The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-09-10
COMMUNITIES ENVY
TRADE OF TOURISTS

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ing hurled back and forth propo-
nents of the Lincoln Highway and the
Overland trail have apparently re-
newed the fight for control of the
tourist travel across the state and the
newspapers In the various towns
along both routes have been filled with
letters. interviews, and editorial dis
eussions on the subject for the past
two weeks.
The Nevada Highway association
with Offices In Reno, is charged by
Winnemucca people with directing all
east bound travel over the Lincoln
highway to the great injury of the
Overland trail, and a garage man at
Wadsworth is charged by Fallon peo-
pie with using unfair methods in di-
recting eastbound travel over the
Overland trail to the great injury of
the Lincoln highway. and as a conse-
quence, according to the reports. the
poor misguided tourists leave Reno
with one set of instructions and leave
Wadsworth with another set and con-
sequently don't know what 10 do and
to decide the question must draw
straws or toss a coin to determine
which road to take.
Fallon is also voicing a complaint
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that tourists desiring to go over the
Lincoln highway are told it is impas
sible and they should take the south
ern route to Los Angeles. This is the
first time this complaint has been
heard from Fallon although it has
been voiced many times in the past by
residents of Northern California who
wanted the tourists to enter Cali
fornia by a northern route and see
Northern California first before they
spent all their time and money view
ing the beauties of Los Angeles and
the territory below the Tehachipi.
This adds interest to the contro-
versy and one Fallon paper expresses
the view that the entire matter should
be forgotten as neither road is
boulevard and the efforts of all COM
munities should be directed toward
making the roads better instead OF
worrying about how much travel Is
going on the other route.
Mrs. Carmen Wilkie, secretary of
the Nevada Highway association, who
has been called upon during the past
summer to route about fifty tourists
daily. declares that she has been alb
solutely fair in the direction she has
given the tourists and in recommend
ing routes to follow across the state
has always taken into consideration
the condition of the roads before
making any suggestions to the trav-
elers
when the two roads are in abou'
the same condition | hand the tourist
map with both routes marked out
and tell him plainly the merits OF
the two routes said Mrs. Wilkie.
During June when the Overland
trail route was in very bad condl-
ton due to the Humboldt floods east
of Battle Mountain the tourists were
told to take the Lincoln highway to
avoid this almost impossible stretch
of road. but since that time the tour
list has been allowed to pick his own
route across the state on his own
Judgment after all facts were pre-
scented to him.
at is plainly one of the duties of
this Office to give the tourists the best
information obtainable and this is
what we do, playing no favorites and
at all times trying to be fair.
when the most of the travel goes
over one route we receive complaints
from advocates of the other route, but
we are trying our best to direct the
tourists properly and we appreciate
all the help we can get from the
members of the association in the
various towns along the routes.
Our information is secured
through reports sent in by members
of the association in nearly every
town, and this is supplemented by in
formation given us by the tourists
that report here and by actual sur
veys of road conditions made by offic-
ials of the state department of high
ways or by members of our own or
ganization. Gazette.