The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-02-26
THE TONOPAH RAILWAY.
Construction Work to Begin at Once-SaIt
Lake to Reap Benefit.

Lake to Reap Benefit.
The Salt Lake Herald contains the
following particulars Of the railroad
which is to be built to Tonopah, the
prime object of which seems to be to
benefit Salt Lake:
Work on the extension of the Nevada
Midland railroad to Tonopah is to be-
gin at once, according to the announce
ment yesterday of President Simon
Bamberger The construction will be
pushed as rapidly as circumstances
will permit
E. A. Vail, engineer for the road, was
at work yesterday making up party
which will start within a couple of days
to complete the survey to Tonopah. 1t
is hoped to have the entire road iii
operation before the end of the year.
When that is accomplished it is the
expectation that practically all the
ores from this wonderful new camp
will find their way to the Salt Lake
market, while a stream of supplies
will be pouring from Salt Lake and Og-
den to Tonopah and surrounding dis
tricts.
The construction of this new railroad,
says Mr.. Bamberger, means with
scarcely a doubt that Utah will reap
the greatest benefit of the development
of the new camp instead of California.
The Nevada Midland connects with the
Southern Pacific at Battle Mountain,
New. From there to San Francisco is
536 miles, while the distance to Salt
Lake is 1896 miles, difference of 140
miles In favor of the Utah metropolis,
which will be increased when the
Southern Pacific cutoff Is completed.
With Mr. Bamberger are associated
in the project J. G. Phelps Stokes and
a number of other Eastern capitalists.
The Stokes family has owned for
number of years the Nevada Central
road, which forms the basis for the new
project. The Nevada Central road runs
from Battle Mountain TO Austin, a
distance of SO miles. From Austin
tain, survey was made in 1880 for
the Nevada Southern road. which has
been kept alive and which has been
absorbed by the new Nevada Midland.
The new company therefore starts in
with a line already in operation for
sc miles of the distance and a route
located for ~ miles more, making only
A miles to be surveyed into Tonopah.
From Austin junction the survey
follows the Reese river in a southerly
direction, leaving the stream to cut
across the country to Cloverdale
Thence a route will be surveyed south
westerly to Tonopah
There are no serious engineering
problems In the route" said Mr.. Bam-
berber yesterday. 1T is an easy
grade for practically the whole dis
tance. In one place there is twen-
ty-mile tangent. and there are other
places where the road IS straight for
some distance.
1--WE shall endeavor to have the road
ready for traffic as far as Tonopah be-
fore the end of the year, although
much depends on our ability TO get ma
terial. The steel mills are all so busy
that there may be a delay about getting
rails. We shall go ahead with the
grading, however, and expect to have
that finished in three or four months.
The rails will be laid as fast as they
can be supplied.
'The new road will be broad -guaged
throughout and will be put into condi-
tion to handle heavy traffic. The Ne
vada Central is a narrow guage road.
New and heavier rails will be laid and
the road will be standardized through
out"
1t Is expected that several new min
ing camps other than Tonopah will be
tapped and developed by the new road
.