White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-14
Pixies PEAK HIGHWAY
ROUTED THROUGH ELY

! Ii plans as indicated by J. ID
. Clarkson m~aterialize Ely will be or
another transcontinentai highway
route. and it may soon be said in sull
truthfulness that all roads lead &c
Ely. Mr.. Clarkson IS general man
aver of the Pixies Peak Ocean 10
Ocean highway and was in Ely Thurs
day. Considerable has already been
said about this Ocean to Ocean high.
way. but as originally laid out the
route vas away north of Ely. follow
ing pretty closely the line of the
Southern Pacific railroad.
Mr.. Clarkson says that the route
west from Salt Lake City has been
changed for the reason that the way
first decided on has been found prae-
tically impossible, making a new
routing necessary. Ii is therefore
rurposed to change the logging from
Green River. Utah. west to Salina
and thence to Ely by way of Milford
The new out is not only shorter for
travellers from Denver way. but it
tends further TO keep the Grand Cen
trail highway in the public light. as
it will bring the Ocean to Ocean traf-
1T INTO Fly over t1HS route.
West from Ely the route has not
yet been decided Upon, but no great
difficulty is expected in finding 4 suit
able exit to the coast once the tour
list has arrived and tarried here and
is ready to resume his journey. The
main thing is that ~westbound over
land travel from Denver, over this
particular route. is bound to come to
EfIx nrhfaH nrnrar,st s ..a
beginning to realize the advantages
to local business from the tourist
patronage.
Mr.. Ciarkson and the Ocean to
Ocean Highway Association came into
considerable publicity through Thurs
days Salt Lake Tribune as a result
OF the determination of the Utah Sc
curities commission to investigate Mr..
Clarkson activities in Utah to learn
whether OF not they came within the
scope of the states blue sky" law.
The securities commission had
been Informed that Mr.. Clarkson was
soliciting money in the form OF mem.
bership fees in his association in yari-
Gus cities and towns of the state. and
that emissaries of the association had
been going over the state by different
AoAiCSs bf 1OiifDIShiO1 utSITtu IL
know il the association was attempt.
ing to play n group OF cities
against another. and what it was of
fering its membership in return for
the membership fees.
Before Mr.. Clarkson's letter of ex-
PLANTATION was received a telegram
had already been sent to him al Sa-
lima requiring him to send informa-
tion as to his plan. the methods
adopted in obtaining money and the
use to be made Of the money before
proceeding further in the state. 9th
erwise be was told the matter woulG
be referred to the attorney general.
Mr.. Clarkson's letter intimafes
that he is presenting to the citizens
OF Utah reorganization plans of
the association, and that the highway
itself is being relocated on a new
course through southern Utah. His
letter does not say whw il Is being
relocated. W. Fl. Goodin of Love
lock Is president Of the Nevada di-
vision and one of the yice-presidants
OF the association. ST. John Lain.
also OF Loyeloek. IS secretary of the
Nevada division, according TO the let
terhead. and others are J. A. Gala
han of Winnemucea and T. l.. Oddie
OF Reno
The attitude of the securities COM
mission in seeking Information rela-
tive to the activities of the associa-
tion was thus summed up by its sec.
rotary, Heber c. Hicks:
"The purposes of the association
and of its officers may be Iaudable or
not. but the fact that we have infor.
nation OF the corporation proposing
a highway going over two or three
dinerent routes makes II necessary
that the commission receive thorough
and definite Information as to its in.
tentions and as to what il Is going
TO do with the peoples money after
1t gets that money. We have ALREADY
received Information of a route by
way OF Duchesne and another by yay
OF Price. The question also confronts
us as to how an attempt Is TO be made
10 reconcile a route through Lovelock
and Winnemncca with one through
southern Utah and Ely. The com.
mission has a right to know what
guaranty the corporation will give its
members that it will actually do what
IL represents. As a corporation OF
which the officers receive paw. the
commission believes that 1t should
show how 1t does not come under the
o,an law governing the selling of
such membership units"
from Salina. Utah. under date of
august . Mr.. Clarkson writes to the
secretary or the securities commission
as follows in part:
This association Ia a volun,ary
cooperative body for the purnose ~
promoting a national highway ax.
tending from the Atlantic to the pa.
cinc coast. Up to the present mo-
ment nearly 400 Utah citizens have
rendered memberships in 1t, for. 10
them, the laudable purpose of At
tracing to the state of Utah a nor.
ton OF thai vast volume of homeseek.
ers, investors and tourists who travel
In automobiles.