Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-02
Town Steadily Increasing in POpu-
latioa and Being Rapidly
Built Up.
BULLFROG FREIGHT BUSINESS
Residents OF Vegas Will Get 10 on
Uintah Reservation - Other
Movements.
Special Correspondence.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Aug. LAS
Vegas is certainly on the increase both
IN size and IN population The San
Pedro road is responsible for most OF
the prosperity. The company has
shown AN untirng diligence In build
ing this town up to the proportions OF
a city, and for the future these Is no
doubt but what IT will be the metropo-
lis of All southern Nevada
Among the Substantial improvements
t@ the large io-stalI roupdto Sc now
fast nearing completion, the coal sheds
and tanks Cor storing oil for the big
oil burners being run over the Los
Angeles end OF the line running out Of
this city, The next permanent struc-
lure that viii command the attention
Of Nj Whittemore and Supt Jones,
win be the building Of the machine
shops. which promise to be the largest
ana best I'm the state.
The freight business into Bulfrog
and the mines adjacent thereto from
this point has not been as heavy as It
now IS for months past and the reason
aSsiged Is that the merchants over
there are more than overstocked and
that the commodities Of life in that
market have almost become drug.
The teams We're drawn off and that has
had a tendency TO dampeu the ardOr
Of business men even here but this
viii not last long, as freight must 20
into those rich mines and II is now
generally admitted b" all that tho best
shortest and most feasible route INTO
tho minos Of that locality is by way OF
this city.
RAG TOWN VANISHING.
old Rag Town. or what is more
Familiarity known as the "McWillams"
townsitc. is nearly off the map. This
is the town that existed before
the San Pedro company opened up the
present toWnsite 10 the public There
are a fow Of the business houses, sa-
looms, stores, and other places Of bust
ness there yet. but II will not be long
before they, too, win be counted among
the population of the new town. A
great many of the people who located
there built comparatively fine buildings
for this desert country aud they did
not believe that the town would ever b.
move / from the McWllliams' site. but
their minds were soon disabuScd for
II was not long before building after
building, together with those tempo
rary rag structures all commenced TO
wander towards the new townsite on
wheels
number Of our people have joined
I'm with the Uintah reservation stam-
poders, many Of whom are already at
Provo, whore they have gone to regis
ter IN the hope OF winning the first
choice in the selection OF those lands.
This part OF the country will furnish
more than It's quota for all express an
ambition 10 participate I'm the Joys and
uncertainties Of this gigantic game OF
chance.
MINES OF GOOD SPRINGS.
The Good Springs country, only IS
miles distant from Vegas, is coming
10 the front This mineral district was
quite prominent about 10 years ago,
that was when the transportation OF
sulphl1e ores other than gold and sill
Yer was an imposslbillty, but things
are different now. and with the railroad
facilities now at hand, this district
promises to be up in the front rank AT
no distant date.
The lie has not been squeezed ont
Of Crescent nor will 1t be. This mining
district had a run during the last
month, but the fact Of the matter is the
mines We're too close 20 the line of
railroad The adVenturers could get In
on one train and then II things were
not satisfactory they could get out on
another. Crescent soon had several
rag dumps in evidence but it never did
approach the magnitude of very large
town. Tho leads ere large and well
defined The surface indications are
sufficient 10 warrant anybody sinking
on any Of them with hope Of reward,
but only depth win ever demonstrate
the pelmancncv Of Crescent as a pros
porous mining camp
The Las Vegas Land g. Water COM
pany has been laying curbing on all the
streets of the city and It Is of sub
stanthl character. Everybody speaks
highly of he way The townslto com
pany Is ndeavormg 10 comply with
every promise Il made before a lot was
sold
COMING 10 SALT LAKE.
Editor Frank l.. Rcber Of the Las
Vegas Times win shortly visit his fam
fly. who arc temporarily residing in
salt Lake. He will be accompanied by
lanes Brown Of the same paper, who.
together with Mr.. Reber, will register
at Provo for a chance oQ some Of the
T-intah reservation lands. j. a. NC
Kpnua. one of our prominent business
men. left for Provo Monday. so as TO be
I'm nj the opening Of the proceedings.
The Cleveland Lumber e. Grain COM
pany OF Salt Lake has sold out It's
business IN this city and has returned
20 Salt Lake
/ F. Miller Of the Hotel Nevada
OF this place. who has Neen conducting
his business IN temporary quarters
since tho opening of the railroad town
site, has his plans drawn Tor a r"o-
story building. 65x5O feet, and his Visit
60 his oil fields In san barnardlno
county, Cal II VIII be substantial
structure Of brick, stone and iron.
A. 4. Cope OF the Cope-Shepherd
Lumber company win leave In few
DAYS In company with his family on a
visit to relntiva and friends among
tho numbering fields Of Michigan.
There IL a steady but continuous
train OF prcspectors and burros vending
their way into the III Dorado mining
district ho'h from this direction and up
the Colorado river There promises TO
he stampede into that mining locality
shortly and In fact all prospectors have
IT booked for tho next rush already.
HEAT on THE DESERT.
The heat on the desert has been very
intense during the past month, and
prospectors coming In from the respec-
tive mining centers behind burros re-
port that Il has been almost sitting
~, fatalities have hapn rppOYtAd hut