Las Vegas Age

Visitors Enjoyed 4-States Meeting

By ROBERT HAYS, Secretary

The best convention ever held! This was the verdict of those who attended the fifth annual gathering at Las Vegas, January 12th, 13th and 14th. (It was really the sixth, because in addition to the annual conventions, there was the first or organization meeting held at Las Vegas at the time the Four States Highway plan was inaugurated).

Old friendships were renewed. Persons who had never attended Four States gatherings before were present and went out enthused and eager to go to work to make U. S. 93-95 one of the greatest of western arterial highways.

The two next conventions were provided for. There will be a gathering in September at Salmon City in Idaho's unspoiled, primitive area by the side of the "River of No Return." This was arranged so that all of Idaho might attend to better understand its own local road problems of U. S. 93 in that state. Missoula will help to make the Salmon convention the greatest ever.

Then the 1941 convention was set for Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico-on the border between California and Lower California-and this was arranged so that the gathering there could give stimulus to the construction work planned in Mexico on the Four States route south of Calexico and leading to the Port of San Felipe on the Gulf of California.

Las Vegas proved itself to be a wonderful host city and still a "frontier town." Those who attended will always be grateful to Mayor Russell, City Manager C. D. Baker, Director General K. O. Knudson, Oliver Goerman, the latest committee; the lodge of Elks and a great number of other hospitable Las Vegas citizens who did so much to make the meeting a success and to give the delegates a truly good time. Engineers of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation must also be thanked for arranging a specially conducted inspection of Boulder dam and the power plants.