White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-08


: test on different phases of the good
| roads question. Notice of this con
test has been received by District
. School Superintendent c. w. Smith
and he is stimulating what enthusi
F., assn he can among the high school
, pupils and teachers of his extensive
district, which comprises the three
counties of Lander, Eureka and
White Pine.
Tho subject this year is THE In
~fluence of the Highways Upon the
Religious Life of My Community"
The rules require that the essay be
! of not more than 700 words, that all
pupils of high school grade be eligi-
BILE to compete, that il close not later
than May /, 1923, and the award is
the II s. Firostone four years uni
versity scholarship, providing tuition
and all reasonable expenses to any
college or university chosen by the
successful contestant.
Essays must be written on one
side of the paper only and must bear
the name and home address of the
writer in the upper left hand corner
of the first page. Each contestant
must present his essay to the school
principal or teacher designated to
receive it, with the request that it be
entered in the national good roads
essay contest. The superintendent.
principal or teacher of each school
will have charge OF the grading of
the school essays and the best three
essays from each school will be for
warded to the state organization not
later than May &c. The scholarship
will be awarded by a national com
mittee appointed by the United States
commissioner of education.
The winner last year was Karl G..
trict of Columbia and a native of
Lindsborg, Kas. Miss Garland John
son of Bridgeport, w. Va, won in
1921, and Miss Katharine F. Butter
field of Weiser. Idaho, in 1920. The
judges last year were Henry c. Wal
lace, secretary of agriculture; George
Horace Lorimer. editor of the Sat
urday Evening Post. and John Grier
Hibben. president of Princeton Uni
versity. Here is what young Pear
son wrote:
How Good Roads Are Developing
My Community.
Five years ago the little flag sta
tion of Buckton lay unnoticed at 4
nofnt an Tho rofIranI uho.n the |
Blue valley makes a wide sweep
westward.
A freight car. care,essly planted
by the track. served as the railroad
station. All business of the place
was transacted in a little frame
building, entered by three wooden
steps and a stoop out of plumb with
the rest of the structure. This was
! Buckton's p~ostofice. grocery store.
drug store and clothing store, all in
one. Here the farm hands got their
chewing tobacco and here folks of
leisure came to talk a while. after
they had been down to see the train
pass by. AS a steep-banked creek
made 1t difficult for the upland
ldTlleTS W ItdCH DuChlOut tut5 |
traded mostly at a point five miles
farther north. The roads from the
other direction were passable only
at uncertain periods. for after every
shower the clay softened into n
sticky mud, which made the farm
ers prefer the fifteen miles to Sum-
mervillc, rather than to slump
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ton.
However, the same kind of mud
produced excellent corn and plump
wheat, hence good money when the
produce got to market. But IL pro-
duced also rank weeds along fences
and bridges, and often in the titled
fields. In other respects. too. things
were allowed to take their own
course around Buckton. Bill TIL
ford. seized by an improvement inn
pulse. remarked: They're havin' a
'spruce-up' week in Summervilie;
guess a '%spruee-up' week here
wouldn't hurt US n whats
the use?" retorted Steve Blue. NO
body travels these roads for sight
seeing"
But Senator Sheffield had good
ideas as we'll as the less usual abil-
ity Of putting them into practice.
A ranch owner of the uplands' led
with a good roads subscription of
$4,000; farmers clubs subscribed
$1,000; and the total amount was
completed by a levy IN farm lands
in proportion to their nearness to
the projected road. And so con-
struction began on o h~ard-surfacc
road to tap both the uplands and
the valley. Senator Sheffield insist
ed on mo cheap work or skimping
in this enterprise" The road was
built with rock and concrete capa-
BILE of sustaining the heaviest truck
loads. The railroad company, fore
seeing local progress, removed the