The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-03-09
RAILROADS FOR NEVADA
The Story About the Disincorpora-
ton of the San Francisco and
Salt Lake Road Denied.
THE NEVADA SOUTHERN RAP
IDLY PROGRESSING.
Work to be Immediately Resumed
on the Pacific Short Line-Ex-
tension of the c. & c.
THE NEVADA SOUTHERN.

dispatch from San bernandlno, Gal,
says document was fled in the County
Recorders Office at that place last Thurs
day in the form of b trust deed from the
Nevada Southern to the Metropolitan
Trust Company of New York. Tho in.
strument provides for the issuance of
bonds of Sl6. 900 per mile and of $1,000 |
on the rolling stock Of a road to be built |
from COTS to Good Springs, Nevada. with
a branch from MARVEL to New York min.
ing district. This is supposed to be the
first move in the long expected extension
of the Utah Southern into California.
| A Salt Lake Tribune reporter called the
attention of s. w. Eccles. assistant gen.
eral freight agent Of the Union Pacific.
to the above dispatch. That may be
very significant move in connection with
the Salt Lake road to California" said
Mr.. Eccles. THAT route from Colts on
the A. & p. to the New York mining
district 10 ON the exact line Of the Union
Pacific survey. Of course the New York
mines are long way from here, but there
are lines extended down that may con-
meet us with California in time"
The Belmont Courier says that Sheriff
an Assessor Chas. McGregor received
letter from Harshal White, at Pahrump,
last week stating that the new railroad
which leaves the A. & P. at COTS is pro.
crossing at the rate Of three.fourths of q
mile per day. The track has been fin
ished for dozen miles or more out of
Colts and will be within a few miles Of
Vanderbilt, the new town in San Bernar-
dino county, Gala, by the lst of March.
Although the road does not pass through
Nye county, the people residing in the
southern part Of the county will be ben.
Gifted by it. as it passes within twenty
miles of Montgomery, and Good Springs
district, in which is situated the Keystone
mine, is on its route.
3 SAN FRANCISCO AND SALT LAKE r. r.
A dispatch from San Francisco the
( other day stated that the Salt Lake and
San Francisco railroad had disincorpora
u ted.
: The San Francisco Post says the pro
y jectors of this road are out of pocket just
y $45, 600 for surveys, maps, etc.
The San Francisco Call says the sensa
tional rumors to the effect that the pro
ject of building the San Francisco ant
It Great Salt Lake railroad has been aban
y doned, were upon investigation found tt
h have little basis. "If the Salt Lake roa'
10 dead, it is about the livoliest corps
10 you ever heard Of" said Barry Baldwin
t, the president Of the Traffic Association
0. to q Call reporter. "The fact Of tn
TT matter is that the Salt Lake road wa
n always strongly supported by our organ
ization and we will continue to supper
a. it until the road is built and beyond tn
ID need of assistance. but Mr.. Steele, VIII
of considered himself the whole board
or directors, wanted us to indorse bill b.
Is- fore the Legislature whose provision
p, were SO utterly against our principle
that we had to refuse his request. No
as he says that we have killed his road
or Other members of the Traffic Associate
nd stated that the apparent i'll success Of Il
ts road was due to bad management. 1.-THE
talked and talked and did nothing in Il
he way of raising money" said one ma
as but the Salt Lake road is all right.
va. will be built without the assistance
The those who have clearly shown their in
Il5 bility to accomplish anything in tn
he direction" A number of similar expr'
sions were heard, and the Call man "
lis. satisfied that the great piece of news
&C. the downfall of the Great Salt Lake ro
ON was untrue, and circulated in the int
est of one man and his clique only.
'A' THE PACIFIC SHORT LINE.
~, The Pacific Short Line bridge at Sio
;n., City, begun three years ago and suspel
The ed by financial reverses, is to be CO
III pleted at once. The Pacific Short L
is also getting ready to push westw'
A. from O'Neil. The ultimate object is
"a make the Short Line new route j
~ Denver, Ogden and to the Pacific.
rred The talk Of extending the Carson
Colorado road to Mojave has been
! it sumed, and it is hoped the proposit
,sals will not end 10 talk. Reno Journal.
heir The Inyo Index says it is again
'nty marked semi con6dentially that a 81
pre- dard railroad from Los Angeles to Bisl
hree on the west side Of Owens Valley
con among the possibilities, or even pre-
She bilities, of the near future. 1t must C
sooner or later, and just now the sr
the il sufficient to indicate some FIRE.
OF A gentleman who is in position
'hA' know, and who is now visiting B.
10 DC states that the purchasing departmel
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
l'oai has been ordered to make contracts
iVeiy material for 500 miles Of new line in
ior Western division.
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