Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-01-17
THE RAILWAY EXTENSION.

The Virginia and Truckee Railroad
win soon be extended to Walker
Lake. There Is no doubt about it.
The recent incorporation of com
spaGy which proposes to build road
80 the same point from Wadsworth,
ON the Central Pacific road, has
made 1t necessary for the v. q T..
people to exert themselves in this
direction. Otherwise they will lose
the Bodie trade, which is already
considerable and which promises to
become still more so. 1t being set
tied that the road will be built, it
behooves us to look about and ascer-
tain what effect it will have upon
Lyon county. We are Of the opin-
ion that it will be very beneficial.
The building of the road will mate
rally increase the value of the tax
able property-it will, In fact, double
1t in few years; it will direct the at
tention of capitalists to the vast min.
eral wealth of the mountains over
looking Mason Valley; it will like
wise add to the impetus with which
that rich agricultural section Is being
developed. This is rs far as Lyon
county 10 concerned. With the ad.
vautages to accrue to Esmerslds and
other southern counties we have
nothing to do.
But how will 1t affect the various
'towns In Lyon county? That is the
most important question to US. The
Mound House will be the initial sta
tion Of the extension. Passengers
will there change cars for Silver,
Dayton, Sutro, etc. At present there
Is nothing worth mentioning at the
Mound House; when the new road 10
In operation there will probably be
q hotel and mammoth depot. In the
latter all lots Of freight less than car
loads will be stored; The handling Of
this will give employment to quite a
number OF men who will be COM
PEELED to reside there with their fam
dies. Around this nucleus town
will soon spring up.
Silver will not be hurt by the new
nor will 1t be benefited. A
graveyard cannot be affected by a
railway two miles away.
Dayton will probably lose some of
her Mason Valley and Churchill
trade. Her wood business will not
be affected, as it will always be
cheaper to float the wood down the
river than te bring it on the cars.
The loss Of leaning will not amount
to much. The Mason Valley trade
is increasing rapidly, however, and
Dayton will keenly feel the loss of it. |
But Como will open up in the spring, |
and Dayton being the natural supply
depot for that place, she will thus
gain more than she will lose by the
railway.
Sutro will be benefited. The grade
to that place being much easier than
to Virginia most of the machinery
and supplies required in the mines
will be shipped TO Sutro and taken to
the Comstock lode through the Sutro
tunnel. Five years hence nothing
intended for the mines will be taken
to Virginia. 1t will be so much |
cheaper to ship by way of Lyon |
county that this mode will be gener-
ally adopted. That will materially
hurt Gold Hill and Virginia, but it |
will be good for Lyon county.
The Churchill precinct ranchers
have longed for a railroad. They
will therefore be gratifed. II it is
not as advantageous as they expect |
1t to be they will have to submit to |
the inevitable. We do not suppose
that they ars in imminent danger.
The v. q 7. being local road they
need not fear that the company will
70 to the length OF bringing grain
from California to ruin the ranchers
along the road, as the c. p. company
was charged with doing in Elko
county.
The extension will OF course be
built without subsidy. The people
of Lyon county have squelched
former subsidy schemes so effect
ually that no combination of capital
lists could have the temerity to ad.
,vocate one.
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