White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-29
NEVADA STRONG
FORAUTOTOUR|ST
GOOD ROADS ROOSTER THINKS
LINCOLN HIGHWAY OF GREAT
Err IMPORTANCE TO STATE
THAN PANAMA CANAL.

There are other cities in the state
besides Ely, that are alive to the i'm
portance of the overland automo-
bile tourist travel Ely's efforts.
through we'll directed work of en-
thusiasfic citizens, have been reward
ed with success, inasmuch as Ely Is
safely on the line of the cross-coun-
try traveller by automobile, and an
important point on the Lincoln high
way. In few weeks the season will
have arrived when the auto tourist
will be on the move, and in all proba-
bility the number of cars that Will
register in Ely the coming summer
will be far in excess of any previous
year since the advent of the auto
mobile and the birth of the good
roads spirit.
Reno seems to be case in point
where the Importance of the auto
mobile traffic is Offset by the fear that
the traffic may be diverted from that
direction, to another point of the
compass. Robert L. Fulton, a Reno
citizen and good roads booster, has
recently returned to that city from
southern California, where he has
passed the winter. His observations
have led him to fear that some of the
benefits of the Lincoln highway may
be lost to Reno. through the active
endeavors of southern Nevada and
southern California, to turn western
automobile travel off the adopted
route. Quoted in the Reno Gazette
he gives expression to his fears, in the
following manner:
II have devoted considerable time
to the Lincoln highway" said Mr..
Fulton. cit promises to be more to
Reno than the Panama canal, and we
ought to put forth every effort to Sc
cure its benefits.
1.-The southern country is making
Herculean effort to turn it southwest
from Ely. They intend to keep
man stationed there to point out the
advantages of the southern route
through Tonopah, Goldfield and the
Bishop Creek country to Los Angeles.
They call our line the 'snowshed
route, and talk to eastern people az
though 1t ran through inhospitable
country, which would be almost i'm
practicable for automobiles. They
are the greatest bosters in the world
and II they could get the Lincoln
highway, would spend untold sums oi
money.
ION the other hand, San Francisco
is doing almost nothing in aid of tho
Lincoln highway. Joined an auto
mobile party that filled five cars. and
we travelled along the road as far east
as Placerville and Auburn, with big
meetings at different towns along the
line. The trip was made to enlist in
terest and get the support of the 10
cal people, and other trips have been
planned to follow this trip. With the
party was H. E. Frederickson. consul
general for the Lincoln Highway as
sociation, who. with other speakers,
explained the advantages of the high
way, and the means by which 1t could
be aided. He asked everybody to pay
the SIS membership fee and to get
Lincoln highway signs put up all
along the route. The Lincoln high
way sign is 21 inches-a strip of red
3 inches wide at the top, white field
of 15 inches and blue strip of
inches at the bottom, with big letter
IL on the white field The Lincoln
Highway association wants one o:
these at every road crossing and fro
quently along the line.
We ought to get busy with this
matter and use every possible effort
to aid the enterprise and secure the
great benefits. Mr. Frederickson Ii
coming to Nevada. and wants to ap
point consul for this state. and also
have local consul in every town to
protect the interests of the Lincoln
highway, to look out for tourists and
see that they are properly treated and
get correct information. ! told him
thought Harry Gosse would be the
right man for Nevada. but he will.
decide when he reaches Reno"