The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-09
ROAD MEETING IN
RENO TOMORROW
Humboldt County Will Be Well Rep
resented at the Overland Trail
Club Meeting in the State
Metropolis Tomorrow

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Overland Trail Club meetings to be
held in Reno tomorrow and Satur-
day. Delegates from the Humboldt
County Chamber of Commerce, the
county's board of commissioners and
others, all combining to form a
formidable delegation, will make the
trip to Reno this evening. The pri-
mary thing sought, aside from the
institution of work on the Victory
highway, is the deviation of the
route contemplated in state highway
officials minds to include at least
four blocks Of Bridge street within
the cross-country thoroughfare to
be improved for business and pleas
ure purposes by the federal, county
and state authorities.
1t is believed by many of the
Winnemucca business men that the
fulfillment of the official plans of
the present relating to the construc-
tion Of the Victory highway along
residence street in the southern part
of town would result in harm both
to the tourists who will travel the
route and the business men of this
city, and that trading privilege and
trading profit are matters of concern
to tourist and tradesman where mag
nificent distances separate communi-
ties and stops are few and far be-
tween. For this reason considerable
stress is to be laid on the Winnie
mucca desire that tourists shall pa
rade the main business street here
before making their next sally into
the tall and uncut. Others Of the
substantial business men Of the COM
munity regard the efforts of the
present as tempest in teapot.
Senator J. Sheehan of the First
National Bank, speaking this morn
ing, said: p
"The Victory highway is, of
course, splendid prospect for this
community and its buildiag will be
creative of many things that make
for community betterment. But if
the people of northern Nevada want
to work directly for their own best
interests they will seek in and out
of season the building of the Winnie
Notwithstanding route. This
would be a business route in the
strict sense of the term and would
stand out in distinct contrast to the
Victory highway, which must always
be more or less a pleasure route,
leading as it does straight to the
highest passes across the Sierra Ne
vada mountains, where the roads
are snowbound for more than half
of each year.
81 am in receipt of a telegram
from Lewis Carrigan of Redding,
Calf, secretary of the Northern
California Counties Road Associa-
ton, in which he states that a dele
CATION from the territory that would
be benefited in building the Winnie
mucca-Redding route will be in at
tendance at the Overland Trail Club
meeting. 1t is intimated that en-
dorsement of the newer road build
ing undertaking is to be asked.
81 cannot emphasize too strongly
the good that would come to Winnie
mucca from the construction of the
Winnemucca-Denio road.
One must consider that trade, like
water, seeks its normal level. The
construction of the projected thor
oughfare would release an increas-
ing volume of business that would
flow directly to this city and We
would share with Alturas, Lakeview,
Cedarville and Redding the benefits
that would surely come from pro-
viding travel means for a great area
that is bottled up.
81 believe that counties vitality
affected in northern Nevada,
southern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia should issue bonds and get
behind the great road scheme which
surely is of more importance to the
sections named than any other road.
Coming closer to home we find that
Paradise Valley and intermediate 10
,alities would be directly aided by
he new road and increased traffic
and trade and home building effort
would quickly follow the construc-
ton of a good road. Beyond Para
disc Valley to the north are many
other communities merely awaiting
feasible transportation to blossom.
Going west from DEMO, district after
district will be traversed and opened
up, every one of which would bring
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