The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-15
That Proposed Brondganse.


Speaking of the proposed new Idaho
Nevada & California Railway company,
which is to be of standard gauge and run
from Battle Mountain, on the Central
Pacific, to Big Payette lake, Idaho, a dis
lance of 365 miles, gentleman who is in
terested in the construction of it says:
THE road will start in at Battle Noun
tain, Nevada, the junction of the Nevada
Central and Central Pacific railroads, and
run northeast to TuscarOra, the greatest
mining camp in Eastern Nevada, at the
present time, tn IN north to South Noun
tain, De Lamar, Silver city, Kuna "a sta
ton on the Oregon Short Line), Boise
city, thence directly north to Big Payette
lake, through great mining, timber and
coal region. One very important point
in favor of this road, is that it can be built
and equipped for One-third less money
than any standard gauge road in the
western states. While the average bonded
Indebtedness of the railroads of the United
States is over forty-fve thousand dollars
per mile, this road will not be bonded for
more than twenty thousand dollars per
mile, lnclding the equipment, which will be
frst-class in every respect
AFTER this road is finished to Big Pay
cite lake, Idaho, it is the pvp pose then of
the gentlemen connected with mis- deal, to
widen the gauge of the Nevada Central
from Battle Mountain to Austin, then ex-
tending the standard cause road south
from Austin, to a point on the Carson G.
Colorado railroad, which is low building
south to MOiave, which will give us a
through north and south line, from a con-
nection on the Northern Pacific road to
Southern California, which will open I'D
and develop this country to such an extent
that it will be able to follow fast the foot
steps OF the northern country in progress
and settlement"
ut is not to be built by railroad men, but
by foreign capitalists, who are seeking an
investment for their money, this line being
proposed to them by New York capitalists,
who are largely interested in the Nevada
Central. Hon. William q. Rose of Cleye-
land, Ohio, is also interested. They have
detailed MIR. G. w. Hinchcllffe and myself
70 make a thorough investigation, which
we have been doing quietly for the last six
mo lths. After presenting the papers and
letters from different gentlemen along the
proposed line to the foreign capitalists,
they accepted the bonds at certain figure
providing the report can be Y rife by our
men, gong over the whole line, writing a
full prospectus, showing the resources
through that portion of country through
which this proposed ri t. is to run. Also
a survey, by competent engineers, en-
ployed by us, who will get out maps and
profiles Of the proposed route. We expect
to be in shape, within the next ten days, to
put all our men, that is, the surveyors and
writers for getting up the prospectus, into
the held.i
The Nevada Central so far has scarcely
paid operating expenses, but if the gauge
be widened and the souLnern terminus ex
tended, as the above would lead US to be-
lieYe will be the case, the eastern
capitalists who built across the ninety
miles Of sand and sagebrush connecting
Austin with Battle Mountain, may possibly
begin to see some returns for their money
spent eight or nine years ago.