Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-26
CLARK FEEDER
COMING TO FRONT.
Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad is
Getting Down to Bus.
mess.
UTAH FIRM GETS CONTRACT.
Deal Bros. 4 Mendenh viii Build
Grade ON to Goldtield This
Fall.

Regarding the Las Vegas Il Tonopah
railroad Kenneth c. Kerr, travelling
passenger agent for the Salt Lake
Route, who returned from Beatty yes
terday has some interesting data and
Information regarding the latest feeder
for the Clark road. Tho Las Vegas
& Tonopah railroad is now In operation
to the town of Beatty, which Is but iivo
miles from Rhyolite. A daily train SER
vice has been inaugurated and the
freight going into the Bullfrog district
Is already enormous,
Strange as It may seem.' said Mr.
Kerr. 'the desert country through
which this road passes, is already
showing UP as a tonnage producer. a
short distance from the road In the
high noun talns a good growth of TIM
Der has been located and already es-
tabished IL sawmill and factory
which are reached by one of the best
traction engines, which IL capable OF
hauling to the railroad one carload OF
lumber at a time. This timber finds
a ready market IN the Bullfrog dis
trict. Tho grading has been partly
completed 10 Rhyolite and within a
few weeks the road will reach that
point
CONTRACT LET.
The contract for the grade from
Rhyolite to Goldheld has been let TO
Deal Brothers & Mendenhall OF this
state, and President j. Ross CLARK
stated In his speech at Beatty that all
the material to complete the road to
Nevada's greatest camp had been con-
tracted for. and the work would be
pushed with all rapidity with the OK
ception that, barring unusual delays.
few months will see the road operat-
ing trains into and out OF Goldfield
large amount of motive power ana
equipment has been ordered and Just
ms soon as the business warrants It, "a
buffet and parlor car service will be
established on this line, so that pas
sengers from Salt Lake can make a
run into the heart OF the desert min
oral region In the finest equipment
known to modern railroading.
ALIVE WITH BUSINESS.
ITO date the line Of less than l25
miles, Is alive with business. At In
dian Springs there is a long tent used
| az dining room. 1t II run by Mr.
| Hall OF Los Angeles. and l. never had
a better meal than the chicken dinner
served there OH my way back. Until
| dining car service is established, Ia.
| dian Springs will be a regular meal
| station, and Mr.. Han has made ar
rangements to have his supplies ship
ped In from Salt Lake and Los Angeles
daily SO that. even In that desolate
region. a strictly irst-class meal win
always be served to travelling men and
prospectors,
SALT LAKERS HAVE STAGE.
At Amargosa, stages run to the
Johnnie mine some miles away. and
TO Grecnwator, over towards Death
valley. which Is the latest big mining
excitement. Kimball brothers, formerly
OF Salt Lake and Park city. handle all
the stages at Beatty. AT present they
are making q half dozen trips day,
II required, over to Rhyolte, and Mr..
kimball stated TO me on Tuesday that
he was preparing to put on a Death
valley stage, which Is sure to be re-
munerative Their Salt Lake friends
viii no doubt be glad to know that the
firm is doing very well In that region.
1T has been announced that Mo-
yember | Will see the road completed
to Rhyolite, but OF course those mat
ters depend upon varying conditions.
1t will not be long. however. and the
work will be pushed with all rapidity.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Grace is the general SUI
perintendent of the new road with
headquarters at Las Vegas. and he and
his stan arc certainly making credit
able showing in the way the line is be-
ing built and operated. When II is re-
membered that tho distance from salt
Lake TO Goldheld will be some 60 miles
shorter than any other line, and that
this whole vast region viii naturally
look to Salt Lake and Los Angeles for
their different supplies. ii can be seen
what a splendid tonnage the independ-
ent road will create for Itself, as well
az for the salt Lake Route, its con-
Meeting line"