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Show NEVADA GOUNIT PEEMTS.L "Buy Nothing in Salt Lake You Can Get Elsewhere" Is Slogan While Pine county, Nevada, is exceedingly ex-ceedingly wroth over stoppage of work on the Lincoln highway, charging charg-ing Salt Lake business interests with unjust discrimination in favor of the northern route.' Under the caption, "Why the Utah Deabrt Road Was Not Finished The Business Men of Salt Lake City Compel Com-pel the Abandonment of Work How Your money is Used to Make Poor Business In Ely," communication signed by G S. Hoag, state council, Lincoln Highway association was re- Says tho communication: t "AW White Pine County is familiar with the fact that the Lincoln High way association gave Utah $125,000 to assist in building a "bridge" across, the Great Salt Lake desert; that a contract was entered Into in good faith by the donors of this money and That part of the work has been done. "The work contemplated was started start-ed by the State Road Commission of Utah in the summer of 191S, and con-, tinued with reasonable diligence until shortly after the U. S. Motor Convoy passed through, the last week In August, Au-gust, 1919. "On the last day In September the Road. Commission ordered all work stopped under this contract. 'When asked for an explanation, Governor Bamberger wrote that the machinery must be taken to Salt Lake for a thorough overhauling and that the work was not being done economically; econom-ically; that as early as possible wo'-' would be resumed, by contract, as me only problem that of getting up the oubgrade had been solved, and the balance of the graveling could be done more economically by contractors. "Inasmuch as the officers of the Lincoln Highway association had repeatedly re-peatedly called attention :o the ex-travagant ex-travagant way the worx was being done, no objection was offered, although al-though the contract called for continuous contin-uous work until completion. "When york was not resumed Mr. Sclbering, president of the 'Goodyear 'Good-year Tire & Rubber Co., who, with his pomnanv. were the donors of the fund for constructing the "bridge" asked Governor Bamberger why work was not under way. To this the governor gov-ernor made written reply that the state was" unable to proceed from lack of funds; that the law forbade them selling their bonds at less than par and the best bid offered was 90 per cent. Tho governor further asked that Mr. Seiberling at once send the state of Utah the ?25,000 promised for the five years' maintenance. "Mr. Seiberling then offered to take sufficient of the state's bpnds at par to complete the job. This letter was answered by tho state - highway engineer, engi-neer, Mr. Brownings declining the pf-fer, pf-fer, giving as' an excuse that the dost of all work was now so high the state could not afford to finish the job. "The business organizations of Salt Lake are responsible for this condition; condi-tion; they have never made any attempt' at-tempt' to see that the agreement made with Ely when they sent a delegation delega-tion here was lived up to. ' "The merchants and jobbers to I whom White Pine county 'pays between be-tween 5300.000 and $-100,000 every month, will each and every one of them deny they have anything to do with this, but the fact remains they elect the road committees of their respective re-spective organizations; they have continued con-tinued the chramin-Evans-Tyng-Rishel crowd in the saddle for years ;-they ;-they discuss the actions and activities of these men at their weekly lunch-epns, lunch-epns, and arc as responsible for their acts as any person is for the acts of his agents. "This is the condition the firms you are sending your money to have put you into; and you must stay there until un-til these sanie people pull you out; they won't do it as lopg as you will submit. , "There Is only one way to hurt a business man, and that is through tho pocketbook; when that is liit he will holler.' "If you are willing Uncle Sam should build the national highway through Elko instead of Ely, ust fold your hands. "If you believe in the Lincoln Highway; High-way; if you v.ant to see everything possible done to have it taken' over, built and maintained by the Federal government and made a boulevard, a real highway, that will be a pattern to the world, a road that will multiply multi-ply by four the value of everv acre of ground within a mile of it, then adopt this slogan and live it: "BUY NOTHING IN SALT LAKE YOU CAN GET ELSEWHERE "G. S. HOAG, State Consul, the Lincoln Lin-coln Highway Association." |