Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-07

| Salt Lake thru Echo. Weber and Par.
| ley canyons, you find good mountain
roads There are a good mary aban.
doned railroad grades In use 40 high.
ways and many that WOULD be utilized
at small expense that would make fine
| roads.
only three nights so far did We
miss having room with private hath
and at all points public bath. This
answers the question as to hardships
on the Lincoln Highway. From Salt
Lake we logged proposed route thru
Johnson's pass that was said to be
impractical and found it entirely pos
sible. This pass can be improved at
nominal cost and when the desert sec
ton is finished it will save fifty five
miles The Lincoln Highway Associa-
ton base $4,000 pledged for this
desert work. The regular route skirts
the desert on the south side but we
went thru it some twenty miles and
had no trouble except a slipping
clutch. Crossing Overland Pass you
arrive at Sheridan's ranch and, regard
less of the hour, Mrs. Sheridan is ready
to get you meal that makes you
think Of home and forget bell hops,
elevators, private baths, etc. In Wyo-
ming. near Wamsutter, there Is bad
stretch for thirty-fve miles but 1t Is
compensated for by sixteen mile
road between Rock Springs and
Green River built at cost Of $4,000.
No such road exists in Iowa today.
Old Fort Bridger built in 1884, aban-
doned in 1853 and rebuilt and army
quartered there in 1857 and maintained
as a post until 1S90y' is a delightful
camping spot, veritable oasis In the
desert. The extension barracks, store
houses, barns, etc, must have cost the
government huge sum In those days
cat Ely the tenderfoot is introduced
to a typical mining town OF the 7os.
Everything IS on the boom and the mines
employ a large number Of men. 1t Is
open pit work and they have moved
some 100000 yards of material and
the pit is now SIS feet deep.
Ely to Eureka the road is indifrer-
ent, good in stretches and bad in 9TH
ers Eureka is a busted mining town
has now some 1,400 people and only
500 voters in the county. At one time
in the 7os they had $4,000 people and
me SIdultS SoidAi SUM- oiiN Ne>'--
buildings with iron shutters mark their
departed glory. Millions were taken
out Of this camp and the inhabitant
looks forward to revival that may
and may not come. Austin is another
old mining town but Is thriving
place. Between Austin and Reno the
Salton sink is big problem for road
builders. Some of these counties are
$50 miles across and only few thous-
and people and they can not tax them
selves to build roads when so per cent
of the land belongs to Uncle Sam. The
Lincoln Highway Association has
$50. 900 donated for the Salton sink and
asks $4,000 to be raised locally. At
Wadsworth the Truckee Carson Irriga-
ton Project has reclaimed some 100000
acres and you find fine crops in what
was desert Uncle Sam has applied
Your bond amortization scheme to pay
off the $4,000 900 the work cost.
Reno is fine city Of $4,000 on the
Truckee river and its buildings are the
best ! ever remember Of seeing in a
town of it's size Fine hotels and
Hobbies filed with those trying to I'M
tan2le burdensome matrimonial ties.
Weather is fine at Reno today. the ex-
tremes Of temperature were IS and As,
Yesterday So and AZ.