The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-01-12
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A dispatch from Los Angelica says that
on Monday, January I'd, work commenced
ON the new railroad which will extend
from q station on the Atlantic & Pacific,
near the Needles, called Colts, into Ne
vada The contractors are Los Angeles
men and there is ample material to push
the work 1t is given out that the object
of this extension is to tap some new
mines, but the general impression is that
this is the beginning of the long'looked-
for railroad from Southern California into
Southern Utah and Nevada, which will
shorten the distance from Los Angeles to
Chicago by several hundred miles.
The Engineer News, an authority on
such matters, in its last issue, under the
heading of Projects and Surveys" has
the following in relation to the proposed
road:
NEVADA SOUTHERN The route Of
this road, noted last week, is as follows
From Goff, San Bernardino county, CAL,
west of The Needles to Good Springs,
Lincoln county, New, via Golf, Won
Trigger, Marvel, Vanderbilt, Ivanpah in
San Bernardino county, CAL, and State
Line and Good Springs, Lincoln county,
New, with branch lines from Marvel to
the New York mining district, and from
State Line to Mesquite Valley, over tho
State Line Pass, The length of the road
ia 100 miles. /. f. Blake of Denver,
| President Of the road, has recently re-
turned from New York city, where he is
reported to have made arrangements
to bond the road for $4,000 a
mile at per cent, the Metropolitan
| Trust Co. to be trustee OF the bonds.
The company expects to complete nifty
miles by Feb. |, 1893, and contract for
the shipment of 100 tons of ore day
from that terminus has been signed. The
work will not be done by contract. The
directors are i. +. Blake of Denver;
Demetrlus G. Scofeld of San Francisco;
Walter F. Crosby of Colorado Springs;
/ Frank L, Morgan and Otto Amsden, OF
Needles, Cal, and William L. Beardsley
and George c. Manley Of Denver. r.
s. Seibert is General Manager. :"
The Salt Lake Tribune in an article on
the mining prospects OF this section OF
country, says Three different railroad
companies have had surveying parties in
the field during the past summer, One
party was the Blake party, who repre-
sented wealthy and influential Denver
men. The Atlantic K Pacific railroad
company also had a party in the field
but who the third party was could no
be learned as they did not care to dis
close by whom they were sent out The.
were from the East however, and wer
making CAREFUL survey and examination
Of the country and its resources throug
which they passed. They claimed t
have options on number OF mines, an
say they have plenty of money benin
their enterprise. This line would star
from Daggett on the A. 4 ?. and pa'
through New York and Vanderbilt di
tricts, where there are some good gol
properties now being worked. The ne'
ON their line would be Yellow Pine an
! Good Springs, then Ferguson and Pioch
The Iron City coal mines are the neare
J to the coast, therefore Iron City with
: vast deposits of coal and iron is the chi
objective point of this party, besid
its mineral resources the country lyii
upon this route is as fine an agricultur
region as can be found outside the Sta
. of California, with considerable water
the Vegas and Muddy rivers. The ST
is very fine and produces the finest fru
not excepting California. "