The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-03-22
TO SECURE
A GOVERNMENT ENGINEER
Governor Boyle Wires Request for
Survey of Lincoln Highway in
This County

This County
District Attorney Eli Cam ad-
dressed a letter to Governor Boyle
inquiring what steps, If any, had
been taken to meet the request of
Lincoln Highway officials for sur
vey and permanent establishment OF
route for the highway through
Churchill county. Mr. Cam has re-
ceived the following from the Gov
eTnor in reply:
My dear Mr.. Cam:
l am in receipt of your letter of
the sixteenth instant and beg to ad-
wise you that I have wired Mr.
Page. Director of Public Roads and
Rural Engineering, requesting him
to send your County Commissioners
the necessary blank forms upon
which to make application for the
survey of the Lincoln Highway
through your county
Anticipating your action in this
matter. have already written Mr.
Page endorsing the application Of
your County Commissioner as his
department will require this en-
dorsement sooner or later.
Trusting that our efforts in this
direction will result in a proper sur
vey of your proposed road, l re-
main Very truly yours,
EMMETT ID. BOYLE, Governor.
Accompanying The above letter
to Mr.. Cam was a copy of a letter
addressed by the Governor to the
department at Washington, as fol-
lows:
March 13, 1916.
Mr.. L. w. Page, Director, Public
Roads and Rural Engineering,
Washington, d. c
My dear Sir:
Churchill County, Nevada, offlc-
ials have been for some time pc
titioning the State to send them a
qualified engineer from the State
Engineers office, which department
here has to do exclusively with irri-
CATION, for the purpose of advising
them and perhaps directing the sur
vey of a portion of the Lincoln
Highway, about thirty miles in
length. within Churchill County.
The State has no qualified eng..
ueer to send and really no funds
lvailable at this time to carry on
the work, though | personally favor
straining a point and utilizing q
man from the engineers Office if
felt sure that he would be properly
directed since this stretch of road is
perhaps the most difficult on the
entire highway in Nevada.
The county is in poor shape TO fl
nance survey itself at this time,
since it is populated largely by
homesteaders under the Carson
Truckee project who are having the
struggle usually incident to pio-
neering in a new country.
Further, it appears that the Lin
coin Highway Association has Sc
cured tentative offer of substant-
ial financial assistance from Eastern
capitalists who are interested in
seeing the abominable stretch of
highway now crossing Churchill
county put in better shape and
these offers are, as | understand 1t,
made conditional upon the securing
of right of way for the road which
it is proposed to construct in lieu
of the present one.
In a few words, it is a case for
expert advice and we are asking
your department to furnish it,
| cannot predict the action of
our legislature but l can assure
you that | will urge the refunding
of all or any portion which you may
suggest, of the expense to which
your department may be put in the
matter. if you will be good enough
to send a man out at the earliest
possible moment to get these peo-
Pile started off properly.
Thanking you for any assistance
you can render, | remain,
Very truly yours,
EMMETT d. BOYLE, Governor.
From the above it is apparent
that we cannot expect assistance of
the State in making the preliminary
survey and must perforce rely upon
the very doubtful assistance from
the government, which is notorious
ly slow in acting upon matters of
this kind.
This being the case, it is plain
that If anything is to be done this
season ii must be by local effort
without waiting for outside assist
ance. II is understood that the
Commissioners are debating the ad-
visibility of employing a competent
surveyor to handle the county work,
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