The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-05-20
TOMORROW is GOOD ROADS DAY
Fallon And Tributary Neighbor-
hood Will Respond To Gov
ernor's Proclamation.

Tomorrow, the 21st, is Good
Roads Day within Nevada. The
governors special proclamation will
be the signal for activity among
good roads exponents the length and
breadth of the state. Nevada, more
than any other state. needs good
roads endeavor and in large meas
ure. Sparsely settled and having
thoroughfares covering magnificent
distances our great problem, per-
haps, is the maintenance of good
roads. Arteries of commerce, with
an added Importance assured by the
rapid growth of the automobile traf-
fic in the country, Nevada can well
afford to eeonomize in every diree-
ton in favor of good roads.
The view is taken, based upon
precedent elsewhere, that when the
states citizens are fully alive to the
Importance of good roads much effort
now not in evidence will be forth
coming for the benefit of the roads.
Every community may well assist at
its own expense in the general plan
of upbuilding roads, for though the
benefit may be general. the direct
benefit is theirs.
In Churchill county marked ad-
vances have been made in its sys-
TEN of roads. The settlement o
this valley under the benign infu-
enees of the government irrigation
system has been productive Of seri-
Gus problems that have been wisely
though owing to lack of county
road building funds, not always ade-
quately met. Our commissioners
have labored with the situation and
have given honest, wholesome effort,
their great perplexity correlating
around how to provide roads through
new neighborhoods, which until re-
Gently have paid the minimum of
tax.
But despite adverse conditions
substantial advances have been
made, as is evidenced by a trip into
any of the neighborhoods tributary
to Fallon In some instances what
only few years ago was sweep of
desert, numbered only by its sparse
vegetable growths, is now a green
sward of miles. through which runs
roads that will compare favorably
with those serving rural districts
elsewhere. Yet the work is barely
begun. Our present board of eoun-
" commissioners has acted upon the
basis that the Inauguration and
maintenance of roads constitute a
simon pure business proposition. 1t
has been aetuated always, not by
favoritism. but by correct motive,
the geatest good for the expenditure
being the dominating thought.
Hampered continually through
lack of funds the board has made an
excellent showing. II is as nearly n
non partisan board as ii is possible
to get from the Democratic party,
and great deal more nearly one
than could be recruited from Re-
publican ranks which being the case,
gives us the opportunity to suggest
that it be continued in Office by the
voters this fall.
In anticipation of general OBJ
servance of tomorrow throughout
the county. the Churchill County
Chamber of Commerce met and ap-
pointed a committee whose men,
bers' duty IL will be to supervise in
a general sense the operations now
being planned To this end il is re-
quested that those owners of auto
mobiles who will solicit workers
and tools and distribute them along
the roads of the valley communicate
with the commercial body's COM
mittee. The personnel of this COM
mittee is as follows: e. p. Osgood,
L. w. Crehore. w A. Keddie and w.
H. Reayis