Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-03-24
the WESTERN PACIFIC.
A California Paper sizes Up the Stu.
at,no, ii Anothsar" Light

he Daily MINER 1T1nscrlpSs OF ne
vad& fCity; California; which has As
much interest in the bringing in Of
railroads aS any paper on the Coast.
has = different view Of the many ru-
mors concerning the building Of the
Western Pacific, which paper routed
road has occupied many columns ut
free advertising in the Nevada jour
nails. In writing Of the road the fol-
lowing il Of interest:
San Francisco papers just at hand |
say that the Western Pacific Office ii
that city has received a dispatch from !
New York in which it is stated tina,
the road is now fully financed, that
plans for construction are now being
framed and construction will begin
without delay, the contractors being
Walter H. Brown & Co. OF New York.
We hope that this is true. Nothing
1rshld pelease us better than to see
the Western Pacific or any other rai.-
way concern, building line through
the Sierras to the north Of us, and, Il
they have secured the finantial back
ing, we know no reason way Barnett
and his associates cannot construct
such a railway as well as any other
man.
Notwithstanding all this, we can
be excused for maintaing a skeptical
attitude toward the enterprise until
the work shall actually be begun, and,
even then, until it shall be well un-
der way.
It is all so like the Homer rail-
way that was to be built by the Gould
interests through the Walker Pass
to a connection with the Gould rail-
ways in the Southwest. Mr.. Homer
was a charming man. He had Offices
in Pine street, San Francisco, and in
those Offices were hugh rolls of blue
prints, not to speak of safe that held
dozens of deeds to rights of way.
Many thousands of dollars went into
surveys for that line, and Mr.. Homer
was certainly not the man who put
up the money. Nor, as we know, was
Gould. Yet, every month or SO, Mr..
Homer had kilograms from the east
announcing that contracts had been
let or were about to be let-that plans
Of construction had been under cou
sideration and were finally being act
ed upon and all that sort of thing
The road was never built and never
will be.
Mr. Homer, it should BE- noted, WI:
a civil engineer of standing and larg'
practice. In the case of the Western
Pacific, a youthful and heretofore I'm
heard of attorney in San Francisco
suddenly blossomed out as a railwa.
promoter. His associates knew that
he, himself, had no money, and III
partner. who had received mention
once or twice before that as an attend
ant at theosophical lectures and ha
attracted the ferquenters of Colder
Gate Park by his outer riding costume
was certainly far from being the ma
that could finance such scheme
Both were persons of SO little impOl
lance at the bar or in the commerce:
world as to be the last men to b
selected to represent such large fina1
cial interests as would be required I
build railway.
We do not know who was back
formed by men in a position to kno
the facts, that most of the money w;
furnished from time to time by ban
ers in interior towns. That, though,
immaterial. From some source mo
ey as forth coming BARNETT appea
ed two years ago before the legisl
ture and demanded certain waite
front privileges in San Francise
He was exceedingly mysterious abo
the people who he said, were back
him, and the Legislature, very propt
1y, refused to turn over valuable RICH
to the Yelled Prophet in the safe {
post building or to anybody else. c.
tain promises were made by Bartne
and his associate at that time, no
Ger, and not one of those promis
have ever been kept. Rights Of W
that would block any real competi
road have been secured at Orovil
Marysville and Stockton. and in VI
iOus widely separated communiti
there are bankers who are supreme
confident that the Western Pacific
coming right inc
AS We have said before and as
reiterate, nothing would be as ple
ing to us as to know that the Weste
Pacific was actually in course of c.
struction, and that it would be op