The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1920-02-18
CHURCHILL COUNTY ROADS
ARE To bE BUILT At OhCf
Good Roads Meeting Held in Renu
Last Friday aud Saturday Proved
Profitable

One of the most effective good
roads meetings ever held In the
state occurred in Reno last Friday
and Saturday, being participated in
by members OF the state highway
organization, county commissioners
from over the state and good roads
enthusiasts from many different Sc
yada districts. Road building con-
tractors were also present from TIC
several state projects now in prog.
ress and conferred at Fridays meet
ing with the state highway autaofi.
ties.
The state authorities. county com
missioners and other good roads ex-
ponents met Saturday and the n
result of the swo-day conference is d
better understanding Of existing
problems and increased harmony le-
tween the several auspices having
state road building tasks in hand
County Commissioner ". II. WI
liams and A. A. Hordwege. distric,
engineer of the state highway CO.
mission attached 70 tHis count
went TO Reno aud took part in tsN
conference as Churchill oounts's rep
resentation.
State Engineer {. c. Cottreil lee
the meeting ii discussion and mac
plain by his talks that he has tue
Nevada road building program ne.
under way. understands the state
transportation needs and how best tl
serve them with the necessarily sma.
financial outlay available. The bi-
recently introduced in congress b.
United States Senator Henderson. Q
this state. Mr. Cottrell said, woull
materially advance Nevada's higu
ways. This proposed measure ha.
passed the senate and was reported
fevorably out of committee in Ia.
house and Mr. Cottroil anticipate
its early enactment into law Sen..
tor Henderson proposes in als mas.-
ure federal aid for the states of tn
union in proportion To mileage ano
percentage of public lands and the
fact that Neyada's area is approx
mately SO per cent public domain
which is exempt from taxation will
insure a very liberal government
subsidy for highway undertakings
here and make feasible construction
projects not possible under existing
laws.
Mr.. cottrell apportioned rs new
government trucks recently received
from the war department TO the sew
eral Neyda counties on a basis of
assessed valuation. two being award
ed to this county. County Commits
sioner W. H. Williams accepted one
OF the trucks FOR early delivery and
it's addition to the county's present
equipment will mean that three mod
ern and fullSequipped trucks viii be
in use on the roads here.
District Engineer Hordwege stat
ed that the Leetyille-Hazen link OF
the states highway system will be
one of the projects TO be taken up
early in the spring and that the four
and eight mile fat highway projects
in the Sand Springs section viii be
undertaken by the contractor during
the coming week and rushed to com
pletion.
II was announced by State High
way Engineer C. c. Cottreii at tho
Reno road meeting that the Carson
City-Reno road would be finished
this year and that much would be
accomplished In connecting Rene
with the California state line TO the
west. The highway commission /
about to take over rock orusher
costing $50, 900, which will have
daily capacity of nearly 400 yard
of crushed rock TO be used as road
base wherever hard surfaeing is 70
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