The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-10-06

Santa Fe Railroad Building Prom Lud-
low to Beatty.

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low to Beatty.
The Santa Fe railroad company 3
offering very strong inducements to Sc
cure the routing via lvanpah of the
bulk of the incoming freight that is be-
ginning to be ordered by the merchants
of the Bullfrog district, in anticipation
of the rapidly increasing fall business,
says the Beatty Miner.
The distance from Ivanpah, the ter
minus of the Marvel branch of the
Santa Fe, to Beatty or Rhyolite is 135
miles, against 124 miles from Las
Vegas over one of the toughest roads i'm
aginable. The fact that the Ivanpah
road is in so much better condition en-
ables the teams to make the longer trip
in less time to Beatty than from Las
Vegas. Much money has recently been
spent on the Ivanpah o in repairing
it especially between Manse and Sandy
and between Johnnie and Ash Mead
ows.
At Whites ranch and Pahrump,
! chean hay can be obtained by the
teamsters and the travellers can always
find rest and comfort for himself and
his horses such as can be found in very
few places in this country.
At ~Ivanpah, a thoroughly equipped
blacksmith shop has recently been
started and an excellent restaurant
with ample sleeping accommodations
for the traveller has also been estab-
lished. The railroad company is bring
ing in hay and grain and selling to the
teamsters at actual cost, which with
the free water that is furnished makes
Ivanpah an ideal place to freight from.
Ample facilities for the storage Of
freight will be furnished as fast as the
business demands it. The resident
agent at Ivanpah will at all times DE
glad to give any information needed.
Via the Santa Fe to %Ivanpah is the
way to get goods into the Bullfrog dis
trict the cheapest from Los Angeles or
San Francisco. The Santa Fe further
more assures us that at all times on all
classes of freight they will guarantee
that via ~Ivanpah the merchants can
land their goods in Beatty or Rhyolite,
including the three cents a pound
wagon freight from Ivanpah in, at less
cost than via Goldfeld. This informa-
tion is direct and can be relied on for
it's truthfulness. The Santa Fe people
are after their share of the business
and intend getting it.
The following low rates on ore from
Ivanpah to the Selby smelter should
be of interest to our mine owners.
This enables the mine that is shipping
ore to Selby to get unusually low rates,
effect either via Ivanpah or Tonopah.
The following are the rates from Ivan
pah to Selby in carloads:
a. Il ann DO sn
Ore value of $50 per OH. 7.5o
Ore value or $35 per ton....-. SIS
Ore value of $25 per OH. SIS
The Santa Fe expect to have a con
Meeting railroad running into our midst
as soon as any railroad. The Pacific
Borax company are actually at work
with a large force of men grading and
laying rails at Ludlow, California, a
station on the Santa Fe. The route
followed will be by Soda Lake and the
Lila I mine to Beatty and Goldfield.
A daily automobile service from
~Ivanpah to Beatty by way of Manse
and the active little town of Johnnie is
assured in the near future.
At present at Johnnie in addition to
the wonderful Johnnie mine and the
other well known properties in opera
ton there, Messrs. Butler and Ramsey,
the noted Tonopah mine owners, have
begun active development work Oh the
Congress mine. The Johnnie district
is an important point reached en- route
from ~Ivanpah to Beatty and it's bust
ness together with the growing bust
ness of the Bullfrog district makes
~Ivanpah one of the most important
railroad points in Southern Nevada.
With the fall rains that have already
improved the road between Ash Mead
ows and Beatty, this route is now by
far the best and easiest route for the
teamsters and offers the merchants a
cheaper way than any other by which
to freight goods shipped either from
Los Angeles or from San Francisco.