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

duced you to make change in the
Lincoln Highway.
''You charge that the Ogden Daily
Standard and the citizens of Ogden
acted selfshly in recommending that
the autoombile traffic go north of
Great Salt Lake, instead of around the
south end.
You certainly are mistaken, so far
as the Daily Ogden Standard is con-
cerned. The editor for years owned
ranch on the south end of Great Salt
Lake and he had a hundred head of
buffaloes which, about four times a
year, would break down the fences and
4 try to escape westward through the
Great Salt Lake desert, over which
you have designated the route of the
Lincoln Highway.
. Without detailing to you my expe-
rience on the desert, / prefer to let
others talk, but / want to tell you,
Mr.. Pardington, that | consider it
worse than crime for you to recon-
mend people with automobiles to take
the route over the mountains from
Echo to Salt Lake City and from that
city around the south end of Great
Salt Lake. Do you know that it is
all down grade to Salt Lake City by
way of Ogden, from Echo through We
Der canyon7 Do you know that the
Weber canyon road, from Echo TO Og-
den and Salt Lake, is one of the best
canyon roads in Aemrica9 IF Won do.
why do you urge autos to 90 from
Echo over the dangerous mountains to
Salt Lake City-an almost impossible
roada
Do you know that young Duke, of
the great tobacco house lost his life
because his auto turned turtle on this
mountain road you so highly recon-
mend? He would be alive TODAY but for
the selection of your unpracticable and
dangerous route. You say you have
many letters complaining Of the con
dltions encountered west of Ogden, but
you do not say as to which route the
complaint is made. There are two
routes west from Ogden, the Lincoln
, Highway around the south end of the
Great Salt Lake, and the old pioneer,
established Overland trail to Califor-
MIA. Now, Mr.. Pardington. ] challenge
you to produce even one bitter letter
complaining of the Overland Trail.
from any man who has also tried a
trip over your route through the Great
! salt Lake desert around the south end
o. Great Salt Lake. T know that no
truthful man will complain of the con-
dltion of the Overland Trail if he has
ever Travelled over your highway. L
nave been over both routes and | know
you VIII cancel the Lincoln Highway
route around the south end of the lake
and that you will adopt the Overland
Trail, if You viii 90 over both routes
provided that your only object is to se
leet the best route for the automobile
! traffic. | will personally arrange TO
take you over both routes, Mr.. Pard-
ington, if you will accept nv invita-
tion. Will you7 Did You ever wonder
why, during the past so years. the
/ overland Trail has been the only great
highway to San Francisco through
Utah and Nevada? Don't YOU think
that the only route th"4 could be found
IN 90 years for horses to travel over
should have been considered bv Won
before locating arbitrarily the Lincoln
J Highway through the Great Salt Lake
/ desert via the south end of Great Salt
Lake9
: You lay great stress on the lack Of
financial help given your highway by
the people of Ogden, yet your own re-
ports show that Ogden alone gave vou
! % per cent of all the money Won re-
Z eeived in Utah. Why do you demand
so much from Ogden and so little from
salt Lake Cityg Can you blame us If
we feel that you are trying to hold us
2 up as a preliminary to switching the
Lincoln Highway to the Overland
, Traila
Now, let us see what the evidence
is' Ny paper has never refused to
2 print any statement concerning the
TWO routes west from Ogden and every
statement made to us so far has been
favorable to the north route and
) against the south route.
+. +. j. Wyatt, of the Denver Stock
Yards, Denver, Colo, in attempting the
Salt Lake route, in driving after dark
e one night, stepped out of his car to
/ search for the road when he fell into
!, an arroyo and lay there unconscious.
, When he did not return his wife be-
I came nervous and started to search for
. him. She fell into another hole at the
j side of the road and was so seriously
r injured that it was necessary to keep
5 her at the hospital for some time there
after. Had it not been for another
ear following closely behind, these peo-
- lple would have perished.
SO many are the stories of trouble
q and distress on this route that it is a
Z VHHANAht l&AN To StHU people over IL
! who are not acquainted with eondi-
tions. II is reasonably safe to predict
! that. if only a small percentagee of the
people travelling west this year 20 over
!, this highway, theree will be deaths as
!. wen as injuries. This must be pleasant
for the vice president and secretary of
the Lincoln Highway association to
contemplate.
= You say you selected the route
through the great desert because it is
shorter Is that trueg You make the
route shorter at one place. but actu-
! ally make il longer at other points.
4 Look az the facts:
n From Evanston, Wyo.. the Over
Z land Trail via Ogden and around the
!. north end Of Great Salt Lake to Reno,
a Continued on Page Three.)