Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-08-12
TONOPAH ROAD
TO BROAD GAUGE
Great Improvement in the SER
vice--Through Trains OF run
mans Hereafter.

wear ago. At that time the railroad
meant an outlet for tons upon tons oil
ore which, otherwise, it would nave
been impossible to ship.
The camp had been dead tor see%
time. rich ore being sacked on the
dumps which was useless to its owner.
Everybody was awaiting the coming
OF the train, both inside the camp
and out. There we're many yeXatious
disappointments, much weary walt.
ing. but at last the great day arrived
when the whistle Of the first loeomo.
tive TO cross the desert was heard
approaching the camp. The whistle
was echoed and %re-echoed from the
sirens of the various hoists.
That was the beginning Of a great
era tor Tonopah. People iocked to
the depot and many in the throngs
gazed for the first time in their lives
upon a real locomotive. Railroad
Day merged into railroad week, and
the memory OF that carnival OF JOY IS
TOO vivid in the minds OF those VINO
we're here to need recalling,
The coming OF the broad gauge APP
pears in striking contrast to the
arrival of the first train from Soda
Vile. No preparations are being
made for the event; nc celebration
Is to be had in honor of the occasion.
In the interim Tonopah has borne
fruit Of the promise that she would
be the greatest mining camp ia the
world. Since Railroad Day Mount
Oddle has yielded fortunes and
has beneath her brow the ransoms OF
kings 10 sight.
Tonopah is known POW the world
ovefs ~ q permanent camp. 1t has
been proven beyond cavil or criti-
cism that the ore reaches down into
the depths. This was to be the test
of the camps %permauency and Tono-
pah has stood the test, not only on
the mountain side, but in the country
fats. Mizpah, Montana, Midway,
North Star on the hill and Tonopah
Extension, West End and others on
the level plain have all yielded
high values at great depths.
Az these things have come to pass
81 abroad Day." and a similar
1of things has come into ok
prevailed before the com
ae narrow gauge railroad.
J is waiting now as it was
better transportation facill-
ie big mines are embarrassed
was all Tonopah then with
lch cannot be shipped for lack
importation facilities.
oFaning Of d through track
here to San Francisco, with
stern connections at Reno, means
suc more than did the advent of the
narrow gauge fJr many reasons.
Inc lack OF the necessity Of transfer
ring the ore ~ Sodaville, the Mound
holse and again at Reno means the
stion Of freights to at least this
the charges for the trans
{ meal that the ore glut
'elieved and that more ship
Il be done from the camp.
cans more than this. 1t means
low grade ore can be saved and
spped NJ "a profit. And there is
any aiHoeAt of low grade ore in and
about Tononah which up to the pres
emit time could-not be utilized.
The mines arc bound to take ad
vantage Of the mcfeased trausporta.
ton facilities. Their owners are
going to open them ub to their fullest
capacity, and this means the employ
'meht M additional labor. Where
hundreds OF men are being employed
today there should be thousands in
the near future.
Labor is the backbone of a com
munity, for on labor all sorts of
enterprises thrive. 1t is the support
OF the butcher, the baker, the hotel
man, the hardware dealer, the grocer,
the haberdasher-in short OF all forms
Of merchandise.
But this is by no means all the
good that is TO be done the camp by
the advent OF the through train.
Better accommodations are going to
bring into Tonopah a great crowd of
people who would not put up with
the inconvenience and discomlorts
0t travel. As there were many who
t travel by stage from Soda
1opah, so was there a
hica would not stand
a%nsiers on the way.
t, who dearly loves
luxury, will be seen
N the way-all the
the passage Of the
q OF moderate
II investment will
vantage Of the
G to the country
been so widely
people and the
hg up of new
development
'. Right in
velvet and
Iwn merit.
Outside the
able prop
to open
around
spectors
and rich
ne CAPT.
aoa men,