The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-01-05
PREPARATIONS STARTED FOR
LINCOLN HIGHWAY WORK
Field Secretary IL. G. Osterman Will
shortly Leave for the West to
Secure Final Data.

! A bulletin Just Issued by the Lin
/ coin Highway Association, anent the
! proposal 10 construct a memorial
section of the Lincoln Highway eth
er it Utah or Nevada in memory of
| A. Z. Pardington and the general
improvement of the highway in
these two States, has the following !:
There will be no delay in putting
int execution the plans recently
adopted by the Directors of the Lin
coli Highway Association for i'm
prS wing certain sections of the Lin
col'i Highway in Utah and Nevada
who're outside aid is needed to inn
prsve the thoroughfare.
Field Secretary 0sterman, who
has been in Detroit conferring with
the officers OF the Association, is
ntw on his way west to go over the
NJ ound at once and secure the nee
eoBary detailed information needed
before the final decision is made as
q whore the aid of the Association
l. iaast needed.
0he of the principal objects of
sir. ostermann's trip is TO gain first
Aard information as TO the coopera-
scA to be expected in tie work to
ioe done. and with that zstermined
"a final selection of the site for the
improvement can be announced.
In line with the above. a recent
issue OF the Reno Evening Gazette
s,as the following interview with
County Commissioner c. L. Bena-
dun who was in Reno last week.
and which gives the status of af-
fairs at this time:
Churchill county had good reason
to believe that the Lincoln Highway
Association will join with her in the
construction of concrete highway
covering about % miles of bad
stretches reaching from Hazen TO
Sand Springs. according to c. l..
Benadum. a prominent busienss man
of Fallon and one of the county
commissioners of Churchill county.
who is in Reno this afternoon.
"The Lincoln Highway officials
have had the matter up with Church
III county for some time" said Mr..
Benadum, "and are now awaiting
and estimate of the cost of a perma-
nent concrete highway. In their
last communication to US they re-
quested that we have the state engi-
neer make a survey. locate perma-
nent road and estimate the cost of
concrete or other permanent con-
struction. This has not yet been
done. but we expect to have this
preliminary step taken within a
short time after which his report
will be forwarded To the Lincoln
Highway Association.
"In its communications to us the
Association explained that If Church
i'll county would bear this prelimi-
nary expense and make such a re-
port 1t would give its officials def
mite information from which to
work
mo nat promise is held out by the
Association officials that this work
will be done but they do say that il
Ia necessary TO eliminate from the
highway the bad stretches in Utah
and Nevada, and that If it is pos
sible to spare the funds extensive
work will be done in Churchill coun-
ty. provided the county will agree
to properly maintain the road after
II is built.
lowing to the present high tax
rate and the high nppraisement in
Churchill county we cannot do any
permanent road work on our own
account next year. The best we can
do will be TO make ordinary road
repairs. However. should the Lin
coin Highway Association construct
the proposed concrete road referred
to. Churchill county will, in all
probability. make sacrifices in ord
er to give all assistance in her pow
er."