Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-17
CONSTRUCTION
ON IN NEVADA.
Hundreds Of Men are Making
The Dirt Fly South OF
Toano.
S. P. Is GOING TO DEEP CREEK.
Eight Different Railroad Building
Propositions Are Now Under Way
In the Sage Brush State.

The epoch OF competitive construc-
ton apparently has set In I'm dead
earnest and the scene OF the biggest
scramble is at the present time in the
state Of Nevada. Now that the west
ern Pacific has started Hartman and
others are apparently looking to their
fences and reaching out after all the
available tonnage OF the present AID
the days to come.
While there are close upon 1000 men
now on the Western Pacific from first
to last, the anti-Goulds have twice that
number In the field and dirt Is flying
IN all directions. AZ no point Is this
more apparent than In eastern Me-
Vada where the Nevada Northern Is
building branch line which runs south
from the main line OF the southern Pa.
cifc In the direction Of the famous
Deep Creek country. This line which
is conceded 10 be a Southern Pacific
proposition. leaves the main line OF the
Southern Pacific at Toano, 1879 niles
west OF Ogden, and bears almost due
south. The contract for construct on
on this line is IN the hands OF the Utah
men are being rushed TO the scene be-
tokens that the work has TO be cleaned
UP az an early date. Up 10 the pres-
ent over 20 miles OF grading due south
has been cleaned ny and all hands are
going south into the desert From the
amount of construction now completed
II Is a safe proposition that the work
IL no bluff along the lines OF that fought
out through tho Meadow valley wash
when Clark was building his road in
Southern Nevada. While officials of
the Hartman line and the Utah Con-
htruction company are decidedly secre-
tive regarding the destination of the
new road there can be no doubt but
the Deep Creek district and Ely is its
ultimate destination.
The fact remains the same that tho
Industry displayed on this new mys-
FERROUS branch IL distinctly of fever
tsh nature.
The line should be paying one from
the start as II will open np an inn
mense mining district that has been
camoring for a railroad for 20 years
past. The ore IN sight Is of such quail
ity that II VIII bear good profit after
being shipped to the big new smelters
that are now building In the vicinity
OF Garfield beach. The first road into
this country viii get the lions share OF
the growing tonnage. Hartman, APP
parently is now heading for that dis
trict and will get there before Gould
and Incidentally give the Western Pa
oiflc some trouble when its main line
undertakes TO cross the grade OF the
Nevada Northern.
Taken all In all construction in Me-
yada this year and for the coming ~
months viii have the effect OF decidedly
changing the railroad map Of the Sage
brush state.
This year there have been actually
constructed. IN course OF building and
projected with a promise OF early full
11lment the following important rail-
road building;
The Western Pacific.
Hazen cutoff
Nevada Northern.
Virginia a. Truckee extension
Las Vegas & Tonopah.
Tonopah Railroad extension TO Gold
field.
The "Borax" Smith project from the
Santa Ee main line along Death val
ley 10 the borax deposits and on to
the Bulfrog district, and a project 10
build north from Winnemucca into
Idaho and Central Oregon to Coos Bay.
the last named being believed to be a
Southern Pacific proposition which VIII
he launched just as coon as any rival
trans continental road undertakes 70
build into Hartman territory through
Idaho and Oregon.