The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-09-11
FIRST WORK ON
NEW ROAD
TODAY
Work on the Western Pacific
Started at Beckwith Pass
Where Tunnel is Being Con-
structed.


Today the first work on the Western
Pacific road will be started. Con. Anar-
gyros of Sparks left that place Satur-
day with force of 100 Greek laborers
for Beekwith Pass, Cal, and the men
will be put to work today driving tun-
mel two miles in length through the
mountains.
1t is expected that the tunnel will be
In a sufficient distance before winter
sets in 10 prevent the snow from inter-
fering with the work. Mr.. Anargyros
stated Friday that he expected to have
work for his men for the next two years.
The Greeks are from Wyoming, where
they have been employed in construction
work More will arrive from San Fran
cisco at the Pass.
Western Pacific engineers it will take
two years to complete the building of
the three big tunnels in the Sierra Ne
vadas, and all other construction work
on the new overland line win be COM
pleted and ready for opei alton by the
rme the tunnel work IS fnisbec, say
the San Francisco Chronicle. In esti-
mating the length of time required for
the boring OF the tunnels the engineers
ative. as the character of the material
through which the big borings are to be
made is such that no serious difficulties
such as attended the building of the
Santa Fe's Franklin tunnel in Contra
Costa couty, will be encountered. Bor-
ings have been made by the engineers
along the line of the proposed tunnels,
and they are thus enabled to estimate
quite accurately just what progress can
contractors get down to hard work. The
three tunnels, it is said, will be built at
the rate of eight feet per day on each
facing. With liberal allowance for de-
lays and mishaps the tunnel work ought
to be completed within two years, and
it is thought that the entire road ought
to be ready for operation by December
1907.
Goodwin's Salt Lake Weekly says:
After much preparation and after hav-
ing caused much doubt in the minds Of
many people, 1t looks now as though the
final obstacles had been oercome and
that the Western Pacific Railroad Com
pany is about to begin real work. IT, as
promised. work begins at both terminals,
the road ought to become an almost i'm
mediate good 20 this city, for one hun
dred days of rapid work ought to place
the line in striking distance of several
mining districts that have laid idle for
years waiting for the iron evangel. 1t
is true, though, that as yet no one in
this region knows what direction the
road will take after rounding the south
ern end of the lake. If 1t bends to the
north, and at some convenient point
crosses the Souther Pacific. that will not
help any mining district until Elko coun-
ty, Nevada, is reached. We anticipate,
however, that it's general course will BE-
west from here. until Deep Creek, or the
country a little north of Deep Creek,
is reached and that then It will keep on
the great mineral belt of Nevada until
it passes the southern point of the Toy
abe range. and will then swing north
west to Beckwith Pass. If that is the
route marked out the road will have
much business from the mines along its
route, for it will pass through region
flanked on both sides by mining districts
and no work for railroads is so profita-
BILE as that supplied II by mines. Every
thing has to be carried to them and
everything has to be carried away from
them. They pay more freghts, that is.
higher rates. than any other form of
property. Speed the Western Pacific!