Mohave County miner., 1882-11-26

pOSeu TOdU lTOLu C10 pOAAOf OpPOo1OS Mineral Park, the road should run to Chloride and there stop. Here would be road about twenty-five miles long with two small branches or switches of about two miles each, in all say thirty miles, which we maintain would pay as well as any small road in the United States. If built on the narrow guage plan and far enough out in the valley to save bridging the washes and gullies run ming down from the hills, we think it could be built very cheaply; say for S4O00 a mile. The road would want about two engines, one or two passen- ger coaches and about ten freight cars, all of which could be obtained for about S30,000, making in all, in cluding the building of thirty miles of road, S150,000 as the amount of capital needed to place the road in running order. Now let us look at the advantages we should gain from such road. In the first place we should be able to take the cars right at our doors instead of having stage ride of nearly twenty miles to reach the railroad; then our freight would be landed close to us in two hours
 time from Kingman instead of two days by freight teams Then again we should save an enormous amount on the cost of shipping ore from each of the three camps mentioned, 1t being of course much cheaper to ship by rail than by freight teams, though it be only matter of twenty or thirty miles. Let us now take the other side and consider what. the chances would be for dividends to stockhold- CTS supposing such branch road as the one proposed should be built; there would be the passenger traffic between three good mining camps and the Atlantic and Pacific railroad which of itself will amount to con siderable in the course of a year, then there would be the carrying of all the Eastern and California freight from the main line to the three | camps, and last but not least, the l company owning this road would l have the exclusive transportation from the mines to the main line of nearly every pound of ore shipped from the northern part of this 'coun- ty, that alone will form business the magnitude of which can hardly be estimated at the press time. > This proposedrailroad msSs6 s6rear chimeTTCdT T0 some fT it certainly does not to usxConsider that each or eSsS~snree mining camps contain sa.s least five hundred mines or min ing locations each, no single mine among them averaging less than S25 to the ton of ore produced, and run npg from that low figure up to $2,- 800 per ton, and bear in mind also that the time Is close at hand when even S20 ore will be worked to a profit here, and that if even only one in ten of these mines are ever worked and only produced ton of ore per day each, that even then there would be far more than the proposed road could handle. Bear all this in mind and you will see that the proposition is not so chimerical as it first appears. Indeed we do not claim that the proposition is original wi tn us, for the matter has been under consider ktion by certain Eastern capitalists the past two years to our own Wledge and has only been kept eyance this length of time on
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