The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-24

More Facts and Figures about the
Best and shortest Road to she
Mines.


SALTWATER, New, Jan. 81, 1880.
EDITOR SILVER STATE: Not thinking
that the article which appeared in your
columns on the 10th instant would
elicit SO much rebuttal, ] did not give
the figures or cite the authority for my
statement; and as Graybeard and that
other correspondent from Lovelock"
see fit to somewhat deny my statements
concerning the availability and distance
of the route from Wordsworth to / x L.
in behalf of the travelling public. / viii
briefly respond Instead Of its being
lover seventy miles, as the Lovelock
apostle would have it. it is only fifty
eight measured miles from station to
station, . follows: From Wadsworth
to Ragtown, via Well Station, 20 miles;
from Ragtown to Saltwater, via st.
Clair Station, 20 miles; and from Still.
water to X L, Is miles; making only
So miles on the outside. and they are
not like the route from Lovelock--
measured with coon-skin, with the
tail thrown in. As to the road being
an impracticable one, owing to toll
roads and sand, ''there is nothing in it. ,"
There is not better road in the State,
and not one foot of "self-rising" ground
on the whole road. The road is well
supplied with water at regular inter-
walls, and well-kept hotels, at which
travellers can always be accommodated.
Graybeard seems to dwell with great
stress on that 'four-horse stage" OF
Asher & Wingate's. as though there
were not another vehicle of that capaci-
ty in the land-and only think, it
makes the unprecedented time of forty
miles in eight hoursl Now, it SO hap
pens that we have four-horse stage in
Churchill, carrying the United States
mail and Wells, Fargo & Co.'S express
from Saltwater to Wadsworth, forty
miles in six hours-and it is not viewed
by Churchillans as marvellous feat.
Last week a gentleman left K L at
o'clock in the morning, and on arriv-
ing at Saltwater remained here until
after dinner, and then j. NJ. Sanford,
the genial host of the Saltwater House,
took him in his buggy and he was in
Wadsworth for an early supper. As to
what it cost him, and the availability
of the Wadsworth and Saltwater route,
we would refer Graybeard to James
Allen, proprietor of the Ottawa House,
Eureka, Nevada. The Lovelockans
claim that stations twill be" estab-
lished along their route. Well may
they use the future tense, for it "will',
be long time from now, if they wait
until travel demands them. The route
from Lovelock to the new mines may be
good and practicable one, but if it Is
SO, something must have changed the
face of nature in the last few months,
for when the writer was last over the
route it would have taken better en-
gineer than either Asher or Wingate
to trundle a wheelbarrow over some
portions of the road, much less to drive
"four-horse stage" 1t may be very
good winter route, but we believe that
when there is no snow to melt for the
passengers and horses, they will have
to drive camels on their four-horse
stage. as they are the only animals that
can make forty miles day without
water; and if they depend on Antelope
Springs (the only water on the entire
route) to supply them, they must con-
trive some way to fence the iack-rab-
bits and lizards out or they will cer-
tainly consume it all.
az .4u PI-kEE.