Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-18
(From the Ogden Examiner)

1t will take at least two years to
make the desert link of the Lincoln
Highway fairly good automobile
road and S25,OOO will not be more
than enough money to start the i'm
proyemCnts needed, according to T..
F. 1un6ley, manager for the Ogden
Furniture and Carpet company. who
returned home recently after an auto
mobile trip to the Nevada California
line. Although he and his companions
on the trip Jared somewhat better
than most tourists who have travelled
the south-of-the-lake route. Mr.. Humid
ley asserts it is a trip he does not
care TO make again.
The Ogden business man was ac.
companied by Adam Patterson, Jr..
and Mortimer Watson. On the west.
ward trip he travelled over the Lin
coin Highway south of Great Salt
Lake and returning the trip was made
over the Overland Trail north of the
lake. Although the return trip was
made under the most unfavorable
weather conditions, rain every inch
of the way" Mr.. Hundley declares
that the journey was ideal compared
with the trip around the south end OF
Great Salt Lake. The Lincoln Hieh-
way, Mr.. Hundley was told, was in its
very best conditiono at the time he
made the trip. The weather condi-
uons were almost perfect
MY advice In automobile tourists
is 10 keep strictly away from the
southern route,' said Mr.. Hundley
In commenting on the experiences
of his long trip. Compared to the
Lincoln Highway south of Salt Lake
the Gtah-Nevada section of the Over.
land Trail north of the Lake is d
boulevard. 1t is my beliei that no
matter how much money they MAJ
spend south of tie lake the road will
never equal the Overland Trail for
the corr, spending distance"
Mr.. Hundley'3 objective point in the
automobile trip was Oasis ranch on
the Nevada-California line and locat.
ed about sixty miles from Goldfield
on the main transcontinental autn
highway to Los Angeles. He there.
fore had n good opportunity to follow
the Lincoln Highway route for several
hundred miles of its stretch through
Utah and Nevada; Concerning his
trip. he said:
We made the trip from Ogden to
Salt Lake in good time but it did not
take us long to run into trouble west
OF Salt Lake. In one place 1t took as
eight hours to go eight miles so yOu
can Judge for yourself what kind OF
road conditions we encountered. Just
west OF Fish Springs we struck the
marshes and l want to say that this
stretch of road will give the best cal
made q hard trial
with their mud flats and marshes
and roads in the bed of streams 1t will
take AT least two years to put that
route into condition that will make
automobile touring even fairly good
and $4,000 will not do the work by
a good many thousands, it will not
much more than start 1t. There Is
more work to be done on that road
than most people imagine.
This plan of putting the road in
the bed of old streams is a bad feat
ure of the southern route for in that
country you never can tell when you
are going to run into a cloudburst, in
which case you might find your auto
mobile road roaring torrent. Wes
of Grantsville we encountered some
rain but 1t was not enough to cause
serious delay.
"For the most part our trip out was
just continual series of gettins
stuck, then pull out, getting stuck ant
pulling out. We left Ogden at 4:3(
a. m, drove to Salt Lake and left a