The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-04-18

dnce De III uiIeCl occdii
to ocean highway is to be constructed.
The Travel Brings Money
One can scarcely grasp the real
meaning of the Lincoln Highway in a
commercial sense. Mr.. Fredrickson
stated that careful estimates show
that 1880 cars will pass over the
route in 1915 to the exposition at
San Francisco. Counting an average
of three people to the car, the
amount expended by them for all
purposes would reach about $3.50, 600
per day, 1t means money to every
community through which the road
passes, and the people of Eureka
County will not be slow in realizing
what it means to this section of Ne
vada.
The Road Building Age
Once a good highway is construct
ed, it will be an easy matter to con-
meet up the different communities
with this great artery for traffic.
We need good roads to the mining
camps and the adjacent valleys that
are coming to the front for agricul-
tural purposes in the east end of the
county, and the Lincoln Highway
will fill all requirements on the main
line.
We should realize that we are just
entering upon the threshold of the
bodybuilding age, and the automo-
bile has brought it about, yet all
classes of traffic will reap the reward.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Fredrick-
sons remarks he stated he would be
pleased to answer any questions re-
garding highway matters.
County Commissioner Alex Fraser
asked him if it had been definitely
settled that the Lincoln Highway
would pass through Eureka County.
Mr.. Fredrickson stated that it had
been positively decided that the high
way should be built through this
County. and further said that there
would be a great deal of travel over
this route this year and next; that
of the $4,000, 900 already subscribed,
none of it could be used for temper
airy repairs, but that the money real
lied from the sale of certificates of
membership at SIS each could be spent
for said temporary repairs. He
thought the people of Eureka and
vicinity should be able to subscribe
for $3.50 worth of the certificates.
Commissioner Fraser then stated
that it might be rather hard on the
people of Eureka under present con-
ditions to subscribe this amount, but
as the County vas nowin good inan-
cial condition. he felt justified in
stating on behalf of the Board of
County Commissioners that the Coun-
ty would take care of the road, and
would put it in as good order as pos
sible for Summer travel.
A. j. Maestretti, District
Attorney of Lander County,
followed Mr.. Fr~edrickson, and being
thoroughly familiar with road and
other matters in Eureka and Lander
Counties, localized these conditions
and gave a heart-to-heart talk as to
the advantages the people of this
section Of Nevada would derive from
the completion of the Lincoln High
way through our home counties.
The next speaker introduced by
Chairman Ham was C. T. Stevenson,
secretary of the Reno Commercial
Club. Mr.. Stevenson's remarks were
along the line of showing what Ne
vada in general, and Washoe and
Churchill Counties were doing and
proposed to do in assisting to build
the Lincoln Highway. He urged
particularly that the owners of autos
in Eureka County get together and
arrange for marking out the high
way route from the eastern to the
western end of the County with the
Lincoln Highway signs of red, white
and blue. He stated that every
little helps. and he hoped the people
of Eureka, who would reap a direct
benefit from the increased travel,
would be liberal purchasers of Lin
coin Highway certificates of member
ship.
Mr.. Fredrickson and his party
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