Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-26


Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
September Is. 1905.
: Fortune hunters can now go to the new
Eldorado of Nevada in Pullman cars. The
search for the Nevada treasure beds is not
a bit like prospecting in the Klondike. Take
the Southern Pacific to Reno, change to the
Nevada branch and go down to Tonopah
Junction, where you switch Off for Tonopah.
The Southern Pacific company. in order to
handle properly the tide of travel that has
been setting in from the east as well as the
west toward that alluring region. has just
built a cutoff line from Hazen forty miles
east of Reno. to Churchill, the old Car
son and Colorado road, distance of TWEEN
ty-eight miles This was open for business
August 81, and through tickets to the new
gold country are now sold by all the east
ern connections. 1t is just as easy and
costs no more to reach Tonopah than Sacra-
mento or San Francisco. The Carson and
Colorado line, including the new road. will
hereafter be known as the Nevada and
California railway. and forms direct con-
nection for all points on the Carson and
Colorado, including Inyo county and the
fertile Owens river valley and Death valley,
as well as the rich and extensive mining
UIStTlCtS OE lOHopdH SuluIitlQ dHu
vicinity An extension of twenty-eight
miles has been built from Tonopah TO Gold
field. which was opened September 10.
Tonopah Thriving City.
George S. Nixon, the successor of Will
lam NJ Stewart in the United States SEN
ate from Nevada. has just returned from
the Goldfield country and gives very fiat
tering account of conditions there.
I'm Tonopah there has been opened UP
at the present time an area over mile
long and half mile wide" said Mr.. Nixon,
with enormous parallel lodges of large
size and good values. The values will run
from S25 up into the thousands. Extensive
work Is being carried on by the owners of
many other properties surrounding the ones
have mentioned and it does not seem I'M
reasonable to predict that many of them
will be as fortunate as those now paying
dividends.
About 800 men are now employed In the
various mines at Tonopah. The place Is a
thriving little city of about 5000 people,
with three banks, one daily and two week
ly papers and several hotels. Two elegant
three-story, white stone buildings have just
been completed, three others are IN the
course of erection and others will be started
in the near future. The broad gauging Of
the Carson and Colorado. railway and the
Tonopah railroad will give the camp what
it has long needed-adequate transportation
facilities-and it is conservative to say that
in short time not less than a thousand
tons of ore per day will be shipped out of
Tonopah. A sewerage system is nearing
completion and, while a local electric light
plant has been furnishing light to the camp
during the past year or two, strong east
ern company, in which local capitalists are
also Interested is putting in a light and
power line. too, from Bishop Creek. Cal,
eighty miles away. By the first of Septem-
Der this company will be ready to furnish
the camp with all the necessary power and
an electric light service second to none on
the Pacific coast.