| Show west celebrates lincoln H highway completion Comple fion 4 courtesy salt lake tribune Tri liun OF NEV DERN or OF UTAH gold trail of 49 becomes continental highway of 1930 officials and citizenry of four fou rl states meet at ely nevada in honor honer of forging final link of historic travel route ely Call california fornia idaho nevada and utah joined in a reid western me cele br atlon ma marichic tile completion of tile tho condover Won dover to bly span of the lincoln highway which mattes n reality of the coast to coast auto alito r rond ad governor ii it 11 of N nevada evada drove an through a chain stretched arete ed across tile lincoln route t through k bly thus formally marking tile tho finish of the tha highway and tile the beginning of tho the big interstate celebration special days for california and utah set ket aside by tho the lily ely boffl vials dais and governor dorn of utah attended ond and tho the states of california and idaho were also officially represented opening of the lincoln Lincol ft highway rewards tho the aoam or of work and on the martof part of many novada and utah citizens construction construct tou anti and of snow removal alic highway passable tor for iracle practically the euti entire ti to year music speeches parades and ninny and barted attractions furnished to entert entertain aln the celebration visitors and annik the dato date of tho the highway completion RS as a high spot in the history of the intermountain intel mountain aca an ail enormous abandoned ero olter stuck shick iva was demolished by the use of pounds of dynamite aa 88 incident of tile tho festivities A ride in ili a real state conch coach was given governor pern dern of utah aheu lie ha was ivas mot at tile the station by gov ila 1 zar of nevada in fit the front frontier ler corriage carriage with in an armed guard on duty ely foil fell an easy prey to the onslaught of tile the utah delegation as aa the party f from roul utah came armed with c tes of strawberries t aw berries as ammunition E ely ny staged a parado parade designed to picture picture the history of transportation pit on the first day of tile the celebration anti and i this repeated again on utah day tile the parada depleted stages of transportation tion through the west and over what Is now the lincoln highway begian trig lne with the first historic peoples of the intermountain region it t followed with a representation of the spanish padres and soldiers mounted and in armor next are the trappers trop pora and scouts who roamed the hills in connection with the fur trader trade following are tho the prairie schooners ners of the early g gold old seekers and of the pioneers and the handcarts hand carta carts of the L D S immigrants the rider of the pony express with buckskin garments and saddle bags li Is shown and then own h comes come sope one of the old overland route stages followed fly by a motley collection of buggies wit wagons 9 surreys freighting outfits borax wagons and along with the them the prospectors pec tors outfits tile tho automobile tir rives and among the plon pioneers cers Is shown an old three cylinder inai hine of a type long ex this Is contrasted with the inot modern lern cars the big busses luxurious limousines and heavy trucks w which illch rented created the demand det for through highways such rs as that between ely and wendler Wen door doer completion ot of which Is the cause of the celebration the lincoln highway from wendover to 1 illy ay iy covers cover a distance of miles and alid lins has been traveled by a automobiles mobiles since elac o tta its completion at a rate of a n nillo mile a nil minute nute in sharp contrast to tho the ahne the pioneer required to traverse tin the same distance brings a realization of the difference in travel now and when tile tho west was young A feature in entertaining visitors to tho the kly celebration was a trip to ruth nevada it 14 miles away where tho processes of taking mounta mountains ing down with steam shovels as 41 ow T ia K 54 av K brevit T at W 0 A I 1 courtly 49 lake tribune Trl bua SECTION or OF EAK ELY NEVADA j fled at bingham canyon utah la Is reversed the deposits of low grade ores aro are being brought to the surface 0 of the surrounding ground and then transported to mcgilll bl eGill about fifteen miles away and on the other aide of ely to be reduced and smelted smelt ed tile pit Is nn an impressive sight the hole la Is a vast amphitheater a mile long and Is down feet different metallic content of 0 the ores and varying conditions of deposits have produced a wealth of colorings in larga masses not found at the workings ore Is being taken out now at the rate of about tons tona a day it was learned that the mines activity started about 1007 1907 and that about one third the estimated tonnage in the mine has been removed tho the ginelis employing about 1000 men melt at present of whom some are sinking a new shaft to be ba underground work workings lugs about are employed underground la in the pit and on tho the surface W D nishel manager of the utah state automobile association on arrival bald that the jaunt from salt lake to R ely ly la Js now about a seven hour trip with ordin ordinary arr delving driving of course suld mr Ill some will make it us FAB somo boalo have in less than five hours and so tar far as aa the road goes there Is no reason why that rate cannot be attained in other words the character ot of the roadway la 14 no longer the determining factor 0 of f tile tho speed nt at which the trip Is made probably the best part of the road right now Is that between wendover and ely r ly it la is ot of course newer than the section la in utah it la Is a wonderful road for mile after mile straight as an arrow and with curves of the widest and easiest so BO that it Is not necessary to reduce any reasonable speed whilo making them the summit 0 of white while horse pass Is it a little more than feet it will be a good all year road and winter maintenance will be light contract for oiling the white pine county section of the road miles has just been lot let by the state alf highway ailway department to a california contractor for the nevada method la Is to use an oil mulch gravel bravel with a high percentage of small sizes and no size greater than one inch and with this to fortu form a three inch surfacing with tho the completion of this work uia the CO 60 tulles miles or more in white pine county will be tho the only section of this standard this side of knolls plans are under way for reopening 1 the federal aid project and applying more gravel in the not distant future the stats state ot of utah Is already oiling sections east of the mud flats from mills junction in tooele thoele county utah to salt lake will soon be all paved highway the link just completed in nevada of the lincoln highway Is 11 10 miles long and cost around according to it II S kerr consulting engineer ot of the utah road commission utah has already spent some 1 I ty on her miles of the highway there are miles of gravel road 21 of paved read and ana a 3 ot of oiled road at already eady constructed uenh las baa ten lulles of oiling now under construction while I 1 nevada has lot let a contract to oil 53 miles the utah road commission Is on record ns na favoring keeping this high way which Is fed by two trans contIn routes from the west and t three hr from th the a ast no nn to a ituk stan standard ard 11 I 1 |
