first school house
1:51	grandfather had a flour mill in Winnemucca
2:07	grandfather was one of the original partners of the first national bank in 
Winnemucca
2:32	grandfather, Mr. Kimbler(?) was German; John Charles Kembler started town 
of Paradise
3:58	planned it so the town would be built on the other side of the creek from 
his place
4:00	blacksmith shop
4:34	1904 bad winter storm collapsed roof
5:18	Carson City
5:50	meat market
6:00	1854 built a store $22,000.  General store on east side, bar on the west  
side. Second story had a theatrical stage and dance floor and rooms
7:07	dance floor had spring floor; description of how spring floor worked; same 
builder as the Saint Francis Hotel in San  Francisco did the floor.
8:39	1919 arsonist burnt it down
8:49	hardware available in store; casket building materials
9:11	no undertaker available in those days
9:25	dressmaking materials, drugs, groceries and cooking utensils, hardware for 
guns, pistols, rifles
10:20	came across old grocery list
10:37	grandfather lived in Sacramento on 13th and H
10:45	development on this side of the bridge, he did for the people
11:00	J.B. Caste (?) from Winnemucca; was teaching school in Winnemucca; taught 
school in Paradise upstairs; there were about 8 children in school
11:10	new schoolhouse
11:23	grandfather sold the teacher a lot and he built a store there; went back 
east and died there, but is buried in Paradise
11:53	Bob Schwartz was a cook in the hotel; grandfather also sold him a lot 
where he bought a store
12:16	pig pen
12:26	got into ham and bacon business; brought in Ed Lye (?) he was from 
England; he was a butcher
12:43	distributed with grandfathers freight teams; there was a lot of mining 
going on
12:50	Paradise was center  of supplies; people from Edgemont, Bull Run Basin, 
Rubble Creek, Willow Creek traded there at Kembler's store
13:08	Cottonwood Creek; roads at the time
13:29	George Milody (?) his father was a theatrical man; performed on stage.  
Surprising number of theatrical troupes going around the country, George 
Milody's father was a minstrel man
14:09	camels 
14:48	first recollection of a Basque hotel; in the Kembler building; Marie 
Arriola better known as Betegurian (?) was the first Basque lady to come to 
Paradise; two boys Frank and Augustin; Augustin was epeleptic - died of seizure.  
Frank married Arlie Mendiola and the had 3 or 4 boys. Gene is one, they all 
moved to Reno. Frank was a constable then moved to Reno worked for ReadyMix.  
15:58	first boarding house.  Marie was center of nursing for Basque people; 
around 1897 or 98.  She had a restaurant in back of saloon; single for quite a 
while; divorced Mendiola because of his brutality; he moved to Idaho and died up 
there.  Marie later married Domingo (sounds like Betegurian), a sheepman.  
17:01	Marie was not charged rent.  The front of the building was run by John 
Driver and later Joe Gastanaga, Joe was never charged rent for the saloon, 
parents wholesaled liquor at the store and Joe bought there.
18:15	building was made of adobe; Frank Myers built all of the adobe buildings 
in Paradise
18:40	Santi Arriola and his wife (Tiana) came and took over dining room until 
prohibition when they closed
19:30	Marie moved to  town and had a eating place in a hotel
20:00	1908 renovated the Kembler building; burned in 1919
21:03	Marie ran the dining room at the Valley Hotel
21:25	Auditorium Hotel was also run by Basques
21:45	Alfonso Pasquali built the Auditorium Hotel in 1901
22:10	Paradise Hotel built by Daddy Wheels before the Auditorium hotel
22:35	The Gilded Hotel
22:45	Schwartz family
23:18	Grange hall
23:33	550 people in Paradise in the 1890s and early 1900s plus ranches with big 
families and hired help
23:58	END SIDE 1

SIDE 2

0:22	Paradise as a trading location
0:32	Spring City; mining
0:46	trading, mining, ranching in Paradise
1:37	Paradise Hotel 
1:50	fire
2:09	Santi Arriola, Gus Echeverria took over the Paradise hotel
2:31	Joe Echeverria
3:17	pictures of Paradise, Buckingham Collection at the Nevada Historical 
Society in Reno
3:43	speaker was county commissioner
4:00	Humboldt County
4:33	acquisition of photos for the Historical Society
5:55	hotel ended when Gus and Santi died
6:06	pictures of local Basque people
6:36	looking at picture of Paradise Saloon in 1906
7:07	Gastanaga
7:55	hoodlums with six-shooters
8:20	glass negatives
8:35	Marie Betigurean (?), Gus Echeverria
9:42	Frank Mendiola
10:03	Auditorium Hotel - Eugenia, a Basque lady ran the dining room
10:39	Granite bar with marble top survived the fire
11:31	Auditorium Hotel burned around 1945
11:51	wholesale house in Virginia City
12:08	Jarreau (? Sounded like Drew) Hotel first hotel in Winnemucca
12:46	Charlie Lye worked at Jarreau stables
12:53	stage line from Winnemucca to Paradise
13:15	toll stop on stage line
13:40	a branch of the stage stop went on to McDermitt
13:59	Willow Point
14:19	Henry Gilbert
14:51	Ed Lye was an English butcher; had a ranch later
16:25	Winnemucca Hotel; Basque people got into it after the Jarreaus; has 
changed hands several times
16:56	1904 the water from the Humboldt came up to the sidewalk of the Winnemucca 
Hotel
17:20	George Ray (?) and speaker went to check out flood damage 
17:55	Miller family
18:29	Mendiola family and Winnemucca Hotel
18:45	Germans and Italians settled the area; Schwartz, Lye, Miller, Recanzone 
(?), Fornes (?), Adams, Pierce
19:55	Recanzone ran the mill until he gave it to his nephew, Lorenzo
20:14	Carlo Recanzone has a ranch
20:28	flour prices; you could take your own grain to the mill
21:00	Bob Castenelli
21:08	Basques haven't been in Paradise before turn of the century, not before 
anybody else; were in sheep
21:42	Schwartz and Stock had a mill
22:06	tramp sheep; no regulation on  grazing; came from Idaho and Utah
22:31	cattlemen 
22:38	tramp sheep men
22:44	Harvey
22:03	1911; commensury right; outlawed sheepmen
23:22	1922 tragedy on Jackson Mountain; battle for water rights between cattle 
and sheepmen
23:57	Basque herder Urragui (?) was killed in battle
24:35	END SIDE 2