The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-24
Nevada Northern Will Reach the
Mining Town About
September l..
WESTERN PACIFIC WILL
ALSO TAP THE DISTRICT
With Gould Road Completed Haul
to Salt Lake will Be
Shortened.

With amazing energy and activity,
General Manager Requid OF the Ne
vada Northern is hurrying forward
the road TO Ely, the terminal. and
1t ia believed the objective point Will
be reached by September /. Steel is
already laid seventeen miles south of
Cuny's ranch and the grade Is almost
entirely completed To Cherry Creek,
the track being within thirteen miles
of that town. The tracking OF the
balance Of the distance Will be pro-
ceeded with as rapidly as possible.
with the expectation that the line will
enter Cherry Creek about the Fourth
of July.
At present a trestle 500 feet long
is being built along the edge Of Go
pletcd the laying OF steel Will go on,
and about n mile and a quarter OF
track Will be laid daily. Thus one has
every reason TO believe that Ely VIII
be reached by September J.
The GcisouX Consolidated Mining
company at Ely has some 800 carloads
of machinery ready for shipment, part
OF this consignment being at Cobrc,
on the Southern Pacific. and part en-
route. The Nevada Consolidated is
believed to have even a larger con-
signment on the WAY. and this I'M
mense amount Of machinery only
awaits the entrance of the railroad
into Ely SO that 1t can be removed
there,
Western PaclfIc Work.
The Western Pacific. now headed
westward just as fast as men can
build 1t and conditions Will permit.
taps this region and crosses the Ne
vada Northern at Buce Siding, twenty
three miles south OF Cobre. seventy
miles north Of Cherry Creek and 123
miles north OF Ely. With the Gould
road completed the distance from Salt
Lake to Ely VIII be 273 miles, that is,
$50 from Salt Lake TO Buce Siding.
and 123 from that point to the min
ing town. At present the distance
from Ely to Salt Lake is 321 miles,
or 336 TO the new smelters at Car
field. where the ore has TO be hauled
for reduction. This route is via the
Nevada Northern to Cobrc, Southern
Pacinc to Ogden. Short Line to Salt
Lake and thence to Garfield, Deduct
ing eighteen miles as the distance from
Garfield to this city via the Western
Pacific, that would make the distance
from Ely TO the Smelters 255 miles.
or a difference in the haul between
the two roads OF so miles In favor of
the Gould line.
At present there is a partial cessa-
Pacific, difficulty being experienced IN
securing a sufficient force of men and
teams Another obstacle is the water,
which is only about two feet below
the surface as 1t seeps its way to the
lake. SO that whenever any excavat-
ing is done water is encountered. This
difficulty, however, will remedy itself
In the course of some days and then
work Will go on uninterruptedly When
steel-laying is again begun the Harris
track-laying machine will be used and
n mile and half of steel per day Will
be laid.
The track now extends from Sixth
West street to the material yards at
Buena Vista. a distance OF three and
half miles. Several thousand feet
of track have to be put down in the
yards for the switching and storing OF
material and a force Is employed at
this work at present AS IT is. more
progress has been made with actual
work on the road since the first of
June than In. the preceding five
months. as the inclement weather Sc
riously retarded progress. In the
month of May, for instance. the gangs
only worked twelve days. the weather
being the insurmountable object