The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-06
LAYING RAILS.
Expected To Begin Yesterday and to
Have Sulphur Station Established BY
November 18th.

Have Sulphur Station Established Ry
November 18th.
Rails, ties and other building
material has been piling up at Mil
ford for a week past and yesterday
it was proposed to begin laying
rails on the Utah and Pacific ex-
tension.
In its Mondays issue the Tribune
says that the probability of this
road reaching through to tidewater
forms an absorbing topic of con-
versation in railroad and other cir
cles and says among other things.
ssThe manv varied re-
ports as 10 the location Of this i'm.
portant line, but the public will be
interested in having definite infor-
nation on the subject. Connec-
tons have been permanently ar
ranged in some of these reports at
Marvel, Ludlow and Barstow.
True, the surveys touch these points,
but when the connection is made at
one of them it will be but temporary,
for the Utah & Pacific will eventually
build its line to tidewater and its
trains will run over its own rails to
San Diego and Los Angeles, or at
least to one OF these important ter
minals.
The southern terminus of the line
has not been decided upon, nor will
it until well into 1899, but the COM
pany has surveys for both terminal
lines and several diverging lines in
Nevada and California. These
routes are via Marvel, which is 846
miles from Salt Lake to Los Ange-
les, via Morongo pass S2l miles,
via Ludlow 817 miles, via Barstow
S03 miles, any one of which is short
er by 400 miles or more than the
Southern Pacific.
The location of the line complete
to tidewater is about as short and
direct route as can be obtained
from Milford to Los Angeles or
San Diego. The Utah & Pacific
and the Oregon Short Line have all
the surveys made by the Uuion
Pacific in 1890 as well as subsequent
lines run for the Utah & California
and other extinct companies. The
through line runs from Milford via
Sulphur Springs and Desert Springs
crossing the Utah-Nevada line at a
point near the seventh standard
parallel south, thence by Glover VAL
ley junction through Meadow VAL
ley Wash, crossing the Muddy river
and over the pass to the Vegas val
ley. The line crosses the California
Nevada line just north Of Marvel
and here the temporary connection
would be made, thence along the
west slope of Providence mountains
in San Bernardino county to a cross
ing of the Santa Fe Pacific near
Ludlow. From Ludlow the line
runs southeast over Ash mountain
and Morongo passes and crosses the
Southern Pacific near Banning and
further on, at Beaumont, the lines
diverge, one surveyed west to Los
Angeles and another south to San
Diego.
Surveys have also been made for
branch lines into Cedar City, Ka-
nara and st George county. From
Glover Valley Junction, the present
end of the completed main line
grade, branch line has deem grad
ed to Phoebe over the Panaca sum-
NIT.
These surveys thoroughly cover
the line OF the proposed railway, on
which actual work begins this week.
All the rich region of southwestern
Utah, the southeastern part of Lin
coin county New, and the eastern
portion of San Bernardino county
CAL, are made tributary to the road
the varied resources of these regions
being too well known to need rep
itition here.