Identifier: acrosscontinent1751glad (find matches)
Title: Across the continent by the Lincoln Highway
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gladding, Effie Price
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Roads
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ion, and into which they throw themselves so earnestly, with admiration tinged with awe. As we drove along the dusty road a short, rather thick snake, its back marked by shining black dia-monds, wriggled hurriedly across the road in front of us, escaping to the sage brush. I asked laterwhat this snake was, for I felt certain that it was poisonous. Sure enough, it was a diamond-backed rattle snake. We came soon to another little town where there was a good hotel. Hanging on the wall of the hotel was a painting of the proposed Lahontan Dam and the country which its life-giv-ing streams would touch. We decided, instead ofgoing direct to Fallon, to drive across country to the Dam, making a slight detour. We were veryglad that we did so, for we found the young superintendent of the Dam construction, a Brown University man, very courteous indeed. We went to look at the enormous pile of sand and clay which has been banked up day after day and week afterweek until tlie Lahontan Dam is the largest earth
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1. Smelter near Ely, Nevada. 2. Lahontan Dam, Nevada.

BY THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY 123 dam in the world. We saw cement spillways, oneon each side of the earth dam proper, their tall steps planned to break the fall of the water at any time of great flood and pressure. We saw the lake itself with its measuring tower and gate already sixty feet under the rising water. Mr. Tillinghast told us that the lake stretches back into the hills and the canyon for twenty miles. We heard of the millions of fertile acres which this wa-ter, already beginning to be released in a rushing stream, was to make possible. Some miles back we had seen irrigated country, green and fertile,cut, so to speak, right out of the desert. Alfalfa was growing luxuriantly and was being cured in high green stacks under the sun. Settlers little cottages were a visible promise of the future, just asthey had been in California. We congratulatedMr. Tillinghast on his work, and told him that indays to come he should bring his grandchildren to see the Lahontan Dam, a splendid monument to his work

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