Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-25
NISSEN IS STILL
TRI-CITY BOOSTER
Coast-t to Coast Highway for
Travellers the One He Will
Continue Working For.

Ocean-to-Ocean Highway association |
and all good roads boosters:
Having been privileged to attend
the organization meeting of the Coast
to-Coast Highway association, held at
Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Sept. %,
take the liberty of publishing this open
letter in order to make public the
plans of this association as well as
my personal pans.
The Coast-to-Coast Highway asso-
citation has for its sole object the Sc
curing of the cooperation of the Rock
River Valley Route association, the
River-to-River association, the Omaha
Lincoln-Denver association and the
Midland Trail association in the mat
ter of making an organized and ag-
gressive effort toward improving,
| maintaining, making and improving
the roads represented by these asso-
Citations, as we'll as securing as much
publicity and national and state aid
as possible.
The Coast-to-Coast Highway asso-
citation will not in any way interfere
with the plans of the four organiSa-
tions above mentioned and they will
continue to be permanent and active
associations to look after the improve
ment and maintenance of their re-
spective routes.
The meeting at Lincoln was attend
ed by over 800 enthusiasts from along
the entire route, and $1,000 was raised
at this meeting to be used at once to
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let the public know that a first class
continuous highway, thoroughly or
ganiGed and marked, will connect
Chicago, Sterling Tri-cities, Iowa City,
Des Moines, Omaha, Lincoln, Denver
and Salt Lake City, and l feel con-
fident that the Coast-to-Coast Highway
association will prove of great assist
ance to the four organizations that
have federated with them, especially
in the matter of securing national
publicity and national and state aid,
and in my judgment will prove a
strong competitor for the Lincoln high
way in the matter of securing tourist
travel from Chicago westward, as the
Lincoln highway does not go through
the tri-cities nor the capitols of Iowa,
Nebraka and Colorado.
In regard to my personal plans
will say that | have practically COM
pleted all arrangements with the direc-
tors of the River-to-River Road asso-
citation in Iowa to represent them as
their field secretary and to personally
devote all of my time toward perfect
ing a permanent River-to-River Road
association in each county through
which the road passes, whose sole OBJ
ject will be to secure the building of
a perfect road as soon as possible,
and endeavor to have the Iowa divi-
sion of the coast-to-coast highway the
best and most popular road across
the state
do not believe it is the intention
OF the Coast-to-Coast Highway asso-
citation to attempt to change the rout-
ing of the Lincoln highway, as / feel
confident that this route is perma-
nently settled, but l firmly believe
that with the hearty cooperation of
the four organizations which have
federated themselves with this asso-
citation, that our route will prove
even more popular than the Lincoln
highway, owing to having many argu-
ments in our favor, among which are
the following: We pass through cities
with a total population of over four
times the population of the cities
along the Lincoln highway and also
reach to the great government ARISEN
3 al at Rock Island and the state cap
3 itols of Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado,
besides many other points of interest
to tourists.
wish at this time to correct the
impression in an article that was
I given to one of the papers for pubIica
e tiOn yesterday stating that /, person.
, ally, was in favor of the Lincoln high.
way and that | was instructed as the
representative of the Davenport Auto
club and other local tri-city associa
D lions to favor same. This article
e was published absolutely without my
. knowledge or consent, and does not
meet with my approval as l went tC
Lincoln without instructions from any
association, and / am now, and always
have been, heartily in favor of any
movement that will assist in keepine
: the place of my birth Davenport or
the map, and l, therefore, take thi.
method of correcting the impression
: that may have been caused by thu
: article published, that l would in thu
future favor the Lincoln highway il
preference to a route that passe
; through the tri-cities, Iowa City AM
/, Des Moines.
- l feel confident the article referred
, TO was not given to or published witt
. any malicious intent, but was simply Z;
- misunderstanding.
l wish to take this opportunity o
again thanking the citizens of til
quad-cities for their past cooperation
and also the press for their valuabI
:. assistance, ana hope that they wi
continue to cooperate with me in tn
matter OF making the Chicago, TT
!. city and Omaha division of the coas