The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-01-21
LINCOLN HIGHWAY POSITION EXPLAINED
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goes on to say: "a committee Of Salt
Lake City business men laid all OF the
above reasons for their preferring the
Wendover Road before Henry b. Joy
then president of the Lincoln High
way Association. and In the presence
of these men he declared he would
accept the route as far as Wendover
at least, as the Lincoln Highway, II
this route were designated as a State
highway from Salt Lake City to Iba-
pah via Wendover. This was DONE
The statement adds that Mr.. Joy has
since "repudiated this agreement"
II is not stated when all of these var
ious facts were laid before Mr.. Joy
or when he made the alleged state
ment that the Association would ac-
cept the Wendover route. Mr.. Joy
never committed the Lincoln High
way Association to the acceptance OF
the wendover road. Any one IA
miliar with the highways of Western
Utah can well realize how foolish any
one would be to base the acceptance
of the Wendover road as a portion of
the Lincoln Highway upon the desig-
nation of this road together with the
road from Wendover to Ibapah as
Utah State Highways. There is no
road inside the State of Utah, con
Meeting Wendover with Ibapah. and
Just how Utah would designate a
State highway in Nevada is not ex-
planned.
The business mems statement
makes 1t appear that Mr.. joys sup
posed agreement favoring the Wend-
over Road which, in reality he al
ways thoroughly ~disapproved, because
of the expense involved In construct
ing and maintaining 1t under water,
was the basis for a movement in Salt
Lake City to raise a fund to build
this highway. Nothing is further
from the true facts. This Associa-
ton or no official connected with it
had anything to do with instigating
a movement in Salt Lake City to raise
funds by public subscription to build
the Wendover Road. The movement
to raise funds for this purpose in
Salt Lake was under way before the
question of making the Wendover
Road a portion of the Lincoln Way
was preached to us.
Further. the impression is given in
the business mems statement that a
total sum of $4,000, half of which
was raised by public subscription in
Salt Lake City and half of which was
put up by the State, constructed a
grade across the fats to Wendover in
1917. This is very far from the truth
as this grade is not yet completed and
has cost many times that amount.
w. ID. Rishel made the statement in
August, 1921, that up to that time
he had never routed, through the
Utah State Automobile Association, a
single tourist west out of Salt Lake
City over the Wendover Road. This
was only natural as the road was,
most of the time, under several inches
of salt water which plays havoc with
the finish and working parts Of a
motor car and, furthermore, there
has been no acceptable road connect
ing wendover with Monticello, Cobre
or Wells.
TOOELE COUNTY WANTS
LINCOLN WAY
We need not comment upon the
statement with reference to the activi-
ties at Ely in connection with this
controversy. 1t is perhaps natural
that the citizens of this community
should fight for a road connecting
them with their most important
source of supply, Salt Lake City. That
Ely has worked and fought for the
completion of the Lincoln Highway
and in this has been aided by the
many communities along the Lincoln
Highway in Utah, there is no ques-
ton. The people of Tooele County
have wanted the Lincoln Highway i'm
proved. They have been at a loss to
understand why residents OF Salt
Lake City should endeavor TO get
them to expend Tooele County money
on the improvement of a road of no
benefit to Tooele County, connecting
Salt Lake City and Wendover. They
are equally hard pressed to explain
why Salt Lake City has been so in
terested in diverting State funds from
the Improvement of the Lincoln High
way TO this. northern route project.
BAMBERGER APPROVED
GOODYEAR SECTION
Taking I'D the state-1ent's COM
ment on the contribution of s125.000
made through this Association to the
State of Utah. we note with some
amusement the fact hat during our
negotiations with the State in con-
nection with the improvement to be
made possible with these funds. Eat
each meeting the Governor and. the
State Highway Commission pleaded
with. the officials of the lincoln High
way not to waste their funds in West
ern Utah but to cooperate with the
State in building the road where II
should be built, etc." Equally anus
ing is the statement that Utah pro-
posed that we do not give our money
to Utah but use 1t in Nevada to i'm
prove the Lincoln Highway. This is
the first time we have known that the
Governor or State Highway Commits
sion did any pleading with us of the
sort mentioned or advanced the prop
osition outlined. 1t is particularly
amusing to note how, after pleading