The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-30
PLAN RAILROAD
TO ELY DISTRICT
Salt Lake Men Organize the
Utah & Nevada Railway
Company.
OLD ROUTE HELD IN FAVOR
CAL PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE $780,
ooO-DIREcToRs SELECTED.
OLD ROUTE HELD IN FAVOR

Articles of incorporation of the Utah
& Nevada Railway company have been
drawn I'D and will be filed with the
county clerk today. This company,
composed principally of Salt Lake men.
proposes to build a railroad from Salt
Lake to the Ely district in Nevada c.
w. Scofield of New York is the moving
spirit of the company. and an organ
ization was perfected in Salt Lake dur
ing his visit here. He left for his home
Sunday.
The Utah subscribers to the capital
stock of the company are: NJ. II. Walk
er. b. F. Bauer, w. V. Rice J. A. Gun
ningham, J. d. Wood, ]. P. Gardner,
Frank NJ. Foote, G. H. Doolittle and NJ.
A. Daugherty.
These men have subscribed 500, 900,
and announcement is made that what
ever amount is needed to carry the
plans of the organizers to completion
will be forthcoming when required. A
meeting was held by the Utah mem
bers of the company in Salt Lake at
the end of the week and an executive
board and board of directors elected
The executive board comprises: c. w.
Scofield, president; F. j. Hagenbarth
vice president, and A. f. Margetts, sec
rotary The board of directors COM
priSeS c. w. ScOfeld NJ. H. Walker. 3.
+. Baeur, w. V. Rice. j. p. Gardner, J.
A. Cunningham and F. ]. Hagenbarth
Pierces Rich Districts.
Mr.. Scofield has been identified with
many Utah enterprises. He paid a visit
TO Salt Lake last week to meet Salt
Lake capitalists with the idea of get
ting them interested in an Ely road,
one of his pet schemes.
In all probability the road will be
built over one Of the routes surveyed
by Major Edmund Wilkes. 1t will start
from Garfield, crossing the desert on
the south of the Western Pacific and
shortening the distance across the
sands. The line. as run, crosses that
of the Western Pacific at the north end
of Skull valley, running from there
through the valley TO Dugway. Of the
three routes run from the Willow
Springs region. one branching to the
northwest and entering the Deep Creek
district is the one said to be most IA
vored by the promoters. The distance
TO be covered is in the neighborhood OF
300 miles.
Line Not Difficult.
No estimate of the cost of building
the line has been furnished yet. but it is
said no great engineering difficulties
present themselves in the line proposed.
Little Information is volunteered by the
men interested. several directors assert
ing that they are in total ignorance of
their cOmpany's plans. Pleasant valley.
Spring valley and Snake valley are rich
in minerals and hold great promise as
agricultural lands. The Mormon church
has large farming tracts in Spring val
ley. The road proposed can pierce any
or all of these valleys. and with short
branches can reach many good mineral
districts. With a majority of the direc-
tors out of the city, others in ignorance
and the leading spirit in New York. lit
tie can be learned of the company's in
tentiOns. Men named as directors as
sert positively that the road will be
built.
If the road is built light rails will be
laid and mixed trains with an average
speed Of from sixteen to twenty miles
per hour will be operated. The pro-
moters say there are several thousand
tons per day already guaranteed and.
with the advent of the line, they expect
this to climb much higher.