The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-11-23

converted into one of unsurpassed pros
perity and happiness.
Yours respectfully,
T. w. BROOKS.
The Los Angeles Express has the
following in relation to the progress of
the Nevada Southern railroad:
Isaac G. Blake, a well known Denver
capitalist, has been in the city for week
past in the interest of the Nevada South
ern railroad. As has already been fire.
quently pointed out, this route is the
connecting link by which the most feas-
Bile and long coveted railroad between
Los Angeles and Salt Lake City may be
president of the road and there are now
over thirty miles OF it built and in opera
ton, running from Blake station
formerly Goffs) on the Atlantic and Pa
ci6c Railroad, to Marvel, near tho well
known mining center of Vanderbilt. At
first it was stated that the enterprise
was solely for the purpose of opening up
the rich Vanderbilt mining region, but
now it has the much wider scope of push.
ing on to rich iron and coal fields in
Nevada and Utah and building to the
northern terminus at Cedar City, Iron
county, Utah. From this point it is but
short distance to Milford and Marys-
vale, both of which have railroads to
Salt Lake City. These railroads would
doubtless lose no time in building to
Cedar City to get the great traffic which
the Nevada Southern would bring NJ
from the vast southwestern country.
The route to Salt Lake would be 600
miles shorter than at present and tho
| traffic between our coast and Utah's me.
tropolis would be something enormous.
1t is 290 miles from Los Angeles to Blake,
and 100 miles from there to the coal
fields. As cheaper coal is the great de-
sideratum in Los Angeles, the question
IS, how long will it be before coal can be
| brought over the new road to this CITY?
Mr.. Blake said to an Express representa-.
tive to-day that wrong impression had
gotten out by published articles that
work is to be pushed at once on the new
road. This, he says, is contingent on
aid from this section, and that is the
very business that brings him to this
section. He does not come asking
subsidy, but simply q loan. Bonds have
already been sold to an English syndi-
cate, but considerable time must elapse
before the proceeds will be available, and
the loan is desired so that the work NAV
| be s~-.iSta -wtvuuuJ ueIay.
| Mr. Blake says that all that is asked
of the people of this section is the loan of
$4,000 to be secured by 500, 900 bonds,
allowing always sufficient margin on the
bonds to make them perfectly safe se-
curity. This money is wanted to do a
piece of heavy grading at the point now
reached by the construction force near
Marvel on the west slope of the New
York range. This work is on the fourth
ten.mile section of the road.
The necessary ties and rails to reach to
the coal fields are already secured and if
the funds can be secured for the heavy
grading, the rest of the tracklaying can
be carried on over almost dead level
country at the rate OF two miles per day,
and the road can be completed to the
coal fields by next July.
The distance from Blake to Cedar City
by the surveyed route is 300 miles.
Cedar City now has about 1000 popula.
ton and the building of this road and
the connections for Salt Lake would give
it wonderful boom. The trade oil
Phoebe, New, and St. George, Utah, both
considerable towns, would also be greatly
increased. A large amount of copper
bullion is now shipped from ST. George
Besides the vast iron and coal fields to b,
reached by the new line, there are in
southern Nevada great deposits Of lead
ores and nitrates. The latter are clost
to the California State line and would
have to be reached by branch line
which would be an after consideration
The nitrates are claimed to be nearly al
pure as the Chilean product, and owing
to the difference in distance could be pu
on the market at a much cheaper ys