The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-11-23
Nevada Southern R.R.
1t is Expected to Reach
the Coal Fields Of Utah
by Next July.
An Interesting Letter from the
Southern Portion of Lincoln
County.
KEYSTONE, Lincoln Co., New,
Nov. s, 1898.

EDITOR PIocHE REcoRD-Dear Sir !:
Please accept thanks for copy of RECORD
of Sept 81, from which l obtained infor.
nation of the country.
may truthfully say that ] haven't a
dollars worth OF property in the State
of Nevada or elsewhere along the line of
the proposed Nevada Southern railroad;
yet am deeply interested in tine fact
that the road should be built, and having
fixed confidence in the merits of the
country and completion of the road |
feel assured that in the effects of com.
pletion | will be richly rewarded for hav-
ing assisted in presenting the valuable
resources of the country to capitalists
and the public.
1t lie automatically stated that Mr..
Isaac E. Blake, president of the Nevada
Southern Railroad Co.. will visit this
part of the country on or about the 18th
inst, and with him we expect new
dawn of life to the county and active
work extending the road northward.
The heretofore inactivity on the road
needs no explanation. We all well know
the meaning and effects of money panic
and the depreciation of silver, and can
appreciate the stupendous difficulties
with which Mr.. Blake and partness have
had to contend. And when victorious
success has been proclaimed, of com.
pletion of tho road, no magnitude of
praise and credit, however great, will
equal the enormous achievement Of Mr..
Blake and his copartners.
1t is surely very pleasing to note the
spirited manner in which the press has
advocated and supported cause SO vast
in its beneficial distribution of good when
completed hope it may be continued
until the sound Of the locomotive whistle
is heard in every mining camp and valley
in Nevada and Utah.
In this part Of YOUR county of Lincoln
there is evidently greater interest in
mining matters than at any time during
the present year. At every point in the
mountain ranges adjacent to and sur
rounding Mesquite basin, the booming of
the miners blast ia heard. 1t is work OF
developing and taking out ore, prepars'
tory to shipping.
The Keystone is tried and proved
valuable property. The ten-stamp mill
is acting like a well-regulated and faith
full clock; it ticks its owners the gold
bullion in most satisfactory manner,
running night and day.
The new town, christened Keystone,
begin. to assert itself, worthy the name
it bears. There are stores, workshops,
blacksmith shop, saloons, boarding
house, mill, Office etc, around which oil
of the various interests of the district
concentrate.
Messrs. Grizslle & Co., of Shadow
Mountain, a free gold camp, are shipping
ore to Messrs. Hyton l. Smiths mill
They also have the Keystone wood con
tract. while Mr.. John Bullock has the
contract of hauling Keystone ore both to
the mill and Marvel, the present termi
nus of the railroad.
Two carloads of high grade lead orc
running as high as 60 per cent lead anc
30 ozs. silver, were recently shipped from
Devil Mountain to Pueblo, Colorado
Roads are being built to the old Potos
and Galena mines, owned by Hon. A. G,
Campbell Of Salt Lake, preparatory t.
shipping ores to the smelter.
These and hundreds Of other proofs o
real merit found in the mineral resources
of this vast section have given implied
confidence, directing an answering appli
cation Of muscle and means. In the alb
sence Of railroad, and under difficulties
the greatest, so much has been accom-
plished, what may be expected of thi
vast country, Astounding in varied wealth
when that long cravsd and prayed 10
Nevada Southern Railroad has been fin
ished Are we able to conceive of tn
revolution, the prosperity it will give t
the country, Nay. it is only possibil
ity that we imagine the broad and fsrtil
valleys densely dotted with happy home'
towns, cities, electric roads and lights
colleges and school. houses, filed wit
happy boys and girls, and our canyon
and mineral mountains with the evidence
Of solid wealth, tho furnaces and tn
Gathering stamps Of many quartz mill
The territory lying between the dense
ly populated parts Of the country is
such great expanse that it may well b
considered q little world OF itself, an
capable Of maintaining tens Of thousand
Of the now idle and homeless men, wome
and children Of the country. And whe
the railroad will have been finished an
that accursed and most disastrous actio
to crush out the industry of silver mimi
ha. been superseded by free and uulimi
ed coinage Of silver, this country will