White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-02
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!. .. s. !: GOOD ROADS
GOVERNMENT 8 GOOD - ROAD
TRAIN WILL RE INTEREST
ING FEATURE OF LOGAN CON-
ivENT1ON, JUNE ~, 13 AND IA.

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Thanks to the generosity and en-
terprise of the Oregon Short Line
railroad, the governments good
roads demonstration train from
Washington will be whirled across
the continent from the national cap
ital next month to Logan, Utah,
there to be one of the star attrac-
lions of the third annual conven-
ton of the Inter-Mountain Good
Roads association. This train, equip
ped with the very latest aud best
road making machinery. will be in
charge of government experts.
Practical demonstrations of high
way building will be given, and
stereopticon slides will show some
of the e%ffectual accomplishments of
the federal good roads builders
In the past. William Wallin, secre-
tary of the Inter-Mountain associa-
ton, met j. A. Hendrickson of
Logan, at Salt Lake, chairman of the
executive committee of the associa-
ton, and in company with that
gentlemen held a conference with
General Passenger Agent d. E.
Burley of the Short Line. Mr.. Bur-
ley, with characteristic liberality
and enterprise, promised to nave
the train brought to Logan. and 1t
will be one of the stellar attrac-
tions of the convention there next
month.
The exhibit consists of roadmak-
ing machinery and models showing
the construction of ali kinds of roads
accompanied by s~tereoptican views
of road construction and lectures
by prominent experts in the en-
ploy of the good roads division of the
government at Washington.
The educational features of the
convention at Logan in June will be
the most practical ever given in the
west; the whole meeting will be a
good roads educational feast. the be-
nefcent results of which are obvious
ly apparent. M
Speakers from all the states COM
prising the association, Utah, Idaho,
Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and
Nevada, will be on the program and
will handle various phases of the
road problem in the west and the i'm
portant subject of enlisting govern
ment aid for national highways from
.ooast TO coast and interstate high
ways between the capitals and prin-
.cipal cities of the inter-mountain
region.
The Inter-Mountain Good Roads
association originated in Salt Lake
City in 1910 and held its first conven-
ton in Ogden in the fall of that year
The second convention was held at
Pocatello. in June last year. At the
third convention in Logan, June IL,
Is and IA. this year the convention
city for 1913 will then be selected
and there promises to be the spirit
of bidding for the place of holding
the next convention. s5s TI
Other important features of the
Logan convention will be the adop-
ton of bylaws and perfecting the
organization into an efficient piece
of machinery. in the good roads
cause. The bylaws drawn by the
executive committee during the year
to be presented for ratification of
the Logan convention provide for
an executive board to handle the
business of the association, between
conventions; this board . will be
composed, of an executive committee
|of three prominent nj good roads
workers, in each of the six states.
There will also, be, a legislative
committee of three members in
leach state, who will work towards
uniform legislation in and along the
various states. and a highway COM
mittee whose duty it win he ~
propose location of routes and to
disseminate information in the line
of proper and uniform construc-
ton of highways out of the best
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material at hand at the lowest
cost.
Delegates to the convention from
White Pine county, are G. S. Hoag,
II. o. Hall and f. L, Fletcher, all of
Ely.