The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-02-06
The WESTERN PACIFIC
ELKO FREE PRESS HAS A NEW
ROUTE ACROSS NEVADA.

Mineral and Stock Growing
Countrywide Free Press
Line Does Not Touch
Eureka County.
The Elko Free Press ON January 30
selected its route for the Western Pa
cific Railroad. The Free Press is q very
conservative paper and the statement
that. in its opinion, the following route
will be the one eventually adopted, will
have weighty consideration with many
of its readers. No route, however, has
been definitely decided upon, and when
the selection is made many surprises
will undoubtedly be in store for those
is going. 1t will be seen that the Free
Press route cuts out Eureka, and Eu-
rekans will naturally hope that the
Free Press is in error, and that the
route proposed in the Salt Lake Tribune
of October 90 will have some bearing
with the promoters and that they will
shift the road around the Base Range.
The Tribune route has the new line
running from Ruby Lake in Elko
County across Diamond Valley in Eu-
reka County, and coming within eight
miles of the town of Eureka; through
DEVILS Gate and on to Austin in Lam
der County. The Free Press builds the
Western Pacific across Nevada thus:
d uring the time the headquarters of
the Western Pacific were in Elko. Engi-
neer Harlowe and his office corps had
the use of a land map, of old date, be-
longing to the editor of this paper.
Tracings of the entire country, under
their proposed surveys, were made from
this. In the meantime, the attitudes of
all the passes north and south of Elko
were taken, and the barometers from
which the attitudes were computed
were compared with the Government
machine in the Free Press office. From
all this, and from other sources gathered
here and there, we are of the opinion
that the new road will be about as fol.
lows:
Star ting from Salt Lake City the line
runs around the south end of the lake
and makes straight shoot across the
Great American Desert to Ibapah, ON
Deep Creek, at the Utah-Nevada east
ern boundary, taking in the great min
eral zone of Deep Greek and Dugway,
section that will give an immense ton
mage to the road in the way of ores to
the Salt Lake smelters and reduction
works. The line here enters Nevada,
in the northeast corner of White Pine
County, crossing into Elko County in
near proximity to Furber, Kinsley and
Dolly Warden mining districts, which
in by-gone days turned out hundreds
of thousands of dollars in smelling ores,
and which will, on the advent of the
iron horse, add millions to their former
outputs.
The line then crosses Steptoe Valley
at point north of the spur of mount
aims in which Dolly Warden is located,
spanning Nelson's creek, on its way to
Sprucemont district on the east side of
Glover Valley. Here again, it taps a
great mineral region, which is noted for
its immense bodies of smelling ores.
Passing this district, the line crosses
iuto the north end of Ruby Valley, run
ming along the east side until opposite
Fairplay, or Secret creek, following the
creek bottom through the pass; thence
in direct line to Elko, by way of
Burner Basin.
In the numerous surveys made, line
was run from Dolly Warden directly
north through Goshute Valley to Toano.
where it struck the Central Pacific and
paralleled it to Elko. Another line was
run from Sprucemont north through
Glover Valley, striking the Central Pa
cific at Wells. Either of these lines
would be feasible, but great deal
longer than the Secret Pass route. A
third line strikes the Central Pacific at
Halleck, coming by way of Secret.
But, as a prominent railroad engineer
remarked, if the new line comes i'll any
further east than Elko it will have the
great expense of tunneling at Ryndon
and Peko, a job that has cost the Gen.
tral Pacific mint of money; while
by way of Burner Basin the tunnel
work would be insignificant.
From Elko the line will go northwest,
to point west of Tuscarora, striking
the Paradise Valley wagon road, and on
west to Paradise. The line from Elko to
Tuscarora goes by way of the Adobe
and Lone Mountain. opening mp another
fine mineral country, and having for
| feeders the Tuscarora district, and the