The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-03-12

route of the State Highway or Over
land Trail. in the northern end Of
Eureka County.
The work Of laying out and con-
structing the Highway" is In the
hands of the State Highway Commits
sion, Mr.. Cottrel being the engineer
In charge.
In Section s of an Act to provide a
general highway law for the State OF
Nevada, approved March %, 1911,
Route No. 1 is defined as follows:
Route 1. Beginning at a point east
Of Tecoma at the Utah State line,
running thence in a westerly diree-
ton through the town Of Monticello,
Cobre, Wells, Deeth, Halleck, Elko,
Carlin, Beowawe, Battle Mountain,
Golconda, winnemucca, Inlay, Love-
lock, Fernley and Wadsworth to the
city of Reno. thence westerly through
the town of Verdi and to the Cali
fornia-Nevada State line.
Section "a Of the same Act says:
Whenever in the construction, re-
construction, maintenance, or repair
of any of the State highways 1t shall
appear to the State Highway Engin-
eer that any portion Of the State
Highway as herein defined is danger
GUS or inconvenient to the travelling
public in Its present location, or as it
| may from time to time be located, by
| reason of grades, dangerous turns, or
other local conditions; or that the ex-
pense in the construction, building,
rebuilding. maintenance or repair
thereof would be u~nreasonably great
and could be materially reduced or
lessened by change of route, the State
Highway engineer is hereby empow-
cred to divert or change said route
in such name as in his discretion
may seem best; provided, that the
said State Highway engineer shall
first submit a plan of the proposed
change to the board of Highway di-
rectors and the same shall be ap-
proved by them.
Notwithstanding that there is a
statute or Act in the laws of 1917
which says that on a certain day in
January of each year the Highway
engineer shall notify the boards of
County Commissioners of any eoun-
ty hat may be affected, of any pro-
posed change in route that may be
contemplated, he failed to give any
such official notice to the board of
County Commissioners of this county,
we are informed, but made a change
in his plans for route No. 1, and sur
veyed a route which would leave Beo-
wave 10 or more miles from the pro-
posed highway, and a route that
could be of no possible benefit to the
citizens and taxpayers of this county
with the possible exception of the
Dunphy ranch.
As twenty cents Of the tax rate on
each one hundred dollars of valua-
ton of the taxable property of this
county is set aside for the use Of the
| State Highway Commission for high
ways. the people of this county, par
ticularly those of the north end of
the county, feel that we are entitled
to receive some benefit from the mon
ey expended, and when they realized
that 1t was the intention of the en-
gineer to cut all towns Of this coun-
ty from the highway, the citizens of
the north end called the County Com
m~issioners to meet with them at Beo-
wave on February 26th. 1921
After discussing the matter from
all points OF view, it was decided the
better thing to do would be to send
a delegation to Carson City in order
to bring the matter properly before
the investigating committee that had
been appointed by the Senate and As
sembly to investigate into the con-
duct of highway building; according
ly. F. A. Fulkerson, Clarence Lans-
don and w. j. Hooper were selected
to 60 to Carson City to bring the mat
ter to the attention of the investigat-
ing committee. Messrs. Puett and
Owens. from Carlin. also Joined with
our delegation and yer to Carson
City to give their evidence for the
benefit Of Eureka County and their
town Of Carlin.
The Sentinel learns that the evil
dence given by Messrs. Fulkerson.
Lansdon. Puett and Owens was very
convincing. and they feel hopeful
that we will be benefited by the show
ing made by the delegation. Every
courtesy was shown them by the in
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