Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-02-10
Southern Pacific Company Is
Forced to Protect Cali
fornia Business.
NAY UTILIZE EUREKA L rAIIsADE
Early History Regarding
Railroad Building in the
County of Eureka.

struction by the Southern racine Company
of a new line Of railroad through this
State, the object being to furnish a shorter
route between Southern California and
Salt Lake. The Chronicle says:
The Southern Pacific Company is plan.
ming a costly piece of construction work
that amounts practically to the building
Of another transcontinental line into Cali
fornia. If the present plan of the company
is carried out work will be begun before
many months on the construction of q
short line from Southern California to Salt
Lake, or to some more westerly point on
the Central Pacific.
From other sources it is learned that
the owners Of the Carson 4 Colorado
Railroad are parties to the proposed CON
struction scheme, and it is pointed out as
quite significant that ID. o. Mills, who
practically owns the entire property, as
well as the connecting line to Reno, the
Virginia & Truckee Railroad, was
recently elected a director Of the Kentucky
corporation.
The Carson & Colorado Road. although
a narrow-gauge line, would prove a valu-
able link in the proposed new line from
Southern California. Ii would have to be
b~road-gauged and laid with heavier steel
to accommodate the heavy transcontinental
traffic that it would receive from the south
ern section of the State, bpt,~ this could be
done at a cost quite small In comparison
with the cost of building an entire new
road. From Mojave to Keller the dis
lance is practically 100 miles in an air
line. The railroad between these two
points would be slightly longer. From
| Keller to Reno, via the Carson & Colo
RADIO and the Virginia and Truckee roads,
the distance is 1886 miles, making a total
distance Of, approximately, 435 miles from
Majove to Reno. Thus, if the new line
| followed the Carson 4 Colorado and the
| Virginia and Truckee to Reno a big saving
in mileage, as compared with the present
line through Sacramento, would be effect
ed. But this is not the intention of the
company, according to the wise ones who
are enlightening local railroad circles on
| the company's plans. Instead of trayers-
| ing the Carson & Colorado to its connec
ton with the Virginia and Truckee at
| Mound House, which would cause it to
| make a wide detour to the westward, the
| new line will shoot northeasterly across
Nevada from some midway point on ID. o.
| MILL naoI oaI kkpa ont ont annthar I'M
miles or more Of distance between South
| ern California and Utah.
NOT A NEW scHEME.
The plan to build from Southern Cali
ern Pacific. A year ago the Chronicle
published the news that the company had
several surveying parties in the field
surveying a line westward from Salt Lake.
These surveying parties remained in the
| field eight months and mapped out an adj
| vantageous route to a connection with the
| Southern Pacific in Southern California.
Since that time the plans of the company
have been altered materially. but only in
the interest of economy in construction.
| By making the Carson l. Colorado a
link in the proposed new line, it is stated,
the company will effect a saving of many
hundreds of thousands of dollars in con-
struction and more quickly solve the
| financial problems attending the big under
| taking.
The company is moved to activity in the
| .ootAar aE IN a .r,1nafipu a Aahptfa p1an Cor
its proposed new Salt Lake line, it is de-
clared, by the diligence manifested by two
| other t-ranscontinental railroads which
are credited with an ambition to establish
a foothold in Southern California. The
Utah & Pacific, which is dominated by
| the Oregon Short Line, one of the afiliat-
ed properties of the Union Pacific, Is build
ing an extension from the Oregon Short
Lines terminus in Southern Utah across
the southern end of Nevada into Southern
| California. The Rio Grand Western, at
the same time is doing heavy construction
work in Southern Utah on an extension
that is headed toward Southern California.
If the gossip in the general office Of the
Southern Pacific may be accepted as any
indication of the company's intentions,
the Southern Pacific means business and
may be expected to begin work on the
proposed new line before many months
have elapsed.
THE NEVADA CENTRAL.
On February 3 the Chronicle adds the
following:
A party of Southern Pacific surveyors
will leave for Mojave within a few days to
make another and final survey for the pro-
posed new line from Southern California to
Utah. 1t is stated that the surveyors will
confne their attention for the present to
the work of locating a line from Mojave to
Keller, the southern terminus of the Car
son & Colorado railroad. which latter road
will serve as a link in the new line across
| Nevada. In the near future another sur