Show west caled celebrate rates P highway hichwa y com courtesy silt bill lake tribune GOVERNOR BALZAR OF NEV GOVE GOVERNOR DERN or OF UTAH gold trail of 49 becomes continental highway of 1930 officials and citizenry of four states meet at ely nevada in honor of forging final link of historic travel route ely california idaho nevada and utah joined in a real western celebration mailing the completion of the wendover to ely span of tho the lincoln highway which inkes a reality of ahe the coast to coast auto road read governor F B balzar of nevada drove an automobile auto mobila through a chain stretched acroca the tha lincoln route through ely thus formally marking the finish of the highway and the beginning gln ing of the big interstate celebration special days for california and utah wera sot set aside by the ely officials and governor dern of utah attended and the states of california and idaho were also officially represented opening of ane ae lincoln highway rewards the years of work and sacrifice on tho the part of many I 1 nevada and utah citizens modern construction and methods of snow removal makes the hig highway himy passable for traffic practically the entire year music speeches parades and many and varied attractions wore were furnished to entertain tle the celebration 0 visitors and mark the date of the highway completion as a high spot in the history of the intermountain west an enormous abandoned smelter stuck stack was demolished by tho the use of pounds of dynamite as ono one incident of the festivities A ride in a real stage chach was given governor dorn dern of utah when ha be was met at the station by gov balzar of Ne nevada ln the frontier carriage with an armed guard on duty ely fell an easy prey to the onslaught laught or of tho the utah delegation as the j party from utah came armed with crates of strawberries as ammunition ely staged a parade designed to picture the history of transportation on the first day of the celebration and this repeated again on utah day the parade depleted stages of transportation through the west and over what Is now tho lincoln highway beginning with the first historic peoples of the intermountain region it followed with a representation of tho the spanish padres and soldiers mounted and in armor next nest are the trappers and scouts who roamed the hillson hill sIn connection with the fur trade following are the prairie schooners neis ners of the early gold seekers Boe and of the pioneers and the handcarts hand Lande carts arts of the alie L D S immigrants the rider of the pony express with buckskin garments and saddle bags Is shown aud and then comes one of the old overland route stakes stages followed by a motley collection of buggies bu ggles wagons surre Ts freighting outfits borax wagons wag oivi and along with them the prospectors pec tors outfits the tha automobile arrives and among the pioneers Is shown nn an old three cylinder machine of a type long extinct this la is contrasted with the modern cars the big busses luxurious limousines and heavy trucks which created the demand for through highways such as that between ely and Weri wendover clover completion of which Is the ca cause us 0 o of the celebration the lincoln highway from wendover to ely covers a distance of miles and lias has been traveled by b y automobiles since its completion at a rate of a mile a minute in contrast contras to the time the pioneer required to traverse traverce the same distance bri brings nog a realization of the difference in travel now and when the west was young A feature in entertaining visitors to the ely celebration was a trip to ruth Ne nevada vadd 14 miles away where the processes of taking houpt mountains flins down with steam shovels as Z M 17 7 4 11 74 1 A va W P mi A courtesy sill sail laki tribune bun aj SECTION OF N HIGHWAY NEAR ELY NEVADA ot |