The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-11-10
MINING AND RAIL ROADS,

new country in the West depends
almost entirely upon the transpor-
tation facilities that are afforded.
and the building of railroads de-
pend, almost entirely, upon the
business and tonnage in sight i'll the
region into which the new line is to
be projected. Without some salts
factory inducement, such as will
warrant the building of a new road,
it is almost an impossibility to in
terest railroad men in an enterprise
of this kind and character and, in
this western country almost the
only inducement for railroad build
ing is the fact that the road will
pass through territory rich i'll its
mineral resources, and which can
boast of mines i'll such stage of
development and operation that
they can Ike counted upon to furnish
large and regular ore tonnage and
that will be a patron of the road i'll
the hauling in of machinery, fuel
and supplies.
Such are the inducements that
have been held out to the new rail
road about to enter White Pine
county. The Giroux Group at
Pilot Knob, Boston & Nevada Cop
per Co. at Copper Flat, White Pine
Copper Co., The Mckinley, The
Sapho, and other properties have
convinced the railroad people of the
| profit to be derived from a railroad,
and the railroad is now an assured
fact.
1t will be seen then that a pro
ductive mining camp is a necessary
requisite in railroad building, and
that the prospector is the forerun-
| ner of the iron horse. The pros
pector makes the first mineral dis
coveries. The capitalist follows i'll
his wake. Extensive mine devel
opment is soon under way: the
prospect is transformed into a mine
capable of maintaining very heavy
production. Perehancc several
properties are developed into pro
ducers and the need of transporta
ton facilities becomes apparent, 1t
is at this stage that railroad men
begin to look into the situation and,
if conditions justify, railroad coll
struction is soon under way. 1t
was the Horn silver mine, alone,
in Beaver county, Utah, that gave
the southern portion of the State its
railroad, and it is doubtless if it
would have been built to this day,
had it not been for the enormous
tonnage furnished by this grand
old producer: and this road, few
hundred miles in length, has been
the nucleus upon which the San
Pedro is now building its great sys
TEN and which is soon TO connect
Salt Lake City with Los Angeles
and with the Pacific ocean, and this
road, in crossing Nevada and south
eastern California, will open up one
of the richest mining regions to be
found III the west. Park City, but
for her magnificent producers and
dividend PAYERS, would not now en-
ioy railroad advantages, but for
years this camp has been connected
with the outside world with two
roads. Eureka, Mammoth and Sill
yer City, in Tintic district, Utah,
also possess two roads. the building
of both being due to the heavy ore
tonnage that these camps afford, /,
while it was not until the nlir>es OF
Mercur began a heavy output that
: one of the most wonderful little
mountain roads in the world was
constructed "a road that has handled
an immense amount of business
since its completion Had it not
been for its great mines, Bingham,
now one of the greatest camps IL
the west. would be without railroad