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The Silver State
Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada
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The Midland Trail highway is re-routing through central Utah to Nevada, bypassing Salt Lake City, to connect from Price, Utah, to Ely, Nevada, benefiting Nye County with planned road improvements from Ely to Currant Summit. Tonopah residents, led by C. H. Boak, support the effort, and a committee was appointed at a Baker, Nevada, meeting to assist.
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The Midland trail which is a national institution operating through fifteen states, and which is receiving federal and state support in every state through which it passes except Utah, where it has been seriously fought by the same coterie of Salt Lake wreckers who have fought the Lincoln highway for so many years, has decided to re-route its line from Colorado to Nevada. It will abandon what might be termed its northern route which passed through Salt Lake City, and will map out a new route through central Utah, reaching the Nevada state line at Baker, from which point it will continue to Ely, where it will connect up with the Midland trail leading to Tonopah and on to southern California, and upon which a large amount of work will be done during the present summer through Nevada. In fact plans have already been made for a project of road improvement extending from Ely to the Currant summit of Nye county, and this project will be advertised for bids within a few days by the state highway department.
Recently the people of Tonopah have become deeply interested in this matter, as it is the only national highway passing through Nye county and with the object in view of improving the road, C. H. Boak, of Tonopah, the man who deserves much of the credit for having Lehman's cave preserved to the public as a national park, has taken up the matter with residents along the line of the road in Nevada and Utah, and his efforts are meeting with splendid success.
At his suggestion a meeting of the Mount Wheeler Livestock Association representing property owners of eastern Nevada and western Utah, held at Bake, Nevada, last week, a committee consisting of Alfred Bellander, L. Snyder and E. W. Clays was appointed to assist in the matter of relocating the route through central Utah.
The committee is thoroughly familiar with road conditions in central Utah as well as eastern Nevada, and therefore its opinion as to the proposed new route will carry much weight with the officials. After going over the matter in a thorough way the committee decided that the following route is the most practical and the one that is most likely to receive the necessary support.
The proposed route runs from Price, Utah, to Ely, Nevada.-Record.
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Nevada
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Last Week
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re-routing approved from price, utah, to ely, nevada; road improvement project from ely to currant summit in nye county to be bid soon; committee appointed to support relocation.
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Midland Trail decides to re-route from Colorado to Nevada via central Utah to Baker, then Ely, Tonopah, and southern California, abandoning northern route through Salt Lake City. C. H. Boak of Tonopah promotes the project; Mount Wheeler Livestock Association meeting in Baker appoints committee of Alfred Bellander, L. Snyder, and E. W. Clays to assist; committee endorses route from Price, Utah, to Ely, Nevada.