The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-12-06
CALLING A SUDDEN HALT ON
LINCOLN HIGHWAY CAMPAIGN
Mysterious Influences at Work In
Bay Cities to Discourage Raising
of Funds for Nevada Work.

And now comes word that the
campaign to raise funds for the i'm
provement of the Lincoln Highway
through Nevada which was heralded
with SO much eclat in California a
few weeks ago, is to be brought to
sudden end.
Somebody's fine Italian hand is
reaching out to clutch the money al
ready raised and the intention is to
divert its use to the Midland trail,
which means that the route would
be diverted at Ely and go southwest
to Big Pine, Bishop, through the Yo-
semitic National Park, Modesto, San
Jose and San Francisco.
The scheme looks like 1t might
have been hatched in Los Angeles
and San Francisco and the other
Bay cities seem to be prepared to
fall for it, The Los Angeles
boosters probably figure that If the
traffic can be diverted permanently
to the southern route, they can af-
ford to take a chance of weaving the
tourists away from thoughts of San
Francisco when they reach Big Pine
or Bishop, thus doing away with the
necessity of keeping a crew of pilots
at Salt Lake and Ely.
On Sunday, November 18th, il will
be remembered that a miniature re-
production of the Fallon Sink, as ii
has come to be called, was built on
the Foothill Boulevard in Berkeley
and all travellers over the stretch of
sand were held up by a bevy of
young women and made to contrib
ute to the fund for the repair of this
particular section of the Lincoln
Highway in Nevada. Something ov-
er $1,000 was raised by these fair
kighwaywomen and it is this neucle-
us of a fund it is now proposed to
divert TO another route.
AS an evidence of the widespread
tntereset taken In the movement it
is noted that on the day in question
1914 automobiles passed through
the "Fallon Sink" and paid tribute.
There were also Ais motorcycles,
7 automobile busses and auto
trucks. The automobiles carried
,73,228 passengers, motorcycles A.
ia passengers and SO persons rode
in the buses and trucks. Babies to
the number of 4,238 were in the
procession and dogs to the number of
"a occupied a place in the parade.
California contributed the great
est number of cars, naturally, but
the following states were represent
ed: Oregon, 4 Utah. 8; Nevada, A.
Arizona, 5; Ohio, 8; Washington, A..
Local Consul l. H. Kent, has just
returned from a short business trip
to San Francisco and was appraised
of the sudden turn in affairs. On
his return to Fallon he sent the fol-
lowing telegram to President Joy in
protest against the action of prime
movers of the game of diverting the
Highway from its present route
through Nevada:
Have just returned from a short
visit to San Francisco. While there
was shocked to learn of the present
halting of the Lincoln Highway prop
Uganda in San Francisco in San
Francisco. San Francisco has been
slow to realize the results of the
Highway, but I feel confident that
the right parties are in charge of the
campaign and should 1t stop now
feel that it could not be revived for
long time, and the interest and
support which they have already
aroused would go to the improve
ment of the Midland Trail from Big
Pine and Bishop, through Yosemite
National Park, Modesto, San Fran
cisco, or Stockton, Oakland and San
Francisco.