In 1913, before the United States had a federal highway system, entrepreneur Carl J. Fisher proposed the coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway, which roughly followed today’s Interstate Highway 80. When planners reached Echo, Utah, they first chose a route south to Salt Lake City by way of Coalville and Parleys Canyon, but protests from Ogden businesses and civic leaders, aided by Governor William Spry, led officials to reroute it through Ogden and then to Salt Lake City. That change set off a highway sign war between the communities on the two routes, each claiming to have the real Lincoln Highway. Coalville entered the dispute first in 1914 by erecting a sign at Echo junction praising the forty-eight-mile trip to Salt Lake City through Coalville over the ninety-mile journey through Ogden, with arrows pointing toward Coalville and identifying that road as the Lincoln Highway. In early 1915, the Lincoln Highway Association removed Ogden from the route and restored the highway to the Coalville route, but Ogden and Weber County interests still opposed the Coalville sign, and a Salt Lake Tribune article of May 6 reported threats to dynamite it unless it was removed. Ten days later, a Salt Lake City family found the sign lying in the road with its posts sawed off, while a sign directing motorists to Ogden remained standing. After the Coalville sign was replaced, the reference to Ogden was painted over and replaced with Parleys Canyon. The feud diminished after backers from Salt Lake City and Ogden put up a new sign that effectively sent travelers by the Ogden route. When the national highway system took shape in the 1920s, the Lincoln Highway and other named routes faded away: the route from Wyoming to Ogden became part of U.S. Highway 30, while the Coalville route became part of U.S. 189, State Route 530, and U.S. 40.