The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-09-04
FALLoN NEVADA WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4.
RENO ANTACONISTIC TO
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
State Consul G. $. Hoag of Ely
Writes Letter Proving Hostility
Of Reno Business Men

1t has long been matter of COM
mon knowledge that the Reno Com
nercial Club, garage and hotel men
of Reno, with few exceptions, have
,ersistently favored the Overland
rrail, or northern route, as against
he Lincoln Highway across Nevada.
10 repeatedly has this been demon
itrated that il has become a settled
act with towns along the latter
cute that Reno is doing all that IT
an to turn travel away from the
lincoln Highway. Whether this
1artiality Is attributable to desire
favor the towns along the railway
pr through pure maliciousness has
never been explained But the fact
remains.
iiere is an open letter from State
onsul G. s. Hoag addressed to the
dlyor of Reno and the Reno papers
living some recent data that could
e duplicated many times:
Ely, Nevada. Aug. 30, 1918.
dr. Frank Byington. 4. Mayor,
Reao, Nevada
e.r Sir:
Atout month ago you told me
.ano felt Ely was not treating he
=ight in the direction given auto
velers. | want to cite you a case
hat has just come TO my notice ane
lsk you why we should feel friendly
o Reno.
A week ago Mr.. l.. A. Snyder, Jr
mining man operating at Schell-
anrne, Nevada. made inquiry at the
nercial club as to the road to Cherry
'reek, which is fifty miles north o.
y. he was tod in both nlaces tho
Lincoln Highway was impossible
nd advised to follow the Overland
sonte to Wells. thence south to his
destination; he ATTEMPTED to do so
lie started with a Cadillac car, in
perfect order. and six good tires. He
q 4 me today that between Wads-
worth and Inlay he travelled seven
1.-TWO miles In second and low gear
ruined every tire he had, and fin (,
lly stripped his transmission tryinf
. pull the sand, and abandoned hi
at INLAY, and he ard three chill
iren came in by rail, He says he hae
lriven for eight years. has been al
yer Arizona, New Mexico and Cali
forpia and thought he had seen
onle bad roads in his life, but none
hat approached that stretch. He
IS he met many cars broken down
IS his was, with gears or transmits
ian torn out. with tires in shreds
I'd women aud children sitting In
Q sun without water while the men
we're walking for help.
He mentioned cars of five stand
rd makes that had suffered as he
ad and had been abandoned
lie asks the same question I do
Why will Reno give out such false
sports on road conditions when II
nows dozens of other cars are com
ng through on the Lincoln Highway
/ lily and without trouble? Is the
.eason because travellers over the
alter route. having no complaints
make, don't talk about the road?
Z Is Reno herself who Is sending
.fayelers away from her own town
She tells them she is sending them
pver the best road and II they get
over II at all, they tell the autoists
aound in the opposite direction just
lat they encountered and the sec
ond man keeps out of the country
2 tirely.
| am sending this as an open let
ter, and copies go TO your newspap-
ars and the Commercial Club; will
hey publish? How are you bet
ing? And who is playing fair?
Yours truly.
G.. S. HOAG,
State Consul, Lincoln Highway.