White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
RENo's HIGHWAY PLANT

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Because the westbound tourist
travel is diverted to routes other
than those through northern Nevada,
reaching the coast, it is alleged, by
Oregon and Washington. and not
learning that this state has wonder
full sights to see, as we'll as numer-
Gus other advantages, the Reno Ca
gette utters a plant. Ii does not
profess to not know the cause, and
before it winds up its editorial upon
the subject it hetrays the fact that 1t
knows exactly what the cause is.
AS the Reno paper admits at h
outset one of the troubles is that
tourists are routed other ways at
some routing point east of The bor-
ders of Nevada. Scant mention IS
made of the diversions to the south
ern route, that phase of the subject
being handled in the most chary
tanner imaginable, most of the OBJ
lection being laid TIC the s~upposition
that tourists who might be induced
to come through northern Nevada
are talked into going to Portland,
where they can glide into California
over a paved highway which extends
from Seattle to San Diego.
1t is true that such diversions have
been going on and that they are
malicious and dishonest. They are
carried on by gigantic conspiracy
in which Reno and its newspapers
are a part. To tell the purpose of
the conspiracy here woul6 be to ap-
proach redundancy. 1t is to defeat
the building of a highway upon
which S70,O00,o 900 has been exrend-
ed, using as a p~retext another pro-
posed highway which IN reality Salt
Lake has no real choice, for TO it
after it has passed to the westward
one is rs good as another. Is oh
ject is to defeat all of them and
Reno has been so unpatriotic, dis
loyal to its state as to help i'll the
effort.
olefore, the tourist bureaus at
Salt Lake and possibly elsewhere
along the line which have d verted
travel to the northwest, southwest
or anywhere besides II trough north
crn Nevada, have worked Will tie
c%onnivante and assistance of Reno.
So it is anything but ingenious far
Reno to utter a complaint against
the conspiracy of which it is a pert.
Yet for its being a part Of such
conspiracy there is no excuse no.
even that Of s%elf~inter st. It mag
ines that self-interest is involved,
but therein it is mistaken for it is
the exact opposite. The purpose OF
Salt Lake is TO mako itself a great
diverting point end a great city,
stopping travel from goine west and
turning it south in order that tour
lists may travel the entire diagonal
length of Utah from northeast II
southwest, spending all the money
that can be wrung from them. and
to keep this up for an indefinite
number If years. In tie year CT tw)
mere ;hat are to elapse Salt Lake Is
breaking its neck to see that its Ar
rowhead trail is paved from that
city to st. George, thus to be able
TO tell the tourists: Here VS. a
paved highway for 45o miles through
the richest of lands. Why cross a
forbidding, waterless desert to the
west? You may lose your lives
BY this plot an opportunity for a
really enterprising Nevada city was
created. Salt Lake thinks it has a
throat-hold on Neyada's trade and a
city in this state made up with a
lsnl- - cnncr chnn1d houn foEnn od-
vantage of the opening thus offered
and should say, Here. we're not in
on that play. We are for our own
town, our own state and a square
deal. which means that we are not
for Salt Lake" BY so doing Reno
could make itself a place in Ne
vada as its chief city, a position
which could never lie wrested from
it. But by its pettyfogging course,
standing in with Salt Lake as it has,
it is throwing away its inheritance
and playing into the hands Of Las
Vegas, which in the course Of the
next decade will give it a race for
supremacy in the state.
BY saying, as it does. that the
part of the trouble is due to The
lack OF a Nevada highway, vet
claiming that one will be built and
paved in a year or two. the Reno
paper tips its mitt. Right there it
shows that it is in the Salt Lake
play. 1t knows there could be a
completed highway on a better route
every inch of the way now only for
Salt Lakes treachery and its own
city's assistance.
Yet there is no use arguing with
people who are not candid to start
with.