The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-03-01
PLAN EXPENDITURE
OF 100000
THIS YEAR
L. IL. Kent Notified that lincoln
Highway Improvements to that
Amount Are Contemplated
III. C. OSTERMAN To SHORTLY
BE HERE FOR CONFERENCES
viii Take Up Question OF Co-opera.
tion With State and County Of
fieials i'm the Work.

Local Counsel l. H. Kent has re-
ceived a letter from g. s. Hoag,
State Consul for the Lincoln High
way Association at Ely. in which he
states that he has just received a
communication from H. c. Oster-
mann to the effect that the Associa-.
ton was contemplating the expendi-.
ture of something like 100000 in
this county during the coming sum-
mer.
This announcement will come as
c surprise to the people of Churchill
county who had begun to believe
that with the contemplated improve
ments in Utah, where a section of
the Highway was to be concreted to
offset the efforts of Salt Lake people
to defect the travel over the Wend-
over route. eifectually put an end
to any hope that Churchill county
would receive any benefits of the
Associations efforts in improving
road condition in this territory
In his letter to Mr. Kent, Mr.
IIoag states that Mr. Ostermann ex-
poets to visit Fallon very shortly.
tt which time it is his purpose to
take up fully with the local consul
and the county commissioners the
plans he has in view. Hence, it is
probable that nothing further will
lie planned in the line of road i'm
provements on the Lincoln Highway
until after his visit
1t will be remembered that on a
former trip to Fallon. Mr.. Oster-
mann stated that it was the inten-
ton of the Lincoln Highway Assoc
iation to build a memorial section
to the memory of Z. r. Pardington,
and he intimated that it was more
than probable that the expenditure
and improvements would be made
in Churchill county, due to the
double fact of our limited population
end the unusual conditions prevail
Ing here. He urged that our county
commissioners take the matter up
with the State authorities and Sc
cure the services of the State Engi-
neer TO lay out the route and make
estimates of the needs of the dis
trict upon which might be based
the probable cost as we'll as what
materials and equipment would be
necessary to place the Lincoln High
way in this county in first class con-
dition. State Engineer Kearney
paid visit to Allon, but owing to
the inclemency of the weather at the
time of his visit it was found impos-
sible to proceed with the work, and
this fact together with the impress
sion that there was little probabili-
t. of anything being done this
season, has caused interest to lag.
In connection with the foregoing
the following appeared in the last
Sundays S. F. Examiner, bearing
out the information contained in
the letter of Mr.. Hoag to Mr.. Kent:
The Willys-Overland Company,
through the efforts of J. N. WHY'S,
president of the company, and di-
rector of this association, has agreed
to place at the disposal of the associ-
alton a fund of $4,000 for the con-
struction of a Willy-Oyerland sec
tion on the Lincoln Highway in
Churchill county, Nevada, and on
that section of the route which at
present traverses the so-called Fal-
lon Sink This fund will take care
of section of very bad road from
twelve to fourteen miles in extent,
which is at present one of the great
est barriers to transcontinental mo-
tor traffic.
The Willys-Overland Company,
Toledo, has offered the Lincoln
Highway Association the use of two
Overland cars for the purpose OF
marking the Lincoln Highway in d
standard way from New York to SapN
Francisco during the coming season,
1t is the plan of the Association
to start the two cars from New
York City and utilize the paint
which will be contributed to tAe as
sociation to paint the standard Lin
coin Highway marker entirely across
the country in the uniform way tie
expense of the painters to- be. IL
nanced by the different communities
along the route which will he beHe-
hted. Letters are being sent to the
different communities asking 'their
support in this matter.
From sixty to ninety days VIII be
required for The trip, which, in ad-
dition to providing a unitorm sys-
tenn for marking entirely ;across3tlre
country, will be a source Of consid-
erable publicity,