Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-11-29
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1902
CLAIsK'S RAILROAD.

The BONANZA $ authority for thC
following statement will not be given
further than to say that the facts are
obtained from a gentleman who /,
thoroughly familiar with the country
referred to and who knows exactly
whereof he speaks:
Leaving Los Angeles, the sur.
veyed and located route of the Sar
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake
Railroad makes curve north
easterly through Highlands, thence
northward through Cajon Pass and
crosses the Santa Fe at Hinckley.
At that point the line turns in gen
eral direction but little north of east.
along the north side of Soda lake and
on until near the State line, where it
taps Copper Mountain at extensive
copper mines owned by Senator
Clark. Thence, following old wagon
roads along continuous valleys the
road strikes the Los Vegas ranch,
which was acquired by the Senator
not long ago, and which is the site Of
the coming city of southern Nevada.
The grade and track will then run
almost due north, along the western
base of the Meadow Valley range.
in which De Lamar is situate. This
point is only thirty miles from Cali
entes. This information is correct,
in outline, and future developers may
safely set stakes accordingly.
A San Francisco paper states that
it is now certain that a deal has
been made by Senator Clark, the
protector and constructor of the San
Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake
road, and President Hartman for
the acquisition of that section of the
Oregon Short Line which runs south
erly from Salt Lake city. The road
now ends at Calientes, Nevada,
place just across the Utah state line.
1t is 372 miles in length, and its pur-
chase by the Clark road will, of
course, obyiate the necessity of con
siderable construction.
This report, of course, is contra
dicted. W. H. Bancroft, vice presi-
dent of the Oregon Short Line road,
is said to have said "The report
that President Hartman has sold
300 miles of the track out from Salt
Lake to Senator Clark is untrue.
President Hartman has not aban~
doned the plan of building road
from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, and
work is now being pushed on this
new road. The surveys have all
been made, but when the road will
be completed is hard to say. | wish
to deny atically, however, that
an agreement between President Har-
l'iman and Senator Clark has been
into In the game of bluff it .
is likely that the interior will win one
road anyhow. But probably the
strongest reason why Senator Clark,
and not the Oregon Short line, will
)uild the road is because the Short
Inc has no coast terminus. Clark
already has the Terminal railroad in
Los Angeles and San Pedro, and
Salt Lake has promised to give him
Pioneer square for terminal purposes.
1t will be noted that, outside of the
terminal region, San Bernardino
county of California and Lincoln
county of Nevada are to be the bene-
ficiaries of the new road to be linked |
with the transcon tinental lines. The
extreme southern chisel- point of Nye |
county strikes the California line |
three miles north of the extreme
southeastern chisel-point of Inyo
county. The surveyed route passes
from thirty to forty miles southwark
Of either.
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