White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-22
COMPROMISE ROUTE PROBABLE;
EYY HIGHWAY BOOSTERS RETURN

The latest developments in the
Lincoln highway controversy seems
10 be that there is great promise OF
a compromise route being agreed
upon and that this route will be
from Salt Lake TO Wendover, thence
10 Gold Hill, Ibapah, Tippetts and SO
on along the regular Lincoln high
way as long established through this
district.
j. NJ. Lockhart and Vail NJ. pitt
man, two of the committee who went
TO Salt Lake last Tuesday and re-
NAMED there until yesterday, going
over the situation with the governor
of Utah, members of the state high
way commission and representatives
of the various civic bodies, returned
10 Ely ON the train last night and
when asked as to what success At
tended their efforts simply said that
matters were by no means completed.
Arthur Smith and George Doyle, the
other two members of the committee,
remained In Salt Lake to work out
some matters of detail. Mr. Doyle
is expected to return home by auto
mobile tomorrow, while Mr.. Smith
will probably visit Reno and San
Francisco before coming back.
Messrs. Lockhart and Pittman
would make no further statements
than that the committee was shown
every courtesy by the Utah officials
and they found the situation most
delicate one. They were, however,
hopeful of a satisfactory settlement
OF the differences. From all that can
be learned the mileage has been ar
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possibility of consideration of the
Lincoln highway as either the pri-
mary or a secondary route.
While the presentation of the LIN
coin highway side of the controversy,
which has been given wide publicity
IN the press throughout the two states
during the last week. is a most able
one. inside Information would seem
TO indicate that 1t perhaps came too
late To have any great bearing be-
cause of the fact that the machinery
driven by those opposed to the Lin
coin highway had been too we'll oiled
many months ago and sufficient start
gained In the nighttime to prevent
being overtaken.
When all the members OF the COM
mittee return here there will be Q
meeting called OF the Chamber OF
Commerce, at which a report will be
made. but in the interim, further
than as given above, the only reply
to any ana all questions asked the
members Of the committee who have
returned is there Is nothing further
uo say at this time
Referring to a meeting held in Salt
Lake Friday, at which road work and
the division OF money available for
road construction in Utah was con-
sidered and at which George ID. Cas-
to. acting chairman of the state road
commission, was present. the other
two members of the commission be-
ing confined to their homes by Ill
ness. the Salt Lake Tribune says:
THE committee from Ely and East
Ely, which came 10 Salt Lake to urge
consideration of the present routing
of the Lincoln highway as second
ary federal highway in Utah, appear
ed before the commission with rep
resentatives of the Utah State Auto
mobile Association to urge that IL the
Lincoln Highway Association should
adopt the Wendover route. now rec
commended as the primary read
through Tooele county, the state con-
slider placing on the secondary sys-
TEN a road 10 1bapah. following close
ly the Nevada state line. OF this road
some forty-two miles would he In
Utah and almost as much in Nevada.
1t wac suggested further that an al
tentative for connecting up Ely and
the present Lincoln highway with
the proposed primary road OF Utah
and Nevada would be to build from
Wendover across Whitehorse pass
and then following generally the Ne
vada Northern railroad line into Ely.
Mr.. Casio promised to refer these
propositions to the commission, al
though Utah is directly interested
only In the first