The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-03-29

W. y the states of Illinois and pennsylvania in their recent elections
HM3s4A with similar sums likely to be voted by many of their
NNSfM sister states, says Harlan H. Edwards in Popular Mechanics
NGWWSu Magazine. Sixty millions as the share of Illinois, to be paid
0zg entirely by automobile and motor-truck owners during the next
twenty years, without 4resorting to general taxation. This is just indca-
ton of the great interest in good roads aroused by the transportation needs
during tn great raj just past
People are now awakening TIC the fact that the best investment they can
make is in the construction of good roads, permanent roads. and roads at
least wide enough to permit two automobiles " trucks to pass in safety.
Nowhere in the United States is the future prosperity of a community more
dependent upon the immediate construction of suitable highways than right
here Wlnnemucca- Dependent as this pace way las Den upon me
great country extending a hundred miles and more to the north, its pros
perfy is being viewed with covetous eyes by other growing localities. In
plain words, m as n silver state la before remarked IL wlnnemuc
business does not take steps o cur the construction o. a thoroughly good
north road, the interests of some other wide-awake community will do o
In this day of the automobile, going a dozen miles out of ones way to
take advantage of a good road is not thought much Of It's a good scheme
is gone forever unles that direct path is made int a modern highway The
reports of immense amounts to be spent o roads in the East, where con-
mented by reports of e and better types of pavement each singularly
adapted to the varying needs of heavy and light city and country traffic.
nr,sbed rmetnne varvtna in smef from bauincb down . dst innreg.
mated with deiquescent IT moisture-colectng and retaining chemicals. 1t
smooth, compact surface elastic. dustess. noiseless. and NEEDLESS. and easy
to take up and replace when it is necessary to get at pipes o wires beneath
the pavement.
With the adoption of efficient methods of construction and maintenance
for all roads o nto be built by various states, and also for those built by
the large Federal appropriation for interstate roads under the Federalaid act
the roads of tomorrow should be of maximum value to everyone. They will
be built much wider and stronger than many W e have now. and of the most
durable materials, for they will have to bear a greatly increased motortruck
traffic if the growth in use Of such trucks in the past few years is any
criterion.
Whether the Tonopah Bonanza meant it or not, it certainly uncorked a
good n when it said that, during the stock-trading excitement of Wednesday
night women butted into tn "bul[p to get a glimpse of the bulletins"
In old mining days. the newspaper came quickly after the gamblers, and
city lots were an decentralization. But times do change. Even the per-
spicaciy of a Garside failed to beat the real estate mn at Divide City.
Perhaps the politicians who ae taking such frequent flights with the
aviators like the higher atmospheres because of the change afforded from the
kind of air they ae accustomed to circulating in and to circulating.
The old standing personal which used to say that John Smith made a
flying trip to Winnemucca last week, finally had to be distributed. People
began to thing it meant something about a arpane.
Evidently the way o get a reputation as a politician nowadays is to take