The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-03-16
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Thorouehfares
Road Building Problems Form
Big Question for This County's
Commissioners

Churchill county's executives find
themselves confronted with hercu-
lean tasks whenever they essay the
roles of roadbuilders. The absence
of proper materials and the unvary-
ing rule of soft, yielding soils makes
road construction costs almost pro-
hibitive for rapidly growing county
where population and its needs are
away and beyond taxable values.
Any review of the results of the
county's collaboration with the fed
eral and state authorities in road
building must bring a declaration of
failure, and the failure applies with
equal force to road costs and road
construction, for the results OBJ
tanned have been unsatisfactory
while the costs have been away and
beyond any warrant.
To the credit of the members of
the countys commissioners board
it must be said that they are striv-
ing to the full limit To profit by
previous mistakes and outline some
system whereby the taxpayers can
be given the best possible roads at
the least possible cash outlay. 1t
has been proposed that the county
shall provide a supply of crushed
rock and the public Is to be asked
to do a share by getting this gravel
to needed places along the thor
oughfares in this valley. There
seems to be disposition on the part
of many of the farmers of the val
ley to cooperate as wageless volun-
teers in placing this gravel where 1t
is most needed. Some one to point
the way and give zest and enthusi-
asm to the movement seems to be
needed at this juncture.
The example of w. H. Goodin,
Lovelock's leading booster and
prominent business man, wherein he
led the way and was followed ON
occasion by as many as 200 of his
fellow townsmen to tasks on the
bad roads leading to that live little
city, might be emulated here. 1t
was Mr.. Goodin who fathered
and has kept the Northern Trail be-
fore the public for years as a route
contemporaneous with the Lincoln
Highway and If the Northern Trail
is made into passable, year
round road, it will be due to Mr..
Goodin's efforts. Having set the
ball to rolling he never slackened
and just when things looked the
worst for his enterprise he would
don his overalls and jumper and
lead his brigade of workers out for
resultful though spectacular work.
1t will be remembered that during
the year 1917 travellers found it al
most impossible to get to and from
Loyelock because of stretches of
bad road in the northern part of
this county. Mr.. Goodin didn't pro-
pose to be lone voice in the desert
so he set about and actually raised
more than $4,000 in what is now
Pershing county for the purpose OF
buying and installing steel culverts
for the impossible places. Those
culverts are still in place and con-
stitute useful and enduring presents
from our good neighbors to the
north of us. They also emphasize
the fact that we have not always
done full share in the good roads
program.
Another good roads booster who
has delivered lesson in road build
ing is r. r. Gamble, Hazen con-
tractor Mr.. Gamble has stock and
machinery and after experimenting
in the Hazen vicinity with gravel
over a period of several years is In
position to put forward preach
ments on road subjects altogether
worthy of heed Those who have
visited Hazen during late months
testify without exception to the ef-
ficacy of Mr.. CANDLES work. "Grav-
ell" said Mr.. Gamble Saturday, sis
the single constituent that will bind
the soils of this valley into a suit
able road surface in the absence OF
concrete. 1t is effective and may be
applied inexpensively. l look to see
good roads introduced here through
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