White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-22
GOVERNOR HEARS DEMAND
FOR THE LINCOLN HGHWAy
continued from Page One.)

The n1Bh""'
wu think!
thief of the bureau of public
l.sas and he in turn by a road Of
..,sl who fayors the Wendover
route.
.,,n highway, which 1t appears that
r. determined to do, do you people
|, r,v desire a road through White
,,.,oe mass to connect with the Wend-
lSor highway? This does not appeal
;" me. My suggestion would be to
s.,ld a road down Steptoe valley to
ssauer. believe that considerable
.artb and south traffic could lie de-
ss,ooed. and %southerly the logical
no 10 ND the Arrowhead trail to
Mama and Pahranagat valleys and
.sroueb White River valley to Ely.
arI,h this route you would build ur
: ,ot Of business from Boise and yell
owstone park.
az this controversy Is carried to
Tho point Of acrimony. as seems in
.sitable. | don't believe we will get
a. east and west highway at all.
II believe that il you really want
mia business your route Is through
BAKER. Delta and the Arrowhead
rall.'
coyernor Serugham quoted some
sgures given him by Mr.. Rishel.
,bowing that OF 1900 tourists all
hut 1000 had been routed from Salt
Lake southerly and he quoted Mr..
RIsbel further as saying that II this
controversy continued that would be
the future proportion.
Mr.. Wallace had advised the gcv
srpor that the government had s4.-
900. 900 for Nevada roads and that
tho state would furnish another mil
lion 10 bring II up to $1,000, 600. The
Governor expressed fears of the main
tenanee cost. which he said would be
load.
On the game question he said 80
nr cent of the lands OF Nevada were
still In the public domain and its
game resources were becoming ex-
hausted. saying the state stood a
chance Of losing this recreational as
set He suggested two game refugees
in White Pine county. n at Lehman
cave and the other at Duck creek,
back OF McGill. Hungarian pleas
ants were named by him as n desir-
able game bird for stocking the ref
ages, they raising twenty TO twenty
Two al a setting and multiplying rap
idly. In size they are almost equal to
the sagehen. They had been highly
successful In Montana.
For the Colorado river project he
said the Black canyon site had beeL
pronounced by engineers TO be the
most practicable. Its law formation
had proved tight and Its wearing
qualities were such that the rock had
not oroded more than two or three
feet In a million years. In that time
80 much concrete would have been
worn down entirely.
Black canyon had the further adj
vantage To Nevada Of being reached
by a ridge or hogback giving an easy
grade for a railway from Las Vegas,
The others having two or three ranges
10 cross. thus assuring the aceruing
business TO Nevada. Another point
In It's favor was the availability OF
rock and sand for making concrete.
The governor said he did not wish
TO be quoted as saying so. but 1t mad
been minated to him that Black
canyon would be accepted.
A subcommittee composed of c. Is
Lakenan and John G. kirehen was
securing industrial and mining data
Of Nevada for use Of the e~ongresslon-
al committee. The government would
be reimbursed by an amortization
plan. the cost OF The project being
$50, GOO. 900.
Power would be transmitted to Ely
II It be shown that copper would be
refined here, to which California had
offered no objection. hat state nav
ing recognized Nevada's prior right,
but II this power were not utilized
within the state and II were leased
10 California and Arizona users those
rights might come to be considered
vested.
From our point of view We should
the maximum appropriation oil
$50, 600. 00G and should get at least
$40. 900, 900 TO commence said the
governor.
Attorney II. l.. Quayle, the hrst
speaker replying to the governor
said Mr.. Serugham was yisibly up 10
the last moment IN the subject oi
tho dam but not on that OF roads
Both Governors Spry and Bamberger
had unqualinedly committed utah 10
The Lincoln highway, had accepted
and spent $4,000 OF The Lincoln
Highway Associations money upon II
then came n sudden reyulsion IN
fayor OF the Wendover route. ELY
not opposed to the Wendover
route, he insisted, but II feels a grew
against the present Utah au-
.horities. Utah claimed that 1t couio