Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-11-26
CHAMBER MEMBERS
DISCUSS PAWN c
Oil Bound Gravel Generally
Favored For City Streets.
-Tunison Project NJ o t
Taken Seriously.

At the weekly meeting of the
Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday noon, twenty-five mem.
Ibers were in attendance, as fol
lows:
President Roy w. Martin. Sec
retary S. r. Whitehead, James H.
Down, San Lawson, X. o. Knud-
son, Will Beckley, Harry Bland
ing, DIR. VIM. S. Park, John T..
Waters, w. r. Bracken, A. A.
Hinman, A. w. Ham, w. E. Fer
ron, f. A. Ferron, r. B. Griffith,
f. G. McGriff, Thos. o. Harland,
c. D. Breeze. A. S. Henderson, L..
]. Oakes. w. J. Hooper, C. p.
Squires.
On motion the secretary was
authorized to arrange for furnish
ing cuts of scenes in and about
Las Vegas for publication in the
Rugged Southwest" at a cost of
not ito exceed $500.
Sam Lawson agreed to move
the pay-teiephone from the U. P.
waiting room to the L. P. eating
house as soon as permission is
given by the railrCad company,
l.. j. Oakes epresenting the
Chamber If Commerce on tie
Health Committee reported that
regular neatirss y the commit -
will be acid ;. TIE rooms CT tie
chamber Ihf fist Tuesday Of r?Ch
month at 900 am.
w. Is. .Nesrnn reported tca' he
had scared sample of a road
map of the southwest, but tllt IN
his opinion tourists would no. buy
them and re lad decided not to
order any
President rlari.n reported on thL,
visit of Governor BalZar, Control
Ter Ed Peterson and Highway Fin
gineer S. C. Durkee last week and
stated tnat Mr.. Durkee highly
recommended the Outbound gravel
surface type of pavement for the
streets of Las Vegas.
Robert Griffith reviewed the
recommendation of the City Plan
ming Commission and stated that
the commission has changed its
recommendation to provide for
spreading the payments over D
years only instead of ten years
as first planned.
Sam Lawson suggested that it
may be wise to pave all intersee-
tions with more durable type OF
pavement. Several other mem
bers made comments on the mat
ter, and it seemed that the cham
ber generally favors the oil4bound
gravel type of improvement for
the streets at this time as being
we'll adapted to carry any increase
of traffic anticipated within the
next few years and at cost which
will not work a hardship to prop
erity owners. 1t was pointed out
that this improvement will prac-
tically eliminate THE dust nuisance
and is worth all it will cost IRON
that standpoint alone.
President Martin discussed the
outlook for the big hotel project
briefly. 1t was the consensus Of
opinion of those present that the
people who have taken the project
under adVisement should be given
every possible encouragement and
that there is nothing to be gained
by making any exactions at this
stage of the game.
The project outlined by M. c..
Tunison, a Los Angeles engineer
to a number of the members Of
the Chamber Monday, came up
for a brief discussion. President
Martin described the general plan
which M. Tunison proposes,
which is to reroute the entire
Colorado River by way of its an
cient river bed through southern
Utah, across Nevada, around the
north end of Death Valley into
Ocens Valley and thence to Los
Angeles, developing power at vari-
ouss places enroute and releasing
water to different districts where
needed. 1t was the opinion Of
most of those who heard Mr..
Tunison's talk that his plan is of
on present interest to Las Vegas.