The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-08-21
LOOKING UP DATA ON ROAD
CONDITIONS ACROSS NEVADA
representative of California State
Automobile Association on Tour
of Inspection

! l.. A. Mares, representing the Cal
ifornia State Automobile Association
was in Fallon last Saturday and was
interviewing the citizens of Fallon
relative to the Lincoln Highway. Mr.
Mares said that he was making a
tour of the two routes across the
State tributary to Northern Califor-
MIA and would go on to Salt Lake
via the Lincoln Highway and return
over the Overland Trail to satisfy
himself of the relative merits of
each as link in the transcontinent-
al highway.
Mr.. Mares stated that his associa-
ton was anxious to assist the State
of Nevada in building a highway,
but was embarrassed by the rival
claims made by the proponents of
the Lincoln Highway as against the
Overland Trail and did not care to-
choose as between the two for obvi-
Gus reasons. AS an Association they
ere interested solely in directing the
traffic over the better route and he
we're routing all inquirers over the
Overland Trail, on the best informa-
ton they could obtain that with all
its drawbacks, il is the better route.
However, the Association is con-
cerned in its efforts to improve road
conditions in the State by the influ-
ence and prestige of the Lincoln
Highway Association, which by its
National character and financial
backing. renders il a factor in any
movement for the raising of funds
for road improvement
Locally, Mr.. Mares said that he
desired to correct the error that had
been made in routing tourists by
vav of Saltwater and the Mountain
Wells. He said that he is convinced
from numerous complaints that have
come to the San Francisco Office
that a mistake had been made in
placing the Association signs at
chalk Mountain. Mr. Osterman and
he Lincoln Highway Association
we're committed TO this route, but
until some arrangements have been
made for keeping the road in repair
an injustice was being done to trav-
elers who placed implicit trust in the
signs of the California Automobile
Association.
In this connection he requested
the Commissioners to remove the
sign at Chalk Mountain and an
nounced his intention of making the
necessary corrections in the route
maps and log books furnished to
tourists at various points along the
line.
Speaking of a choice of routes,
Mr. Mares stated that the only prac-
tlcal solution of the problem lay
in leaving it to commission of gov
ernment engineers, who would not |
but would render their verdict on |
actual conditions as to cheapness of
construction, maintenance, and short |
est mileage. Since it is nanifestly |
absurd to believe that the govern
ment will finance more than one
.oute across the State of Nevada, it |
Dlished by this interminable strife
between communities on the several
routes to secure a preference and no
assistance can be hoped for from
private sources SO long as there is
no unanimity in the State.
We firmly believe that the choice
will fall upon the Lincoln Highway
for the reason that tIiis route was
chosen by unbiased men experienced
in road building after careful
checking up of the whole problem.
Moreover. 1t is backed with the in
1uence and money of the only Ma
tional Highway Association in the
country. However, If commission
f unprejudiced government offic-
p decide otherwise, well and good.
AZ least we will have transconti-
rental highway across the State,
something that we can never have
under the present policy of recrimi-
nation and antagonism between sec
tions, where judgment is warped by
private interest.