White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-28
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
Of LINCOLN HIGHWAY
IN A WAR or INVASION

A. +. Bement and II. G. Osterman.
secretary and field secretary respect
lively of the Lincoln Highway associa-
tion, arrived in Ely Tuesday. on
trip of inspection of the transeon-
tinental highway. They were accom-
panied by Warren Richardson of the
Laramie county commissioners of
Wyoming, and r. A. Bush of the
Tooele county commissioners of Utah
who made the trip to Ely for the
purpose of noting progress made on
the new highway being constructed
across the Utah desert. The opinion
expressed by this distinguished quar-
tette of road and county officials was
that everything Is very satisfactory.
particularly the roads in Nevada.
Secretary Bement and Messrs.
Richardson and Bush returned east
Wednesday while Field Secretary Os-
terman and State Consul G.. S. Hoag
left Wednesday afternoon for San
Francisco
Golfers Weekly, issue of July 13.
prints an article by William Almon
Wolff, on the Linking Up of the
Lincoln Highway" Mr.. Wolff treats
on the strategic Importance of the
Lincoln Highway. in war times--par-
ticularly in case of the invasion of
this country by an enemy, and tells
also what an important part the high
ways have already played in facilitat-
ing the movement of trucks and
freight from inland points to The sea-
ports for shipment to the front.
Concerning the Great Salt Lake
desert across which the Lincoln High
way passes the Golfers article says:
To-day men are at work in the
fierce heat that beats down upon that
desolate country. They are build
ing and grading road that cuts
across il straight as an arrow, from
shore to shore, as one might say
remembering that old lake of prehis-
toric times. When their task Is fin
ished, this autumn, the Lincoln high
way. running between New York and
San Francisco as straight as road
may run-wilI have passed from the
list of things of which men dream to
the list of things which men have
achieved
THE Lincoln High way is nation
al institution of prime Importance;
in this time of war il is a national
asset. That | sbecause. SO far as we
in America are concerned, this is
transportation war. The measure
OF our contribution TO victory over
Germany will be determined by the
degree to which we solve our trans
portation problem. Ships, guns, mu-
nitions. airplanes. all the multi
tudinous war products of American
industry-wheneye a crisis develops
in connection with any of them, the
thought of transportation comes up.
1T isn't any exaggeration to say
that the thousand miles of the Lin
coin Highway IN the eastern part OF
the country were worth half a
dozen divisions of soldiers last VIM
ter. Motor trucks were started from
the factories in the middle west, first.
h make the Journey 10 the seaboard
and the ships that were to carry them
to France under their own power.
Almost at once some one thought CT
the next step. Why send trucks, each
OF which could carry three or five or
ten tons Of freight, unloaded?
Between New York and Phila-
delphia regular motor-truck lines
were established. The most spec
tacular trucking lines we're between
Detroit and Baltimore and Akron and
Boston.
The Long way Round.
Henry B JOY, the real pioneer of
the highway, who is now in the army,
had always insisted that If the Unit
ed States went to war the vital I'M
portance of good roads would be one
of the first things TO be revealed, and
the Lincoln Highway has helped the
cause of good roads enormously.
1.-The men behind the Lincoln High
way didn't have to wait for war. They
saw the need of their enterprise In
advance Bur it took the war to make
certain things possible.
ANY time since 1914, If YOU went
westward along the Lincoln way, you
swing from Garfield to gap in a
mountain ridge, and then turned due
south. making a long detour around
the desert, the bed of old Lake Bon
neville. before you got on to the