The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-03-18
THE NEED AND PROMIsED BENEFITS
CT TIE PROPOSED RAILROAD.

The timber upon the mountains lyins
west and north and south of US, and The
mill privileges of the Carson are sub
stantial reasons for the favor which the
proposed line of railway connecting
Virginia and Empire, Carson and
Washoe finds in the eyes of the commu.
mites settled upon and about the Com
stock lead. These are, probably, the
frs. considerations looked to by ouI
Storey county neighbors. And they are,
in themselves, ample reasons in favor Of
this instead of the steep grade route to
the Truckee. But the chain Of valleys
lying at the base of the Sierras, Carson,
Eagle and Washoe, are also a necessity,
in commercial point of view, to the
merchants and consumers of Virginia
and its vicinity. The productions of
these valleys. their hay, grain, garden
and field produce and their products OF
the dairy their capacities fer pasturage
and stock raising, together with the
multifsrious advantages which they
possess as agricultural lsnds over any
equally fertile tracts in the State, 80 far
as their relation TO a market is concern
ed, are not lost sight of in the general
summing up. Connected by cheap,
easy and reliable system of transporta-
tioo, with thes e valleys, and their mill
powers and wood and farm products,
Virginia would be the commercial me-
tropoiis OF what might be, in great
measure, a self-GepenGeut aad self
sustaining section.
But in considering the advantages
which are bound TO accrue to others be-
sides ourselves from the completion of
the mooted project, we must not forget
our nei2hbors of Douglas and Esmeral- |
'da counties. The farmers of the Carson
Valley are looking with auxious eyes for
the building of this road. They have |
long felt its need. The settlers in the |
valley Of Walker River and the miners
of Pine Grove and Aurora feel its me-
cessitv. Indeed, so closely identified
are the interests of all these sections
with Carson that what effects the pros
perity of the one has a more or less
direct Influence upon all the others.
Oar remote neighbors of Aurora have
their eyes open to the benefits promised
by the undertaking. The Esmeralda {
Union says with regard to it =:
The people of Washoe, Ormsby, Lyon and I
Storey counties in this State are making some I
very energetic efforts to secure the speedy
of railroad from some point
IN the Central Pacific road to Virginia City t
,i0 Washoe, Carson and Empire. The pro- ,
posed route is very circuitous, being nearly
vice as long as the g straight cut " from the
Central Pacific to Virginia City, but then this
line is practicable while the direct ,
,ne is not, owing to the almoat insurmount- a
lble grades on it. IL is estimated that the 4
Dad can be built for S3,00),0O0, and the Vir- I
,inia and Truckee Railroad Company pro- a
lose to abandon their high grade, direct j,
cute and commence building on this line as I
Don as the counties above mentioned have a
ken enough stock in the road to cover the Il
dditional cost of constructing it over the p
,nger way. There seems to be NO doubt that V
be people Of Ormsby county, at least. will n
sbscriSe their pro rata Of the stock neces- T,
q the undertaking. When the Ia