The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-28
NEVADA TAKES LEAD
IN RAILROAD BUILDING
Situation in Sage Brush State
That Has Had No Parallel
in United States.

Never in the history of railroading
In tho West has there been such activity
as at present with several transcontl-
mental links In course OF construction and
many more talked Of" said NcNada
mining man at tho Cullen TO Tho IT'D
une. But In all tho construction tho
State OF Nevada takes the Lead and
with her wonderful mineral development
has followed such resumption OF rail-
road building that the money eNpende9
for the latter is proving or almost cqual
benefit as tho mineral being taken from
hundred mines.
Mr.. Hartman Not Idle.
Mr. Hartman, who does not like to
sec tho traffic slipping away IRON, rom nm in a.
is not idle while Others arc building INTO
the Eldorado. The Southern faciuc It's
rapidly constructing line from fiazen Si
TO Fairview and Manhattan ana rom IN
Toann. the Nevada Northern, backed py
the Southern Pacific and the smelter Peo-
Pile, la pushing TO Ely, the coming Caynp
Then the Nevada Central and the Eu-
reka 81 Palsnde. two branches owned pg
othcr parties are each looking TO the
mineral belt. and, 1t is rumored, InHS YET
fall into the hands OF Hartman or Gould,
who could use them.
Lines In the South.
But on the south tho lines are not
Idle The Tonopah road. changed TO the
j
record OF having earned Its cost oil con
struction within few months ,SS5 3IIeL as
completion. IT nrst ended at lohop2h'
but later Mt Goldheld, and Is now push
ing on towards Bullfrog and that region
OF which Bullfrog is the center
Clark Reaching Out.
Senator Clark has 100 miles OF grade
finished on his Las Vegas * IouSpdh
and 20 miles in operation. Already nun
dreds are going In Via TINS route. hoi t SA
Smith. on the other hand. Is backed by
tho Santa Fe and VIII have his road nm
lshed also to Tonopah via his Death val
ley boraX deposits. -
THE railroad fnancier OF the past was
wont TO say that railroads selected agrl-
cultural lands over which TO lay theH
new rails, but in the case OF Neyada II
is different They are, not waiting Tor
the farmer, but arc going after the ore,
and they feel pretty sure that tho men
who dig the ore will need the produce OF
tho farmer. so they Will get n maui ooth
ways.
Will Build to Tonopah-
Both the Las Vegas & Tonopnh and
tho Tonopah & Tidewater will build 10
Tonopah. which will mean that tho three
great lines OF Nevnda. Southern Paclnc,
Santa Fe and Salt Lake Route. will have
a strong foothold in that region.
One Important Question.
.The question now arisee. What will
Gould do7 He has his line surveyed
west from Salt Lake anu lulll'i ii"o -
that he will work south from a point
some seventy-flve miles from here, with
the evident intention OF reaching Tono-
pah by traversing the heart OF tho min
eral holt main line or branches 10 Ely.
Cherry Creek Deep Creek, Belmont. Eu-
reka, Bullfrog. Goidheld and Tonopah
Watching Developments.
THE people OF Nevada are watching
these developments with the liveliest In
terest and as each OF the roads men
toned is actually building. the situation
is one that has never had a parallel on
this continent"