The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-06-03
GREAT INTEREST
IN ROAD MEETING

Modoc county, California, will nrovo
OF interest to Winnemuccans. show.
ing as it does that considerable ON
thusiasm exists in plans for tbo
road meeting to be held in this c;tv
next week:
The proposed highway over tho
Redding-Alturas- Winnemucca ro,to
has been open for auto travel for
the past month. The following dis
patch to the Sacramento Bee shows
the condition of the other route
proposed:
Colfax, Placer Co., May 81
Headquarters of the crew enpaped
IN opening the road on the Auburn
Iruckee. highway have been remov-
ed from this city to Dutch Flat TO
which point the highway is in excel
lent condition. The snow line is To-
Gated seven miles east of Towle.
Conditions beyond Emigrant Gan
are such that it is doubtful whether
the road can be opened over the
summit before July /, say local
people.
Thus it will be seen that the
Redding- Winnemucca highway route
Is the logical one to adopt. 1t will
give b per cent better service to the
travelling public than any other
route proposed. Below is a dis
patch from Washington to the
Sacramento Bee, by L. A. Nc
Clatchey, which shows that a great
and growing interest is being mani
Tested in the Alturas- Winnemucca
route.
Washington, d. c. May 24-The
federal government probably would
be willing to cooperate in the con-
struction of a highway from Alturas
via Cedarville to the Nevada state
line, if the state of Nevada would
provide some funds for building
connecting links to such a road.
This tentative assurance was given
to Representative John E. Raker of
California by officials of the federal
bureau of roads and w. B. Greeley,
Chief of the Forest Service. ANY
appropriations to be made from the
Federal Aid Road Act, which is
under jurisdiction of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, would be con-
tingent, however, upon recommen-
dations of the State Highway Com
mission of California, Raker believes
such Recommendation would be
made if the residents of the north
ern counties in California could
agree on a program with Nevada
1t is understood an effort will be
made to draft such an agreement at
a meeting in Winnemucca, Nevada,
in June, with delegates from Ne
vada and the California counties of
Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou and Shasta.
Nevada, is reported here, will be
asked to extend its roads to the
state line opposite Cedarville, in
Modoc county.
A meeting will be held at Winnie
mucca, Nevada, on Friday and Sat
urday of June 8 and 10 for the pur-
pose of adopting the line of state
highway through Nevada into Cali
fornia. 1t is well known fact that
the MISUNDERSTANDING route is
the most feasible route and will
give the people nearer an all the
year round auto service than any
other route mentioned, but big in
terests are at work for the route
via Reno. We have no fight with
Reno, or its route, but we would
like to see taxpayers money put
where it will do the people and
county the most good. But if the
people of northern California, and
when we say northern" we mean
it in the fullest sense to which the
word implies, wish to have the Red
ding Winnemucca route adopted
they will have to put forth strong
effort. Delegations from San Fran
cisco, Sacramento, Redding, Reno,
Utah, Oregon and Alturas will at
tend that meeting. Modoc county
should send strong delegation to
that meeting, and it is the earnest
request from other places that Sur
prise Valley send an especially large
delegation. This meeting and route
means more to Modoc county and
northern Nevada than now appears
on the surface, and every man who
has the interests of the valley and
county at heart should attend 1t.
Nothing is gained without effort,
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