Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-02-07
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTHERN
ROAD,
Fioche Must Become a Railroad Center

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Phoebe Must Become Railroad ce,tar
We have been shown. and read with
interest, letter in regard to the progress
peing made on the Southern Trans Con-
tinental Railroad, written by Ex-Governor
ihrockmorton, of Texas, and addressed
TO Captain Messic-now here on profess
sional business. Governor Throckmor-
ton writes very hopefully of the great
enterprise. He says that, within few
weeks previous to the date of the letter,
over two hundred miles Of the Trans
continental and Texas and Pacific roads
had been graded, ties got out and distrib-
uted, and bridging done, ready to receive
the iron-that several cargoes of iron
were ell route from Galveston to Dallas
and Longview-and that track-laying
was to commence at those points and at
Sherman within thirty days. Five humid
dred miles, or near that, of the two lines
connecting at Fort Worth, had been put
under contract, and are to be completed
by the first of next November CATER
that writes the Governor, "the whole
energy OF the company will be put on
the main trunk westward, and it will be
completed within four and half years"
SO, by the summer of 1866, the traveller
can leave the Pacific coast and go directly
through Texas, visiting Galveston, New
Orleans, Memphis, Cairo or st. Louis,
without change of cars.
And who can doubt that at that time
Phoebe, her inexhaustible silver veins.
sending into the cosmical channels of
trade and commerce from ten to fifteen
millions of bullion annually, and sus-
tanning population of from twelve to
ttteen thousand, will be more favored
with facilities of communication than
she would be if located directly on either
OF the trans-continental lines? Utahs
population being. in the main, agricul-
tural, and shut out, by geographical posi-
ton, from profitable competition in the
general markets of both the Atlantic and
Pacific, she must extend branch of the
Utah Southern to this point-the ques-
ton of doing so is almost one of life or
death with her producers south of Salt
Lake City; and, fully realizing the fact,
her capitalists are bending every energy
to consummate the connection at the
earliest day. Then, our business rela-
lions being now more intimate and ex.
changes more extensive with the Central
Pacific than the Union Pacific, Pacific
interests will demand, and soon secure,
Of fho
from Palisade or Toano, by way of Ham
ilton and Eureka.
Will the Directors OF the Southern
road and capitalists of the Gulf cities
passively see these two great arms
stretching out, one to the northeast and
the other to the northwest, and dividing
between them the whole of the rich and
important trade of Southeastern Nevada?
the very heart and center, as we may
reasonably hope it will be, of the mineral
wealth OF the continent? Far from it;
the construction of the two northward-
bearing roads will as certainly stimulate
the early construction of branch line,
by way of ST. George, to tap the Texas
and Pacific road at the crossing of the
Colorado, as the construction of the
Utah branch will necessitate the Palisade
and Hamilton line. And then, with
Phoebe the center of such powerful COM
pstitive interests, the promising contig-
uous camps developed, and in the hands
of moneyed corporations, local trade will
justify, if not demand directly south
ern route to the extensive salt and iron
deposits on the Big Canyon, and from
thence on to Sacramento Mining Dis
trict. in Arizona.
None, acquainted with our geograph-
ical position, our mineral resources, and
present and prospective commercial rela-
tons, can doubt that Phoebe is destined
to become, at. no distant day, an import
ant railroad center.