Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-05
MINERS LOOKING
To Los ANGELES
NEVADA PEOPLE URGE BUILD
ING OF NEW ROAD
MANY ROUTES DISCUSSED
City Treasurer Workman Says citi-
gems Should Hold Mass Meeting
and Arrange for construo-
tlon of Line

"All Los Angeles should take an IN
terest as one man in the new road or
any new line that may be built to pen
citrate the Goldfeld and Bullfrog min
ing section in Nevada. 1 am in favor
of holding a mass meeting" said w.
H. Workman, city treasurer, yesterday,
in discussing the new country that is
to add so much to the business inter-
ests of Los Angeles.
Mr.. Workman added: THE cham
Der of commerce and similar associa
tions should take the subject in hand
at once and formulate some plan to
give substantial encouragement to any
company or syndicate that will under
take the enterprise of extending line
from the Salt Lake road into the min.
ing region.
Looking at the map, 1 should say
that road from either Soda Lake or
Ivanpah would be of more advantage
to Los Angeles commercially than from
Las Vegas.
"a road from the last named point,
1875 miles further away from Los An
geles, would be to the benefit of Salt
Lake, the city we have to contend with
for the business of the new territory
In my Judgment, the branch road
should start from some point as near
Los Angeles as possible.
Salt Lake Route
1.-THE line from Soda Lake over the old
Union Pacific survey to Ash Meadows
and thence on to Bullfrog, Gold
field and Tonopah, I understand, is
miles nearer Los Angeles than by the
proposed Las Vegas route. The build
ing of the road into the Goldfield dis
trict would certainly be of great COM
mercial advantage to Los Angeles, and
everybody should help push it along
1t appears that the miners and busi-
ness men of Goldfield are thoroughly
aroused over the proposed building of
a railroad to Goldfield. ..-.
The f. M. Smith Borax company has
surveyed a line from a point near
Soda Lake to Ash Meadows, and it IS
stated that there is a strong probabi
ity that the borax company, which is a
wealthy corporation, will soon begin
grading for the new line to reach the
,borax field. John Ryan, the field su-
perintendent for the company, who was
In Los Angeles recently after supplies,
stated that the company was going
ahead as soon as the weather settled
and build the road. The boraX prop
erty is located near Ash Meadows, ard
to make the enterprise profitable a
railroad is absolutely necessary. The
Smith company surveyors are yet in
the field, travelling toward Bullfrog and
Goldfield.
Ali of the people in the interior, it
is said, are looking forward to the time
when they can reach Los Angeles by
train instead of staging it to Las We
gas or Tonopah; and mining companies
are also anxious to have the road built
in order that the ore may be taken
d
January Jones at Work
January Jones, the lucky mine own
er, is one of the leaders in the field
working for a railroad into the noun
tains. He is known to favor the Salt
Lake route. 1t is also known that Mr..
Jones has seriously considered join
ing forces with the Borax King Smith
people to hustle the building of the
Soda Lake branch. Letters from Gold
field Indicate that the people in the
camps are enthusiastic over the act
ivity of Mr.. Jones and the Smith COM
pany.
Owen Prentiss, one of the principal
attorneys of Goldfield, in a recent let
ter to ]. Donnan Reavis, the Los An
geles representative of the January
Jones mining claims, says a railroad
to Goldfield would mean increased
business of $2,0OO,OOO month for the
mining district and rapid development
of the entire section.
Mr.. Prentiss writes:
II have been i'm mining camps in
Colorado for twenty-six years. but 1
never saw so many opportunities for
success in my life as here. We need a
railroad. Wood is now $50 to $29 a cord,
and no coal is to be had. l have read
what has been said about new road
to reach Goldfield. 1 know what you
did in Salt Lake, and am anxious
to have you come here. We will give
you a rousing reception"