Inside business

     Investors buy
     Nevada land company
     
      TORONTO -- Global Equity Corp. and Pico Holdings Inc. said Thursday they completed the purchase of Nevada Land and Resource Co. for $53.7 million.
      Nevada Land owns about 1,365,000 acres of deeded land in Northern Nevada.
      Global Equity, a Toronto investment company, said it owns about 75 percent of Nevada Land and Resource, and Pico Holdings, a La Jolla, Calif., insurance and investment company, owns the rest.
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      Jo Ann Stanford Walters has joined Rose Cottage, an assisted living community for senior citizens, as executive director. She spent 14 years with American Baptist Homes of the West in Bakersfield, Calif., and Seattle.
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      Las Vegas business executives have formed a new chapter of Rotary International, the community service organization. The Rotary Club of Las Vegas-Northwest was chartered in March with 37 charter members. Seven additional members have joined.
      The new club was sponsored by Rotary Club Southwest. Officers and directors are: Jim Veltman,Vicki Willie, president-elect; Frank Kautzmann, secretary/treasurer; and Dave Bennett, Liz Leone, Dennis Ortwein, Wes Smith, Jeannine Cutter and Mark Escoto, directors.
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      Lou Emmert, Nevada vice president and general manager for Sprint Corp.'s western operations, has been named corporate recruitment chairperson for the 1997 Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, Nevada chapter Walk to Cure Diabetes.
      Emmert said she hopes to have more than 75 teams and raise $300,000.
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      Encore Productions has hired John Harker to the new position of manager, post production. Encore puts on business presentation and manages events for corporate clients. Harker will oversee the expansion of Encore's post-production video editing capabilities, according to the company.
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      Carson Construction recently hosted members of a Bulgarian construction delegation that toured the company's operation to learn about free enterprise and capitalism.
      The Nevada Small Business Development Center and Bulgaria's Institute for Scientific and Cultural Exchange sponsored the delegation.
      "The group was most interested in construction methods and private sector business practices, in addition to American industry standards for costs and profits," said Chris Denning, Carson's vice president of business development.