The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-05-11

in case Of storm, makes them practi-
cally impossible. Also one is out of
touch with the railroad practically the
entire distance with the exception of
touching a north and south spur at
Ely, Eureka and Austin.
"The flats at the south of Great Salt
Lake near Fish springs and also the
fats east of Fallon in the Carson Sink
country, may be to a tourist whose ear
would contain nothing but male pas
sengers that he would be able to make
the trip in reasonable comfort if the
above mentioned fats and valleys were
dry at the time of his passage and If
he would take the chance of not ran
ming out of water
Ogden has been charged with a good
many failings by you, the vice-presi
dent and secretary of the Lincoln
Highway, and you have listened to the
whims and p~rotestations of others
without giving Ogden an opportunity
of telling the other side of the story.
For instance, it might surprise you
that Charles Tying, consul of the Lin
coin Highway in the state of Utah,
made an honest but startling state
Uitul W ~ n OOfAi4s iCRI0G0hNAhAI
the Automobile Blue Book. While Mr..
Woodall was at Ogden, he asked Mr..
Tying about the desert part of the Lin
coin Highway south of the Great Salt
Lake. Mr.. Tvng said, in the presence
Of witnesses: "Mr. Woodall, I con
slider it a crime to send any tourist
over the Lincoln Highway south of the
lake. Mr.. Tying made this statement
after having heard of the distressing
road conditions as well as the danger
of the route.
You say, "The one point where this
association has been lacking in sup
port or cooperation of any kind has
been at Ogden That is decidedly I'M
fair and it is indicated by the facts
in the case. IT was Ogden men who
placed the first Lincoln Highway signs
along the road in Utah. A good many
dollars were spent for these signs and
the Lincoln Highway carefully marked
from Evanston into Ogden. Up to that
time there was not a single Lincoln
Highway marker in the states, and
since that time only the link between
Salt Lake City and Ogden has been
marked.
Besides, you state that 800 in money
is all that has been paid into the Lin
coin Highway fund by the people of
Utah, and that $50 of that 500 came
from an Ogden business man; So per
cent, therefore, of the entire sun col
lected in Utah came from Ogden, with
a population only one-third the size of
Salt Lake. Aside from this. another
$50 was paid by an Ogden citizen for
banners, etc, which is more than was
credited to any other district in the
state. Yet you claim there was a lack
of cooperation at Ogden.
Ogden road men were instrumental
in urging the improvement of the high
way between Evanston and Ogden in
the four counties through which it
traverses. The glories of the famous
Weber canyon were widely advertised
as a link in the Lincoln Highway.
Ogden's policy has always been to
support the best road for the route
traffic. which is the road through Wyo-
ming down Echo canyon and through
Weber canyon, which was designated
as the Lincoln Highway. On the other
hand Salt Lake has been urging the
use of the Pixies Peak Ocean-to-Ocean
Highway, the Midland Trail and other
routes as against the Lincoln Highway.
They have given absolutely no support
with the exception of attacks on Ogden
through newspapers. They have laugh
ed at the idea of ever building a road
as designated over the mud flats on
the south route-the Lincoln Highway.
They have gone before the legislature
and asked for money for the building
OF a competitive route by way of Wen
dover, connecting in Nevada with the
Overland Trail, realizing that the com
pletion of the Lincoln Highway over
the mud flats is impracticable. Salt
Lake garage men and leading citizens
who are familiar with road conditions
advise their friends not to follow the
Lincoln Highway, but the Overland
Trail north of the lake. Yet Ogden is
charged with not giving support. Sew
enty-fve per cent of all the support
given the Lincoln Highway in the
state of Utah, came from Ogden citi
zens. But we repeat, Mr.. Pardington,
"there are none so blind as those who
will not see.'
I believe it is a fact that more miles
of good road have beer built through
the agitation of Ogden citizens, in the
mountain states, than by the Lincoln
Highway association itself.
1t seems odd that a man like the
vice-president and secretary of the Lin
coin Highway, who confesses that he
has not been in the great West for