Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-15 | Page 31 | Nevada Will Profit by Lincoln Highway Fund

I. I I Nevada Nevid iii Will Profit Prof if b by- by J I Lincoln Highway Highway- I I A new chapter chapt r in the tho history of i Nevada Neada road construction has just been I written through tho the formal acceptance j b by the state highway commissioners of oC the offer of or tho the Lincoln HI Highway hwa as association association as- as of or a fund of or for tOl the I Improvement of three stretches of oC the transcontinental route In the thc state i I Realizing the handicap under which I the people in th the western states labored I II I In their to Improve c the c ev- ev II I condition o of the tho Lincoln highway high high- I wa way duo entire entirely to the extended mileage mlle mile I age ap- and limited population the Lincoln Highway association secured the necessary sary sarr interest and material l assistance In Inthe Inthe the eastern st to aid aft In solving the road building problems of or Wyoming Utah and Nevada Ne A Ii of or Is now being expended In the state of I Utah in n b bridging ld tho the lower Jower arm of or the Great American desert to the west of I Suit Salt Lake L CIt City an and In shortening the I I Lincoln highway mileage e in Utah b by ti fifty l miles mile The rhe two sections of or the I route in Utah upon which work Is III now bel being rushed Will In be known kno respectively respective respective- ly as tho the goodear and tho the Fisher FIKher memorial sections of ot the Lincoln hl highway highway high high- hwa h- h wa way In honor of or the donors of or the funds l John N N. Willys president ent o of the Overland Willys-Overland company compan rind imd nd A R di director director di- di lI l- l I rector of or the Lincoln Highway association tion has placed tho the sum of or at atthe atthe the disposal of or National association for 01 Improvements in the w t and o of this amount has been offered to 0 the of Wyoming for tor needed construction in and Carbon counties The remaining rem which is s to be bo- used in Nevada c will be beI matched b by an equal sum by the state I and the entire expended in bettering bettering bet bet- the Lincoln hl highway hway h hi in Lander Churchill and antI Eureka counties I If H material nn and labor can be secured the work will be be started at once A