The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-05-07
LOOKING WESTWARD.
Rails 60 be Lstd Out Of Salt Lake
City-Several Projects

aging railroad news:
The latest addition to the number
of railway men assembled lately In
this city is j. A. McMurtrie OF Dem
yer, one of the best known railway
contractors of the West. 1t was he
who built nearly the entire line of the
Denver and Rio Grande scenic road,
laying track through rugged canyons
where nothing but grit and gunpow-
der could win the day. He is at the
Palace. AS to current railway talk
and gossip he is as reticent as d
North Beach clam. To questions
about possible extensions of the Dem
yer and Rio Grande or the Rio Grande
Western he gives only non -committal
answers. Mr.. McMurtrie is in the
prime of life and so far as known has
no idea of giving up railway building
for some time. The superstition is
that the decided railway talk from
this direction has drawn him bither
with the best business eye open for
contract to push road over the
Sierras.
The Salt Lake and Los Angeles
railway is the latest project from the
Mormon capital. 1t was first planned
by Salt Lake men as passenger road
to the Salt Lake beach, sixteen miles
west of the city, but change of base
was decided on only few days ago.
Dispatches note that large force of
men and fifty teams are at work grad
ing. From the beach it is proposed
to push the line into the Deep Creek
mining district of White Pine county,
Nevada, and thence on to California,
but the precise route is yet as misty
as that of most new roads. The route
into the Deep Creek country, west
ward from Salt Lake, will conflict
with the Murray road, project al
ready we'll under way with announced
designs on the low grade ore districts
of Central Nevada. A third road,
headed that way also, is the Tintic
branch of the Rio Grande Western, a
spur that leaves the main line A
miles east of Salt Lake and runs south
westerly into the Tin,ic mining dis
trict. The aggressive Rio Grande
doctors have practically decided TO
push out further west, and If their
men once get in the field they will
likely give all novices in railway con-
struction a lively chase for the goal.
All these three projects above men
toned, leading from Salt Lake over
the Nevada line, are of interest to San
Francisco Just now, because any one
of them may form an important link
in the proposed chain of steel between
San Francisco and Salt Lake. The
enterprising men and capitalists OF
Salt Lake City want direct road to
the Pacific Coast metropolis. They
want new, direct western outlet,
and they are moving heaven and earth
IN get what they want. Never before
have San Francscans been so aroused
TO a similar pitch of feeling. There
is coincidence that line can be built
hence into Nevada. AT the Nevada
line, Just east of Beckwith Pass, in
Plumas county, begins the railroad
project of Cleveland and Baker, de-
signed to carry the new road across
Nevada. This is the project to which
aid was extended in the Nevada Leg
islature of 1890. The provisions OF
the Subsidy bill are good for five
years only, consequently the railway
promoters are pushing matters so that
the valued privileges shall not lapse
Over the Nevada line one of these
three lines above mentioned may be
secured.
AS picturesque a railway man as
there Is in this city at present is A.
G. Cleveland of Nevada, the promoter
of the Cross Nevada line. His wide
brimmed white hat and gray clothes
make him noticeable about the hotels.
He is lawyer farmer law making far
mer it should bel. He has a magni-
ficent ranch In White Pine county,
and there he passes the time he can
spare from his necessary business at
Carson and the county seats. He is
widely known and we'll spoken of as
man who makes things 60 when
once he begins. He is distant rela-
tive of ex- President Cleveland and OF
Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coke of New
| York.