Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-04-12
NOTABLE HAPPENINGS
ABOUT The STATE.
New Railroad for Nevada 50. Thunder
Mountain Echoes SutrO Tunnel
ExtensiOn---T OnOpah Notes.
CARSON CITY, April 3, 1902.


shape of genuine railroad TO be
built from the Southern Pacific in the
San Joaquin valley section by the Big
Tree route and Alpine Pass, connect
ing Stockton Placervile and Angels
Camp with the upper Carson valley
section and Carson City. 1t would
require fewer snowsheds, lighter
grades and is many miles shorter
than the old Central Pacific route
through to Salt Lake. Moreover it
would pass around the head of San
Francisco bay and run directly into
the city, avoiding all Port Costa or
Oakland ferriage, occupying an hour
or so, and at saving of many hours
in travelling time. The great Santa
Fe road is supposed to be at the back
of the project.
The preliminary surveys are now
being made, stakes set and Alpine
Pass, through which the line will be
run is considered to be one of the
easiest in the Sierra Nevadas. More
over that road will branch out and
make nearer approach toward the
southern section of Nevada, perhaps
eventually influencing connection with
Tonopah
Thunder Mountain, Idaho comes
next in the order Of consideration
from the many and rich returns and
returners from there. In fact it
seems easier to,gct out of there than
to get in over the deep SHOWS and
almost impossible trails of the rough
mountain gorges and canyons. Sew
eral lives have already been lost in
the attempt, yet thousands are
pressing forward striving TO reach
the land of golden promise. The gold
is there, and plenty of it, in both
decomposed quartz and placer dig
gings, and men working frozen dirt
in melted snow water are represented
as panning out $50 day each Ore
in some Of the lodges is said to run
from ~, 900 to so, 900 or more to the
ton, with a width OF two to ten feet
and depth illimitable. Provisions are
scarce, and pack mules struggling
through with small loads are killed
for food Just as soon as the trails
are open for travel the rush from all
quarters to Thunder Mountain will
be unprecedented
A responsible company has been
found to extend the Sutro tunnel
westward beyond the Comstock lode
into Mount Davidson and also to the
mines of American Flat and Silver
City. 1t is a New York corporation
with c. G.. Miller and S G. Mead, two
capitalists of that city, at the head.
Among the directors are W, E.
Sharon, X. X. Colcord and John Ian
ders. well known Comstockers, to-
gether with Franklin Leonard, pres
idcnt OF the Sutro Tunnel Company.
The stock is to consist of 100, 900, 600
shares of the par value of one dollar
each The first proposition is to eX-
tend the south lateral branch of the
tunnel TO Silver City, enabling the
drainage and working of the rich
mines of that section of the Comstock
to depth of 400 feet below the pres
ent workings, which are 600 feet
beneath the surface Less than a
mile of the tunnel extension through
the mines of Gold Hill will connect
with the long submerged mines of
American Flat, enabling their work
ing to depth of 1900 feet, or about
800 feet deeper than they have ever
been worked. The extension OF the
main tunnel westward will be in
search of blind possibilities.
Reno has the smallpox again, six
or eight new cases having developed
there recently. Taking lesson by the
wild scare ON the subject few weeks
ago, the public schools and the State
University have not been ordered
closed and the whole town vaccinated,
but each patient developed is sum
mariIy rushed out to the pest house.
The disease is of mild form, as before.
Carson City has taken good start