The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-11-08
Nevada Lincoln Trail Association Formed Last
Night Stirring Speeches by Gov. Oddie,
Senator WA. Massey and Others

and such other committees as shall be
necessary, and, generally shall have
charge of the affairs, business, funds
and property of the association. In
dividually, each director shall look af-
ter the interests of the association in
the locality in which he lives.
Article f-our-Elections.
Section 1.-The charter officers and
governors are; President, !. G.. Moore,
Winnemucca; secretary, A. D. Dern,
Winnemucea; treasurer, +. $. Gedaey.
Elko; governors. Bert Cove, Montello; (;
s. C. Weeks, Wells; II. U. Castle,
Elko w. C. Hancock, Battle Mountain;
j. b. Fayant, Golconda; J. T. Goodin,
Lovelock; G. II. Copley, Inlay; II.
Gosse, Reno.
Section 2.-The charter officers and
governors shall hold Office until De
cember 1st next and until their sue
cessors take office. Officers and gov
ernors shall hereafter be elected at the
annual meeting and shall serve one
year from December 1st to December
lst, and until their successors are APP
pointed.
Section 3.-Offieers and governors
shall be elected by ballot.
Section 4.-Only active members in
good standing at the time of the an
nual meeting shall be allowed to vote.
Section 5.-Vacaneies among the of
ficers or governors shall be filled by
the board of governors.
Article Five-Meetings
Section 1.-The annual meeting of
the association shall be held the third
Friday in November or as near this
time as seems expedient to the board
of governors.
called at any time by the president
or by a quorum of the board of gov
ernors. Five members shall constitute
a quorum.
Article Six-Amendments.
Section l.-These bylaws may be
amended by a two-thirds vote of the
board of governors provided all gov
ernors are present.
Chairman Sheehan then introduced
Gov. Oddie, who held the attention of
the meeting for half an hour.
Governor Oddie's Address.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen:
/ appreciate the honor very much
you have extended to me in asking me
to appear before you tonight. | am
glad to have the opportunity to talk
directly TO so many of the citizens Of
Nevada who are interested in good
roads, but before | start / want TO
make one statement: In so far as the
Lincoln Highway is concerned and as
to the route it selects across the state
cannot make any suggestion. There
are three important roads across the
state-the Northern road, the Middle
road and the Southern road by Tono-
pah and Goldfeld. Now, you gentle
men must realize that | represent all
sections OF the state. | want to do
the best | can by all the people, and |
want TO be just and fair, and ask you
to excuse me from making any sugges-
tions as to which road will be selected.
Last summer some Indianapolis peo-
pie came through the state, the Lin
coln Highway officers, and several of
fcers and others interested in various
auto companies. | was invited to ae-
company them across the state, which
| did. The route first planned was
though Ely, Eureka and Austin, but
instead of going through Ely and
Austin, we went by Tonopah and Gold
field. Later the route was announced
as via Ely, Eureka and Austin. But
want to make myself clear, | must
keep out of any suggestion to to the
route That will be determined by
competent engineers. | want to do the
best | can for the road through here,
irrespective of whether it is to be the
Lincoln Highway or not. 1t is good
country. This Northern is highly i'm
portant road Everybody appreciates
that it goes through the richest agri-
cultural section of the state, the most
thiekly populated part of the state.
| am an officer in the National High
way association, which has very
broad scope. The intent of that asso-
citation is to have a proper law passed
in Congress. 1t has been suggested
that at least S500,000,000 be raised in
one way and another for god roads.
There have been dozens of bills in
trodueed in Congress looking towards
good roads. There have been so many
that it has caused great confusion and
everybody is uncertain as 20 how this
should be best accomplished. The q
iect of this association is to prenarf
one good bill authorizing the president
of the United States to appoint com
mittee representing the army. the best
engineers in the country, men interest
ed in manufactures and various pur-
suits to prepare proper bill for Con
gress to act on. Last summer | sent
la map to the National Highway asso-
citation, showing the various roads
across the state-the road through nor
thern Nevada, through Elko, Winnie
mueca. Loveioek aud then on to Reno
and Carson; another road from Ely
and arson; another road from Ely.
via Eureka, Austin and Fallon to Reno
and Carson; another from Ely