The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-04-18
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
Official Visits Eureka and Says
1t Is Settled That Route Comes
This Way

4 indt Int LlncOi highway Will
come through Eureka is an assured
fact, as stated by H. E. F~redrickson,
counsul-at-large for the Lincoln
Highway. who addressed a good
sized audience of ladies and gentle
men that had assembled in the Dis
trict Courtroom last Saturday even
ing to hear some irst-hand informa-
ton regarding the proposed highway
that will pass through Eureka on its
way from the East to the Pacific
Coast.
G. W. Ham, principal of the Eu-
reka High School, acted as chairman
of the meeting. and in a few well
chosen remarks introduced the speak
ers of the evening.
Mr.. F~redrickson's remarks were
received with considerable enthusi-
asm by the people here, for there
were many things that were not
thoroughly understood by the public
in general. One thing is that the
location of the Lincoln Highway is
definitely settled. 1t was located by
the directors of the association as a
direct route from coast to coast and
nothing can be done that will change
it. That route was laid out through
Salt Lake City. Ely, Eureka, Austin
Fallon and Reno.
All Funds For the Road
Further, Mr.. Fredrickson stated
that all of the money received from
the sale of the S. certificates was
put in the bank and not a dollar of
this would be used for anything x
cept the construction of the highway.
No me is receiving any salary for
work in connection with the office
force of the Lincoln Highway except
two people, and the money for them
is raised by donations from members
of the association who are in easy
circumstances and simply want to see
the highway constructed across the
continent.
He said that everywhere along the
route efforts are being made to turn
the travel this way or that. to favor
certain communities, but that the
Lincoln Highway would not turn
aside for any consideration. Unjust
be a direct route. He said Los An
geles offered to raise 81. 200, 900 in
80 daysif the route was changed from
Ely, Nevada, south to Los Angeles,
but that he told them it would not
be changed if they raised three mil
lions. Regarding the efforts to turn
the trcvel by way of Ogden and
Winnemucca, he said it was hardly
fair that the people to the north
should have adopted the term Lin
coin Trail" but be that as it may,
they cannot change the route of the
Lincoln Highway, nor secure any of
the funds raised by the association.
The $40, 900, 900, he said, was to be
raised by subscriptions and donations,
and none of it can be spent until the
entire amount is provided. AT pres
ent over six millions of this has been
raised. 1t is not expected that the
full amount will be available before
late this Fall or next Spring, but he
stated that the fund was to be spent
in five States-the bulk of it in Ne
vada, Utah and Wyoming.
80 Per Cent of Travel by Farmers
One strong point that Mr.. Fred
rickson brought out is that the Lin
coin Highway is not for exclusive
automobile travel, but for all classes
of traffic over its entire length. And
in this connection it was stated that
carefully collected data proves that
so per cent of the travel over this
road will be by farmers in the diff
ferent localities, leaving only 20 per
cent for tourist travel. This ought
to be an eye-opener for Nevadans,
especially when it is realized that
enormous sums of money are to be
raised both east and west and expend-
ed in u own State for the improve
ment of the roads.
Outside Money For Nevada Road
He thought California should raise
$3.50, 900 to spend between Reno and
Ely in order to hold the travel direct
through to San Francisco. However
he said that San Francisco was