The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-02-06
WORD IN DEFENSE
OF COUNTY ROADS

IOH lne ldSt ISSUE Ol the LOVelOck
Review-Miner:
Narrow-visioned, want-brained be-
ings who stoop to mud-throwing
seldom accomplish the purpose for
which they try to palm off their lies
under the guise of truth. Their
auditors, these days. too often seek
the truth and find 1t.
And then, too, the very principle
of mud-throwing has fallen into dis
repute among the masses, as old
school politicians can testify after
their recent bitter experience.
In championing the causes and
welfare of our local community. the
Review-Miner has kept above these
shady methods and, if anything, in
giving the facts, has given its adver-
saries shade the best in the benefit
of doubt.
Now comes the Standard, of Fallon,
with misleading, untrue and preju-
diced article on roads from Hazen
here.
Whether intentionally or through
lack of proper information, we do not
know. that paper has printed un-
truths which may have the effect of
damaging the prosperity of the Love-
lock valley and the points along the
road
The Standard article is printed
below.
Before you read it, here are the
real facts:
The huge trucks, so heavily loaded
and so big as to attract spectators
and comment along the line of their
entire trip, failed to follow the pro-
per directions given them, and got
in some of Churchill county's poor
roads. Undoubtedly they did run into
some pretty rough travelling. They
had map showing them the proper
Lovelock-Hazen route, which was
given them here by Fallon man who
made the trip without difficulty two
days before.
The trouble is not in the Hum
boldt sink, but within eight miles of
Fernley, near the Eagle salt works-a
region which Fallon has neglected in
road-building and road-repairing
The highway which runs from
Lovelock to Reno by way of Hazen,
this side of the Churchill county line,
is travelled every day in the week by
automobiles from the ST Anthony
mines.
1t is on the stretch of twenty-eight
miles in Churchill county that the
notorious neglect of roads by Fallon
is shown. 1t may be that Fallon
deliberately wants to keep travel off
this route, or it may not; but the fact
is that experts declare $4,000 would
make a boulevard of the route in
Churchill county. During the past
five years Fallon, or Churchill county
has not spent 500 in making sorely-
needed repairs.
We have never before called atten-
ton to the fact that the Carson sink
which Fallow has pleadingly brought
before the notice of California, will
take from several hundred thousand
up to several millions to put it in fit
condition for comfortable travel.
Lovelock should certainly rise up
in protest at the last paragraph of the
Standards statement. This statement
of the Standard, putting it mildly, is
misleading; and it would apparently
seem a deliberate attempt to pass
over a malicious untruth, to the detri-
ment of this section.
Not only ) is the route along the
Humboldt in daily use by travellers.
but those who come here tell us of
bitter hardships and sadly neglected
conditions along the Carson sink of
Fallon's Lincoln highway
Here is the Standards malicious
article:
"a party consisting of j. NJ. Gates,
Paul Parsons, Red Williams, Otto
vogt. Charles L. Anderson and H. S.
Menough arrived in Hazen last Mon
day at 4 am. after one of the most
strenuous trips they ever experienced.
They had left Lovelock Sunday morn
ing. expecting to arrive at Hazen at
about 2 pm. or little later. and did
not think it necessary to take either
food or water.
They had three large motor trucks
and were going to Nina. After bat
Ting with mud, slush and ice for
about eighteen hours they were COM
PEELED to abandon one of the trucks
and. with combined efforts of the
entire party. managed to reach Hazen.
"Mr. Anderson, one of the party,
said he had bucked snow into Jar
bidge and had travelled over some of
the worst roads in the country. but
that he would not make the trip back
to Lovelock over that route for a
thousand dollars.
"An attempt was made yesterday
to salvage the remaining truck and.
if successful. they will ship all three
to Nina by freight.
Here is a little object lesson for
those misguided individuals in San