The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-02-01
BUILD THROUGH NEVADA.
Gould's Western Line to Pass
. Directly Through Eureka.
Will Use Walkers Pass to Cross
Sierra Nevada Range.

The Denver, Colorado, News Of jan
uary rs has the following article on an
important project, which will be Of in
terest to all N~evadans, and especially
to Eurekans:
Surveys are being made and rights-of-
way secured in the district west Of Salt
Lake City to San Francisco, by agents
representing George Gould and his asso-
c%iates, which indicate that within another
year the Rio Grande systems in Colo
RADIO and Utah and the Gould connec-
tions east Of this State will, together
with a new line west of Salt Lake City.
form a great transcontinental route to
rival the Union Pacific and Santa Fe
roads.
The route of the proposed new line
west Of Salt Lake will be from Salt Lake
across the desert through Eureka, New,
to Walker Pass, then beyond to the Kern
river, up the Tulare valley to San Fran
cisco. The line will pass through forty
mining camps of Utah and Nevada, in
GLIDING eighteen districts in the Deep
Creek, U4ah, vicinity. The survey
across the desert in Utah leading to
Walkers pass in the Sierra Nevada range
is 1900 feet lower than any other pass in
the upper country.
The San Francisco Chronicle of JAN
uary %, in an editorial referring to the
above from the Denver News, points out
the many advantages to be derived by
a railroad built through this section OF
Nevada. The Chronicles article says:
A Denver dispatch reports that Gould
10 planning an extension Of the Rio Grande
system into this State, via Walkers Pass
and Bakersfield. His surveyors are said to
be exploring the Great Salt Lake desert
west of Salt Lake City for that purpose.
The route to be followed is said to lie
through Eureka, Nevada. the present south
ern terminus Of the Eureka and Palisade
Railroad, which joins the Central Pacific
at Pslissde. II so, il will probably con-
tinue westward to Austin and there connect
with the Nevada Central Railroad, which
joins the Central Pacific ct Battle Mountain.
The territory along this route is highly
mineralized. Its development has been re-
tarded because OF its inaccessibility and
lack Of railroad facilities to carry supplies
and machinery and transport ores to the
nearest shelters which are located ct Salt
Lake City.
The Rio Grande system has q branch road
now running into southwestern Utah, termi-
mating at Frisco. The distance from that
point to Walkers Pass, which has long been
recognized ss one OF the available railroad
gaps in the Sierra, is less than 600 miles in
an air line. The route via Eureka is 300 or
400 miles longer, but there are probably
fewer engineering difficulties to encounter
along it than there are on the shorter
route. Besides, the rich mineral region to
be opened is doubtless an influential factor
in the selection. Capital is going into Ne
vada these days in unlimited volume for in
vestmens in the development of it's mineral
resources. The extraordinary wealth de-
vsloped 10 Tonopah during the past year
has helped to give the State a genuine
mining boom. The construction Of rail-
roads through new territory will encourage
investment immensely and create business
for the transportation companies which en-
ter the ield.
The new Gould project makes Nsvsds the
thester Of railroad activity for several years
to come. The Salt Lake and Los Angeles
Railroad. controlled by Senator Clark Of
Montans, will intersect the southeastern
section Of the State and open up several
heavily mineralized ranges. whose deposits
cannot be worked pro6tably now because of
the want Of transportation facilities. The
Gould road will, on the other hand, open
up the country lying between the Central
Pacific and the Salt Lake lines. tapping
many important mining districts in it's
course and . large section of the central
part Of the State which the mining PROS
pector has not yet entered. The Southern Pa
ci6o Company lie nov actively improving the
Nevada section Of the Central Pacific. and
is probably stimulated to this action by the
prospect of competition at an early date
from the two new roads. At all events,
these railroad developments promise much
for Nevada and will open 9 new field for
San Francisco trade and enterprise.
This brings to mind some early history Of
railroads in Eureka county,